glennbo123
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- May 10, 2008
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Aw bummer! Sorry to hear about the work and James being sick. Poor dude.![]()
Judy stayed home with him today and he's doing much better.

I want that lens!! I completely forgot about it...I gotta talk to Joe-perhaps it can be our gift to each other.![]()
You have a Canon also? I guess I'd forgotten that. Gifts to each other can be good...almost as good as those expensive surprise gifts.
Not stalking you Magdalene, really I'm not!!!Okay, maybe a little......
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Okay, now who's the stalker?
Actually, I usually do the User CP thing early in the morning when I get on, and see which threads have new posts since I last checked. Since you are up in the middle of the night (well, our night anyway) posting, those are the threads that typically pop up in the list.![]()
Yes, usually in the mornings I see lots of posts by Magdalene and Liesa (late at night) and you (early in the morning).
Oh I know!! We are nervous about it but when/if it happens we are going to make it CLEAR that we DON'T have to stick together the entire trip.I think that would help some. ....I hope. That is mostly for the parents and/or friends.
Sometime next year our brother in law will hopefully be coming home from Afghanistan. This is DH's sister and her hubby. Neither have ever been to WDW. They are both in their 20's and have no kids yet. DH and I are taking them on an all expenses paid trip to WDW. We aren't too worried about that trip going bad. They are both very excited and I'm sure it will be a good stress release for them by that time.
That's really nice of you to do that. It will be a great trip for them (and you)! I think you'll be fine...they can do their own thing some of the time and you can reconvene when you want to, do some dinners, shows, etc. Like Tanya pointed out, I think it gets tough when you have different age groups and park-abilities. Then, you have different interests in what to see and do, and different speeds.
Some of the horrors mentioned on the DVC boards though, are people backing out and leaving you with a 2 bedroom unit and no time to downscale, and you feel like you've wasted a lot of points.
We took my parents with us when the kids were little. My 17 year old was only 3. This was before we owned DVC, so we had our own rooms. We spent the first 3 days together - 1 day per park (no Animal Kingdom yet) so we could kind of show them around. And after that they did their own thing and we did ours. We bumped into each other a few times, and we may have gotten together for supper, but other than that we were separate.
A few years later we took my younger step-son and his (then) wife and kids and they stayed in our DVC rooms with us. Their youngest was just 6 months old. We tried to stay together the whole time and it was miserable for everyone. My kids were old enough to ride rides, but theirs weren't so every move we made was "who's going, who's staying...is Nick tall enough, can we take Ben on......" And his wife asked a million and one questions (never waiting for the answers). I didn't go on the trip that was with the older step-son and his wife and family, but it sounds like it was worse. They are both smokers so there were frequent smoke breaks and a lot of bathroom breaks. I understand that my oldest gave up on them and went off on his own.
The trip with your BIL sounds exiting. Thank him for his service - my oldest step-son is Navy, and I know how rough it is on his wife and kids when he is deployed.
