Time to DOUBLE up!! 2 for 1 Pre-TR!!!!!!! TRIP REPORT HAS STARTED!!!!!!!

[onelilspark]

I love Julianna's grin next to the calendar! Nice work.

 

[tinkgurl]

Aw the countdown looks great!

 

[shordiebecka]

Hey! Not gonna lie...I don't have time to go through your whole PTR now, I probably replied at some point before I knew how to sub. I am going to sub now and try to catch up..just out of curiosity, where in CT are you from? I'm from southeastern CT, the groton/mystic area.

 

[that's nice]

Hey! Not gonna lie...I don't have time to go through your whole PTR now, I probably replied at some point before I knew how to sub. I am going to sub now and try to catch up..just out of curiosity, where in CT are you from? I'm from southeastern CT, the groton/mystic area.

Thanks for coming back! LOL

We live in Wolcott. If you didn't know, Wolcott is just North of Waterbury. I don't know if you remember but on your PTR I suggested to you flying out of White Plains, NY... but I didn't realize you were from the Mystic area.

 

[that's nice]

You know--- I thought of that, after I pushed the submit button. Why NOT let Tim get one too. Then I thought of some wise-butt remark about my dare and your getting some sort of pedicure, and thought the better of it.

Oh gosh, CAN. NOT. BREATHE.

LOL I can't promise seeing my little piggies... (you probably don't want to LOL) but you will at least see my kicks!

I did start one, but its not too detailed. i feel like i am talking to myself! LOL

i think i added the link to my siggy, but i don't have ten posts yet... so not sure when it will actually show up.
its called "20 years is way too long and i am clueless" in the PTR section.

I stopped by... heading there now to catch up on my reading!

I love Julianna's grin next to the calendar! Nice work.

Aw the countdown looks great!

Thanks... we took a picture of her taking off the first Mickey head today. She wanted to keep going. Under the 30, was a sticker of Cinderella's coach.

 

[shordiebecka]

I totally remember now! I appreciated the suggestion and looked into it a little bit. I know where Wolcott is, I think i was in that area (maybe) when I went tubing in the farmington river at Satan's Kingdom (this is an actual tubing place..) maybe..haha! Well from what i've read so far your plans look great!

 

[that's nice]

I totally remember now! I appreciated the suggestion and looked into it a little bit. I know where Wolcott is, I think i was in that area (maybe) when I went tubing in the farmington river at Satan's Kingdom (this is an actual tubing place..) maybe..haha! Well from what i've read so far your plans look great!

You were probably tubing in the Farmington, New Hartford, Avon area.... little further North than Wolcott.

Thanks for stopping by!!!

 

[that's nice]

My TA emailed me and our Mickey Mail is on its way. She sent me a tracking # so I guess it's coming from the actual travel agency.

DW has informed me that her cousin, his wife, and the 2 boys aren't joining us for MNSSHP. But they might join us on Wednesday. If they do we might not goto DHS, we might goto Epcot to check out the F&W Festival. We just have to make it to FW for our 7:15 HDDR ressie. Which would be fine. We can take the bus to Epcot, take the monorail over to MK, then jump on the boat to FW. Or we can do the boring thing and just take the FW bus from Epcot. LOLOL

Side Note: Juliana's 1st day of pre-K is tomorrow. It is an orientation day... 1 parent has to stay with them for up 2 an hour then they get to leave. Her 1st full day by herself is next Friday.

 

[All7OfUs]

I love! your countdown! You and Juliana did a super job on it! And a Cinderella coach for Day 1?? How completely appropriate for your little princess.

I think the month is going to go by very quickly- did the calendar help her get all ramped up??

 

[JPFamilyMom]

LOVE the countdown calendar, so cute.
I have not and do not plan to let my boys help with this countdown, , I'm too much of a control freak They will get to take the numbers down as we go though. I'll let them help on the next one. It gives it a special touch that Juliana helped

Hooray for Pre-K (my DS was to start this year too, but I think we have officially decided to wait until Kinder)

 

[that's nice]

I love! your countdown! You and Juliana did a super job on it! And a Cinderella coach for Day 1?? How completely appropriate for your little princess.

I think the month is going to go by very quickly- did the calendar help her get all ramped up??

Oh geez after she pulled off the 30 she asked if we were leaving tomorrow. LOL

We have a busy month.. I'm surprised that my DW hasn't pulled out the suitcases yet. Any day now.

LOVE the countdown calendar, so cute.
I have not and do not plan to let my boys help with this countdown, , I'm too much of a control freak They will get to take the numbers down as we go though. I'll let them help on the next one. It gives it a special touch that Juliana helped

Hooray for Pre-K (my DS was to start this year too, but I think we have officially decided to wait until Kinder)

As you can see from the pictures, I'm not the scrapbooky type. We had fun making it and Juliana loves coloring.

Melody just took her to her 1st class and I get to sit home while they do it. The school asked that only 1 parent goes with the kids for the orientation day. Guess I'll just DIS for a while...

 

[StefaniLyn]

Been lurking lately because things have been so busy with a wedding, first day of school, blah blah blah . . . . Sorry for the long post, just wanted to get caught up!

My Q & A lasted about 2 questions. So here is another question for you all.

What is your favorite unknown fact, tip, or secret about MK?

Not sure why, but this random fun fact pops in my head each time I think about MK. Trash bins are placed no more than 27 feet apart because a Disney test showed guests lost patience and discarded chewing-gum wrappers after walking that distance.

First off I missed my 1000th post dance. Somehow I'm well over 1000 now. I don't know what I was writing when I hit my 1000th. Anyways I do my own dance for me

Happy 1100th post! Sorry I missed your 1000th!

Our Plans and TG crowd predictions.
Here is the crowd predictions while we are there. Doesn't look all too bad if these predictions hold. On Monday we will be going to MK, Tues relax then MNSSHP, Wednesday DHS, & Thurs AK then driving to MCO to fly home.

Where did you find the crowd predictions?

EDIT:: Is there a rule to how many times you can post in a row on your own PTR???? LOLOL

No, sometimes I talk to myself too

While Mel was gone, Juliana & I finished her 30 day countdown calendar. I used the Home Depot Mickey head as a template and cut out 30 Mickey heads. I put on the numbers and then Juliana & I colored the Mickey's. I didn't know what to put under the heads, so we put Disney stickers under them.... mostly princesses. We just used what we had laying around the house. It isn't the prettiest calendar but Juliana helped and we had fun making it. I'll have to take a picture of it to show you.

I TOLD you I'd be happy to make mickey heads for you! Men!!!

1. The temple thingy near Everests lines up when silouetted with EE. Take a nice picture of a cool Imagineer touch.

Leisa, can you elaborate on this? I've never heard of it before and can't quite mentally picture it.

OK I have a few things to clear up..... "confessions" anyone????

I am finishing Juliana's countdown calendar today. I WILL post pics later on. I have a question.. Since we are leaving home at 5am 10/3, does she pull off the last # then or the day/night before. Obviously this does determine whether we start pulling numbers tomorrow or Thursday.

We have also not received our Mickey mail yet. I'm like a little kid running out and checking every day. WHERE IS IT??????

We have the number 1 for the day before we leave (as in 1 day left to go) and we don't have a 0. That way, we won't have to worry about pulling one off the morning we leave. I can just picture us halfway to the airport and the girls suddenly realizing we forgot to pull off the number and begging to turn around! I call this a preventative measure!

What is this thing called Mickey Mail? I know you have a TA - is it through your agency?

AWESOME! Seriously - you did an awesome job!!!

Woo hoo! Consider me caught up!

 

[that's nice]

WE RECEIVED OUR MICKEY MAIL YESTERDAY!!!!!!!
I consider Mickey Mail any Disney correspondence. In this case our documents have arrived! We also received our luggage tags (which we probably won't use.. we have 4 from last time) and the information on ME. We are renting a car but got the ME tags anyways(don't know why.. I guess if we changed our mind it is easier if we already have the info)

Been lurking lately because things have been so busy with a wedding, first day of school, blah blah blah . . . . Sorry for the long post, just wanted to get caught up!

No Problem!

Not sure why, but this random fun fact pops in my head each time I think about MK. Trash bins are placed no more than 27 feet apart because a Disney test showed guests lost patience and discarded chewing-gum wrappers after walking that distance.

I never head about this. That is interesting.

Happy 1100th post! Sorry I missed your 1000th!



Thanks!!! WOW I hit 1100 pretty fast!

Where did you find the crowd predictions?



No, sometimes I talk to myself too



I TOLD you I'd be happy to make mickey heads for you! Men!!!

I know.. i know. I didn't want to impose. Thanks for offering.

Leisa, can you elaborate on this? I've never heard of it before and can't quite mentally picture it.

I will see if I can find a picture for you.

We have the number 1 for the day before we leave (as in 1 day left to go) and we don't have a 0. That way, we won't have to worry about pulling one off the morning we leave. I can just picture us halfway to the airport and the girls suddenly realizing we forgot to pull off the number and begging to turn around! I call this a preventative measure!

What is this thing called Mickey Mail? I know you have a TA - is it through your agency?

Answered above.

AWESOME! Seriously - you did an awesome job!!!

Thanks. We had fun doing it!!!!

Woo hoo! Consider me caught up!

 

[IBelieveInTheMagic]

Yeah for Mickey Mail and glad to hear you got your documents!!! We went by AAA and picked ours up yesterday!

Seems like reading some recent trip reports the crowds have really "calmed" down a bit so I hope it's like that when we go! Just 3 more Saturdays for us and you're right there too! Is Juliana just so beside herself and excited? My DS is and I even have a few surprises for him so I can't wait - I love surprising people!

Hope you guys had a great weekend!

Heather

 

[onelilspark]

Mickey Mail! (This means mine should be on the way )

 

[that's nice]

Yeah for Mickey Mail and glad to hear you got your documents!!! We went by AAA and picked ours up yesterday!

Seems like reading some recent trip reports the crowds have really "calmed" down a bit so I hope it's like that when we go! Just 3 more Saturdays for us and you're right there too! Is Juliana just so beside herself and excited? My DS is and I even have a few surprises for him so I can't wait - I love surprising people!

Hope you guys had a great weekend!

Heather

I have heard about the crowds too. I think the beginning of September is always slow. As October rolls around, it starts to get busier. Here's to hoping for low crowds!

I hope you write a TR.. I want to hear about all your surprises!!!!!!

Mickey Mail! (This means mine should be on the way )

to Mickey Mail!!!!!! Now what do I get to run out to the mailbox for???? Bills?????

 

[that's nice]

I hope everyone is having a great weekend. We are about to go over to our friend Jamie's house to watch her on the Today show!!!

DW & I were checking out which mini-golf course we were going to play at. I think we have decided on Winter Summerland. We were checking out pictures of both and thought Juliana would like WS better.

We also found out yesterday that one of Melody's good friends is going to be in Florida the same time we are. Don't know the reason for their trip but I know they are going to be about an hour from Orlando. Now Melody is trying to get them to stay a night at POP! We checked last night and there are rooms for $59. Not to bad. Can't really stay at any hotel for that. So we might have a little more company with us.

 

[All7OfUs]

Sure, I can find find a picture for you. I know about 2 months ago, maybe less, there was a blog here in the DIS (at least I think it was here) of someone who took a bunch of pictures of it, and posted them. It was really cool.

It's also in my AK Imagineers book.

HOWEVER, you'll have to give me a day or two. I"m completely, totally swamped with work right now. Our new teammate arrived from the US yesterday, and we are trying to find a permanent apt. for her etc.... She doesn't speak any of the language yet, so I have to really hold her hand every minute. LONG. DAYS!

 

[All7OfUs]

Okay, it took a great deal of searching, but I finally found the original source I was looking for: a blog over on allears.net

http://land.allears.net/blogs/jackspence/2009/02/everest_temple_1.html

Cool, eh??

 

[that's nice]

Okay, it took a great deal of searching, but I finally found the original source I was looking for: a blog over on allears.net

http://land.allears.net/blogs/jackspence/2009/02/everest_temple_1.html

Cool, eh??

That is cool. I have noticed that it was the same shape as EE, I have to get a picture of it all lined up this time! Really neat!