The reason I've been MIA is because DH tore his calf (grade 3 tear) 3.5 weeks ago & he's STILL on crutches!!!!!I may need some advice on those electric wheelchairs since we leave in 3 weeks! I've missed chatting with you guys! God bless, Angela
I am super duper excited!! as some of you know we booked the autotrain for our trip in 17 days.....well we used our continental miles transfered to amtrak and got the entire trip roundtrip for FREE..not only that, we went from regular coach seats to a bedroom....I am so excited I can't believe it
Hello my fellow Disney friends!
I wanted to stop and check in while I had a moment. DD is doing much much much better. She finally had a break threw. And I mean that literally! lol The dr had to clean her out, which was a bit traumatic to say the least. We have to follow up with Gastro in the future. But for now, her dr thinks it may be a one time thing. Or, she is hoping it is. We should know in a week or so if her bowels stop working and the sensation to go poo goes away again.
We are still on for June 5-11. We did switch back to the Poly from AKL. We are going ahead with surprising the girls with our stay there. But we are not doing DxDP. Just regular DDP. We don't eat alot when it is hot, so the DDP is even a bit much for us in the summer.
As for DH and the great job hunt, he has kinda put it off for the moment. He will be working almost full-time for the Army. For those of you who understand military lingo, he made E5 in 2002. He made E6 in 2004. He never went to PLDC (or WLC, whatever its called now) or BNCOC. He kept getting delpoyed, then he had to have surgery on his knee that he hurt jumping off the top of a fuel truck when it was being shot at. That took a year alone to get approved! Gotta love the army and their paperwork! Then, he had to go threw a med board which took almost 2 years. He ended up on a deadmans profile and wasn't allowed to carry a weapon. Deadman for his knee. Not allowed to carry a weapon due to severe PTSD. He has since gotten his knee repaired enough to do PT (walk, but not run) and has been and still being treated for his PTSD (its ongoing for life) so they appealed his med board results. Now he has to do PLDC, BNCOC. And to top it off, he has to reclass because his job isn't needed any longer! Then, if he wants to, he can go right into ANCOC since he has been a E6 FOREVER! So, that should keep him busy well into next year.
So while the job thing didn't work out like we planned and we will be taking a bit of a pay cut, he will atleast be able to get all of his military stuff out of the way and not have to worry about a civilian job finding a reason to get rid of him for all the military training he has to do in the next year. You wouldn't believe how these companies who claim to support troops react when one of their employees are gone for any length of time. Its really sad.
But anyways, that is life in a nutshell right now. We are surviving. Things are working out in their own way. And we are still planning to go to Disney! Life could be a whole lot worse.
I promise to get caught up. I think I am only a couple weeks behind now...
Oh sure - here's the website: http://www.thebenefitsale.com/ Downtown Disney will be open from 5:30am-9:30am on 11/6 for a special sale with proceeds benefiting the United Way. It costs $5 a person, but there will be doorbusters and other shopping specials (2010 merchandise will be 50% off!).
You can purchase your vouchers online, which will then be exchanged for wristbands the day of the sale. I'm excited that we'll be able to make it!
Oh sure - here's the website: http://www.thebenefitsale.com/ Downtown Disney will be open from 5:30am-9:30am on 11/6 for a special sale with proceeds benefiting the United Way. It costs $5 a person, but there will be doorbusters and other shopping specials (2010 merchandise will be 50% off!).
You can purchase your vouchers online, which will then be exchanged for wristbands the day of the sale. I'm excited that we'll be able to make it!
We won't get there until around lunch time that day, so we won't be able to take advantage, but I hope you get some great deals!
I've taken Amtrak to Florida twice in the past and that's all I'm gonna say about that.
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.My hubby has really wanted to take the autotrain for a while. We paid nothing and got our whole family r//t with the bedrooms for 60,000 miles. Not really my idea but I am going to make the best of it. I think the kids are going to be completely thrilled The bedroom with a bathroom really makes me feel alot better about the whole idea. We originally were booked in coach and I was not thrilled about that idea..
10 DAYS!!!
I am super duper excited!! as some of you know we booked the autotrain for our trip in 17 days.....well we used our continental miles transfered to amtrak and got the entire trip roundtrip for FREE..not only that, we went from regular coach seats to a bedroom....I am so excited I can't believe it
I'm in the same place, and it's KILLING me!!! Trying desperately to find stuff to do, and can't!
I hear ya..It couldn't have been too bad if you did it twice
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Let's just say that I've learned to love flying. The first time we took Amtrak was because my husband loves trains, so I thought it'd be fun. We only had coach seats and it was fun for most of the trip to Florida...we enjoyed looking at the scenery out the windows and having dinner in the dining car. The trip home was the nasty part because the train derailed outside of Emporia, VA. We all were herded onto school buses after over 2 hours of the passengers wandering around and drove us to the local high school where we sat for hours and hours and hours. We finally got into the Newark station at 4 a.m. after being driven by bus into D.C. and put on another train.
Ok, silly of me, but I gave it a 2nd chance (mostly because I was terrified of flying at that time) about a year or two later thinking it couldn't possibly be as bad. We had our two teenagers with us that time, and, as the 1st trip, the way to Florida wasn't bad, a couple of hours late but not bad. On the way home the toilets weren't functioning, the entire train was...well, pretty funky smelling and the attendants were popping those awful little stick up things on the ceilings of the cars. Some drunk lady had to be put off the train at a station (can't recall where exactly) because she was raising such a ruckus and had been warned repeatedly. That was in the middle of the night.
Don't let my experience get you down! I'm just still mad at Amtrak 20 years later! And of course we were in coach and didn't have our very own bathroom.
