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[funatdisney]

Hang in there.

 

[tdashgirl]

 

[areweindisneyyet]

Sherri, I am following your trip report and you have taken some wonderful photos. I think someday I would love to go by myself and take photos. I scrapbook and love to look at all the photos of those special little details that most people walk right by. Great job!!

Disgram, that is so funny. I to scrapbook and like those special shots. I now have dh trained, I will start to point something out and he laughs and says got it. Very well trained.

Sherry I am loving the photos so far. I spent last night wondering if I should change our reservations to the dlh which we all love but those pictures have reminded me why we want to spend Christmas at the gch. Bring on December. I shall keep reading, it is a great start to a lazy Sunday morning.

 

[areweindisneyyet]

But when I left Goofy, he was still alone. That was a moment where I wish I’d had a child with me, because it would have been a prime opportunity to have some quality time with a major character!

Sherry this made me smile and remember the special moment we arrived at dlh on our last trip. We had been traveling for 26 hours and my tired dd's were starting to really grow sullen waiting for our room -4 hours. We were in no state for the parks, we had eaten and bought them autograph books and then who popped into view. GOOFY. He hugged them, danced with them and then sat on the couch in front of the tv in the lobby watching goofy videos with an arm around each of them sharing pez pillows from the goofy pez dispensers grandma had bought. Goofy even made a date at the blue car with grandma the next night. He stayed until our room was ready on the couch probably 15 to 20 minutes. On our way to our room my oldest daughter 7 at the time said mum disneyland really is magic. From the verge of imminent meltdown to a love affair with goofy. ... A perfect start to a perfect trip

 

[areweindisneyyet]

Just finished the trip report. Thank you for sharing and for the tree quest. It has me wishing the year away to december.

Sending you and hoping that your week is getting better.

 

[Belle Ella]

Sherry, Sherry

Things have been a hectic mess for me lately with the start of my school and all. I hope things have settled in the past couple of days and I am so so so sorry to hear about the Soap Opera worth of drama dumped on your doorstep.

 

[Sherry E]

back at ya, my friends! Thanks for the !

And areweindisneyyet, I'm so glad to see you've joined in here with me!! Thank you so much for hopping aboard!

I told Mariezp what the soap opera is (in an e-mail she said, "Dare I ask..." so I told her!), and...I think she will agree - it's a big mess! It's a mess I didn't ask for, but it has hit me nonetheless, like a tornado emerging from nowhere. Let's just say that a close friend of mine has gotten himself into a stupid predicament - and really, I should have nothing to do with it, but someone he knows dragged me into it and now I am caught in a moral dilemma and a whirlwind of chaos that I don't want. I don't like drama and nonsense. I have no energy for all of this madness. I'm too old for this!



Anyway, on a very positive Disney note, my Snapfish calendar arrived with my carefully selected DLR Christmas 2010 photos (all scenic/landscape stuff - no people in them) - AND I LOVE IT!!! (Of course, the UPS person delivered it to one of my neighbors and not to me, even though I was home, but aside from that issue...)

Marie had mentioned before that she really liked her Snapfish calendar, too - it's quite large (larger than the free Shutterfly calendar I got one year ago), it has spiral binding so it's easy to flip the pages, the paper is really good quality, and I LOVE the way my photos look in the calendar!! I was actually quite shocked that some of them came out as well as they did when blown up in a large size! Some of them look soooo much better in a larger size than what I expected (like my favorite 'Main Street clock at dusk' photo!). My photos are mixed in with the Disney Parks' archive photos that are part of the calendar - and in some cases, a few of my pictures look like they could have been part of Disney's archive photos. Oh, and the NOS square mask photos look great in the calendar too! And they got all of my added in dates and events correct, too.

It's so nice when you order something and it exceeds expectations! I was very, very pleased - so much more so with this Snapfish calendar than with the free Shutterfly calendar from last year. Maybe I selected better photos, or maybe the Snapfish calendar is just better quality overall. But it made all the stressful time I put into creating the calendar and loading photos worthwhile. Not to mention the fact that I only had to pay $6 and some change for shipping.

So I highly, highly recommend to anyone to take advantage of that Snapfish free calendar offer while it lasts (I think it expires on February 11). You have to create a free account and then enter some contest to win a trip to DLR or WDW. Then they give you the code for the free calendar. It's a 13-month calendar, and you can start it with February or whichever month you want, but your photos only show for 12 of the months, and then on the front and back covers as well. They even print your name and address on the back cover. And you only pay $6 for shipping. I chose the Disney Parks calendar, but you can do what Mariezp did and choose a non-Disney calendar of the same size and still get it free.

I'm much more pleased with my calendar than I was with my PhotoPass pictures!!! Hence, the delay in posting PhotoPass stuff - I just don't like any of the photos!! I'll still share them with everyone, but I don't like them that much.

 

[Belle Ella]

Man!! Thanks for remindig me about the Snapfish calendar. I had written myself an email so I wouldn't forget, but of couse I haven't gone anywhere near it just yet. I will have to make time to do that today, for sure!!

 

[Sherry E]

Man!! Thanks for remindig me about the Snapfish calendar. I had written myself an email so I wouldn't forget, but of couse I haven't gone anywhere near it just yet. I will have to make time to do that today, for sure!!

If I recall, I think the expiration date is 2/11. That seems to stand out in my mind.

Jazz, do you think you will opt for the Disney Parks calendar, with the Disney archive photos on each page, or will you create a non-Disney Parks one with some other design and just add in your DLR photos?

Either way, your photos will look outstanding in the calendar, for sure! Some of the larger sizes on the pages are really nice for certain photos, and yet some of the small sizes work surprisingly well for others.

I had the hardest time trying to decide which pictures to use - and I've always been that way about photo-related projects. I'm sure you can relate - you spend agonizingly long periods of time trying to select just the right ones (as if it's such an important life or death decision!).

And then my first Snapfish account wasn't working when I tried to find the Disney parks layout section. It stored the Free code, but it wouldn't show me the Disney parks layout. So I had to create a second Snapfish account, get a second code and use that. The first account just acted weird.

In any case, despite all the time, effort, technical glitches and UPS mis-delivery to my neighbor, I am very pleased with the finished product!

 

[kaoden39]

Oh Sherry, I am sorry that you have had so much drama. As my dad used to say with friends like that who needs enemies. I hope that it is all getting better.

 

[Belle Ella]

I haven't even looked at how the whole process of making them works. I remember reading about it right before I was logging off and going to bed so I registered real fast and then I have comepletely forgotten about it since. Bad me, right? I'll take a look today and let you know what I plan on doing. I'm kind of excited about it now.

 

[TheColtonsMom]

Well just finished up the trip report since we just finally got our dish fixed today. So sad to see it end. So fortunate to be able to be along for the ride. Thanks! Hope life is treating you well and the drama has ceased. Maybe we will get lucky and get to meet you when we are back to DLR in October.

 

[Sherry E]

Well just finished up the trip report since we just finally got our dish fixed today. So sad to see it end. So fortunate to be able to be along for the ride. Thanks! Hope life is treating you well and the drama has ceased. Maybe we will get lucky and get to meet you when we are back to DLR in October.

Hi, Sherri! Thanks for coming back. I guess I'm done with this TR...except for the fact that I have been procrastinating on posting the PhotoPass pictures. I suppose I've put that off partly because I was underwhelmed by them and didn't find them all that interesting this time around (and not even all that Christmasy!), and also because I've been preoccupied. Maybe a little of the delay also has to do (secretly) with the fact that once I post those PhotoPass pictures, then the December TR really is over once and for all.

I had a feeling that you were still unable to get onto the DIS because you hadn't posted in your TR in a long time! By the way, I don't know if you're aware, but I added in a section for holiday-related trip reports on the front page of the Christmas superthread (in Post #3, to be exact), and I included a link to your TR!! I didn't want to put in 100 different trip reports, but a good handful of them to give people a broad range of holiday experiences to read about is handy!! So you will see yours there, along with some other familiar names!

I need to start thinking about what kind of date I have in mind for a Halloween trip. Unless I have lots of $$$ to toss around, I don't really think I need to do a multi-day trip. Of course, I'd love to do a multi-day trip in both October and December, but I won't plan on it for Halloween Time unless I strike it rich between now and then. I'd rather save my Paradise Pier room discount thingy for a holiday trip.

However, I'd like to do the Halloween party this year (I haven't been to the party since 2008), and that may require a one-night stay. I'm not sure yet how I will work all of it out. But my AP is good through November 13, so there is no excuse to not go for Halloween this year, at least for a day. I was so sad to have to miss it last year (although I think I made up for not going by having a bang-up holiday trip!). I'm sure I can hitch a ride with someone or other to DLR if my friend Shawn can't go.

So you never know - I just may end up there when you're there and if so, we will definitely have to meet up!






Oh, about those free Snapfish Disney Parks photo calendars I have been recommending to everyone - I think I was incorrect about the expiration date. I think the offer actually expires on February 28th and not February 11, as I previously said. All you pay is $6.57 for shipping and tax.

In any case, one thing I previously neglected to mention is that you can fit up to 15 photos per page on this free Disney calendar. The first calendar I made has just a few photos per page (in some cases, only one photo - but, that way, the photos are showcased better and the layout looks more artsy!!).

However, I realized that I could make another free calendar (a second one) on my other Snapfish account - an unintentional bonus! - and for that one I squeezed as many photos onto each page as possible, and arranged them just so. I'm excited to get that one and see how it comes out. I made a really nice page for February 2012 - I chose photos with red or pink tones, like flowers, or some of them from Disneyland window displays with (fake) chocolate strawberries or heart-shaped merchandise, etc. It's really cool. I can't wait to see what that page looks like in person and not on the computer screen!

I made another whole page with DLR "fake treats" such as gingerbread people, ice cream sundaes, lollipops, cakes, etc. I'm excited about that page too (it may be June 2011, but I can't recall)!!

 

[kaoden39]

Sherry!!

Glad to see you back!!

 

[Sherry E]

Sherry!!

Glad to see you back!!

Hi, Michele! Thank you!

Funny thing is, I was trying - "trying" being the operative word - to write you on Facebook yesterday and it didn't work! I was uploading a bunch of DLR photos to Snapfish for the Disney Parks calendar (mentioned above), and instead of opening up a new window on the PC and risk locking it up mid-upload, I decided to access Facebook from my cell phone. For some reason, the stupid browser on my cell phone has begun to time out - it never did this until the last month of so - so by the time I was done typing out the message to you on FB, I had been timed out. I had to sign back into FB, and I totally lost the whole message!!! Then I got frustrated and gave up!!

 

[kaoden39]

Hi, Michele! Thank you!

Funny thing is, I was trying - "trying" being the operative word - to write you on Facebook yesterday and it didn't work! I was uploading a bunch of DLR photos to Snapfish for the Disney Parks calendar (mentioned above), and instead of opening up a new window on the PC and risk locking it up mid-upload, I decided to access Facebook from my cell phone. For some reason, the stupid browser on my cell phone has begun to time out - it never did this until the last month of so - so by the time I was done typing out the message to you on FB, I had been timed out. I had to sign back into FB, and I totally lost the whole message!!! Then I got frustrated and gave up!!

Oh no. That's funny in so many ways.

When I tried to do the Snapfish calendar it didn't work for me. Drives me nuts. I gave up.

I have trouble with Facebook on my cell phone sometimes, and I just don't like using it for that. Although I have a much fancier phone now it just isn't the same to me.

 

[TheColtonsMom]

I had a feeling that you were still unable to get onto the DIS because you hadn't posted in your TR in a long time! By the way, I don't know if you're aware, but I added in a section for holiday-related trip reports on the front page of the Christmas superthread (in Post #3, to be exact), and I included a link to your TR!! I didn't want to put in 100 different trip reports, but a good handful of them to give people a broad range of holiday experiences to read about is handy!! So you will see yours there, along with some other familiar names!

Yep just got internet back 2 days ago the weather made it difficult for the repair guy to get out to us. The day the internet went back up though snow falling off our roof took out our other satellite dish for the tv and our phone line so thank goodness I had my internet back or what would I do besides shovel snow LOL

Thanks for including my TR that must be why I have new subs and it wasn't totally buried when I got back a few days ago I expected to have to hunt for it LOL. Plus the fact that you picked me as one of the few is a real compliment since your TR is my favorite.

 

[tdashgirl]

Your snapfish calendar sounds super cute!!! I just got the code today, but I haven't started working on it yet. Yup, it expires 2/28/11. The big PITA is that I have to upload a bunch of photos to snapfish, I don't use that photo-sharing site.

 

[tksbaskets]

WAYYYYYyyyy late to the party but enjoying the heck out of another fine trip report! On post #1292. You have me excited about a possible stay at the PPH. We can't stay at the GCH now on our DVC points unless we stay in a villa (which are scarce during the holidays)

We may be going to DL the week AFTER new years...When do the decorations come down?

Thanks for sharing!

TK

 

[TheColtonsMom]

Wanted to take a moment to say WOW to Sherry I am currently reading the Halloweentime superthread #1 and am on page 152 there would be no Halloween Superthread without you! You worked really hard when it first started up to keep it going. So as I begin planning our first Halloween trip may I just say Thank you for all you do