We've waited a long time to be able to have a child to take with us (5 years of TTC and infertility) so I'm GLAD we have no date nights this trip hehe
BUT I am sad we can't go to Jelly Rolls. That place is awesome and we only just discovered it the trip we took a few months before we finally got pregnant. Oh well. Next trip we will have some friends with us and we've already discussed taking turns going there
Having friends on trips are awesome ... problem is you end up wanting adult nights with your friends then you end up doing what we're doing: hiring a babysitter for your collective children. We're also lucky in that we have one night all the adults, then potentially more nights when Uncle will be watching them.
Could we do a group TR thread, more like a photo sharing and experiences.... Pixie dust moments and what not?
This sounds great! Since I'm going at the beginning of the month, it will help my Disney withdrawal to see all of your magical moments happening after mine are done.
If you two don't end up dating, I don't know who will be more disappointed--you or all of us??
Yep, its like reading a romance novel ... all us committed people are rooting for you to have that happy ending ... I'm normally not into other people's love lives since its too much drama, but I can't help but hope Levenhopper gets that extra bit of Disney magic, especially since DH & I were close friends for about a year before we first got together on our first Disney trip.
We have
MVMCP tickets for December 6th that we got way before they announced the grandopening of Fantasyland. Do you think the grandopening is going to make the Christmas Party crazy busy or busier than it would have been? I'm probably the only person not excited about the grandopening being during their very first December trip.
I'm not excited about it either ... this is our first WDW trip in 20 years and I picked early Dec in part for the low crowds (and low DVC points), and here DisneyParks has the gall to try to make extra money by crowding the park during
my trip.
I got a lunch ADR at CRT for the 20th! Woot! That means I'll have to move our LTT lunch ADR to the 13th or the 14th, but that shouldn't be too hard.
I can't believe that happened!
Wow that's fantastic! Congrats, what great luck! Now I just need some of your ADR magic to rub off on me!
In the mean time, I'm off to book an AKV 1BDR. I want to lock in the discount just in case.
I love that your Disney back up plans are so detailed.
called and requested paper rect of payment as well as an email....did it once and they have sent it everytime!....got a bit excited to get a piece of Mickey mail....the final rect for our trip showing a $0 balance due! It seems nice to get a bit of "happy" mail! after sitting and going over our plans and the 3 ADRs we have, I was a bit saddened to let one go, but only 2 of us wanted it and the majority ruled, so saddly I canceled our ADRs to the Garden Grill last night.....bein ga family of 6, even if we would have upgraded, we would have spent more OOP for tips than we wanted. my kids arent big eaters and prefer the qs.....maybe next trip, but til then I will be happy that we are going and all is paid!
Congrats on being paid off! I know the feeling about Garden Grill ... we really wanted that ADR, but decided against it because of the price. Then we added an extra night at the beginning of our reservation and could therefore get one night of Dining Plan at the non-holiday price, so we were able to justify it that way, otherwise if we were going OOP as we are for the rest of the trip, we'd have to skip it.
The verdict is in: Completely torn ACL with lateral and medial meniscus tears. Having ACL reconstruction with next week. Doc will either try to repair my meniscuses (or meniscusi? ROFL) or remove the torn parts depending on how bad it is when he sees it. He would rather try and salavge what he can to prevent problems with this knee in the future. Doctor seems really optomistic that I will be up and walking for Disney. I know I will be walking before then, but I am worried if I will have the stamina for Disney now. I am worried about how my knee will feel after 8 to 12 miles a day just 9 weeks our from surgery. I am taking the conservative route, and ordered a
scooter to be delievered to our resort. Hubby thinks I am being a baby about all of this. :/
I'm so sorry Nixie. My mom has a torn ACL, and was in a lot of pain for a long time. Fortunately she got a really great physical therapist and after switched to a physical trainer who rented gym space from him, (still goes over 5 years later) and now she can ski and horseback ride and be as physical as she wants to be without any surgery. Definitely take the scooter and take it easy on this trip. Even if you don't use it every day, it will still be worth it so that on whatever days your knee doesn't feel up to that much walking, you won't over-stress it and exacerbate the problem.
OK, so I am so throwing my DH under the bus here...He wants to get it from the Car Care Center because he wants to avoid tolls as much as possible
Ah, I still have some time before we need to reserve it, maybe I can talk him into renting from the Airport.
Yeah, I didn't want to deal with the airport drive either, so we're taking ME then renting on-site 5 days into our trip, then returning it two days before we depart. I totally get your DH's point of view. Driving within Disney sounds like it makes the trip easier, driving to and from the airport when someone will do that for me for free
and transport our luggage? I'll take it ...
I wasn't thinking about renting a car, but now I'm second guessing it. We're not doing park hoppers, so once we're in a park we won't be moving around to a different park, except for the day we're in MK, leaving for 'Ohana, and returning for MVMCP. Will I be loosing a lot of time by using Disney transportation ($337ish worth of time)?
We're doing half-and-half on the rental car, getting it for part of the trip and not for the other part. For the part we're not getting the car I have my routes kind of sketched out, and when I want to get somewhere more quickly/less hassle than Disney transportation would require, I've just budgeted for a taxi using the Mears calculator. For those taxis, its less than renting a car for that period. Might be worth looking into ... Have a feeling if you took a taxi 1-2x day it would still be substantially less than a rental car.
) and have wanted to get more involved in the discussions...I think this is the best way to break the ice. 
and start PT after the follow-up appt and once the stitches were out. I know your's is a little more drastic. But let me tell you, you will love and hate your therapist. But after a couple of sessions, you will notice that your endurance has gone through the roof on the eliptical/bike that they use (and some weight loss). 
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