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

[Mom2mitokids]

So Sorry for your loss.
It wasn't Cooper by chance? He just earned his wings after a long hard fight

I was just going to ask if it was Cooper too. He fought a brave battle with Mito. They are friends of mine that I chat on FB with. I'm just so sad. We have lost too many kids this past couple of months from Mito

Hope you earn a huge amount of money

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[kailatilear]

I have not been on the boards since we returned from Abby's wish trip on Wed. night, except to say we made it home. I have been so exhausted. Went back to work today and left a little early, thank goodness it is Friday!!

I am hoping to start our TR this weekend, it is a good thing that I kept a journal the whole time we were there, because I can't believe how everything gets jumbled up in your mind when you are home and so very tired.

 

[kailatilear]

I posted this on our pretrip report but have a better response here so if I could ask your help/advice I would greatly appreciate it!!!

My rough draft itinerary!! I can not believe in 2 weeks and 6 days we are on our very first airplane to DISNEY for the very first time!!!!

Our flight leaves Virginia at 7:00am and we arrive in Orlando at 9:01am!!

Wednesday: March 23rd Arrive in Orlando and GKTW (We have decided this day we are going to hang out at GKTW and aclimate ourselves to the village. One of Brooke's "liver friends" lives two hours away and went to GKTW for her wish trip in December, is going to meet us there and spend the day!!! I have never met this amazing family but she is a part of my support group online and I have stayed in touch!! I am super excited!!!

Thursday: March 24th Epcot and Hollywood Studios Then back to GKTW for the Christmas Celebrations

Friday: March 25th Magic Kingdom

Saturday: March 26th Animal Kingdom

Sunday: March 27th SeaWorld I know this will be Brookie's favorite as her wish was to swim with the dolphins! So we will go to the shows and feed the dolphins I was thinking about making reservations for the Underwater Grill.

Monday: March 28th ?? (Up for suggestions...are the water parks included? Universal Studios is this a full day park or half day?

Tuesday: March 29th We leave this day but our flight does not leave Orlando until 9:00pm We were thinking about going to Daytona International Speedway and beach but still up in the air

Any suggestions and tweeks to this itinerary would be much appreciated and within those parks the MUST SEE/DO I have a 14 year old girl and 11 year old boy and then wish child 3!!! Thank you so much for all the information! You guys have been a BIG help to someone who has NEVER been to DISNEY!!! BUT SO EXCITED!!!!!!!!

Yeah!!! It is getting closer. Your times were the same as ours for your departure and arrival times. Our flight actually left 20 min early and arrived almost 1/2 hr early in Orlando.

As far as Thurs. Epcot is a full day, we arrived there at 9:30 am and we had to leave at 5 to get to the airport at 6pm and we still did not see everything we wanted. Seaworld would actually be a good day for this one.

Universal and Island of Adventures are 2 parks, this was actually one of our favorites. Along with DHS. We never made it to AK, only because Abby wanted to spend more time at GKTW, which was fine with us.

We planned all our days around what was going on at the village that night. We also wanted to go to Daytona, but it never happened, like I said Abby would have rather stayed at GKTW most of the time.

The Dolphin/Blue Horizon show is a must see, it is awesome. We also loved the stunt show at DHS and go see the animal show at Universal.

 

[LVMom23]

So Sorry for your loss.
It wasn't Cooper by chance? He just earned his wings after a long hard fight

It was Cooper. He and Hannah were therapy friends in Texas. He fought harder than any child I have ever met. Cooper touched a LOT of people!

 

[mommy2girlswv]

We are thinking about making ADR at Donald's Safari Breakfast at Tusker House in AK.. Any info about this place. Is this good place to take my daughter?

 

[Mom2mitokids]

It was Cooper. He and Hannah were therapy friends in Texas. He fought harder than any child I have ever met. Cooper touched a LOT of people!

I was very sad to hear this morning about Coopers passing. He fought tell the end. I have "known" the Knights for a few years off my message board and facebook. We all in the Mito community are praying for the family during this difficult time.

 

[maroo]

Ok Guys, if this is out of line please tell me and I will try to remove the post.

Our MAW chapter is having their "Walk for Wishes" in a month and we have started a team. To raise money I have decided to allow a local hair stylest to shave my head. Turns out Bic (razor company) is donating $400 to MAW for every video of someone shaving their head uploaded to bic4good.com. Word has gotten out and now at least 10 guys from my hospital have verbally commited to getting shaved as well. Even more word got out, our local MAW chapter has heard and now I might end up getting my head shaved at a local TV station to promote their Walk for Wishes campaign.

If anyone would like to donate to our team head over to our family website at www.ourfamilyof4.com

PS. My wife (mitomommo) made me promise that I would not get shaved until after our wish trip.

This is so cool!!! It is possible someone will ask you to take it down...but I say leave it up for now.

That is a great thing to do! awesome sacrifice!

We are staying 2 extra nights when we go on our trip and I am looking for hotel recommendations. My plan is to do Sea World our first full day, and then all of the Disney parks while we are at GKTW. Once we check out of GKTW I was thinking we'd get a hotel close to Universal and then do those parks on extra days. I thought about the Nick Studios but I've read they are moldy/ mildewy and we have too many allergies for that (especially Addison). I would love somewhere that is under $100 a night, the cheaper the better. I found one place with great reviews that is extremely cheap (less than $40 a night!) but it's for 4 people and we have 5.... Ill have to find that link at work tonight.

Anyone have any experience with any good, inexpensive hotels?

I was going to suggest www.tripadvisor.com. They have helped me a lot with choosing hotels. There are SO MANY in the Orlando area that you should be able to find one that will be fairly cheap and nice and close to where you want to be!

I just updated our thread with ALOT of pics.... BIG GIVE GALORE!!!!!! These group of people are just amazing.....

I wanted to ask about the site that gives the crowd levels for each park ~ can someone PM me the name of them if possible? I don't think we will be changing our plans but I am wondering what to possibly expect....

it is www.touringplans.com.

There is also another one - Tour Guide Mike - but he never wrote me back when I asked about helping the MAW families with the info - so I let my membership there lapse.

We are staying 4 extra days and we are staying at the Florida Fantasy homes. These are rental condos, Townhouses, and homes. Since we have 7 of us we really needed 2 bedrooms and 2 bathrooms. They have great reviews and once we told them we were on a MAW trip they gave a better discount. We are paying $395 total for 4 nights. I actually found them on travelocitiy(sp) and just called up the number on this link.

http://www.floridafantasyhomes.com/

Nice find!!! Let us know how it is and we can link a "report" about it on the thread here...help me remember!

It was Cooper. He and Hannah were therapy friends in Texas. He fought harder than any child I have ever met. Cooper touched a LOT of people!

Oh this is just so sad! I saw this on my FB too. I hate that.

We are thinking about making ADR at Donald's Safari Breakfast at Tusker House in AK.. Any info about this place. Is this good place to take my daughter?

Gosh...I have no idea. As much as I have been on the DIS - I really don't have much in the way of reviews and I have never been there?

You might try www.allears.net for info - they have good info on character breakfasts and such?

 

[mommy2girlswv]

We are thinking about making ADR at Donald's Safari Breakfast at Tusker House in AK.. Any info about this place. Is this good place to take my daughter?

Well, I was looking around and found Hollywood & Vine. I made ADR for May 9th at 9:15 for Breakfast with Characters from Disney Jr.(Handy Manny,June, Leo, and Special Agent Oso) I'm crying now thinking about this..She loves all of them... I want to thank everybody on here because I would never knew about ADR before going to disney.. Our video camera is broke, but my DH will be buying one for this.. We're not going to tell her. Just go eat breakfast and see what she says because that will be our first day at WDW.

 

[Mom2Miracles]

Is there a page on Facebook about the little guy? Its just so sad.

 

[Mom2Miracles]

I was talking to a friend how we are booked at Akershus for Breakfast, to meet the Princesses and she said that its the worst Princess character meal. She said they are all ugly, because of where they are. Not sure what that means, but are we wasting $$ by going there (these character meals aren't cheap, as you all know)? I really want DD to have an experience like this with the Princesses, but I don't want it to suck. Thoughts?

 

[Manymosi]

I just added two more days to our trip report. Check it out if you want to see some MAJOR pixie dust fly!

http://www.disboards.com/showthread.php?p=40189623#post40189623

 

[Corrine 1973]

I was talking to a friend how we are booked at Akershus for Breakfast, to meet the Princesses and she said that its the worst Princess character meal. She said they are all ugly, because of where they are. Not sure what that means, but are we wasting $$ by going there (these character meals aren't cheap, as you all know)? I really want DD to have an experience like this with the Princesses, but I don't want it to suck. Thoughts?

We went there for lunch and had a great time. We saw all the princess and my daughter was just beaming. I thought the food was very good. When we first went in their is a line to see a princess for a picture. At the time my daughter was having a meltdown. It was the last day at the park, it was hot, and we had to wait for our reservation to come up. Her face was red from crying and she took off her shoes and threw them in the stroller. Belle (our princess) quietly talked to her and helped her put her shoes one. And lets face it, would Disney really hire ugly Princess'? I think not. Sounds like your friend just had a bad experience, it happens even at the most magical place on earth.

These are actual pictures from Akurshas, What do you think?

 

[Mom2Miracles]

We went there for lunch and had a great time. We saw all the princess and my daughter was just beaming. I thought the food was very good. When we first went in their is a line to see a princess for a picture. At the time my daughter was having a meltdown. It was the last day at the park, it was hot, and we had to wait for our reservation to come up. Her face was red from crying and she took off her shoes and threw them in the stroller. Belle (our princess) quietly talked to her and helped her put her shoes one. And lets face it, would Disney really hire ugly Princess'? I think not. Sounds like your friend just had a bad experience, it happens even at the most magical place on earth.

These are actual pictures from Akurshas, What do you think?

Awe, cute story of Belle spending that personal time with your daughter. Very sweet. The pictures are great, certainly not ugly looking princesses. lol. Thanks for sharing!

 

[billwendy]

So she had her follow up with the ortho doctor today and the bones in her arm have moved, so now the doctor has to go and rebreak her arm and try to set it. If he isn't pleased with how it looks then he is going to have to put pins in her arm. More frustration and worrying. Don't know more than that right now, so I will say night and let you all know tomorrow how things go.

Hey Girl - How are you and Madison and Grandma doing today?

 

[LVMom23]

Is there a page on Facebook about the little guy? Its just so sad.

http://www.cotaforcooperk.com

 

[maroo]

I have not been on the boards since we returned from Abby's wish trip on Wed. night, except to say we made it home. I have been so exhausted. Went back to work today and left a little early, thank goodness it is Friday!!

I am hoping to start our TR this weekend, it is a good thing that I kept a journal the whole time we were there, because I can't believe how everything gets jumbled up in your mind when you are home and so very tired.

We are so glad you are back and so glad you had a good time!

I am wishing I had more notes from my Sept trip!

I totally agree with this - I encourage all to keep good notes/journal. It is crazy finding the time...

The other thing that helps me (I learned this after several trips) was to take pictures of EVERYTHING - every ride sign, every meal sign, occasionally a picture of my iPhone to know what time it was when I did this or that...and that helps jog my memory. And it is a bit easier than trying to remember everything or write it down as it happens.

Can't wait for your TR.

I was talking to a friend how we are booked at Akershus for Breakfast, to meet the Princesses and she said that its the worst Princess character meal. She said they are all ugly, because of where they are. Not sure what that means, but are we wasting $$ by going there (these character meals aren't cheap, as you all know)? I really want DD to have an experience like this with the Princesses, but I don't want it to suck. Thoughts?

Oh no! I have not heard this at all! I have heard it is the best one because there is more character interaction? I guess all restaurants and CM's have a bad day every now and then? But I have heard only good things about that particular restaurant??

 

[maroo]

I just added two more days to our trip report. Check it out if you want to see some MAJOR pixie dust fly!

http://www.disboards.com/showthread.php?p=40189623#post40189623

You sure did have some major pixie dust!! And such a unique experience!

I am floored by how many details you remember? How do you do that? Did you take major notes?

Very impressive reporting. I wish I could remember that many details.

And the pixie dust is just magical.

 

[mommy2girlswv]

just stressed about wdw with 10 months old.. I've been read PTR and TR all night and really can't find any with info.. Will places I made ADR for have high chairs? Kaitlyn is great baby. We can go out for the whole day and she enjoys it, but whole week in the hot.. I just want January to have the best trip because this is a trip of life time for her and I don't when we could go back. If anybody traveled with infant please help me? Do's and don't with a infant. Does the car rental place have car seats?

 

[jj0plin]

just stressed about wdw with 10 months old.. I've been read PTR and TR all night and really can't find any with info.. Will places I made ADR for have high chairs? Kaitlyn is great baby. We can go out for the whole day and she enjoys it, but whole week in the hot.. I just want January to have the best trip because this is a trip of life time for her and I don't when we could go back. If anybody traveled with infant please help me? Do's and don't with a infant. Does the car rental place have car seats?

The car rental company (National) does have carseats.

 

[Mom2mitokids]

http://www.cotaforcooperk.com

Yes...That's him