Make a Wish (and other organizations) ~ Wish Trippers UNITE! Volume FOUR!

[fulseasmama]

We have our flight info finally. We leave at 10:34am and land at 6:06pm. If we are lucky..we maybe able to go to the 7:30 orientation. If not..we will go to the 9am one the next day.
We depart on the 23rd at 6:15pm from Orlando and land at 8:46pm at LAX. oh...we are flying on Delta. Has anyone flown on Delta? Are they great with SN kids? Do you have to pay for luggage?

Congrats on flight times! Less then two months until your trip.

We are flying on Delta also and I have no idea what will happen with baggage fees but will let you know when we return.

 

[luvmygrlz3]

Hi everyone!
I wanted to give a quick update on Haylee.
Today was a GREAT day!
She went off the vent (but Amber just came out and told me she's now back on because she's not awake enough .. off most of her extra meds.. and she has started to wake up. She is only moving her mouth. But thats something.
She also had her first trach change. It was not nearly as bad as I thought it would be. Now we have to learn to take care of it.

I will try to keep everyone as updated as I can.
Thanks for all the thoughts and prayers

So glad to hear that you guys had a great day and continuing to pray that each day gets better and better!

 

[luvmygrlz3]

These are the best 2 pictures that I got on my cell phone while we were there. Unfortunately, we had camera issues while on our trip. I have not downloaded pictures from the CD they gave us yet, but will post them once I do.

The first picture is the outside of the FLYING tower. They have a trailer type building next to it to register and what not. The second picture is of them in their suits ready to go. Suits provided by IFLY, and my son didn't have shoes on that would stay on....so they gave him a pair too.

Hope this helps!!

AWESOME! My sister & brother-in-law did that in December! They had an awesome time!

 

[luvmygrlz3]

We have our flight info finally. We leave at 10:34am and land at 6:06pm. If we are lucky..we maybe able to go to the 7:30 orientation. If not..we will go to the 9am one the next day.
We depart on the 23rd at 6:15pm from Orlando and land at 8:46pm at LAX. oh...we are flying on Delta. Has anyone flown on Delta? Are they great with SN kids? Do you have to pay for luggage?

YAY on the flight times already! We are still (im)patiently awaiting ours. I wish we had them, would make it so much easier to plan the day we arrive and day we leave!

I have flown Delta (not as a Wish family though) and they are very nice onboard. And they DO charge for luggage.

 

[luvmygrlz3]

Just did our plans. Can you PLEASE go to Korissa's PTR and see what you all think?

Very interested to see your plans (we are STILL working on ours)...Off to check it out!

 

[4monkeys]

We have our flight info finally. We leave at 10:34am and land at 6:06pm. If we are lucky..we maybe able to go to the 7:30 orientation. If not..we will go to the 9am one the next day.
We depart on the 23rd at 6:15pm from Orlando and land at 8:46pm at LAX. oh...we are flying on Delta. Has anyone flown on Delta? Are they great with SN kids? Do you have to pay for luggage?

Congrats on flight times. Email delta and ask if the charge for wish trips luggage. I did that ahead of time with air tran. They replied back and I printed the email to take in case we had a problem. When we got to the counter they tried to charge fees because maw didn't put something in the notes that it was a wish trip....but the supervisor came over and waived the fees.

Good luck. It will be here before you know it

 

[4monkeys]

AWESOME! My sister & brother-in-law did that in December! They had an awesome time!

They had a blast. I was worried about my 4 year old...but he LOVED it too!! LOVED IT!! All of them did. Since the theme parks weren't open late really when we were there they did it at 6. We just went straight from a park. Thinking we would have time to get back to GKTW for Christmas night. No luck. Alli and I were bummed, but she was passed out quickly after anyway.

 

[casper_jj11]

I am so excited to read more about your family and your wonderful trip Maroo suggested to another person to contact the moderators to reopen her thread...I am happy you plan to finish it, and I know Sydney will be thrilled to have the memories in written form! I SO understand about the pictures...they are very labor intensive for me as well and I never have them where/when I need them.

Here is some encouragment , I would love to read all about your adventures...and I seem to be FULL of questions these days! Dreaming of Lisa's Wish gets me through these tough times!

Thank you! This may be the push I needed I feel so guilty that I didnt' get this done. Its amazing how fast real life takes over once you get back. Our trip was mid August and I held off til we got our photopass pics and that took a really long time... and both boys had bdays in Sept, Sydney started school, hockey started, there was halloween which just blended into Christmas. I really want to do this though so I'm going to. I promise.

 

[kailatilear]

Congrats on flight times. Email delta and ask if the charge for wish trips luggage. I did that ahead of time with air tran. They replied back and I printed the email to take in case we had a problem. When we got to the counter they tried to charge fees because maw didn't put something in the notes that it was a wish trip....but the supervisor came over and waived the fees.

Good luck. It will be here before you know it

Thank you for this. I just emailed air tran with your suggestion. I guess we will have to wait and see when they email me back.

 

[4monkeys]

Thank you for this. I just emailed air tran with your suggestion. I guess we will have to wait and see when they email me back.

Awesome. It took a few days for me to get a reply. I also asked about other luggage type questions with meds and all. Good luck. I think they will end up waving them. (and if not our chapter figures baggage fees in)

 

[kailatilear]

Oh my goodness I can't believe we are down to 43 days!!!!!![/SIZE][/SIZE]

 

[luvmygrlz3]

Oh my goodness I can't believe we are down to 43 days!!!!!![/SIZE][/SIZE]

YAY!! Isn't time flying by? We leave the day after you guys get back! CRAZY how fast it's approaching!

 

[luvmygrlz3]

Limo: pick us up and gets us to the airport 2 hours prior to departure!!!!!

Thursday, March 3, 2011
depart: 11:02am
Arrive in Orlando: 2:40pm

Minivan is reserved for us along with 2 boosters in Orlando!!

Wednesday, March 9, 2011
leave orlando : 1:30pm
arrive back in our neck of the woods: 6:30pm

Limo picks us up to bring us home....
this day will be a sad day, but soooo many memories will be made from this whole experience!

 

[Mom2mitokids]

Congrats on flight times! Less then two months until your trip.

We are flying on Delta also and I have no idea what will happen with baggage fees but will let you know when we return.

I would email them or call. That's what I'm going to do. This will make a decision...we all have carry ons..or if they waive the fee and we can bring check ins. The last time we spent $200 roundtrip just to check in bags. This is money that could be fun money and not have to take out of our spending cash.

 

[Mom2mitokids]

Limo: pick us up and gets us to the airport 2 hours prior to departure!!!!!

Thursday, March 3, 2011
depart: 11:02am
Arrive in Orlando: 2:40pm

Minivan is reserved for us along with 2 boosters in Orlando!!

Wednesday, March 9, 2011
leave orlando : 1:30pm
arrive back in our neck of the woods: 6:30pm

Limo picks us up to bring us home....
this day will be a sad day, but soooo many memories will be made from this whole experience!

Yeah on flight info!!!! We are getting a limo too, but keeping it a secret. With Kylee's trip..we got a shuttle van, but long story...we ended up not using it. We had fires all around us and all freeway were shut down, so we decided to go to airport the night before and I just left my SUV down there. I told the kids we are getting a shuttle again. Mean mommy...lol

 

[luvmygrlz3]

Yeah on flight info!!!! We are getting a limo too, but keeping it a secret. With Kylee's trip..we got a shuttle van, but long story...we ended up not using it. We had fires all around us and all freeway were shut down, so we decided to go to airport the night before and I just left my SUV down there. I told the kids we are getting a shuttle again. Mean mommy...lol

We're keeping the limo a secret from the kiddos too...

 

[Happy Dreams1]

No opinions here I think you should do what ever will make YOU happy when you get your wish . I was just sharing the little bit of info I had on the subject...which isn't much, since that is NOT Lisa's Wish! Because they are celebrities, with schedules, the Wish has to be arranged around what works for them (at least that is how it was explained to us...Thankfully, we didn't have to worry about that).

Thank you again! The celebritie(s) I want to meet aren't in America.

I was told Miley Cirus(is that how to spell her name) is longer than 3 years and they aren't setting up wishes with her. We got to meet Adam Sandler at a MAW event. We even had pictures taken with him and they never said we couldn't post pictures. oh well...I did.

lol..it's spelled Cyrus..I think. wow 3 years?! that seems so absurd!
That's soo great that you got to meet him!!

 

[MitoDadMO]

2 questions.

1. We are waiting on dates (we had our meeting last friday). Is it possible we could be going in March or April (our preferred times)?

2. Do all MAW kids get limo's to the airport?

 

[Happy Dreams1]

No opinions here I think you should do what ever will make YOU happy when you get your wish . I was just sharing the little bit of info I had on the subject...which isn't much, since that is NOT Lisa's Wish! Because they are celebrities, with schedules, the Wish has to be arranged around what works for them (at least that is how it was explained to us...Thankfully, we didn't have to worry about that).

I have just spoken with a guy who was granted the wish I am thinking of wishing for and he told me that he only waited a year.

 

[brookerene]

2 questions.

1. We are waiting on dates (we had our meeting last friday). Is it possible we could be going in March or April (our preferred times)?

2. Do all MAW kids get limo's to the airport?

On the dates... I ca't answer that... I hope that you can! We'll be there April 18-24!
Not all MAW families get limos...I think it depends on how far away you are, the chapter, and other factors. I have read some TR's where they didn't. I don't believe we will be getting a limo because we are 3.5 hours one way from the airport and so they will put us up in a hotel the nights before and after the trip. But I do know our chapter does the limo thing because I have talked to another NE family that had that in their TR.... I hope you are pleasantly surprised! In some ways I think it would be nice to have someone else do the driving for once! Although in other ways I would rather have the extra spending money....oh well....