Wow! Full first day! My DH doesn't travel well so I've learned I can't try to do too much our first day or it starts off the trip all cranky and we can't have that in the Happiest Place On Earth.
Good luck with the house!
Our once a year family trips to Disney are a bit much for DH but not enough for me so I take the kids one at a time also. The family trips are really nice but the one on one trips are really special. I don't have any one on one trips planned with the kids this year and I don't know if we'll do a family trip this summer or not. I was thinking either BWI CL because we really enjoyed it there or AKL 1BR. We do less park time when my DH is with us. 2 years ago we did a fishing trip and he really LOVED that so we did that again last summer and I'm sure it will be a must do from now on to keep him happy.
Congrats for signing up for another half and wow for planning the full next year!
If our rooms had been ready earlier, we would have gone back to relax and change clothes before dinner.
We powered through pretty well, all things considered!
Thanks for the house wishes!
I would *love* to do a solo trip with each child. My dream is to take Nathaniel to a Star Wars Weekend, Jessica for a girlie princess trip (BBB, CRT, etc.), and Zachary for an age-appropriate Dumbo do-or-die trip. I don't think it'll happen but I can dream!
Thinking about going for the full! That is awesome! Running the full was the most fun I've ever had in a race, hands down. On the other hand, the training was just brutal. It was so incredibly time consuming. I have to say I found training for the full about 3 times as hard as training for the half. It is just a whole new level. You can definitely do it, you just need to be mentally prepared for how draining that training is.
The house sounds wonderful. I really hope you get it. We just live in a boring trac house in suburbia built in 1999. I would love to have a house with character.
for a summer Disney trip! I love summer trips. And some of the best days are the laid back pool days
I looked at the Galloway training and it seems do-able. I'm using his training for my up-coming 1/2 and I'm able to do it. I like that the mid-week runs are short (30-45 minutes each) and then one long run on the weekend. I can do that. For the longer runs I'll have to wake up early so I don't mess up the day. In the fall it'll be even easier because both Jessica and Nathaniel will have Hebrew School on Saturday morning so I'll only have Zachary!
The house is great. I know I'll hate doing construction but we'll be a few years away from that (financially-speaking).
Tom hasn't totally agreed to the summer trip, yet. I made a deposit and I'd like to book the flights now, before the airfare increases.
Glad you guys had a good time at Chef Mickey's.
We're early eaters anyway so we always get dinner ADRs for 5:00 or so (and that's later than we normally eat). The places tend to be much less crowded.
Yay for adjoining rooms! We had adjoining rooms when we stayed at Shades of Green with my parents. My oldest ended up sleeping in the extra bed in my parents' room (except one night when my dad was snoring loudly
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Yay for another race and for possibly doing the full next year!
And good luck with the house! Sounds like we're both in similar situations right now.
I like early ADRs, too. I usually ask for sometime between 5:30 and 6:30. That's when my kids eat at home, too.
My parents offered to take one of the kids but the kids were happy to each have a bed in our room so it worked out. I could definitely see that we won't always need a one bedroom as the kids get older. We spent less time in the room than in the past and I'm sure that'll be more and more true!
I was reading your house hunting saga and laughing about how parallel our lives are!
Amanda
). Tom is feeling a little Disney-ed out but I think that it's more that he didn't enjoy traveling with my parents. We both felt a little cheated out of our normal Disney routine. I'm also thinking about spending less time at the parks and more time relaxing in August (ex: a morning at the pool with an afternoon at Downtown Disney).
and went back to our room to pack up for the day.
But I would love to take him for Star Wars Weekends - or have Tom take him. I think it would be good for them to go together and bond. Tom does better with the kids one-on-one.
