Stressful OKW visit & request

jollymon2

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Hey all. Just returned from a stressful visit to OKW. It didn't have anything to do with Disney or OKW, but it was the most stressful trip I've ever taken. Youngest DD and I went down early and had a great couple of days. Got the building I was hoping for, went to the P&P Party, and had a great time. Then it came time for DW, her parents and my older DD to join us. They were flying Jetblue out of Portland, Maine at 6am. I got a call at 4:13am from a crying DW saying the flight was cancelled. They could get them there on Tuesday (This was Saturday). They decided to rent a car and drive the whole way. None of them had driven south of CT before, so I immediately became the navigator. I got internet access and from my room got them just south of Richmond, VA for that day. The next day they didn't need as much navigation help, but they didn't get to OKW until 7pm or so. That blew two days of the trip. We had one and a half stressfree days until we got a call from our realtor (our house is for sale) saying we had an offer. This was about 4pm and we were at the Magic Kingdom. We had 5:30 dinner reservations at Crystal Palace, so we went over the details of the offer and then went to dinner. After dinner I went to guest relations at MK and they were able to recieve a fax for us, so we then got the offer in our hands. The rest of the night we spent figuring out what we wanted to do with a less the appealing offer. We had breakfast reservations in EPCOT the next morning that we went to and then it was to guest relations for me again to fax our counter offer back before noon. We made it, but the offer was later rejected. On top of that, DW and her mother fought most of the time (I don't think we'll be taking family again) so it certainly wasn't the most relaxed vacation I've ever taken. But hey, a stressful week at Disney is still better than a stressful week at home.

Now for the request. In all of the hoopla, I completely forgot to pick up extra park maps and stuff for scrapbooking. If anyone has extra maps, or if you're going and don't mind picking them up for me, I'd be very appreciative. I'd gladly pay for shipping. As an alternative, I may be doing this scrapbook digitally this year, so I'd take a high resolution scan if someone would be willing to email that to me. Thanks for your help. I'd be glad to answer any questions if there are any.
 
Sorry about the stressful trip.

I will be going down for a week 3/16, so I would be happy to gather some maps or whatever else you need. Our house is for sale too, so I wouldnt mind getting an offer while we are there. Hopefully a little Disney magic will make the offer an acceptable one.

Let me know if you want me to gather anything for you and good luck with your home sale.
 
I can relate with the realtor stuff via fax. We once had to close on a mortgage while we were at OKW! The papers were supposed to be signed the day before we left, but that didn't happen, so they had to fax them to a loan officer in Florida, who had to hand deliver them to us. We did the gazillion signatures and they were sent back. Quite a PITA to take a day out of the trip for that. It happened to be when we had 12 people there in a GV with us too!

Sorry your MIL felt it was necessary to fight the whole time. Next time leave her home.
 

I'm so sorry for you! We live in Portland and had just flown JetBlue two weeks earlier for our Disney trip, and we were feeling so bad for everyone whose flights were canceled! I said to DH that if that had been us we would have just jumped in the car and driven down, as much as that would have cut so much into our trip, it would have been better than not going at all.

I hope all goes well with the sale of your house.
 
My friend and his family had their flight canceled from CT as well and they ended up driving down for their trip.

Good luck on selling your house. DW and I are looking for a place to buy so it has been rather frustrating for us.

And I agree, its better to have a stressful week at Disney than at home :rotfl:
 
Now for the request. In all of the hoopla, I completely forgot to pick up extra park maps and stuff for scrapbooking. If anyone has extra maps, or if you're going and don't mind picking them up for me, I'd be very appreciative. I'd gladly pay for shipping. As an alternative, I may be doing this scrapbook digitally this year, so I'd take a high resolution scan if someone would be willing to email that to me. Thanks for your help. I'd be glad to answer any questions if there are any.

Sorry to hear about the stress you endured that is so often related to flying these days. E-mail your mailing address to DBBN@aol.com and I'll send you park brochures and other scrapbook items I believe you can use. They'll be in the mail first thing in the morning.
 
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Solly, Jolly. Man, when things go bad... start drinking.
 
WillCAD's website has lots of maps: http://www.willcad.org/disney_maps.html

On that page of his website he explains how to print out a high-res version of the maps.

I recently converted all of the maps on my Maps page to PDF format (which is a lot easier for most folks to print on home printers than the hi-res JPG files I had before). But the hi-res JPG files are still there, so if you want them, PM me and I'll send you links to the individual files.
 
I recently converted all of the maps on my Maps page to PDF format (which is a lot easier for most folks to print on home printers than the hi-res JPG files I had before). But the hi-res JPG files are still there, so if you want them, PM me and I'll send you links to the individual files.
Thanks, WillCAD. Your website is such a wonderful resource!!
 
So sorry to hear about your stressful visit. We had a trip like that last October. My mother was with us and, yes, we did fight and so did she and DH. And we've had family along for the past two trips now, although the one the year before with DH's family went smoothly. I am now planning our next trip for August and am looking forward to a stress free vacation with just our little family. Just put this bad one behind you and start planning the next one!
 















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