Sounds like a lot of fun! 
Woo Hoo for 19 days!
I know and today is 18 days... Woo Hoo Hoo...
Even more so - double woo hoo for Italy over Spring Break. So jealous!
I'm pretty darn excited...
I love your plans and I can't wait to see what you thing of Be Our Guest CS and Yachtsman. I am actually thinking of doing both of those this summer. Yachtsman is the only signature I haven't eaten at. Not sure whether to do it in June or wait for October.
I can't wait to see the inside of BOG... I'm guessing it will be really lovely... I'm really curious about Yachtsman... that and Citricos are the two Signatures I haven't eaten at... and we might try Citricos next summer...I'm planning on including lots of food porn in my trip and actually review and show food pictures this time around...
Is Em good about doing all her applications or do you have to give her reminders? Right before the Maryland application was due I warned Nick that if the power went out and it wasn't done I was disowning him.I also just learned that Nick's verbal SAT was 10 points too low for being exempt from English 101 at Maryland.
Of course, he could care less.
She's pretty good about doing her apps on time -she applied ED to the "School that must not be Named" -which I promised to respect...the app was due on November 1 and she she was finishing up her app on October 29 before Sandy hit (she was paying attention to the weather forecast) and she submitted everything about 2 pm and we lost power at 7....and we know how that went...
0 Em is actually a nerd... in the best sense of that word...(she's a bit like the older Hermione Granger...)
That stinks about being 10 points away from English 101... and it seems like every school has its own rules...
Lemoncello. Yum. Did I spell that right?Love that you are still doing the movie nights. So cool.
...Ahhhh...9 days in Italy. Florence and Rome.
Sigh. How lovely! It won't be terribly warm then but you won't have crowds either which will be magical. Jeff and I had our belated honeymoon there in early April of 06. Dying to go back.
Yes its a trade between temp and crowds... Tuscany will still be that gorgeous Olive green color though... we have to watch though cause we'll be getting close to Easter...but we should be out by 4-5 days before...It will be a little different that your belated honeymoon...with Ems and David along...
We had Pizza, at Pisa. Just cuz it's fun to say!
I want some pizza in Pisa in the piazza...
Love the Pinocchio/Italy update!
Hurray for power being back on!!!
You have no idea... well actually yes you do...
David as Eisenhower is great!!!
Yes he took his role quite seriously...
I love anything Italian! One day we will make it over there to visit the real thing!
I am definitely a fan of any movie night that includes Limoncello in the theme!!!
The rest need to be done by the end of the month.
A couple friends just got back last week and I got to see their beautiful photos on Facebook. What a lovely time you are going to have!
lmao:) a cocktail at the Dawa Bar at the AK -- the Raspberry Pina Colada...very, very yummy.
"The school that must not be named" I love that! Nick has a reach school like that which I have only revealed to a few DISers, but none of my local friends
She's crazy superstitious... and I'm not even supposed to tell her grandparents...but then again if they had their way she wouldn't be out of a 90 mile radius...
You are so lucky to have a girl, hence far less reminders and nail biting than with a boy! I will be so glad when every single one of those apps are done. Right now I am always on edge.
Hey there Patricia!
I just spent the better part of an hour getting all caught up~
So sorry you spent all of that time with no power. I can't imagine. I go nuts after a half an hour...
Hey Anita...)
I've had students on the spectrum before and they always seem to have such great insight. There was one boy in particular, every time his hand came up I couldn't call on him fast enough. He was such a deep thinker. Also had a very sweet, kind nature.
David's teacher's love him...
We have his sister now, while she is quite bright, she's a bit of a stinker....
Did David choose Eisenhower? He was president when I was born and he also lived in Kansas.
I love this quote from him...
Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies in the final sense a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
No they were assigned... I think his teacher thought it was interesting that they both had David in their name and she thought he might be more challenging for him then one of the other earlier Presidents that he knew about... I enjoyed learning about him...He was a really interesting person and I think the fact the a man that was the Supreme Commander of the Allied Forces came to be so careful in his use of military force is pretty telling...
Love the quote... I'll have to share it with David... Funny he was born in Kansas where you live and he retired to Pennsylvania (where I live)... it really is a small world...
Cheers for your Italy trip. I would be so excited to be heading over to visit the real thing. For me, it's only been the pavilion in WS.
Yes I'm very excited... I do think we are only "allowed" to leave the country for one of the World Showcase countries though... England, France, Canada and Italy... I think if it isn't in WS-we aren't allowed to go...
You do have lots of excitement coming your way next year.
There you don't have time to reply for some time and then it becomes all daunting because there is so much to comment on!!!
I am glad that you have power again, my family once had a weekend house that did not have electricity (my parents were refurbishing the place and subsequently electricity was being restored). But at least it was an old house that had wood burning ovens and we knew that we would be without electricity for the weekend.
I am so happy to have power again and I will never take it for granted again... we do have two working fireplaces... one in Eric and my bedroom and one in our living room so that did help a bit...but still... it did start to get cold...
Love your themed evenings with the family! What a great way to get into the mood for the vacation!
Aww...Pinocchio is one of my very favorite Disney movies!! It sounds like you had a great night!
It really is lovely... the animation is absolutely gorgeous... great characters... it's a little rough when the little boys get turned into donkeys... after/at Pleasure Island... someone at Disney had a bit of a wicked sense of humor when they named the entertainment complex in Orlando...
I can't believe you are getting so close to your trip! Your MK plans sound really good! I can't wait to see the new Fantasyland!
It's so strange how you look forward to something for so long and then it pops up and it's only two weeks away...
So exciting to be going to Italy! I have always wanted to go there....hopefully someday!
Your day sounds really great. So jealous that you are heading to Kona for breakfast soon!
Yep your tr/photos convinced me I "needed" that Kona breakfast...
I hope FL is open for you and you get to see all of it!
Yes please...
Ahhh...your movie night makes me realize that I haven't seen Pinocchio in a really long time! Hmmm...I'll have to rectify that!
)...but still definitley worth watching... it's a gorgeous film...great characters...Pinocchio, Gepetto, the Blue Fairy, Jiminy Cricket...good stuff... Patricia, I'm here. I don't know if I'll ever be able to catch up especially since we are going out of town this weekend to see our son and his fiance and then have to get ready for Thanksgiving, but I'm going to try. I did notice that we will miss you by 3 days...we arrive on the 6th.
Hey KathyThanks for coming over... I know you will be there for the "official" opening of the new FL...just in time to celebrate Mark's Birthday... I can only imagine what kind of new hats they may have over there...
Back to read...I may skim a little.
****Okay, I'm back. I'll be upfront...I skipped most of the chatter.
Yes I do that too sometimes when trying to catch up on tr's... I haven't written a TR/PTR in a little bit and I kind of forgot about those handy dandy chapter links...
First, and most important--well, at least in my mind
Sounds yummy...
I loved your trip to California and seeing all of the pictures. California is on my bucket list of places I really want to get too.
There are places in our country that I think everyone should see if they are able to like Washington D.C....& California is one of them...::yes:
Your plans for your trip which is almost here sound terrifii. I can't wait to stay at the Beach Club on my girls trip in June (it's the only resort left that I've been dying to try; I'm just afraid I'll fall in love with it and won't be able to afford it for our 30th anniversary next year...although I'll be happy at OKW).
I'm really excited to be staying at the Beach Club...OKW seems lovely in every TR I've read that has it in it...
I promise I'm here for the rest and will keep up and hope you'll be doing a TR for me to read when I get back from our trip.
... and I'll definitely be doing a trip report when we return with chapter links...
- oh and sometimes I take my own coffee...) but it's a necessary evil so I'm going to make that list.. I need to check the weather... I think we should be prepared for a variety of weather conditions... 
) but even more so it's a love story between a daughter and mother... there is conflict between them as Merida is growing up ... but they learn a lot from each other and they and their bond is stronger at the end...
I was very sensitive about having curly hair when I was younger and I'm glad there is a princess that little curly girlies can identify... and that you don't have to have poker straight hair to be a princess...
I'm so excited to get my copy of Brave! I pre-ordered it online and I get a $10 Disney Store gift card when it comes. Yay! Oh, and I have to get me some of those cute Mickey/Minnie sock slippers!
... did you pre order from the Disney Store??From another diser "ronmel", here is how you do links!
Well thanks Jenn and thanks to ronmel... who doesn't know me from Adam but now I'll have to stalk her TR...assuming she/he has one...
I'm going to go back and try out the instructions...
NOW, onto your update! LOVE Brave! I also picked up my pre-order yesterday! Can you believe though, that I had NO interest in buying anything at the Disney store... everything looked so generic.. hated their Christmas stuff, which is crazy for me even to say!
They go in cycles... I had a period where I was going nuts but recently not so much...
I'm so excited for Christmas though! However, we are struggling with ideas for gits this year!
Yes you should be having a very lovely Christmas this year...
As far as gifts...Well you do have that whole Wedding thing coming up and a family Disneymoon... I'm thinking you should incorporate that into your gifts this year...
I have a super awesome packing list if you need any help!
but then I realized you had the kid's stuff on it and I did see you had clothes listed...
Thanks Jenn,
I was able to figure out the links... that helped a lot... I just had one adjustment... I have a mac so I had to hit control and then copy... but I couldn't have figured it out without the directions...
Thanks for the packing list... at first I didn't see you had clothes listed just pjs... and I thought you sent me your honeymoon packing list...
