Our Thanksgiving Trip-It was like herding cats! 7/16-FINAL THOUGHTS ARE DONE!!!!

[Poohtigeey]

Alright Sara, now you're just being MEAN!!!

Still waiting.....

 

[mom2mek]

Alright Sara, now you're just being MEAN!!!

Still waiting.....

Sorry! I'm getting to it right now. I so thought doing it this way was a good idea, but now I'm just chomping at the bit to get this trip!

Check back in a few.

Sara

 

[mom2mek]

On with the show...Bear in mind that as the week progressed, I took fewer and fewer pictures (more preoccupied with not being throwed up on or throwing up myself!)

As I mentioned in the last installment, we used our brains today and left DD at home with my husband and the rest of us headed to MGM (oh, ok Disney Studios, but I just can't get used to that yet):

We get to MGM and the guys (only my DSF (step-dad) and DBIL as my DH is home with DD) run off to do RnR and ToT -whew that’s a lot of acronyms – 7in one sentence!

First we stopped for a couple of pics on this horse:

The rest of us went to Playhouse Disney. As we are sitting on the floor at PD, all of a sudden, a feeling came over me – I had to get out of there and FAST! I left the baby with my Mom and headed out the emergency exit to get some air!

I just had that “feeling” – you know the feeling? I never did get sick, but for a while, I felt as if it was imminent! The rest of the group (which at this point consisted of my mom, sister, and 5 kids) came out of the show and wanted to see VOTLM. I walked around with the baby in the stroller while she napped and I tried to shake that awful “feeling.”

Afterwards we walked down towards the HISTK play area. I tried to eat something at the CS right there (I can’t think of the name of it) when the Power Rangers emerged for autographs and pics. My DN (5) and DS (4) wanted to see them, so I stood in the line with them while the rest played. I know I have pics of the two of them with the pink power ranger but have no idea where they have walked off to - they aren't with my other pics. Oh well, probably with that Cinderella picture from the 1st day that I can't find.

My step-dad and brother-in-law eventually met us back there and took my son on Star Tours (his favorite ride of the trip, except maybe Thunder Mountain at the MK). As we are walking back towards Pizza Planet where everyone wanted to eat that day for lunch, I get a call on my cell phone.

I thought it was probably my husband giving me an update on sicko, but no – it’s my mother-in-law calling me from VA! More good news – she has broken her leg in 3 places! What? Ahhh! Fantastic! Now, a little background, I work full-time at my family’s business and my MIL watches my children every day. It is a blessing (she spoils them and they get away with a lot more than they would if it were me) but I am very fortunate to have her!

She calls to tell us she is in the hospital and will have a full leg cast for at least 6 weeks! (Sidenote it ended up being 12 weeks - she just didn't heal as fast as they thought she would)!

I felt so bad for her (at least it was January, so the heat in a cast wouldn’t be an issue – Ugh!) I tried not to think of the logistics of dealing with that – who would watch the kids, what kind of schedule could I make to work from home, etc, and then I thought, ok, I will deal with that when I get home, I couldn’t let it ruin our trip! (The stomach flu did that all on its own, thank you very much.)

After Pizza Planet, we get some more autographs and pics with Jessie and an Army Man,

And the snowman (although he refused to give autographs):

That's them trying to look cold!


Then we went to see Indiana Jones and after that we left to get a spot for the parade.

He was pretending to be asleep!

We found an excellent place, but it was so sunny! Our trip thus far had been very chilly, but today was perfect! Our spot for the parade, though, was right in the direct line of the sun – which didn’t help with the yucky stomach thing! A lot of the characters came up to the kids and they were fantastic (the guy from the Muppets - (big hairy one), Jafar, Darth Vader, - I didn't take a lot of pictures as I was taking a lot of video so now I don't have anything to look at on a regular basis! Ugh! I'll have to look back at the video and see if I can get any of those images converted over to still pics (but I have no earthly idea how to actually DO that, I just thought it would be nice!)

The parade was great; and by now, I was starting to feel better but I guess I transferred my “yuckiness” directly to my mom because halfway through the parade she was looking a bit green! (he's green and I was getting tired of using this guy ) (well, I just used him again!)

Afterwards we walked towards the Great Movie Ride and the guys rode it with the kids. The baby stayed with me, my sis, and my mom and when the guys and kids came out my Mom said she really wanted to get back to the house because she was not feeling well at all!

Most of the crew went back with her but my sister, oldest niece, and myself stayed on!

We grabbed some french fries (for me, the salt sounded really good) and ice cream (for my sister and niece) and did some pin shopping before seeing Beauty and the Beast and Fantasmic and then we left.

We did get a guy to snap our picture in front of the hat on our way out of the park that night. My camera batteries had died so I don’t know where that picture ended up – it was on my sister’s camera and I have never seen it!

I was feeling much better by bedtime, but my mother and step-father were both throwing up that night.

If you are keeping a tally, that's 2 kids, 3 adults sick so far on the trip (if you count me - who only "felt" sick but never actually "got" sick)

So, how would the rest of the troops fare for the remainder of our trip and what would our last day at the MK shape up to be?

Sorry about the pitiful post - not a lot of detail or a lot of pics, but that's all I got, folks!

Sara

 

[KimmyDisneyNerd]

WOW, you are really "redefining" trip insurance for me.......
May I just add that your trip is fast approaching WOW !!

 

[Poohtigeey]

Thanks for the update. I won't call it a "good" update because so many people were misserable! You remember so much detail!!!

 

[mom2mek]

WOW, you are really "redefining" trip insurance for me.......
May I just add that your trip is fast approaching WOW !!

I know - technically I'm at 31 days today instead of 32 as we are leaving on the evening of Nov 16th! yay! I've got to finish the Countdown Calendar tonight so I can surprise the kids with it tomorrow! Not even close to finishing it!

Thanks for the update. I won't call it a "good" update because so many people were misserable! You remember so much detail!!!

I really don't remember as much as you think. I have the pictures and they are mostly in order from the trip, so as I look at them, I can kind of remember how the day unfolded! Like I said, it sounded like a good idea at the time, to re-cap, but now I'm kicking myself. I hope I haven't made anyone nervous about getting sick.

We are certainly stocking up on the new Immunity Building yogurt, Germ-X, Clorox wipes, etc, etc, for this trip! And saying a lot of prayers!



Sara

 

[mrsksomeday]

Thanks for the newest installment. I won't call it great either with all the sickness going on. I am glad you felt better after getting out into the air. I hate that "am I going to get sick" feeling. I hope the sickeness ran it's course quickly.

 

[mom2mek]

So, first I have to say:

WE ARE AT 30 DAYS UNTIL OUR TRIP!!!! I think that calls for some of these guys:



I also have to tell you that I, craft-challenged Sara, completed our Countdown Calendar last night! I tried to take a picture of it, but my batteries died just as I snapped it! Not that it is much to speak of, but I was proud and wanted to share!

So, back to business!

Yay! It's the last day of my old trip report! After this I can start in on all my OCD issues with this upcoming trip! (I need to try and figure out how to do that fancy-shmancy link in my original post so that you don't have to scroll through the old trips to get to my important pre-trip stuff - I have issues, people - I will need advice!) I will work on figuring that out! Feel free to leave me with instructions on how to do that, if you so desire!

So our final day of the trip has come. So, for those of you keeping count, up to this point in the trip we have had 2 kids sick and 3 adults sick (if you don’t count my BIL who brought the whole thing with him, but never actually was sick in the “World”. Go figure )

So, who’s sick today, you ask? Drum Roll, please!!!

Today, our lucky contestants are my son and my niece (the middle of the 3 girls). Add two more to the tally!

My sickly 2 year old is fine and was fine the whole day before while we were at MGM and she was home, so the decision was made that my sister, mother and myself would go to the MK with my two "un-sick" nieces and my daughter. The 6 of us have a honey pot with our name on it waiting for us! Along with a BUNCH of rides we skipped the 1st day (thinking we would be back!)

We don’t even get to the monorail when my DD gets sick again! DRAT! Or, really (Bleep) Keep in mind that this is a full 30 – 32 hours since her last episode, so do we turn around and go home? Oh no, let’s just see what happens, we say! It’s our last day! This is our last chance! We must carry on! We must be strong!

We get through security at Main St and BOOM - again! Lovely! (For those of you who care to know, when her episodes would happen, it was hardly noticed by most people as she just basically got sick on herself and after the 1st time she had the handy, dandy, Ziploc bag in her lap! I’m sure someone noticed, but it wasn’t like at Epcot, where she got sick on something, i.e. the sidewalk, the bushes, the Turtle Talk theater, etc.

Anyways, we walk down Main St and I pop into one of the shops to get her a new shirt and we meet at the end of Main St by the bakery to talk. We end up deciding that me and my sister will go back with the sickling and my mom will call my step-father and see if he is up to coming to the MK with her (he didn’t come originally that day because he still wasn’t feeling that well in the AM) and the two older girls. So my sister, daughter, and myself all used up a day off our tickets to basically get to the end of Main St. Argh! We should have turned around in the parking lot!

We get home, put her to bed, and laid down ourselves while my mom, step-dad, and two nieces back at the MK ride Small World, Jungle Cruise, Peter Pan, and see Philharmagic and the Swiss Family Treehouse before heading back. They had a great couple of hours at the park! Glad someone did! Geez!

Notice, not a single picture taken this day! We were a bit over it - what was there to take pictures of we thought! Ugh!

Next up… departure day! How will the airplane ride go with all the turbulent stomachs on board?

So, departure day was even more sad than usual. First we had the sadness of leaving the “world”, then we had the additional sadness of the kids leaving each other -we were flying, they were driving (they truly are the best of friends), and then we had the added sadness of not getting to do/see all that we wanted to because of the sickness!

We left the house and drove to the airport where we waited, and waited, and waited for our DELAYED flight to arrive for boarding. The whole time I had that “feeling” again, but it was mostly due to nerves. I absolutely HATE to fly and on top of that I had the worry that I might have 3 sick kids with me on the flight! Ugh! Our plane arrives and we board and get home without any sickness! Thank goodness! I have never felt such relief as when we landed from that trip! I could have knelt and kissed the ground! If I didn’t feel like I might have thrown up when I did it!

At least now we were home – I much prefer being sick at home than on vacation. So the tally for the trip was 4 out of the 6 kids got sick (the oldest and the youngest of the kids stayed well, go figure!) and 3 out of 6 adults (my sister and husband were the only ones that avoided the “Disney disease.” Although technically my sister felt “yucky” on our Downtown Disney day and my hubby was feeling the beginnings of it on our departure day!) The only one who really escaped it DURING the trip (though he was the one that brought that little demon to WDW), was my brother-in-law. He won’t live this down for a while!

But did anyone get sick any more after that? You guessed it – Nope! We were all fine! Ahh!

Then all the remorse set in and the kids started to ask when they could go back because they didn’t get to ride this or that, etc… So frustrating!

So, when will we go back, we start to wonder? Hmmmm….
…and so finally… I can begin the pre-trip report for our “Thanksgiving in the World with 16”. yay!

Will it help us to recover from our disappointment from last time? Will we ride in that elusive honey pot? Will we get bit by another bug? (Gosh, I hope not!) Can we handle the crowds? Can we handle 8 kids? Will anyone besides me see the importance of planning ahead? Do I need to brush up on my cat herding skills? How will I do with all my trusty DIS and TGM info I have learned over the last few months? So many unknowns. Stay tuned.

Thanks for reading!

Sara

 

[Poohtigeey]

**Don't forget to fix your siggie!

Please know that I loved your report w/in a pre trip report. I bet the kids still enjoyed it! I'm sending you good thoughts for your next trip, and you BETTER write a report since you're so good at it!

 

[KimmyDisneyNerd]

I'm surprised after that trip you even want to go back

Okay, I'm going to throw some of this at you

Here's hoping to a Fantastic next trip.
Can't wait to read about your planning for this trip. I also hope you will be able to put up a pic of the countdown, I'm looking forward to seeing it.

 

[mom2mek]

Thanks for the pixie dust Kimmy! We definitely are going to need it!

Here is our countdown calendar!

Just so you know, I am extremely "craft-challenged", and the kids helped with the stickers (after I had all the Mickey Heads on - can't ruin the surprise of what's underneath each day). Can you tell I am making excuses? Anyway, I like it, even with all of it's imperfections!

The first one is just the calendar, the second one shows our Thanksgiving at Disney mascot (turkey with Mickey ears on).

Sorry they are so blurry - I don't know what is going on with my camera (note to self, check that out in the next 30 days, I mean 29 days!)

Pre-trip coming up!

Sara

 

[Poohtigeey]

Great job! That's a great coutdown because you took the time to make one for your kids, and you risked getting arrested for it!

Hey Kimmy, send some of that pixie dust my way! Sara's made me nervous!

 

[KimmyDisneyNerd]

Sara, the countdown looks great!
You have inspired me to do one. I have been going back and forth with it, because it's just me and my best friend. We are roommates, so I think she would really be excited by it.
I will do mine for 30 days out too.

 

[mom2mek]

Yay! I made it!

The pre-trip for our "Let's Do This Over and Hope for the Best" trip can finally begin:


After last Christmas (2006), I talked it over with my mom and husband, and we were all ready to start planning for another trip, but when? I sent out an email to my brother, sister, and step-sister asking them to think about the next time they wanted to try and go to WDW! We knew we wanted the cooler weather (so no summer trip for us), but didn’t want to go so deep into winter (hoping to avoid last trip’s January stomach flu that was so pleasant!) The end result was either Thankgiving or waiting until February/March (but before Spring Break). Well the majority of the group decided on Thanksgiving! So there you have it – 1st decision made!

(Step-sister and her family decided to forgo this trip as they are headed to the East Coast (from Oregon) over Christmas so another trip to the East Coast a month prior was really out for them!)

Next… the house. We enjoy staying in a rental home especially while our kids are young because we like the extra space to spread out and we like to be together (the adults) after we have put the kids down to sleep.

So until they are older, we won’t be on Disney property.

This is of course unless we travel by ourselves (me, dh, and ds, dd, and dd) –then I would try staying onsite (but I only really want to stay on a monorail resort ).

For now, we love the house and the private pool. It’s just great sitting outside in your bathrobe and a cup of coffee while the kids go for a quick dip!

We also save money by having a full-size kitchen, not that we fix a lot of full out meals mind you, but a quick dinner of spaghetti works for one night and having quick breakfast foods works out really nice!

The laundry area is the other big “plus” for us (see aforementioned stomach flu trip!). Our last house had 2 dryers – which also came in handy! Last time the house had GREAT, and I mean, GRRRRREAAAATTTT kids rooms! If you don’t remember, one had a beautiful carriage bed and a princess castle bunkbed, one had two “under the sea” beds, and one had a Buzz Lightyear rocketship bunkbed!

So the search was on for a house at Thanksgiving with at least 7 bedrooms (4 of them being master suites with bathrooms) and great themed rooms for the kids! I was also keeping a lookout for one that would accept pets (to ease my sister’s burden of boarding three dogs!). Trying to be accomodating to everyone here!

It wasn’t an absolute must, but in all honesty, I didn’t want her to have to deal with the walking issue at the WDW kennels, or the additional cost!

So, we wanted to be in the same area we were on our last trip, so the quest began there. The house we had last time was already booked, as was it’s “sister” house, which looked just as fantastic. *sigh*.

A bit bummed out, I kept searching, and after a long and tedious quest, (it can get rather addicting looking for the “perfect” place) I found one! It’s an 8 bedroom villa – 4 “adult” rooms, 4 “kid” rooms, private pool with kiddie pool (great for the 2 and 3 year olds), a game room, it allows pets with approval, 2 miles from Disney in the next neighborhood over from where we stayed last time, many, many, many child amenities! Perfect! I sent my sister an email telling her to pack her dog's mouse ears 'cuz they could come too! She was excited!

The rooms look great – maybe not quite as dramatic as the other house, but still really nice! There is a Winnie the Pooh themed room, a Mickey Mouse themed room, a Princess themed room (with wonderful canopied beds) and a Cars themed room! There is a full-size crib, toddler bed, high chairs, strollers, baby gates, monitors, pretty much everything you could think of. The rate was a little higher than the last trip, but we are getting an 8 bedroom instead of the 7 we had last time, and it is a holiday week, so no complaining from us! It’s still cheaper than 2 standard rooms per family in a value and certainly cheaper than a moderate or a deluxe. Wonderful!

Now on to look for cheap airfare and to start planning the ADRs!


Ok, so I admit it… Even though I have been to the “world” a few times, I am pretty much a complete newbie when it comes to the planning! Since we were planning a trip at a busy holiday period, I thought maybe I should do a "little bit" of research for some tips for traveling at this time of year. (That sounds so funny now - a "little bit of research" HA!)

Well, low and behold, I stumbled upon a little thing called the DIS! My life was forever changed!

Funny story, when I started reading the DIS boards, I stumbled onto a trip report from "Ellster". As I was reading, certain things started to sound familiar. She was a stay-at-home Mom who home-schooled her children and she had recently moved to the same city in GA where my sister lives, who is also a home-schooler. I continued reading in her trip report and she mentioned something about her girls playing tennis (my nieces play tennis). Then I noticed her girls’ names and realized that those names sounded familiar – ends up my sister knows Ellen and her girls and my sister’s girls take tennis together and go to “park day” together. (Sing it with me now) It’s A Small World After All.

Anyways, she recommended TGM in addition to the DIS boards, so I tried it and after a few days of figuring my way around his site, I was hooked on that one as well! Love, love, love it!

It feeds right into my new “super-planner” mode! So thanks Ellen! Way to enable!

Sara

 

[mrsksomeday]

I am loving this installment. I can not wait to see pictures of this villa. It does make so much sense since you have so many people coming. I love the fact that the dogs can come!!

I love the DIS too. It has opened my eyes to so much. YAY, another "super planner". I hope you will share you ADR's with us, I love hearing about those and well anything to do with planning a trip.

 

[Poohtigeey]

I almost missed your update! You're going to have a great time! I hope I haven't messed up by not checking out TGM! Oh well. Like you, I am so glad I found the DISboards. Great info and great friends!

 

[KimmyDisneyNerd]

I'm totally excited to see this place you are staying at. Can't wait to hear more about your plans!

 

[mom2mek]

I am loving this installment. I can not wait to see pictures of this villa. It does make so much sense since you have so many people coming. I love the fact that the dogs can come!!

I love the DIS too. It has opened my eyes to so much. YAY, another "super planner". I hope you will share you ADR's with us, I love hearing about those and well anything to do with planning a trip.

Will do! I'm going to post again in a minute! Thanks for reading! And oh yeah, I've already got a Mickey polo for one of the dogs! (It was on sale for 3.99 and the dog has to have clothes - no hair- so I thought he shouldn't be left out from the fun! The other two are girls and no sales going on for them so I'll just have to check back. I can't fathom paying more than a couple of bucks for dog clothes!

I almost missed your update! You're going to have a great time! I hope I haven't messed up by not checking out TGM! Oh well. Like you, I am so glad I found the DISboards. Great info and great friends!

It's not too late to join TGM but it did take me a bit to learn my way around his site - there's so much info on there! So I don't know if you want to start in on that, but his LCC (least crowded charts) are great and his advice is ! The forums are fantastic - no negative people - everyone is just really, really happy! I love both DIS and TGM! DIS has such a wealth of experience and knowledge! TGM has very positive and helpful tips, but not as many people, so sometimes you post a question and only get a few responses, as opposed to the DIS where you get a ton just because it has such a larger amount of people! If you do decide to join, let me know. I have the same username over there!

I'm totally excited to see this place you are staying at. Can't wait to hear more about your plans!

I will try to post a couple of pics soon and of course I will have pics when I come back!

 

[mom2mek]

So I've found the DIS and I've joined TGM and off I go!

Here are my guidelines for the trip:

The children should not get over-stimulated (hah!), or over-tired (hah-hah!), my parents and siblings should not get over-whelmed, my hard-working husband should not get over-scheduled, and I should not get over-obsessed!

Well, too late on the last one! I needed to plan, hence, I needed to research. And I mean RESEARCH! There is so much information out there between the TGM forums and the DIS, I was in hog heaven! I didn’t get voted “Most Prepared” in 5th grade for nothing!

Where else could I start, but with our Thanksgiving Day plans! My original plan was to be at the MK on Thanksgiving, so I started researching the best places to eat for T-giving. Of course, Liberty Tree kept coming up as the “place to be”. Well, Ok, then! Me, being the good little student, started researching LTT. A few people said it was harder to accommodate a large group, a really hard ADR to get especially if you couldn’t do the 180 + 10, yada, yada, yada. So… back to the drawing board.

Maybe eating at a resort on the monorail would be nice! Yeah – that’s what I’ll do! We will tour the park, then hop on the monorail for a nice trip around to eat Thanksgiving dinner! I vaguely remembered a restaurant being in the Contemporary (but of course didn’t know anything about it). Click, click, click goes the mouse and boom – lots of information on Chef Mickeys magically appears on my computer screen!

Sounds perfect for us! And kind of sentimental! We have an old film of my sister and brother, circa 1975 probably, at the Contemporary outside a restaurant with the monorail running through it, and they are dancing with a mariachi band. I have no idea what the restaurant was called (I’m sure it wasn’t called CM), but it’s so cute. It was one of the trips I didn’t get to go on because I was still too “little” – I stayed at my grandparents house. (Maybe that’s why I’m so obsessed with having the perfect Disney vacation- I’m trying to usurp those sad childhood memories of being left behind!)

Ok, so that was the plan. I moved forward with the planning of the rest of the daily days! I had a few weeks before our 180 day window came up, so I consulted with my brother and sister about things they wanted to try for.

My sister pretty much said “whatever would be fine with her”. However, she didn’t feel the need for a princess breakfast in the castle this time, even though her youngest was the one who missed it on our last trip.

Mini-rant: In fact she sort of feels like this for ALL character meals – not just the princess ones! She falls into the category of “we can see the characters in the park, we don’t need to pay for a meal to see them.” Ugh! I fall in to the category of “let’s kill two birds with one stone! Why wait in a needless line to see a character you could have come to your table while you’re eating!" I mean, you have to eat anyway, right? Sometimes I wonder how we are related! Rant over!

To add confusion to this, the one thing my brother mentioned was possibly “eating in the castle”. (They weren’t on the previous trip, remember?)

Ok, now what?

Well, I made the decision that since our group was so large and the bulk of us had done it on the last trip, combined with the fact that CRT had gotten so expensive, maybe we should try for the PSB in Epcot. I told my brother that we could watch their son (2 yrs old) and they could take their 4 year old daughter to eat at CRT if they REALLY felt the need to do it for her! I mentioned that getting an ADR for CRT for a group of 3 would probably be a lot easier than a group of 16! I gave him the # and told him when he should call and then left it up to him to decide. (I don’t think he called – he probably thinks he can just do it when he gets there! Good luck with that, bro! )

So, YAY ME! I’ve got two things decided – PSB on our Epcot day and CM for Thanksgiving dinner. The next was a no-brainer – the guys are doing Dive Quest again, so put Coral Reef on the list because we love to watch them in the tank from the restaurant!

Ok, 3 meals down! I looked at the other parks, MK, AK, and MGM and made a list of the places we really wanted to try and then tried to narrow it down from there.

I have to say, being the sole planner has its advantages (especially if you are a bit of a control freak, ), but it also has some serious drawbacks! Pressure! Aggravation! Apprehension!

I finally decided on the Crystal Palace for an early lunch on our 1st day!

I thought about getting an early ADR for breakfast (I personally LOVE getting in the parks early and getting pics with no crowds), but I vetoed it after talking to my mom and thinking about how excited the kids will be when they get there, and that sitting down for a meal isn’t going to be the 1st thing they will want to do on the very 1st day!

Granted, it worked on our last trip, but that was dining IN the castle. To them, this would just be eating (well, with Winnie and the gang, no offense, but they would still be itching to get out of there and get on that flying pachyderm!) Sidenote: I first had that written as eating with Pooh, and then proofed it and thought, yikes that doesn't sound right!


So, the morning of the 1st day was out, how about an early lunch? Done! I am really looking forward to eating at the CP! I think I have eaten there once before, as a child, but heck if I can remember what I ate for lunch yesterday, much less a meal from 25 years ago!

Now I started to think that everyone was going to roll their eyes when they heard all the plans I was making. (“Sara, you’re going to take all the spontaneity out of this trip if you plan it all out!”) They just don’t get it – well some do – but most don’t!

But I carried on like a good little student and continued my tireless research on eating establishments at the world! I came upon this quote, and I think it is great:

From the Unofficial Guide when the writers were accused of sucking all spontaneity out of Disney trips:

As it happens, Unofficial Guide researchers are a pretty existential crew. We are big on self-discovery if the activity is walking in the woods or watching birds. Some of us are able to improvise jazz, and others can whip up a mean pot of chili without a recipe. When it comes to Disney World, however, we all agree that you need either a good plan or a frontal lobotomy. The operational definition of self-discovery and spontaneity at Walt Disney World is the "pleasure" of heat prostration and the "joy" of standing in line.

Love it!

So back to planning, keeping that quote firmly planted in my subconscious!

More to come....

Sara

 

[Poohtigeey]

I love your updates!!

You need to write a top 10 list of what you learned on TGM! That way, you can spread the knowledge! I just can't start a new obsession this close to the trip so I'm not going to join him!

Ready for more!