Hello, all!
My "Bachelorette" Day was pretty good yesterday. We went to a small spa in Old Town and had swedish massages that were very good quality for the low cost! Then we had a paraffin wax dip for our hands while we had an aromatherapy hot neck/shoulder wrap. Afterwards we went across 192 to a nail place to get manis/pedis- I got an acrylic set with a french polish. What sucks about this is that I'm not allowed to have nail polish or artificial nails at work due to food and beverage laws, so as soon as I get back, I have to soak these nails off and have horrible nails for many weeks
Well, while at the nail spa on tuesday, I FINALLY heard back from somebody from the insurance company! (The accident was sunday afternoon!) So I'm sitting in the nail spa talking to the insurance guy for a good 30 mintues, recording a statement and whatnot. When my dad signed this car over to me, he already had it insured under USAA and I didn't know what kind of coverage he'd signed me up for. Apparently, it was the minimum for the state of florida- bodily injury liability, property damage liability (max $10,000 each) and uninsured motorists. Now, since the OTHER vehicle was at fault, their insurance company is responsible for covering the damage (and injuries, if there were any) for my car. BUT since my USAA didn't include collision, they advised me "GET THE CAR OUT OF THE WRECKER NOW!!!" So we had to leave the nail spa in kissimmee and drive to the opposite side of orlando to sign the release papers, meanwhile my MOH was in the back seat calling collision centers figuring out which one would be best for us. I've been on the phone constantly between USAA, Traveler's (their brand), and the Collision center trying to get everything worked out... Except... Now I'm going out of the country for the weekend, and I have a feeling everything may get halted until I get back!
That also means that after my nice wedding cruise, I have another huge headache to deal with being carless and getting my car taken care of! I have a feeling they may total my car because there may be slight frame damage, and my car has about 214,000 miles on it. Yuck. But we'll see what that verdict is later... Not much I can do about it now!
We make it back to Disney property in time to have my stylist "Bump the blonde" in my hair- an all over treatment left on for only about 7 minutes to make a subtle but GREAT difference! After that we had to eat, get ready, and go to Jelly Rolls!!! Now, my "Bachelorette" party was nothing typical. Very few of my friends who SAID they would show up DID. For a long time, it was just Me, my MOH, my DM and her Beau! Later two work friends showed up, and Michael came after work to be our DD- then my brother and sister in law arrived from the DME and we started to have a good time! The pianists loved teasing us about inviting my mom to my bachelorette party, and even moreso about inviting my fiance! They put Michael up onto one piano and me on the other and had the guys sing to me and the girls sing to him- "You've lost that loving feeling"
It was funny! We had glow bracelets for everybody and Michael fashioned himself some glow-handcuffs as the groom-to-be! Some guys at another table left him a note "Michael, We can save you- Don't do it!" Overall it was a good time. I enjoyed being able to let go of all of this stress at least for a couple hours! Now, we closed the place down, so we didn't get home until almost 2:45 and didn't fall asleep until even later. I slept horribly and set myself up badly for a BUSY day today!
Today I had to drive to Boardwalk then maingate my brother and sister-in-law into the Parks while my mom got another day on the rental car. Then we all drove over to Old Key West to check in, had lunch at Olivias, then my MOH and I went back to my DISASTER of a house to try and get me packed! It took most of the day... By around 6, I had a message from one of my friends that she'd checked into the hotel, gone into the grand villa and NOBODY was there! So I had to drop my MOH and luggage off with her mom, then rescue my friend- we got some dinner and got to catch up a bit before a whole heap of my family came back to the villa! Michael dropped by after work (Toga is right next to OKW) and he went home to do dishes and throw away the garbage and take care of the bunny while I drove to Publix to buy cinnamon rolls and bagels and coffee cakes for my party to eat tomorrow before the ESCOT bus picks them up. Now, Kelly and I had packed all of our favor bags into one LARGE suitcase, and my mom was just CONVINCED that we couldn't bring that as a carry-on onto the ship... But last cruise we saw families who brought ALL of their luggage aboard with them! But she insisted we break them up into smaller bags (it makes me nervous moving them around so much! I spent a year of blood sweat and tears on those bags!) and we even had to move all of our carefully made floral into a paper bag... I'm a bit nervous, but my DM insists that she will make sure it all makes it to the boat safely... So after that third trip to OKW, we finally got home for the night so Michael could pack... and pretty much re-packed EVERYTHING we'd already packed earlier! No fun... So between us, we have 1 bag to check into
DCL, a shoulder-bag carry-on and a rolling carry-on, and he'll be carrying his tux, and I'll have my dress (My huge crinoline skirt fits into the suitcase! Yesss!) so that's all we have! It's amazing that we got that finished, it was INCREDIBLY stressful and I feel like I'm going gray (or at least breaking out with stress pimples!) We also have the bag of floral (bouquets, boutonnieres, corsages and one pomander) and I think 3 bags with our favor bags... I liked them better all in one place, but... TOO LATE NOW!!
Michael's finishing up his shower, and we NEED to go to bed! As if I'll sleep restfully!
but everything is packed at standing by the door, everybody is set up at OKW to board the bus (and the manager was very helpful in getting this organized!) starting at 8:15 AM and leaving at 9 AM! It'll be my mom's job to coordinate all of those guests and answer their questions!
So tomorrow, we have to get up, finalize our bags (add toothbrushes, etc), drive to the Dolphin to drop off my rental car, then drive to OKW to drop off some modified paperwork for my party, fax a guest list to Mickey's Retreat for our "family reunion" on Sunday after we return... Then we can drive to the port! I'm hoping that most of that stress will be gone once we get on the boat! I'm just going to drink some bubbly and have people make me pretty!!!
Ahh!! Anyways, this is my LAST post before the event, ladies!! I'm going to be POOPED when I get back (I'm beyond POOPED now!) but I'll try to relay some info and maybe some pictures as soon as I can. Goodbye all! See ya real soon!
Have lots of fun @ MK and MNSSHP this weekend!
After this I have to take the boat back to DTD, then take the bus to Animal Kingdom Lodge so my stylist can "bump the blonde"!!! Tonight was really the only night we could do it.
the insurance people are nice and friendly and the car gets fix fast and is waiting for you when you get home
