Something About Nothing..........#5

[marciemi]

So, you ask a question and then flee the state? Sheesh. Well, when you get back, the answer is that our last trip was May, 2007. I've got a trip report if you are really desperate for entertainment: http://www.disboards.com/showthread.php?t=1473969

Okay, I'm settled in here for the evening with my wine and cheese and am off to read Tricia's trip report!

 

[roseprincess]

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[Tinker-tude]

and he said "and if we WERE going to Disney next week, you'd just HAVE to make a Countdown Calendar for those 7 days, wouldn't you?" Yeah, he knows me too well!

How far in advance do you do your countdown calendars? I want to make one for our next trip to Universal. Getting creative, having fun....

Tamie

 

[marciemi]

How far in advance do you do your countdown calendars? I want to make one for our next trip to Universal. Getting creative, having fun....

Tamie

Calendar I made for the boys' cousins:

Calendar I made for our friends:

And our calendar:

So to answer your question - 77 days for us!

Well, I finished Tricia's trip report and loved it. I know I didn't read it back when she wrote it. Oh - to be able to do WDW with little kids again! Wish I'd at least been able to do trip reports back when my guys were that age! Well, at least I have mine from last summer - although my guys weren't little and cute then, it's still fun to read! Well, the wine is gone and I'm done reading so it must be time for bed! Catch you all later!

 

[RAPstar]

Evening all. Lawdy I'm tired!!! Thank goodness I'm off tomorrow. Then another week of work. Woo.

 

[tlinus]

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hmmmm

gee

wonder who this is going out to? covert messages on the DIS?? ( i have been around since thread one and I have the memory of an elephant too )

seriously???????????????????????

in all honesty though - enjoyed your pictures and it looks like you have a wonderful DH and great kids, rose.

 

[KStarfish82]

Hi everyone!

 

[macraven]

Hey Youse....



Im away to bed now because Ive got an early hospital appointment in the morn.....freakin out a wee bit to be sure !!

Ive not been well for a wee while now and Im getting a scan to check me out.

Its a wee bit like " i want to know whats wrong but I dont really " if that makes any sense !!


I read the Universal v Disney thread.....too funny....!!

Laters youse...

hey youse.....hang in there and all will work out fine.
i'm sorry youse are sick......

got you in my prayers.
keep us posted on how you are doing.

or i'll have to come over and hunt you down like a rabid dog....
i can do that....i have a passport.

Think I was the one who told you that Janet. Sorry! Sounds like it still works for WDW mostly though. My friend who just got back did it several times. Speaking of her - they had an AWESOME time according to her. They made it to MK 3 times - and the first two they got Dream FP's. What's up with that? I couldn't get them once anywhere!

Then they spent 3 days at Epcot, 2 at MGM and one at AK. They somehow managed to miss Splash Mountain (her quote "oh, did you tell me that was one to see? We didn't want to get wet!"), but it sounds like they saw most of the other stuff. They did Sea World as well and weren't impressed much.

Now my friend is trying to convince me that we need to do a girls' trip back again. Her DH and boys enjoyed it, but pretty much thought it was a "we did it once" type thing, but her youngest (only girl) who is 9 LOVED it and wants to go back. We're talking possibly trying to go back next August if they have free dining. I'd probably bring my buddy Stephen (only one of my kids who'd be thrilled to go back) and we'd just get one room at the cheapest place we could get (Pop or All Stars). So what do you think?! Yeah, I know, probably not going to happen but fun to plan/think about all the same.

It was funny - I was telling Eric this and that I didn't think he cared if he went again. I said something like "If I told you suddenly that we were going to Disney next week, I don't think you'd be all excited" and he said "and if we WERE going to Disney next week, you'd just HAVE to make a Countdown Calendar for those 7 days, wouldn't you?" Yeah, he knows me too well!

drive them nuts.
start a calendar now and don't tell them the destination for the countdown...

i say go for another trip.

 

[Tinker-tude]

Calendar I made for the boys' cousins:

Calendar I made for our friends:

And our calendar:

So to answer your question - 77 days for us!

Those are really cool! I'm thinking of putting all the numbers up on poster board and covering one number a day with stickers of Shrek, Spider-Man, the Hulk, Simpsons, etc. But we still have five months to go, so I'm thinking I'll wait a bit to make it, and just start gathering stickers. I think three months is more than enough poster countdown fun for us. But in October it will be easy to find Mummy stickers!

Tamie

 

[macraven]

calling it a night.

catch youse in the morning.

someone lock up and put the cat in the back room tonight.

 

[Tinker-tude]

calling it a night.

catch youse in the morning.

someone lock up and put the cat in the back room tonight.

Just ordered a whole bunch of stickers. Oriental Trading Company has lots of cool stickers. All the Marvel Heroes, SpongeBob, Shrek, Seuss, and I can't remember what else I got. Enough for many vacation countdown calendars! We'll just set up another chart for Jared's Universal spending money. He can earn it.

Guess I'll lock up.
But if I put the cat in the back room, the dogs will just follow it.
Can I put the cat in a cushioned basket on the fridge, where our cat Belladonna used to sleep?

Nighty-night.

Zzzzzzzzzzz....

Tamie

 

[donaldduck352]

morning homies and sneetches etc

scotlass hope everything turns out allwright

hava a great day all Dis @ Ya later

 

[KStarfish82]

Good morning!

 

[marciemi]

Tink - what I did was put a picture under each of the cards of one of the rides, etc. at one of the parks:

Then on the back of each card, there was a bit of trivia about whatever the picture was. So, you'd peel off the card, read the trivia, see if you knew the answer (well, obviously I did, but everyone else!), then lift the post-it covering the picture to see if you were right:

Morning all - off to bike and then do serious packing!

 

[Tizzy_Meliss]

Morning Homies!

Marcie, what an awesome and creative idea. Ever think about making them to sell on ebay? Mind if I steal the idea and make my girls one? They would love one of these.

The cards are paint chips right? What did you use to cover up the pictures with the cards? Glue dots?

 

[marciemi]

Tizzy - I tried the glue dots on ours, but the cards kept coming off. I finally used the old fashioned technique of just putting a piece of scotch tape across the top of each card (and yeah, they're the ones from Home Depot). And I got the idea from here in the first place so go for it!

Well, at least the paint chip cards. I used to do countdown calendars with just the pictures and post it notes WAY back when my kids were little:

Yeah, I know, I should be working!

 

[Tizzy_Meliss]

Very cool. I will be visiting our local Lowes and picking up some Nickelodeon paint chips. My girls will love this idea. Thanks for the tips.

 

[marciemi]

I didn't know there were Nick paint chips - cool! But we don't have Lowes around here so I guess I never checked. I think there are some down in Appleton - next time we're down there I'll try to stock up for future reference!

 

[keishashadow]

oh, no........not arts & crafts flashbacks to summer camp @ all that entails...run for ur lives

so no SplashMt cause u might get wet eh? perfect logic

aren't we all deep undercover here?

 

[Tizzy_Meliss]

I didn't know there were Nick paint chips - cool!

Oh yeah! We painted DD's bookshelves, one of the colors she chose was Atomic Vomit (Jimmy Neutron) and a Dora color I can't think of right now. The paint chips are splats if I recall. They have Spongebob, Jimmy Neutron, Dora The Explorer, Blues Clues, and Oswald. Maybe they have added a few since we did her shelves.