I am smack dab in the middle ... Midtown by Georgia Tech. I am a researcher/PhD student at Georgia Tech and like being able to walk to work.
So you live near Athens ... that's in Bulldog country. Any ties to UGA or Tech? I see your DH is wearing a Tennessee hat so I am assuming you probably aren't UGA fans.
yes, we live 20 miles from athens and let me tell ya......it's no fun when you're not a bulldog fan. oh, except when they lose!!!
i wouldn't call myself a tech fan but i definitely do cheer for them when they play UGA!!! and as erica told you, i'm a vandy girl. i grew up in the nashville area and was brought up in a vandy household and have held true to my upbringing. DH is a tennessee fan. go figure!
i've shown this to tunajr. and erica, but i wanted to share it with you, too. in fall 2006 when vandy beat UGA at their homecoming football game, i was THRILLED, as you can imagine. a couple weeks later i decided to be a "winner" for halloween!
i really had nothing against UGA until i moved to georgia and red, black and white got SHOVED into my face. it's considered sacreligious around here not to be a bulldog fan, especially where i live! and i'm not saying all bulldog fans are this way, but most of them are TERRIBLE losers and EVEN WORSE winners!
Joining in on your trippie.
Sorry about your...ehmmm...noisy neighbors. Thats never a good thing
thanks for joining in!!!
I'm here! I am goin' back to read...
Okay...great update! I am so happy Mattica and Beana were good. Thanks for bucklin' us in! We tend to "fly around" if not properly strapped in!
i took care of you guys the whole time!
Can't wait to see all of your pictures!!
i can't wait to show you!
Yeah, hurry up and get us under that Disney World arch so we can get the 'hotel neighbors episode' out of our minds!!!
Tap on my computer when you're ready to start. Until then, I'm just going to keep my hands over my ears.
i'll be tapping soon hopefully. i'm gonna try to get another installment out before i dive back into work full force just so you guys get a disney fix!
Subscribing so I don't lose you amongst all the other posters. Can't wait to see and hear more.
thanks for joining us!
Hey Punkkiiiinnnnn gyrl!
I am ready to hear about another adventure!
Cas
hey, cas!!! glad you made it over here. i'm so excited for you and your upcoming trip......you guys are gonna have a blast! and definitely write about DLR! we plan on making it there one day!
Thanks for getting us buckled in
I told MeMom he drove crazy!!!
no problemo.
Ewwww....but I'm glad it was ok....and sorry about the extra noise
....I sleep with a fan and that's one of the reasons I bring it even on trips....you ok sleeping with 'fan noise' in the background??
my sister used to sleep with a fan so no, that doesn't bother me at all!
I miss Joe's....we had one in Cool Spgs but it's closed now
we have one about 30 minutes away but we hardly ever go there. don't know why.....we always end up at PF chang's!
Really??!!?? Matt was excited that the man was taking on a 12 pack on the first night!!
well, all that beer was his and i think he bought more on tuesday. so it lasted him a couple of days!
Oh! I'm crushed....now I have to wait longer for the disney part....it like now I only have 39 days before we checking in at SSR....it can't come soon enough...I looking forward to hear about what you guys thought of SSR the good and the bad......we're going back in October and staying at OKW for the first time....nothing like a ice cold miller lite on the balcony at WDW
.......Life is good...
well, i'll go ahead and tell you since you leave in 39 days and i KNOW i won't be to my final thoughts by then! SPOILERS AHEAD!!! SSR was beautiful. the service was good and it was very clean. the one complaint i have is with the buses. it seems like we waited LOTS of them. getting to the parks from SSR wasn't bad. that part was a breeze. but it seems like when we were waiting on buses at the parks to come back to SSR, it took FOREVER. we waited for almost 40 minutes at epcot! other than that, the resort was AWESOME. we were in congress park and it was a 10-minute walk to DTD. we loved that! oh, and the one other wierd thing - our maid came on wednesday and she left new towels and emptied the trash, but she didn't change the sheets. i found that kinda odd.
Great start Dawn, I've subscribed to this thread!
I'm still new to DisBoards and hoping to go sometime in 2009 for the first time since I was a little kid (and don't remember much at all) with the wife. I've been reading trip reports to hear all the stories, see all the pictures of the resorts, food, rides, and everything else. But I didn't realize how fun reading other peoples' trips and seeing their pictures was until I began reading them.
I've read your other trip reports and tons of other peoples' too! Excited to see what happens on this trip, keep it coming! Hope all is well since your return from WDW.
thanks for reading my TRs! you'll have so much fun as an adult at disney!!! you just have to know your stuff and know the "secrets" of the DIS and you'll have a blast.