Dawn, you smoke Disney-flavored crack.
Oh my Lord, you are addicted. And your family appreciates it!
Crazy person.
Well, Kyle is jumping up and down because my vacation bucket (time off from work) is almost empty at this point which means I can't plan anything else for 2008. And for '09, we've already got the week in April and a week in November and a tentative week for end of August (although that may be Universal versus Disney (yes, believe it or not) and that takes about 2/3 of my vacation time for '09. Plus the kids will be in school so these misc. ad hoc trips truly will come to an end. Until then though...
Dawn McG
) and I have 6 days left to allocate to Thanksgiving and Christmas (that's after the Sept cruise). DH gets less time off, so I tend to be the one taking off for sick days, even though he has like 17 days left in his bank. He also does the work from home thing when he needs to.
But you planned Thanksgiving at WDW for 2008, right? Or did "Thanksgiving" move to a cruise? What are you doing for Christmas?
I'm meh about the Universal versus Disney thing. The Spiderman ride was pretty neat, and I had a good time at the Islands of Adventure.
I get 25 days of vacation time a year (that have to be used each year, no less
Talk to you later!
I hate waiting, but alas... June (2 weeks from now) was the $111 R/T for the 3 of us deal (nuts!) and July was another great airfare rate (although not as good as the $111).
), and I still hadn't used my 30% off discount for registering my 2007 Cruise Guide! So I ordered it. Although, I think you can use the 30% off repeatedly.
While I would consider taking DS out of school for a vacation, it's just not doable for a teacher to take more than a couple of days off for one!
Ah, ok. Thanksgiving this year you'll be down there, Nov. 2009 you'll be dissing me and the Double Dip.
Meh means I don't have an opinion.
DH is playing Rock Band. I'm playing groupie and watching him. Fiona has actually already crashed for the night!!! Woohoo!
And I am NOT dissing you. K&G in school...Fiona is not yet. So there. 
I'm so excited to start planning my Land/Sea for June 2009!
My problem now is that I'm going back into the classroom (hopefully, I'll get hired!), so our vacations will all have to be during peak rate!
HOLY SMOKES...AFter being on this stinkin' site for two years, I FINALLY figured out the double quote thing!
I hear that! I am having slight (not too big) guilt over taking the kids out for a day in October so they can go to MNSSHP. And that also accounts for the 95 trips (ok, not quite) that are planned. There is a drought (ok, mini-drought) between November and April. Whatever will I do? At this point, I'm just tapping my fingers WAITING for next Friday (the 30th) when I can make my ADRs for Thanksgiving... You just KNOW I'll be on the line at 6:59a calling!
Happy Memorial Day all!
Dawn
Yeah yeah yeah... You know I'm just jealous of your airfare. It's around $600 each for us to fly to Orlando. That makes DVC prohibitive at the moment. 
I hope everything works out with your mom. I'll be thinking of you guys this weekend.
We were planning on a 2010 date but I convinced my dh to go next year. Love those feminine wiles. Ha, ha! I went multi-quote CRAZY when I finally figured it out!
Don't feel guilty about pulling the kids out. Just work extra hard to make up all the work before/after any time you have an absence. As a former(future) teacher, it's really not that big a deal for kids to be out even for a week if the families are responsible about it. I just know that as a teacher, it's too darn much work and hassle for me to miss a big chunk of school.
We had such a wonderful, I mean Magical, cruise we just couldn't wait to go again. This next 15 months is going to go slow.
Thank you, thank you!! I am so excited and even my dh is excited. He is already asking me about hotels and excursions.
Hey everybody! Check out my new ticker. Yep, we changed our dummy date to a firm date for Aug. 2009.
I am so excited and the best part is that my kids won't have to miss any school.
Just thought I would share my fun news.
Bobbie,
Are you the one whose dh was writing an article about not gaining weight on a cruise? I was just wondering how that worked out? Has he written it yet? Can we catch it in publication somewhere at a later date? I'm an aspiring writer, too, so I'm always curious about this stuff.
I actually came back at the exact same weight I left! (I'm at an almost 50 lb loss since October thanks to weight watchers). That was a huge relief to me, since I figured I was going to gain about 5 lbs the way I was eating. I wasn't horrible, but I wasn't great, either. But I guess taking the stairs so much paid off!
Just curious how the article turned out.
Karen
We actually both gained a couple of pounds when we weighed in upon our return, but it came off so quickly (within two days) that I think most of it was water retention from two days of sitting in the car all day! The story will be in the November issue of Open Air which is a quarterly supplement in USAToday. I will see if I can post it on this thread when it comes out. I will actually be writing it with him, so readers will get both our sides of the story. We were both pretty indulgent with the food, and the DCL PR department didn't help! DH had contacted them before the cruise, and they filled our stateroom with welcome aboard gifts of a huge cheese platter, a fruit tray, and a bottle of champagne, and then we had some plate of food delivered to our room EVERY DAY annonymously that we assume was from them! That's hilarious! I love it! That must have been fun! I'll have to try that next time! I had a few of the sugar-free desserts, but they weren't anything spectacular. After that, I had a dessert each day and ate pretty much what I wanted. I guess I was really careful at breakfast and ate oatmeal and fruit. And I didn't gorge myself like I would have before I started the whole weight loss journey, though. I used to be in the mindset, "well I already paid for this food, I need to get my money's worth." Now I try to remind myself that I am worth more than the food. But the food there was really good! 
We get USA today, so let us know a few days ahead so we can catch it in print! 
