PTR for 2 Big "O" Birthdays! Now back-TR to follow

So, looks like I have you fooled shishi, I am not totally organized. :rotfl: Somethings yes, somethings, no!

Here's a perfect example-for the last few days I have made a concentrated effort to find our park tickets from last year. I have a 10 day non exp., PH, with plusses that probably only has a few park days and quite a few plusses on it. Plus last year we took one of Belle's one day base tickets (bought to get free DDP) and upgraded it to 10 day, non exp. blah blah blah....

Last year I told myself to put them somewhere where I would be able to find them right away. That should have been in my little safe. But no...., they weren't there. :confused3 I found most everything else from last year but not the tickets (or food receipts-yes I kept them!) Where or where could they be? :confused3

So, this a.m. I woke up early, about 3 a.m. and instead of laying there and wondering where they were I decided to get up and check my home office since that's where they had to be since I already checked my bedroom and closet. And guess what? (well if you read the title you know) I found them! Yippee!:banana::worship::rotfl2::cool1::lmao: They were sitting off to the side of my desk along with food receipts and all my PP cards. Thank goodness! Now I know what happened. I took them into my office but I couldn't find the key to unlock the safe at that time so I set them down on a shelf. Months later and they were still in the same location.

So, I've been up since then and it's just after 5 a.m. here...I'm so getting ready for waking up 3 hours early in....only 4 more days! :wizard:

shishi I sent you a PM, don't worry about the timing. All is going well with having family over tonite. Food ordered, house clean, diet cokes and water bought. Just need to get cheesecake and ice. My Dsis has made a display of my Aunt's life in pictures as well as scanning a bunch more pictures and burning them on a DVD that we'll play on the t.v. Here husband goes to bed about 9 and she's a night owl so it gives her time to work on projects.

Belle and I took a short trip to DLR yesterday-I told her we would go before everything else happened. We got there just after opening (8:30) and it was nice. Not too crowded and there was no traffic at all. Love holiday light traffic! Only took 30 min. to get there (as well as getting home.) One of the reasons we went is that I have a bunch of DV free 5 x 7 vouchers that are expiring soon. I brought 9 yesterday. :goodvibes I have a few recent trips on my PP card so I would have enough to pick from. Plus we ran into one of our fav. PP photogs in NOS and we got pictures fighting Hook and for the first time in over 1-1/2 years, we got the Hitchhiking ghosts! One of us hitching along with them and then another one of us looking at them. Very cool! So we came home with 9 5x7's. I was surprised that the voucher I got yesterday exp. on 10/3/09. I was hoping they would have some cards with later dates on them.

This time we didn't ride many rides, we visited with a few of our favorite CMs. Belle mentioned the other day that she wanted to send one of them, J at DV MnG a postcard on our trip. I told her that she may not want to give us her address. So yesterday I asked her and she was very happy to give it to us! :cloud9: Belle was very excited and can't wait to send her a postcard.

We left about 2 and all in all it was a pleasant day. :)Rode Matterhorn, Winnie, Roger Rabbit, Go Coaster, Tower, and TSM (single rider) and Belle rode Grizzly by herself. Ate at one of our fav. CS-Whitewater Snacks. I had the chicken nachos-no jalapenos, sour cream and guacamole on the side, cheddar cheese only, no cheese sauce. So good, and way too much for one to eat. Belle had the chicken nuggets. We looked for the kitty, who we have now named Cally-short for California and Calico, but she wasn't there. We did see a plate someone had left for her that was cleaned off.

While we were driving home I mentioned to Belle that maybe she could spend the night at my DSis' tonite and they could bake some choc. chip cookies for the memorial. My Aunt always loved all the cookies I make for Christmas. She thought that was a good idea. When we got home I took a short nap and then when I got up Belle asked me if she cold spend the night at Vicki's? I asked her if she remembered the conversation in the car about it? She said she forgot. After all it was almost 1-1/2 hours ago! :confused3 So she got to spend that night at my DSis' which is one of her favorite things to do. Since my DM and I would be kidless for the night (no baby and no Belle) so we decide to go have sushi. Oops, guess what, being as it was a holiday a lot of restaurants were closed. We checked 2 sushi restaurants and ended up at Claim Jumper. We shared Halibut Fish and Chips-it was very good.

Went to bed early, about 9:30, and as you read earlier, woke up at 3 a.m. I am so ready for Florida! :dance3:
 
Checked the weather today. Tropical Storm Fred is pretty far away and looks like it'll miss Florida. :goodvibes

And here's the local forecast:

Sat
Sep 12

Scattered T-Storms
87°
74°

40% Rain

Sun
Sep 13

Scattered T-Storms

89°
75°

40%

Mon
Sep 14

Scattered T-Storms

89°
74°

40%

Tue
Sep 15


Scattered T-Storms

88°
74°

40%

Wed
Sep 16

Scattered T-Storms

88°
73°

60%

Thu
Sep 17

Scattered T-Storms

88°
73°

60%

Looks like we are in for some rain! :laughing:
 
Congrats on finding the tix!! Maybe you should get a binder to keep all your WDW and DLR stuff in ...? :idea: :)

I'm trying not to check out the weather yet ... :3dglasses ... Since it's starting to cool down and Fall is definitely in the air here in NJ, I just hope it's not toooooo hot ...

A report on another thread from someone who just got back from WDW said the crowds were "awesome" ... meaning practically non-existent!! She barely used FPs all week ... :thumbsup2

Time to get the princess: up for school ... and to finish her homework from last night!! pirate:
 
Yes that would be a good idea! :rotfl2: I acutally do have a special place I put my Disney stuff but last year, just after getting back, I pulled out our tickets and said to myself "put these in a safe place, like your safe!" So I took them into my office and couldn't find the key to the safe and set them on a shelf. And they never got into the safe. This year they will, for sure-even though the safe is no longer fireproof-the plastic hinges pin broke.

I too saw that report on (non) crowds. Yippee :wizard:

Less than 48 hours to go!!! Yikes, will I be ready to go? Stay tuned
 

Yikes! Less than 24 hours until we leave for the airport and in about 24 hours from now we will be on the plane waiting to finish loading passengers and then taking off to WDW (with stop and plane change in PHX)

Here's what I just did to get ready. I tried to print my boarding passes on SW but even though I did the EBCI Early Bird check in which checks me in automatically 36 hours before flight apparently I still can't print passes until 24 hours before. So In about 15 min. I can do that and I'll see if paying the $30 (3x$10) was worth it. ;)

I checked Alamo one last time to see if the rates had gone down-nope, my rate of $217 for full size for 11 days was the best I got. I went ahead and entered my DL#, etc. online so I can use the kiosk at MCO (saves so much time!). Printed out my confirmation. One more thing to check off my list!

Called Disney at 407-566-4985 option #2 to verify how many days we have left on our tickets. Waited on hold about 8-10 mins. and then the CM's computer was acting up. So we chatted for a few minutes-weather in Orlando-hot in the 80's, no rain and they could use it.

After her computer starting working again I verified that Belle's 10 PH, with plusses still has 7 theme parks days and 10 plusses left, Nama's has 8 parks and 9 plusses, and I have only 1 plus left. Last year Belle and Nama got new 10 day tickets. Looks like this year is my year.:scared1: Another item checked off.

Here's a interesting tip-the phone number above can only check tickets that are tied to resort KTTW cards. They can't verify the paper tickets. I may have a few days on one of those-I'll have to wait to verify at WDW.

Also, doing last loads of laundry .. and now I need to get off the boards and get things done

more soon..

Will I get ""A" Boarding? Was it worth the $30 ....stay tuned.....
 
Got my boarding passes! Yeah! We got A22,23, and 24 leaving ONT and A21, 22, and 23 leaving PHX. I'm happy we got A.

Back later....
 
You gonna get any sleep tonight?!?!? :rotfl:

Remember one thing: when you get off the ME bus at your resort, do not - I repeat - do not! start to do your happy dance ... !! :rotfl2:

[your DD will be very embarassed ...]

You may, however, kneel, kiss the ground, and exclaim: "I've made it to the Promised Land!!" :lmao:

Have a great trip - and hope to see ya in a week ... :thumbsup2
 
Sleep, what's that? I'll probably be up until 1-2 a.m. and then back up at 5. So I guess 3 hours isn't so bad, right?

Oh, and I can promise I won't be doing the happy dance when I get off ME, that's only because we don't take ME. We always rent a vehicle. This year it's a full size, previosly it's always been a minivan but I just couldn't spend $600-$1000 for it. :scared1:

See ya at the parks!

Look of my purple Baggalini with a LGMH hanging off it. :goodvibes

now, back to my trip prep!
 
Okay, so I finally went to sleep about 12:30 and set my alarm for 4:40. Woke up at 3:40 and decided to get up. So, 3 hours sleep-guess I'll sleep on the plane. :wizard:

My neighbor/ new boss dropped off his HP laptop for me to use about 11:30 last night. When I went to bed I plugged it in to get if fully charged and I turned it on. Oh no, it has a password and he didn't give it to me-too late to call so I sent him an email. As of now he hasn't responding so I can't unlock the computer. :surfweb:

I'll have to call him from the airport to get the password.

And now, I need to make some sandwiches for the flight.

Talk soon, bye....................................
 
Okay, so I finally went to sleep about 12:30 and set my alarm for 4:40. Woke up at 3:40 and decided to get up. So, 3 hours sleep-guess I'll sleep on the plane. :wizard:

Been there ... done that .... :rotfl2:

My neighbor/ new boss dropped off his HP laptop for me to use about 11:30 last night. When I went to bed I plugged it in to get if fully charged and I turned it on. Oh no, it has a password and he didn't give it to me-too late to call so I sent him an email. As of now he hasn't responding so I can't unlock the computer. :surfweb:

Have you tried a hammer?? pirate:


And now, I need to make some sandwiches for the flight.

May I suggest something in the limburger/sardine/onion "family"? - It will make you very popular on the plane ...
:lmao:
Talk soon, bye....................................

Have a magical trip!!
 
Thanks Joel.

We're at Phoenix waiting to connect to MCO. The $10 we paid for Early Bird was totally worth it. Our flight was full, they were asking for volunteers to take a later flight. B and C groups didn't all get to sit together.

Boarding soon.......
 
You are there right now!!!! How fun!! Hope the memorial went ok for you and your family. Good that you paid the $30 to not have to worry about waiting in line, being split up and sitting seperately!! Those southwest flights can get crazy when full! Hope you are having fun and cant wait to read all about it when you get back!
 
Your dd is adorable! My dd is 10 and aren't they so much fun!! Hope you are enjoying yourself as I'm typing this.

Kudos for being an adopting mom! I was adopted when I was a baby. I'm sure you feel so lucky to have her, and she's very lucky to have you!

Looking forward to hearing how your trip went!:cheer2:
 
Thanks everyone for the nice comments! We are here now and I just logged on about 8 a.m. (EST) so I'll have internet access for at least the next 24 hours ($10/24 hours)

Here's a few things/highlites some of you going soon may be intested in. (I will be doing a TR with more info)

Southwest Airlines resort check-in is being done at POP-no longer seems to be a trial as they are listed on the handout you get upon check in. :goodvibes

They are no longer doing the central FPs at AK. That trial is over. You have to go to each ride to get your FP.:confused3

We are having a great time! Not too much rain, the weather has actually been really nice. Cooler in the evenings than previous trips.

Went to AK yesterday for EMH p.m. Had a great time.

Saw the MNSSHP Grim Grinning Ghosts Spooktacular from the TTC center the other night (9/14) it was a great place to watch-the music plays there!

We are in the 50's building, top floor, corner room facing the lake as well as the EPCOT and DHS fireworks. Yeah!:cloud9:

Any questions, feel free to ask!

Time to get Belle out of bed so we can be at BB by 10!

joel-your trip is almost here!:banana:
 
Hi all! Still here at WDW. Having a great time. Weather has been good. Hardly any rain. Have had some great meals and some so-so. I'll report on all later. Went to DQ this a.m. and are going back soon. Eating at RR tonite.

Saw joelp in lobby of PF1900 last night. Happy belated birthday Joel. Thanks for stopping by.

Quick note-after I signed on today for $10 for 24 hours I saw that you can go online to disneyworld.com and disneyphotopass.com for free! Interesting thing to know-great for changing ADRs and editting PP pix.
 
Got home late last night. Had a great trip! I'll be doing a Trip and Dining Report soon.

Thanks to all who read this.

Just to keep your interest here's what you'll find in my upcoming TR......
Did we get a full size at Alamo or were we upgraded?
Did we get our asked for room location at POP?
was it worth paying $10 each, each way, to get Early Bird Check-in on Southwest?
How many ADRs did we keep and how many did we change?
What were the crowds like?
How many times did we watch Grim Grinning Ghost Spooktacular?
Who did Belle meet at BB?
Did we make it back to Honeymoon Island?
Did we search for fossils at Peace River?
How many fellow disboarders did we see?
What did we think about the new restaurants (for us) we tried?
Where did we eat 2 times? 3 times? TS
What restaurant will be not go back to for awhile?
What did Belle and Nama spend their Birthday Fun Cards on?
How many days did we do the four main parks and the water parks?
What did we not do that we meant to?


Stay tuned, I will post a link to my TR when I start it.
 
Welcome back ...???

It's good to be home after a WDW vacation ... right?? :sad2: :rotfl:

Slowly working on putting my TR together ... and playing with the Photopass and other photos ...
 
Welcome back ...???

It's good to be home after a WDW vacation ... right?? :sad2: :rotfl:

Slowly working on putting my TR together ... and playing with the Photopass and other photos ...

Welcome home to you as well! It's always nice to get away but coming home is nice too! I'm also working on my PP and TR. I did really well taking notes at the start of the trip but kind of slacked off as we winded down. 12 days was a little longer than we have done before. I think we'll go back to 10 next year.

Did all the laundry yesterday now just have to put it and the suitcases away.:scared1:

Hope you had a great trip too!
 
Welcome home!!! Just from your list, sounds like you had fun! I cant wait to read your TR!
 
I'm also working on my PP and TR. I did really well taking notes at the start of the trip but kind of slacked off as we winded down.
I took notes on Day One of our trip ... :rotfl:

We didn't have the time/energy to even "crack" the DD's Journal I had made for her (one of those "great" ideas ...) :rotfl2:

12 days was a little longer than we have done before. I think we'll go back to 10 next year.

8 days is a good number ... 4 was waaaaay to short!!

Did all the laundry yesterday now just have to put it and the suitcases away.:scared1: We've been back almost a week and I think I'm still doing laundry!! :scared1:

Hope you had a great trip too!

Have a great weekend!
 




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