random, no real topic, rack up your posts thread

[turning40withMickey]

If August is anything like July, I think I'm prepared. Thanks for the warnings. I really hope that the lines will be as short as you've seen them. That will make it easier for me to get out of the parks early and into the WL pool!!

The lines are only that short first thing in the AM. By the time we would leave for lunch, there were hour+ waits, and usually the fastpasses were gone by then.

We liked to get fastpasses galore all morn, and when we would leave, we would give them to a family just coming in. It was a little pixie dust that was nice to do. DD's liked to pick out a family like ours, with three kids and offer up the fastpasses. People were so grateful and amazed, we found!

 

[HARASW]

Oh oh, I just got the 40 second reminder!! LOL

This is the first thread where I've had that happen to me. It was a surprise.

 

[HARASW]

The lines are only that short first thing in the AM. By the time we would leave for lunch, there were hour+ waits, and usually the fastpasses were gone by then.

We liked to get fastpasses galore all morn, and when we would leave, we would give them to a family just coming in. It was a little pixie dust that was nice to do. DD's liked to pick out a family like ours, with three kids and offer up the fastpasses. People were so grateful and amazed, we found!

We always go first thing in the morning. We are early birds all year round, even at Disney. We will also make sure to take advantage of early morning openings.

 

[HARASW]

We were told to expect storms again today. And guess what?

Well, the storm has finally arrived. Lots of thunder, rain is on its way!

 

[turning40withMickey]

We had two rooms at POP, and decorated the windows(and doors)

These photos were taken different days, we had been to Epcot for the masks and DD's added them in the first picture. It was hot and humid and the lens fogged up when DD posed for the second pic in front of "her" room.

 

[HARASW]

[...We liked to get fastpasses galore all morn, and when we would leave, we would give them to a family just coming in. It was a little pixie dust that was nice to do. DD's liked to pick out a family like ours, with three kids and offer up the fastpasses. People were so grateful and amazed, we found![/QUOTE]

I like that idea. It's very nice of you. If I can, I think I'll do that this time, too.

 

[turning40withMickey]

We always go first thing in the morning. We are early birds all year round, even at Disney. We will also make sure to take advantage of early morning openings.

The morning EMH was awesome! We rode our fav's two or three times before even waiting at all!

 

[HARASW]

We had two rooms at POP, and decorated the windows(and doors)

These photos were taken different days, we had been to Epcot for the masks and DD's added them in the first picture. It was hot and humid and the lens fogged up when DD posed for the second pic in front of "her" room.

Oh how cute!! The last time we were at Disney, we visited POP and saw all the windows decorated and thought it was such a fun idea.

 

[turning40withMickey]

We had two rooms at POP, and decorated the windows(and doors)

These photos were taken different days, we had been to Epcot for the masks and DD's added them in the first picture. It was hot and humid and the lens fogged up when DD posed for the second pic in front of "her" room.

I picked up the stuffed animals at garage sales all summer before we went, and then the DD's gave them to little kids at the pool or the food court or the airport as we left to fly home. I didn't pay more than 50cents for any of them, and several still had tags on them! More pixie dust to share! My DD's loved making someone's day, and since I had just bought these for the trip, they werent' really attached to them, wanting to keep them!

 

[turning40withMickey]

storms rolling in now........thunder and winds so far.......no drops yet......
we rarely lose power, though, underground wiring (who knew this small town was so progressive!)

 

[*HappilyEverAfter*]

storms rolling in now........thunder and winds so far.......no drops yet......
we rarely lose power, though, underground wiring (who knew this small town was so progressive!)

It has been like that all day where I live.

(I'm not going to post in any special font anymore...it's too much work.)

 

[Disney Brat]

We had two rooms at POP, and decorated the windows(and doors)

These photos were taken different days, we had been to Epcot for the masks and DD's added them in the first picture. It was hot and humid and the lens fogged up when DD posed for the second pic in front of "her" room.

Love the display!! We are going to decorate our room this trip, I have been out getting the MH's from HD....lol I was thinking aobut doing a Halloween theme with black and orange MH's on a string kinda bordering the window, with some LGMH's and other decorations in the middle...

 

[*HappilyEverAfter*]

We had two rooms at POP, and decorated the windows(and doors)

These photos were taken different days, we had been to Epcot for the masks and DD's added them in the first picture. It was hot and humid and the lens fogged up when DD posed for the second pic in front of "her" room.

That is so adorably cute!!!

 

[turning40withMickey]

Love the display!! We are going to decorate our room this trip, I have been out getting the MH's from HD....lol I was thinking aobut doing a Halloween theme with black and orange MH's on a string kinda bordering the window, with some LGMH's and other decorations in the middle...

ooohhh, good idea!
You can't see it in the picture, but we had a string of lights in each window, too. I took a christmas white string and added LGMH to the bulbs. I took a timer, too, and set the lights to come on about 9PM, so when we came back to the room, they were on and welcoming us (plus, it helped us find our room REALLY easily). We did a fridge swap, and left the lights with the next person on the swap. Partypooper DH didn't want to bring them home.

 

[HARASW]

I picked up the stuffed animals at garage sales all summer before we went, and then the DD's gave them to little kids at the pool or the food court or the airport as we left to fly home. I didn't pay more than 50cents for any of them, and several still had tags on them! More pixie dust to share! My DD's loved making someone's day, and since I had just bought these for the trip, they werent' really attached to them, wanting to keep them!

I love the lessons that you are passing on to your kids. So rare!

 

[*HappilyEverAfter*]

Oy, there are some rude people on the teen board.

 

[turning40withMickey]

That is so adorably cute!!!

Thanks, it was really fun to do the windows. DD's rated our decorations best of any at POP. Lots of windows were decked out when we were there!

 

[Disney Brat]

ooohhh, good idea!
You can't see it in the picture, but we had a string of lights in each window, too. I took a christmas white string and added LGMH to the bulbs. I took a timer, too, and set the lights to come on about 9PM, so when we came back to the room, they were on and welcoming us (plus, it helped us find our room REALLY easily). We did a fridge swap, and left the lights with the next person on the swap. Partypooper DH didn't want to bring them home.

Great idea!! Now I will be thinking of putting lights up too!! No idea what DH thinks of all of this, he just pacifies me...lol

I love the lessons that you are passing on to your kids. So rare!

It is rare!! Awesome job teaching your kids these things!

 

[*HappilyEverAfter*]

Thanks, it was really fun to do the windows. DD's rated our decorations best of any at POP. Lots of windows were decked out when we were there!

It sure looks like alot of fun!!! It's super bright and colorfull!!!

 

[turning40withMickey]

I love the lessons that you are passing on to your kids. So rare!

Thank you. We do try......... A large portion of teaching today is mothering, I find. You never get to take time off of being a role model. I am lucky that DH is on the same page as I am........or willing to go with my quirky ideas sometimes (like giving away fastpasses). The first day, he was like (raised eyebrow) you want to give these passes to someone? Do you think anyone will take them??? Then he saw the amazed, excited reaction from the family we gave them too, and he started saying, "let's get fastpass for ...... so we can give them to someone when we leave for our break". The Dkids really liked spreading the joy, too!