Nothing to See Here...

[Sherry E]

Hi Sherry!

Hi, Kris!! I'm so glad to see you here! Welcome aboard - or welcome back? I think you posted here a long time ago, if I recall!

Wow three years Sherry? It doesn't seem possible to me.

Michele -

I know - can you believe it? Time flies - whether you're having fun or not!

I started this TR with my Halloween trip in 2008. Then I did a Christmas 2008 trip TR. Then at some point I went back and added in all kinds of other photos from DL trips through the years (1972-2007) and the Bret Michaels stuff and the Catalina stuff. Then I was going to go to DLR on my birthday in 2009 to get my Fun Card - but that trip didn't happen, so basically I did a Pre-TR for a trip that didn't exist!

Then I had short Halloween and Christmas trips in 2009 - both of which had TR's, and the big Evil Chair/Peppermint Cone of Death Christmas DLR trip last year...

...all rolled in to one big multi-trip TR thread! So I hope to have a couple more trips to actually add to this TR before the year is out!

 

[tksbaskets]

I hope you get a couple more trips in too! Not just so I can enjoy DL vicariously through you!

Your threads helped me organize both Christmas and Halloween holiday trips to the happiest place on earth.

After the trips have passed I really get a great deal of pleasure out of reading and posting occasionally on the super threads.

One wonders what I did with my time before I found DIS....

 

[kaoden39]

It just doesn't seem possible to me.


Oh and by the way, I did get the Star Tours thing. But, with all that has happened recently I cannot afford it. But, I am a winner just the same.

 

[mvf-m11c]

Hey Sherry. I'm glad that you also got selected for the ST2 Sneak Peek.

That is neat to hear from you Michele that you also got selected for the ST2 Sneak peek. I'm sorry to hear that you won't be able to make it.

 

[kaoden39]

Hey Sherry. I'm glad that you also got selected for the ST2 Sneak Peek.

That is neat to hear from you Michele that you also got selected for the ST2 Sneak peek. I'm sorry to hear that you won't be able to make it.

Congratulations Bret.

 

[mvf-m11c]

Congratulations Bret.

Thank you Michele.

 

[deejdigsdis]

I hadn't seen Creepy Dancing Guy out and about recently, so I thought he might be due to celebrate something. Maybe he's been out and about in the Halloween and Christmas superthreads. I haven't made my way in those lately.

I'm really hoping "later" happens soon -- as far as hearing if your dates are accepted or rejected!

 

[tinksdreamwishes]

Congrats on all of your ST2 winnings! Even if you can not go- it is still super cool to win anything from Disney!

 

[WDWJonasGirl]

Love your pictures!! I was born in '95 so I wasn't around for most of your old pictures.

 

[kaoden39]

Love your pictures!! I was born in '95 so I wasn't around for most of your old pictures.

I am suddenly very old.

 

[tksbaskets]

I am suddenly very old.

In my dotage right with you! Where is the granny emoticon?

 

[kaoden39]

In my dotage right with you! Where is the granny emoticon?

What's that you say the batteries in my hearing aid seem to be broken.

 

[tksbaskets]

What's that you say the batteries in my hearing aid seem to be broken.

LOVE IT! I'm sure that is what my sons think I look like!

 

[kaoden39]

LOVE IT! I'm sure that is what my sons think I look like!

Totally random question here.....

Are you taking a Disney cruise to Alaska? I am in the midst of planning a second honeymoon for next year and we are leaning towards a land/sea Alaska trip. I want to hear all about yours. Are you doing a pre-trip report in the cruise section?

 

[tksbaskets]

Totally random question here.....

Are you taking a Disney cruise to Alaska? I am in the midst of planning a second honeymoon for next year and we are leaning towards a land/sea Alaska trip. I want to hear all about yours. Are you doing a pre-trip report in the cruise section?

Hi,
Why yes we are taking the DCL trip to Alaska! We depart 7/2 for a couple of days in Vancouver and then leave on our cruise 7/5. I have never done a pre-trip report but if someone will read it I'll do a trip report when we return. We are SO excited! We haven't cruised since our DCL Mexican Riviera trip in 2008 and haven't been on the wonder since our very first DCL cruise long ago.

TK

 

[deejdigsdis]

Hi,
I have never done a pre-trip report but if someone will read it I'll do a trip report when we return.

TK

You know I'll be there.

 

[mvf-m11c]

Same here TK, I would like to read your TR.

 

[6Smiles]

I'll be reading your TR as we have been planning an Alaskan cruise in 2013 as my oldest daughter's HS graduation present. I was also hoping Michele was going to do a TR .

 

[kaoden39]

Hi,
Why yes we are taking the DCL trip to Alaska! We depart 7/2 for a couple of days in Vancouver and then leave on our cruise 7/5. I have never done a pre-trip report but if someone will read it I'll do a trip report when we return. We are SO excited! We haven't cruised since our DCL Mexican Riviera trip in 2008 and haven't been on the wonder since our very first DCL cruise long ago.

TK

I will definitely read it!!

I'll be reading your TR as we have been planning an Alaskan cruise in 2013 as my oldest daughter's HS graduation present. I was also hoping Michele was going to do a TR .

I am hoping to the only problem is I am thinking of doing our cruise with a different company. I am waiting on my Disney Cruise planning video. There are so many things to choose from.

 

[Sherry E]

Okay..........................



I hadn't heard anything from the Disney folks in the special office yet, so I called back today. (The girls I have talked to in this office could not be any nicer or more pleasant - Disney did a really good, smart job by hiring them!)


So...I am BOOKED.

I get free parking, one complimentary night's stay at the PPH, $99 for each additional night, I don't have to put a single dime down on this reservation in advance and.....I get priority seating "for any parades or shows" that are happening during my stay!!! This would have to include the Christmas Fantasy Parade, I'm sure...probably Aladdin...maybe even the Candlelight Processional?? Or anything else that has any kind of priority seating situation?

Yee haw - Disney is hooking me up!

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I am booked from Monday, November 28 - Monday, December 5!!!! That would be 7 nights during the holiday season for just a little bit more than what I paid last year for 3 nights!!!

Now, let's all not get excited about this yet. First of all, I will most likely cut off a couple of those nights - that is my plan - and bring it down to 5 nights or so. Right now, I am leaving a big block of time open so that all friends can make it at some point. Once I narrow down who is coming on which day, I can shorten my stay.

But I will treat it as though I am going solo until anything is finalized. If some friends (Jackie & Bob) can only come on the weekend, I have that option (12/3 and 12/4). If the Idaho friends - who swear they are coming out for sure this time - can only make it at the beginning of the trip (the November days), I have that option. If it looks like none of those friends are showing up when it gets to be about September or so, I will cut the reservation down to 5 days.

I know I need to have at least a couple of full days to myself to catch up on stuff I didn't get to do last December (spend more time in DCA taking photos, etc.). I will probably go nuts if I have people with me every second of the day and night. So if anyone does stay with me the first couple of nights, they will have to leave. If no one shows up, I will have a happy time by myself.

Also, while my friends (if they show up) will chip in on the bill with me, I still have to come up with the money for this extravaganza, but that's 6 months away so there's time to work it out.

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Oh, and I also booked my July 21 Catalina Express boat trip this past weekend. I am hoping they add another later return time than the current return time of 7:30 p.m. that I have. If they get booked up they may add in an 8:30 p.m. return or 9:30 p.m. or something, which is what I am hoping. Leaving the Island at 7:30 seems too early to me, even though I am taking the 6:15 A.M. boat out to Avalon in the morning and will be tired!





Now I must go back over the last couple of pages in this TR and see who I have to reply to!!! I am behind on replies!!