Make a Wish (and other organizations) - Wish Trippers UNITE! Volume THREE! :)

[xanphylus]

It is a strange coincidence but I am writing from the hospital right now. I am doing the "Prep" for a colonoscopy I get to enjoy tomorrow. They are looking for possible chrons disease. (Or ulcerative colitis or other junk.) But it is not nearly as bad as what you are talking about.


Anyway...I hope you guys will excuse my absence for the last day or two and it may be a day or two before I feel ok to get on the DIS again. Hope all is well with everyone.

Hope everything comes out ok Maroo (no pun intended......) I will be praying for you! Get well soon!

 

[wishin' on a star]

We didn't extend our trip, but we did decide to do more Disney than the three days GKTW gave us. We were told there was no way to extend or add on to the comp tickets, and we had to purchase additional tickets. I don't know what the cheapest option is, but we ended up buying them at the Walmart up the street from GKTW.

It would be really nice if there was a way to just add more days to the complimentary tickets, because it was a pretty significant expense for a family of 5. We actually returned our SW and US/IOA tickets to GKTW for them to reuse for another family. It was all about Disney for us this trip.

 

[jen-y]

Hope everything comes out ok Maroo (no pun intended......) I will be praying for you! Get well soon!

I just went through that back in February and was diagnosed with ulcerative colitis. Fun Times I think it was brought on by all the stress of Nickys diagnosis.

 

[kctwinmommy]

Just added all the latest info to my PTR! Got some ADR's made, more info about our nurses, some great stuff going on!! Yeah!!!!

 

[The Lurker]

Heard from a family at GKTW that both rides at Harry Potter have height restictions. Mom didn't know the exact height but said it was the same as the other rides at Universal.

Katie

 

[maroo]

Just a little background....

My daughter Emma has been granted a MAW trip and of course she picked Disney World She is 13 and has CF. We are going August 13 through the 22nd (Emma, her sister Abby (11), Mom (me) and Dad). We know it will be hot in August, but Emma didn't want to miss any school since she is entering High School in the fall.

We are staying at the Polynesian, so we can take many breaks during the day. We are then moving over the Hard Rock (which we are paying for) to go to Universal.

I do have a couple of questions:
1. I know we receive 3 day park hoppers. Since we plan on taking it easy at the parks and will be there for 6 days, I wanted to get an additional two days. Can you upgrade the 3 day to a 5 day and just pay the difference or will I have to just buy a 2 day ticket? I don't mind either way, just seeing what we need to do.

2. If I need to buy a 2 day ticket, is it better to buy them when we get there or get them through a discount ticket place?

3. When we arrive in Orlando, we need to go to GKTW to pick up our tickets and attend an orientation. We get in at about 11:00 am and I'm assuming we should get to GKTW by around noon or so. How does the orientation work? Do we need to schedule one or do they have them as each family comes to GKTW? I thought we would have lunch there, check it out and then go to our Disney hotel. We have an ADR at Crystal Palace for 4:30 pm - I'm assuming that won't be a problem?

The girls are very excited to be going to WDW

Emma was just diagnosed three years ago after suffering though years of weight loss, failure to thrive and stomach problems (her CF affects mainly her digestive system, she has really good lung function so far). She has finally started gaining weight and getting stronger, so this trip will be just what she needs

Stacy

to the wish trippers thread! Looks like you got most of your questions answered!

Feel free to write a pre-trip report, if you want!

It seems like you have some great experience with Disney and Universal and hopefully this will be a great, stress free, trip for you guys!

I hope you feel better soon and they have your diagnosis rather quickly, sooner you know sooner you can start making the necessary changes in diet and medications needed to help. Your in my prayers. Thank you for the reference to the 2nd posting on my way to read that now

Thank you! So far looks like just plain infectious colitis! I am very grateful!!

ty for the welcomes and as far as we know we are looking at October 16th - 22nd and this will be the very first trip for our entire family

http://www.disboards.com/showthread.php?t=2499099 Not sure if i have started the pretrip report correctly but thats the link

Awesome! I will head over there now and then post a link on the first post!

Hope everything comes out ok Maroo (no pun intended......) I will be praying for you! Get well soon!

That is hilarious! Yep! All cleaned out.

We didn't extend our trip, but we did decide to do more Disney than the three days GKTW gave us. We were told there was no way to extend or add on to the comp tickets, and we had to purchase additional tickets. I don't know what the cheapest option is, but we ended up buying them at the Walmart up the street from GKTW.

It would be really nice if there was a way to just add more days to the complimentary tickets, because it was a pretty significant expense for a family of 5. We actually returned our SW and US/IOA tickets to GKTW for them to reuse for another family. It was all about Disney for us this trip.

This is what I understand to be the case, too. I hate that it ends up that way - having to buy the extra tickets. It really is hard to do all of Disney in 3 days.

I just went through that back in February and was diagnosed with ulcerative colitis. Fun Times I think it was brought on by all the stress of Nickys diagnosis.

Aw man! That sounds horrible!

 

[maroo]

Ok...


I think it is time...

Time to give back!


For those of you guys that don't know - Give Kids the World is in the running for a Pepsi Refresh grant of $250,000!

They ran for it in June, too - but we didn't really find out in mass until closer to the middle of the month and were playing catch up the whole time.

Here is my challenge to all of us - including myself.

1. Change our signatures. Make ALL of our signatures point - in HUGE letters - to the link where people can vote for Give Kids the World. This puts it on EVERY post in EVERY thread we have ever posted in. In huge masses, this could really energize the DIS.

2. Email EVERYONE you know. Tell them a little bio about Give Kids the World. Tell them about your trip. And ask them to vote - and to tell THEIR friends to do the same.

3. If you have Facebook - post the link on your page once a day to raise awareness. And ask your friends to "share" it.

4. If you have Twitter - tweet it every day - maybe multiple times per day. I know we can do this!!!


And...if you have some time on your hands and want to help...I have an idea! But I can't post it here. PM me! (ETA: It is legal - lol)

 

[J'sMum]

Ok...


1. Change our signatures. Make ALL of our signatures point - in HUGE letters - to the link where people can vote for Give Kids the World. This puts it on EVERY post in EVERY thread we have ever posted in. In huge masses, this could really energize the DIS.

2. Email EVERYONE you know. Tell them a little bio about Give Kids the World. Tell them about your trip. And ask them to vote - and to tell THEIR friends to do the same.

OK I think the top one has been done and I know the second one has been done !!

Oh and Maroo I do hope you feel better Very soon and glad to hear it's not Crohn's
I'll pray for a quick recovery for you hugss

 

[jen-y]

I want to get started on the T-shirts for Nickys trip, but don't know how to do it. Nobody I know is crafty, and I can't iron. From what I gathered so far, I need to go to the store (Staples?) and buy some iron on material and then print the image off my printer. Somebody said I have to make sure to print it backwards or on the opposite side or something so that the image is right when I iron it on Not to mention I am afraid of ironing it on crooked. I need to do 20, so I am afraid its gonna cost me a fortune in jacked up shirts and wasted iron on material. If anyone has done this before and can give me some suggestions or walk me thru it, I would appreciate it Also, I am not sure what kind/brand of shirt to use. I am thinking not white (don't want bra showing thru) but I am not sure what color would work best with the iron on. Also, my family thinks I should have something on the back too, but I only have something lined up for the front at this point. I tried to copy and paste the design on this post, but its not working Stess is making me want to forget the whole thing, but I know the shirts would be cool if I could just get a grip.

 

[Adrismommy]

I kind of freaked out over my shirts too. If you go to the Disboutiquers board they can really help you out, but I'll give you a few hints.

1. If you use colored shirts, you won't have to print the image backwards.
2. Make sure you buy the iron-on transfer paper for colored shirts!!
3. We bought t-shirts at Hobby Lobby. They were like 2.99 or maybe 3.99/piece.
4. I've made both colored and white shirts and think that the colored ones look so much better. That'd be my recommendation.
5. Just buy the iron-on transfer paper and read the instructions. It will walk you through. Practice printing on a couple of pieces of regular paper first.

You will be fine!

 

[cantwaittoseemickey]

I'm having an "I cant remember if I asked this " moment so here goes. Do we take the Monorail over to Chef Mickeys which I think is at the Contemporary?

 

[livndisney]

I'm having an "I cant remember if I asked this " moment so here goes. Do we take the Monorail over to Chef Mickeys which I think is at the Contemporary?

Chef Mickeys is located in the Cont and you can ride the monorail from MK, Poly, TTC or GF. (You can also ride from Epcot and transfer at the TTC).

 

[cantwaittoseemickey]

Thank youOk so when we are at Epcot when we come out we go through the exit and get on the monorail over to the right? Or is the monorail aways away from the tt?

 

[livndisney]

Thank youOk so when we are at Epcot when we come out we go through the exit and get on the monorail over to the right? Or is the monorail aways away from the tt?

You can take the Monorail from the front of Epcot to the TTC then transfer to the resort monorail at the TTC. The Monorail goes to the TTC.

 

[cajunfan]

I kind of freaked out over my shirts too. If you go to the Disboutiquers board they can really help you out, but I'll give you a few hints.

1. If you use colored shirts, you won't have to print the image backwards.
2. Make sure you buy the iron-on transfer paper for colored shirts!!
3. We bought t-shirts at Hobby Lobby. They were like 2.99 or maybe 3.99/piece.
4. I've made both colored and white shirts and think that the colored ones look so much better. That'd be my recommendation.
5. Just buy the iron-on transfer paper and read the instructions. It will walk you through. Practice printing on a couple of pieces of regular paper first.

You will be fine!

I would recomend getting your transfers from AmyMickey (just add the .com)...those are the best ones that I have used.

lynn

 

[jessica52877]

I would recomend getting your transfers from AmyMickey (just add the .com)...those are the best ones that I have used.

lynn

I 100% agree with this! Don't waste your money on others, these hold up the best! I have never reversed an image, on a white or colored, not sure why you would have to. I have used paper from walmart and amy mickey and no idea the other I used.

 

[maroo]

I would recomend getting your transfers from AmyMickey (just add the .com)...those are the best ones that I have used.

lynn

I 100% agree with this! Don't waste your money on others, these hold up the best! I have never reversed an image, on a white or colored, not sure why you would have to. I have used paper from walmart and amy mickey and no idea the other I used.

I third this!

They are the BEST!!

 

[Laurensmom2004]

Lauren finds out tonight!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I cannot wait!

5 more days!!!!!!

 

[cantwaittoseemickey]

You can take the Monorail from the front of Epcot to the TTC then transfer to the resort monorail at the TTC. The Monorail goes to the TTC.

Thank you! I wouldnt have known that and we would have just been taking a ride on the monorail

 

[cantwaittoseemickey]

Lauren finds out tonight!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I cannot wait!

5 more days!!!!!!

I can't wait to here how it goes and see some pics!! I am so excited for you all