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The now Non-Turkey Day PTR. Bad news UPD: 11/16!
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NuttyDisneyMom
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We're leaving 3 weeks from Friday!
Time is seriously flying on my end!!!
Sorry I haven't updated, but it's been such a rough week
Stitch was sick with bronchitis, then we found out she is WAY allergic to shellfish, and then this past Monday was the WORST....
For those of you who don't know, my DH is in Afghanistan with his civilian job. He is retired Navy and now is an electrical contractor for a huge government contracting subsidiary. Anyway, I received a phone call that a helicopter went down in west Afghanistan, where DH is, from his work buddy that is in a different area with him Turns out it was NOT DHs helo, thank God, but the scare has had me in emotional turmoil since monday morning. SO what did I do....made my ADR's for my March trip this afternoon to cheer me up
Will post an update soon...we've already got the suitcases out and are packing!!!
Time is seriously flying on my end!!!Sorry I haven't updated, but it's been such a rough week
Stitch was sick with bronchitis, then we found out she is WAY allergic to shellfish, and then this past Monday was the WORST....For those of you who don't know, my DH is in Afghanistan with his civilian job. He is retired Navy and now is an electrical contractor for a huge government contracting subsidiary. Anyway, I received a phone call that a helicopter went down in west Afghanistan, where DH is, from his work buddy that is in a different area with him
Turns out it was NOT DHs helo, thank God, but the scare has had me in emotional turmoil since monday morning. SO what did I do....made my ADR's for my March trip this afternoon to cheer me upWill post an update soon...we've already got the suitcases out and are packing!!!
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We're leaving 3 weeks from Friday!
Sorry I haven't updated, but it's been such a rough week
For those of you who don't know, my DH is in Afghanistan with his civilian job. He is retired Navy and now is an electrical contractor for a huge government contracting subsidiary. Anyway, I received a phone call that a helicopter went down in west Afghanistan, where DH is, from his work buddy that is in a different area with him
Will post an update soon...we've already got the suitcases out and are packing!!!
I cannot begin to imagine what you go through every day.
I am glad that DH is safe. I pray for those in service every day, your husband is in there!I'm also glad that you are feeling better. Poor Stitch!
Finding out that allergy to Shellfish was probably frightening, but in the end good so you'll know for the future!Okay, so you are three weeks and two days, I'm three weeks and four days! Let the dancing bananas begin!
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I cannot begin to imagine what you go through every day.
I'm also glad that you are feeling better. Poor Stitch!
Okay, so you are three weeks and two days, I'm three weeks and four days! Let the dancing bananas begin!
Thanks for the prayers! Planning these trips are what's keeping me going this deployment!
Thanks! I did email special requests for dining and alerted them to her shellfish allergy. I just picked up her EpiPens yesterday too, so we're all set. Makes me glad I'm a nurse tho...at least I know what to do if she has another reaction!!!
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Day 1, Friday: We’re off to WDW…FINALLY!
• We are driving, as usual. We usually drive the whole 12 hours straight, but are going to stop this time. Nana is getting off work at noon and the kids will all be home from school by 2:45pm. We’ll be out the door no later than 4pm!!! We’re going to drive till around midnight and grab a hotel.
Day 2, Saturday: We’re there!!!!
• We’ll be up early and have about 4 hours worth of driving left. We’ll grab a quick breakfast at a drive thru and be in WDW by 1pm! We’ll drop our bags, pick up Nana’s scooter which will be waiting for us at concierge, and we’re off. We’re heading into DTD for our 1st ever lunch at WPE. I cannot wait for this one If we decide to hit a park, it will be DHS or MK and we’ll grab some grub once in there. We have our dinner ressie at The Wave (again 1st time) at 7:10pm. Alice is getting her birthday cake at this dinner and I can’t wait to see it! If we hit a park, we’ll go to MK for Spectro and Wishes, and then call it a night. If we didn’t go into a park, we’ll head back to SSR for a movie and early bed.
Day 3, Sunday: Nana’s 1st visit ever to Epcot!
• We’ll get up early and grab a quick breakfast in the room. We’ll grab a bus to Epcot and hit Future World right away! Lunch is another first, Sunshine Seasons. We may take a mid day break, if we need it, for a swim at SSR, if not, we’ll be in Epcot till about 6pm. Dinner is at 9:30pm at O’Hana. We’ll watch the EWP on the Poly Beach while we’re waiting for our table. Then we’ll get to see wishes while we eat. This is a family tradition and will be another first for Nana. Then we’re over to MK for EMH for the night!!!! We’ll close MK down and then hit the beds hard!!!
Day 4, Monday: DHS Day
• We’re up when we’re up today since last night was a LATE night at MK most likely. We’ll hit the BW Bakery for a CS breakfast, and then we’re off to DHS! Lunch isn’t until 3pm at Sci Fi, first for all of us. We’ll have all the time in the world to do what we want here today. This includes RnR, TSMM, Little Mermaid, GMR, Indian Jones, Star Wars, Stunt Show, BLE Tour, and possibly a showing of AI. Notice how ToT is not in there??? No one will ride it with me!!! It’s EMH tonight and we have a 9:50pm dinner ADR at 50’s prime time, repeat for everyone except Charming and Alice. We think they’ll have a ball with the antics. So we’re closing down another park. Again, we’ll bus it back to SSR and hit the beds hard!
Day 5, Tuesday: MK/Resort Day
• We’re up when we’re up again and breakfast is at MS Bakery. YUMMO! We’ll play until time to head to the GF for our girls afternoon Tea at 2pm. Alice is getting her white chocolate slipper dessert at our Tea as another birthday surprise. Charming will head to DTD to Disney Quest for a long, long, long time. I wonder if we’ll ever get him out! We’ll be off to SSR for a swim and a rest till evening time. Charming will either meet us at SSR before dinner or meet us at Kona for our 7:05pm ADR at Kona. Another first for all of us. After dinner, we’ll head back into MK for the night time events. Then it’s a bus back to SSR for us for the night.
Day 6: DTD Day
• Today we switch resorts. Out of SSR and into OKW! We’ll drop our bags to have them taken over to OKW, hop a bus and check in there, and then head to WPE for breakfast, another first for us. We’ll play around in DTD and do some serious shopping. We have an 11:30am ADR at Planet Hollywood. We’ll be using the 2 $15 vouchers I have for this. After lunch we’ll head over to OKW to see if our room is ready and then have a swim. Then back to DTD for our 3pm BBB appointment. A surprise for both Stitch and Alice. Our dinner tonight is a GF Café, another 1st for us. Our ressie is for 7:30pm. We’ll check out the gingerbread house either before or after dinner, and then call it a night at the resort since we have a SUPER EARLY day tomorrow!
Day 7: Thanksgiving and AK Day
• We have an 8am pre park opening breakfast at Tusker House. First time for all of us. We have to remember to look for Momsof2boys and her family who are supposed to eat at 8:05! AK is virtually new to all of us as well. We only hopped over to it last trip to ride EE and hopped right back out. So this will be a fun, new day for all of us! We are going to hop over to AKL for lunch at Mara, since I’ve heard such great things about it on these boards. Or we’ll hit Flame Tree BBQ. Depends on where we are with what we want to accomplish in AK. Dinner isn’t until 8:55pm and it’s at WCC, another first for all of us! We have to decide if we want to see Fantasmic again. Today is the only day it’s showing our entire trip and it’s at 6:30pm. It’s going to depend on how our day goes at AK. After dinner, it’s back to the resort and hittin’ the hay. We’ll be so whooped by then!
Day 8: Epcot/MK take 2
• We’re sleepin’ in today! We have a 10am Kona Café ADR that we’re all looking forward to for one item or another. Again, another 1st for all of us. Lunch will be CS at Epcot or MK. Depends on how we feel at breakfast. We’ll let the kids decide. Regardless, we’ll be in Epcot for dinner tonight. We have an 8:50pm ressie at Chefs de France. We’ll get to watch Illuminations from here!!! We originally had Cape May for dinner, but with the surfacing of Stitch’s shellfish allergy, we’re passing on it this trip. If we’re in Epcot, we’ll hit the 5 or 6:45pm candlelight procession tonight as well. Tonight is EMH for Epcot, so you know where we’ll be till midnight! Then we’re bussin’ back to OKW to hit the beds again….we got an early day tomorrow!
Day 9: MK/Epcot take 3
• We have an 8am pre park opening ADR for Crystal Palace. Another new one for us. Lunch will be CS at MK most likely. We’re planning on finishing up everything we want to repeat today at MK. If we did CP last night, we probably won’t even hit Epcot today at all. We have our 6:05pm ADR at 1900 Park Fare tonight, again another 1st for us. We’ll hop back to MK and do the evening there. Spectro and Wishes are our family’s fave! We love to grab some MK bakery goodies and sit on the curb and share everything and munch away together. Tomorrow is another early day too.
Day 10: Hi Ho, Hi Ho, it’s on the road we go
• We have a 7:45am O’Hana goodbye breakfast planned today. We’ll hit that, go back to OKW and pack the car and be on our way home. We’ll drive straight through this time. It’ll be sad to leave WDW, but so nice to get home to OUR beds.
• We are driving, as usual. We usually drive the whole 12 hours straight, but are going to stop this time. Nana is getting off work at noon and the kids will all be home from school by 2:45pm. We’ll be out the door no later than 4pm!!! We’re going to drive till around midnight and grab a hotel.
Day 2, Saturday: We’re there!!!!
• We’ll be up early and have about 4 hours worth of driving left. We’ll grab a quick breakfast at a drive thru and be in WDW by 1pm! We’ll drop our bags, pick up Nana’s scooter which will be waiting for us at concierge, and we’re off. We’re heading into DTD for our 1st ever lunch at WPE. I cannot wait for this one If we decide to hit a park, it will be DHS or MK and we’ll grab some grub once in there. We have our dinner ressie at The Wave (again 1st time) at 7:10pm. Alice is getting her birthday cake at this dinner and I can’t wait to see it! If we hit a park, we’ll go to MK for Spectro and Wishes, and then call it a night. If we didn’t go into a park, we’ll head back to SSR for a movie and early bed.
Day 3, Sunday: Nana’s 1st visit ever to Epcot!
• We’ll get up early and grab a quick breakfast in the room. We’ll grab a bus to Epcot and hit Future World right away! Lunch is another first, Sunshine Seasons. We may take a mid day break, if we need it, for a swim at SSR, if not, we’ll be in Epcot till about 6pm. Dinner is at 9:30pm at O’Hana. We’ll watch the EWP on the Poly Beach while we’re waiting for our table. Then we’ll get to see wishes while we eat. This is a family tradition and will be another first for Nana. Then we’re over to MK for EMH for the night!!!! We’ll close MK down and then hit the beds hard!!!
Day 4, Monday: DHS Day
• We’re up when we’re up today since last night was a LATE night at MK most likely. We’ll hit the BW Bakery for a CS breakfast, and then we’re off to DHS! Lunch isn’t until 3pm at Sci Fi, first for all of us. We’ll have all the time in the world to do what we want here today. This includes RnR, TSMM, Little Mermaid, GMR, Indian Jones, Star Wars, Stunt Show, BLE Tour, and possibly a showing of AI. Notice how ToT is not in there??? No one will ride it with me!!! It’s EMH tonight and we have a 9:50pm dinner ADR at 50’s prime time, repeat for everyone except Charming and Alice. We think they’ll have a ball with the antics. So we’re closing down another park. Again, we’ll bus it back to SSR and hit the beds hard!
Day 5, Tuesday: MK/Resort Day
• We’re up when we’re up again and breakfast is at MS Bakery. YUMMO! We’ll play until time to head to the GF for our girls afternoon Tea at 2pm. Alice is getting her white chocolate slipper dessert at our Tea as another birthday surprise. Charming will head to DTD to Disney Quest for a long, long, long time. I wonder if we’ll ever get him out! We’ll be off to SSR for a swim and a rest till evening time. Charming will either meet us at SSR before dinner or meet us at Kona for our 7:05pm ADR at Kona. Another first for all of us. After dinner, we’ll head back into MK for the night time events. Then it’s a bus back to SSR for us for the night.
Day 6: DTD Day
• Today we switch resorts. Out of SSR and into OKW! We’ll drop our bags to have them taken over to OKW, hop a bus and check in there, and then head to WPE for breakfast, another first for us. We’ll play around in DTD and do some serious shopping. We have an 11:30am ADR at Planet Hollywood. We’ll be using the 2 $15 vouchers I have for this. After lunch we’ll head over to OKW to see if our room is ready and then have a swim. Then back to DTD for our 3pm BBB appointment. A surprise for both Stitch and Alice. Our dinner tonight is a GF Café, another 1st for us. Our ressie is for 7:30pm. We’ll check out the gingerbread house either before or after dinner, and then call it a night at the resort since we have a SUPER EARLY day tomorrow!
Day 7: Thanksgiving and AK Day
• We have an 8am pre park opening breakfast at Tusker House. First time for all of us. We have to remember to look for Momsof2boys and her family who are supposed to eat at 8:05! AK is virtually new to all of us as well. We only hopped over to it last trip to ride EE and hopped right back out. So this will be a fun, new day for all of us! We are going to hop over to AKL for lunch at Mara, since I’ve heard such great things about it on these boards. Or we’ll hit Flame Tree BBQ. Depends on where we are with what we want to accomplish in AK. Dinner isn’t until 8:55pm and it’s at WCC, another first for all of us! We have to decide if we want to see Fantasmic again. Today is the only day it’s showing our entire trip and it’s at 6:30pm. It’s going to depend on how our day goes at AK. After dinner, it’s back to the resort and hittin’ the hay. We’ll be so whooped by then!
Day 8: Epcot/MK take 2
• We’re sleepin’ in today! We have a 10am Kona Café ADR that we’re all looking forward to for one item or another. Again, another 1st for all of us. Lunch will be CS at Epcot or MK. Depends on how we feel at breakfast. We’ll let the kids decide. Regardless, we’ll be in Epcot for dinner tonight. We have an 8:50pm ressie at Chefs de France. We’ll get to watch Illuminations from here!!! We originally had Cape May for dinner, but with the surfacing of Stitch’s shellfish allergy, we’re passing on it this trip. If we’re in Epcot, we’ll hit the 5 or 6:45pm candlelight procession tonight as well. Tonight is EMH for Epcot, so you know where we’ll be till midnight! Then we’re bussin’ back to OKW to hit the beds again….we got an early day tomorrow!
Day 9: MK/Epcot take 3
• We have an 8am pre park opening ADR for Crystal Palace. Another new one for us. Lunch will be CS at MK most likely. We’re planning on finishing up everything we want to repeat today at MK. If we did CP last night, we probably won’t even hit Epcot today at all. We have our 6:05pm ADR at 1900 Park Fare tonight, again another 1st for us. We’ll hop back to MK and do the evening there. Spectro and Wishes are our family’s fave! We love to grab some MK bakery goodies and sit on the curb and share everything and munch away together. Tomorrow is another early day too.
Day 10: Hi Ho, Hi Ho, it’s on the road we go
• We have a 7:45am O’Hana goodbye breakfast planned today. We’ll hit that, go back to OKW and pack the car and be on our way home. We’ll drive straight through this time. It’ll be sad to leave WDW, but so nice to get home to OUR beds.
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I'm really looking forward to that, the Nemo show, and the Safari
Everything looks wonderful! I wish I could sneak in a couple of extra days so we could get some down time. It never seems to work out that way, though.DH is always go go go!!
We wouldn't be able to go if we didn't take breaks during the trip. I can't not utilize the resort we're paying over $300 a night for!!!
That would be a sin
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Ahem.... did you by chance forget something here? 
Day 7: Thanksgiving and AK Day
We have an 8am pre park opening breakfast at Tusker House. First time for all of us. AK is virtually new to all of us as well. We only hopped over to it last trip to ride EE and hopped right back out. So this will be a fun, new day for all of us! We are going to hop over to AKL for lunch at Mara, since Ive heard such great things about it on these boards. Or well hit Flame Tree BBQ. Depends on where we are with what we want to accomplish in AK. Dinner isnt until 8:55pm and its at WCC, another first for all of us! We have to remember to look for Momsof2boys and her family who are supposed to eat at 8:05!We have to decide if we want to see Fantasmic again. Today is the only day its showing our entire trip and its at 6:30pm. Its going to depend on how our day goes at AK. After dinner, its back to the resort and hittin the hay. Well be so whooped by then!
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Ahem.... did you by chance forget something here?
Never!!!!
I have edited as such above Susan
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Never!!!!
Woohoo!
I am sure we will still be at the WCC because we do have 4 boys and a man who take that all you can eat thing as a personal challenge.... So look for 3 women and 3 young men, 1 teen age skinny boy, and one old man.... don't tell my uncle i called him that... 
I'll try to post a picture of at least some of us... not sure I have one of all of us. ... and I will look for you as well.
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Woohoo!
I'll try to post a picture of at least some of us... not sure I have one of all of us. ... and I will look for you as well.
Awesome! You've seen our pic, I'm sure
I'll also have my LGMH with NuttyDisneyMom on them This really nice DISer told me how to make my own buttons with them
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Ok...here we go.... this picture is from left to right, our server on the cruise, my nephew Andrew, Me, my DP Mary, and Paul my other nephew. My boys were too young to go to tea with us at Palo so I have them in the next picture.
If it is too small I think you can click on it to see it bigger... but at least it isn't as big as some I post. 
Again, left to right....Andrew, My DS18 Tyler, Paul, My DS 13 Trevor, and Mary... This was our evening cookies and milk while on the cruise....
I don't have any of my aunt and uncle on this computer but basically he is a very unhappy looking grey haired man who WILL be wearing BLUE and my Aunt is the littliest of everyone at 4'11" and 120 lbs. The rest of us will be cracking up and acting like we want to be there and they will look like we FORCED them to come.
If it is too small I think you can click on it to see it bigger... but at least it isn't as big as some I post.
Again, left to right....Andrew, My DS18 Tyler, Paul, My DS 13 Trevor, and Mary... This was our evening cookies and milk while on the cruise....
I don't have any of my aunt and uncle on this computer but basically he is a very unhappy looking grey haired man who WILL be wearing BLUE and my Aunt is the littliest of everyone at 4'11" and 120 lbs. The rest of us will be cracking up and acting like we want to be there and they will look like we FORCED them to come.
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Ok...here we go.... this picture is from left to right, our server on the cruise, my nephew Andrew, Me, my DP Mary, and Paul my other nephew. My boys were too young to go to tea with us at Palo so I have them in the next picture.
If it is too small I think you can click on it to see it bigger... but at least it isn't as big as some I post.
Again, left to right....Andrew, My DS18 Tyler, Paul, My DS 13 Trevor, and Mary... This was our evening cookies and milk while on the cruise....
I don't have any of my aunt and uncle on this computer but basically he is a very unhappy looking grey haired man who WILL be wearing BLUE and my Aunt is the littliest of everyone at 4'11" and 120 lbs. The rest of us will be cracking up and acting like we want to be there and they will look like we FORCED them to come.
What a beautiful family you got there
You'll definitely know it's us because Alice, who is just shy of 15, will be drooling over your boys Boy crazy teenage girls!!! It drives her crazy she can't date till she's 15 and a half...
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Well....I was trying to figure how to save a little money this trip and I completely forgot about rooms that are held for Shades of Green overflow So I called today and I'm in for the second half of our stay We're now at POR the 25th-29th. And I'm saving....$556!
I could stay there the whole trip for the price they quoted me, but my DBFF would have to use the DVC points by June of next year AND she could not bank them. I may just use them for my trip in March with the girls. I'll have to see what I can do.....
17 days...........but who's counting
and I completely forgot about rooms that are held for Shades of Green overflow So I called today and I'm in for the second half of our stay We're now at POR the 25th-29th. And I'm saving....$556!I could stay there the whole trip for the price they quoted me, but my DBFF would have to use the DVC points by June of next year AND she could not bank them. I may just use them for my trip in March with the girls. I'll have to see what I can do.....
17 days...........but who's counting
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What a beautiful family you got there
LOLOL Tonight I sent your pic to my nephews to be on the look out and they said, "Aunt Susie... you didn't tell us we were meeting people from the internet again..." (Our whole cruise was filled with Dismeets and gift tag and everywhere we went people were saying hi...) Cracks me up... I said well, there are a LOT of Dis people going the same time so you have to be on the look out. They just laughed.
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That is just too funny!
I was going to do tweets from WDW during my trip, but it's not loaded on my Blackberry...AND...I still can't figure out Twitter!!!
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I am planning to tweet...not sure if anyone will be following me or not
Your plans looks great....I can't believe we're almost 16 days away...
If I could only figure out Twitter
Any pointers???And guess what...Friday is the 2 week mark
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