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

[Em'swish]

We have dates!!!!!!!!!!!! We are going from Sept. 24-Sept 30!!!! We will be their for Em's 5th birthday!! I am so happy and have so much planning now!!!!

Melissa
mom to Em (wish kiddo) and Abby (best little sister)

 

[DaveF45150]

We have dates!!!!!!!!!!!! We are going from Sept. 24-Sept 30!!!! We will be their for Em's 5th birthday!! I am so happy and have so much planning now!!!!

Melissa
mom to Em (wish kiddo) and Abby (best little sister)

Congrats......you are going to be down there after we have gone. Are you going to stay at GKTW village? Hope you have a good time.

 

[starienite]

What the best times to go to WDW? We are planning for April, March, or February as our preferred dates. Probably February before March because of spring break. The wish grantors are going to be here on Saturday and I want to be able to let them know then what dates we are looking at.

 

[Em'swish]

Congrats......you are going to be down there after we have gone. Are you going to stay at GKTW village? Hope you have a good time.

When are you going down? I don't know if we are staying at GKTW, I assume we are. Em's granter texted me and said the dates are confirmed for the the 24-30. She said she had to come over since she forgot a couple of things in the paperwork. I know other people from our chapter at MAW have stayed at GKTW.

Melissa
mom to Em (wish kiddo) and Abby (best little sister)

 

[Menfusse]

Just wanted to say I love keeping up with everyone. We are still waiting on final word of approval before we can start planning. I was told it would be fairly quickly, and the paperwork was only submitted last week. As soon as we get the word, I'll start our pre-trip report. I'm afraid to get too excited and get ahead of myself yet, lol.

 

[fulseasmama]

What the best times to go to WDW? We are planning for April, March, or February as our preferred dates. Probably February before March because of spring break. The wish grantors are going to be here on Saturday and I want to be able to let them know then what dates we are looking at.

I am sure you will get about a million different answers about this but I thought I would just toss out there that we went Feb 1, 2011-Feb 15, 2011 (we extended at our own expense) and loved it. My kids don't love heat and since they are littler I tried to find a time the parks would not be too crowded as I thought that might be easier for our family. Seemed like pretty low crowds which made it easy to make any reservations we wanted and made it easy to get around the parks too. We are from the Oregon so we loved the weather...sunny and 70-80 degrees most days and was only really chilly one evening. We did have one day that started out with some sprinkles and one evening with some pretty heavy rain but other then that it was dry and really beautiful. There is a link to my TR in my signature and you can tell by many of the pictures it was a really nice few weeks for us. I am sure you will have a great time whenever you choose to go! Have fun planning.

 

[newdrama12]

What the best times to go to WDW? We are planning for April, March, or February as our preferred dates. Probably February before March because of spring break. The wish grantors are going to be here on Saturday and I want to be able to let them know then what dates we are looking at.

If you are looking for lighter crowds, then I would go with February, specifically Early february. Since toward the end of the month, starts Spring Break in some parts of the country and that will go to the end of March.

 

[Sweet_Fantasy_Fox]

Is anyone from California and have done Wish Upon a Star? My daughter is having her trip from 7/11/11-7/17/11 and we are going to Disneyland, Disney California, Universal Studio's and Knottsberry Farm.

 

[Em'swish]

So I stared making my reservations for character meals. Em has a g-tube and is 99% fed through that. She can eat grapes, rice and bananas. Will they charge me full price for her even though she really can't eat?

Also Em really wants to go to bibbty for her birthday. I made the reservations for her and her sister, but does MAW do that for us? I could always cancel if that's the case, but we are less then 3 months out and I really wanted to make sure I got it.

Thanks!!
Melissa
Mom to Emily (wish kiddo) and Abby (best little sister)

 

[danut]

Thanks to everyone for all the prayers for Lillianna- she is back in the ER tonight. Sigh.... she is having more issues. Keep her in your thoughts please.

Sending prayers. I hope she is doing better now.

Awesome news! Austin's uncle is approved to give his kidney. We are hoping for a transplant date this week, and hope to have it done by the first week of August!!!!! We are praying and hoping it wall works out.

Awesome news!

I have a questin for those who have been to the Bibbidi Bobbidi Boutique....

Gabbie's hair is growing back, she has soft straight hair right now about an inch long all over. Gabbie is black, so this isn't 'normal" hair for her, definately "chemo hair" BUT she is very proud of it, and quite the fashionista. Loving to dress up with plenty of glitz and pizzazz. I think she would love to do this. BUT, does the boutique have experience with different type of hair? Such as chemo hair? My other daughter would enjoy this too, and is black as well. Do they work with black hair? And, what package would you recomend?

I would think they would have experience with different types of hair. I also think they will do anything they can to make it a wonderful experience for your children. I think we are going to do the hair and nails package and buy and bring a dress for my dd. It's for her birthday, but I think $200 is an awful lot even for the birthday girl. I also hear it is less expensive to buy your dress and bring it. But I am hoping to hear what others have to say also!

We have dates!! we leave on Dec 20th and stay at GKTW until the 26th. We will stay a few more days on our ownd and return home Jan 2nd.

Yeah!!!

Awesome!

We have dates!!!!!!!!!!!! We are going from Sept. 24-Sept 30!!!! We will be their for Em's 5th birthday!! I am so happy and have so much planning now!!!!

Melissa
mom to Em (wish kiddo) and Abby (best little sister)

That is great!! Can't wait to hear what you have planned. WE hope to be there on my daughter's birthday (non wish kid) but I want to figure out ways to make it extra special for her!

So I stared making my reservations for character meals. Em has a g-tube and is 99% fed through that. She can eat grapes, rice and bananas. Will they charge me full price for her even though she really can't eat?

Also Em really wants to go to bibbty for her birthday. I made the reservations for her and her sister, but does MAW do that for us? I could always cancel if that's the case, but we are less then 3 months out and I really wanted to make sure I got it.

Thanks!!
Melissa
Mom to Emily (wish kiddo) and Abby (best little sister)

I would hope they wouldn't charge you full price. Maybe call and ask them. I am not sure about BBB and MAW. Hoepfully someone else can chime in...

 

[danut]

Getting excited....talked to our wish grantors and we should have our dates early next week

 

[Em'swish]

Getting excited....talked to our wish grantors and we should have our dates early next week

How fun!! It's really the best when you find out, it makes it so much more real!!!

Melissa

Mom to Emily (wish kiddo) and Abby (best little sister)

 

[angeque143]

SO excited!! Eva's reveal party is scheduled for the 23rd!!

Do I keep her in a bubble till then?!? I am so praying that we get thru this without a repeat of the last time!!

For those who are new....Eva decided to go into the PICU with severe respiratory distress and we had to reschedule the trip!

 

[angeque143]

So I stared making my reservations for character meals. Em has a g-tube and is 99% fed through that. She can eat grapes, rice and bananas. Will they charge me full price for her even though she really can't eat?

Also Em really wants to go to bibbty for her birthday. I made the reservations for her and her sister, but does MAW do that for us? I could always cancel if that's the case, but we are less then 3 months out and I really wanted to make sure I got it.

Thanks!!
Melissa
Mom to Emily (wish kiddo) and Abby (best little sister)

I asked about this when I booked it and I was told that my Eva would not be charged at all...I would feed her off your plate.

I do NOT believe the MAW make the reservations to BBB unless it is a part of the wish. I would talk to you wish granter and if they did it cancel...no biggy at least you will have a reservation if needed.

 

[danut]

SO excited!! Eva's reveal party is scheduled for the 23rd!!

Do I keep her in a bubble till then?!? I am so praying that we get thru this without a repeat of the last time!!

For those who are new....Eva decided to go into the PICU with severe respiratory distress and we had to reschedule the trip!

I vote for the bubble

How fun!! It's really the best when you find out, it makes it so much more real!!!

Melissa

Mom to Emily (wish kiddo) and Abby (best little sister)

It really does and I cannot wait to be able to really start planning!

 

[disneymomma01]

Hi everyone!!

I have been so busy I haven't had a chance to do much of anything lately, let alone update our trip report!! YIKES!! I am waaaay behind on that!!

Got a call from Dream Factory Tuesday, telling me that we were in danger of losing our reservation at GTKTW, because they had forgotten to have me fill out the GTKTW forms!! YIKES!!! We are less than 3 months out & you are just telling me this?!?!?! So I had to hurry & rush the forms to one of our doctors to be filled out in hopes that we don't lose our time!! So I am hoping the doc gets that form to me ASAP!!! I know one disappointed little girl if our trip gets pushed back!!

But in happy news...we are only 85 DAYS out!!!

Time to get back to some serious trip planning!! I will update our trippy ASAP!!! Glad to be back in the swing of things...not to get caught up on everyone else's TR's!!!

 

[disneymomma01]

How was that for speed?!?!? The trippy has officially been updated!!

 

[Happy Dreams1]

I have a question What airline does MAW usually use for WDW trips?

 

[katieb4]

I have a question What airline does MAW usually use for WDW trips?

From what I've read...its all different! Quite a few from Southwest....ours is with Sun Country

 

[princessmamaof5]

Mackenzies Make a Wish trip will be from September 12th- September 18th we are so very excited. Now we have to find outfits and cute accessories and everything Oh Mi... im so excited I dont even know what to do with myself.