Too many kids for Disney? We're here!!!!!!

[estherhead]

This is the first trip I've taken without the DDP in a couple years. Because we're staying offsite, it obviously wasn't available. Plus, it's much cheaper (well, not cheaper than getting the DDP free) to eat some meals at our Windsor Hills home. We have these all planned out, mostly breakfasts & dinners since at lunch time we'll be in the parks. And even for lunch we're planning on packing quite a bit of food in with us.

What we're hoping for here is cheap. But we don't want it to feel cheap. So here is what I'm planning on eating personally. Donald will, of course, eat whatever he feels like. And certainly would never be crazy enough to plan out what he was planning on eating before we got there.

Animal Kingdom:

Pork Eggrolls (you get 3 so I would share with the fam.)

That’s probably it. We’re eating at Tusker House for breakfast at 10:30 am this day so I can’t imagine wanting more than this. I might not even get this!

Hollywood Studios:

Backlot Express:

The Grilled veggie sandwich. Suzy got this our last meal on our girls trip & it was truly delish. Here’s a photo:



But we aren’t really planning on eating there. We’re eating at Pizza Planet which pretty much has pizza. Oh well.

We’re also eating at Sci-Fi which I know gets terrible food reviews so I have low expecations. But more than likely I will think it is just fine as I love McD’s fries & cheeseburgers so I obviously have low standards. I think I’m going to share an Oreo milk shake to share with my girls. I'll probably only have a sip or two. And order either a cheeseburger or grilled chicken sandwich with fries.

Epcot:

School Bread at Norway
Chocolate Croissant at France
Baklava in Morroco
Half rotisserie chicken with 2 sides at Sunshine Seasons
A margartita & a grand marnier slushy. I’ve had both of these before & been wowed by them.

We’re also eating at the Rose & Crown. Not sure what I’ll get there. Lots of good choices for food. But I think I would like to have a Bailey’s Trifle for alcohol/dessert. That looks GOOD!

Magic Kingdom:

If I don’t get to go to Sunshine Seasons then I will get the ½ chicken at Cosmic Rays. It’s such a good deal for a family. And probably a bowl of chicken noodle soup. The 3 girls & I could easy turn that into a whole meal.

A cream cheese pretzel
Ham & Cheese croissant at Main St. Bakery & maybe a French toast loaf there?

A turkey leg, which I’ve never had. I really want one as these seem to be a good family value too. If I bring in chips & drinks for the kids we could all have a meal for $5.75!

Then Donald & I are going to Raglan Road. I think I might go all out here & have an appetizer & entrée. But probably not dessert. We’ll just see how it goes. Donald & I might share something, tho I don’t like scallops or prawns so that will make him sad. I might get the serious sirloin steak here. It isn’t too expensive & it looks yummy. Course that is just sitting here tonight. Who knows what I’ll want when I’m sitting there with all the great smells & atmosphere.

But I do think I will be both money & Weight Watchers driven. Not that I diet while on vacation but this trip isn't really about decadence. That was what the girl's trip was about. This trip is about having lots of energy to spend with my girls. And not spending too much more money!

Mmmm, off to look at food porn to see if I'm missing any yumminess that I really want and have forgotten about (or not ever heard about!)

I'm going to make more t-shirts today so I'll post pics later!

 

[labdogs42]

I'm joining in now, too!

 

[estherhead]

Hi labdogs! I went over & looked at your scrapbooking. LOVED it! I'm planning on going on a crazy scrapbooking palooza when we get back. I'm like 7 years behind. I have been collecting stuff all summer & have about 6 empty scrapbooks & stuff to put in them.

I'd like to try the digital ones too so I may be hitting you up for tips. I've done the little 10 page books at CVS this summer when they were on sale & I did enjoy it, but I wasn't very good at it.

 

[estherhead]

Last night Donald & I tye-dyed. Our last Disney shirts are done. It really is going to happen.

I'm be super excited if I could breathe. Wouldn't breathing be nice? The baby's been sick. Donald's been sick. Ariel's been sick, and finally me. I stopped being able to breathe about 2 hours ago. Shoot. I was hoping I would escape the true cold. I always get allergies for the entire fall, but I was really hoping to escape the real deal. But I guess not.

So deep thought is out. Cold medicine is in.

That aside, we're less than 3 weeks away. We're almost 2 weeks away. It's EXCITING!

2 things panicked me a little today. The first is the double stroller swap I'm in lost my stroller! Oh dear. But I'm in another one now. Not as perfect, but much better than nothing. Thank goodness I'm not just out of luck. I would be really panicking if I thought I had to rent a Disney stroller at those crazy prices!

I bought two of these for our strollers. They came today & I love them. We'll see if I feel that way after 10 days of actually using them.

I also wrapped the girl's presents & we tried all our clothes on so we're fairly set. I'll just have to throw in their good jeans & shoes the last day. And the baby & Donald aren't packed. But the big girls & I am for the most part. Or we could be totally packed within an hour. Good enough is what I say.

I've tried on all our t-shirts. The Tinkerbell ones really do nothing for my figure, but they'll make my girls happy. For me, I look like a serious mom in it. A big, blob kind of shape instead of a nice, girly shape. But the others are nice.

Our final t-shirts are really cute. They have our names on them, though, so I took a blurry photo for you.



And an up close one of the cute faces. We each have our own look. these. And I love the fit.

Donald, I & our girls


Milo & Suzy:


Also, I've been doing some couponing. Here is what I bought this week for $70.00! What I would have spent on just the 4 Mega packs of diapers & the beer, I got this whole table worth of stuff.



9 boxes of cereal, 12 rolls of cereal, 4 packs diapers, beer, lots of baking stuff, etc. LOTS OF STUFF! Let me tell ya. I was psyched.

And finally, the title. We're not very good at this, I've discovered. Our Mickeys just end up looking like hearts & then we have to bleach them. But it's the best we can do, ya know? What's a girls to do? At least we enjoy it.

Here is the Mickey head traced on in pencil. Even this is harder than it looks. The t-shirt keeps moving & it is hard to get it right.



Here is the Mickey sown and starting to be gathered:



Here it is gathered all up:



Here it is swirled & rubber banded:



Here are the 5 items we did last night, 3 of them are Mickey:


Here is the Mickey rubber banded, dyed, & wrapped:


Here is Donald using the die over our bucket:


And a close up of his work:


And me in my frumpy Yellowstone fleece shirt. Not in Florida here!


And here they are wrapped in plastic:


We let them sit for 24 hours.

I went to rinse the dye out & look who I found in the dryer with the warm towels!



And here is me deciding not to wear gloves while I rinsed the shirts & consequently turning my hands completely blue. I'm turning into Violet from Willy Wonka!


And here are my tools to make Mickey heads since they don't turn out with the straight dying.



Print & cut out a Mickey head shape & trace with bleach, it's starting:


Working more:


The maroon one done (Milo's):


The bib:


The blue one (Donald's):


If you want to do this project, it's pretty easy. But for us, we weren't good at it. Oh well. It was fun.

And now I'm off to sleep before I say something I regret.

 

[houseful of boys]

Well, I can tell you're doped up on medicine, you didn't post the picture of your cup holders . So which shirt will Milo choose????? His first one or the second one? I appreciate the effort but poor Milo will not be the best dressed out of our bunch no matter which shirt he wears.

 

[estherhead]

Well, I can tell you're doped up on medicine, you didn't post the picture of your cup holders . So which shirt will Milo choose????? His first one or the second one? I appreciate the effort but poor Milo will not be the best dressed out of our bunch no matter which shirt he wears.

Shoot, I forgot the cupholder photo! Stupid medicine. Here it is:



I didn't take a photo of my actual one, as this one is so cute & full of all the things we'll be needing. Though I don't think I'll be leaving money just sitting out in the open like that.

Donald said he would take the blue blob shirt. Where the Mickey head just became a total blue blob. I swear we are doing this just like the official directions. Tie dying just isn't our thing.

There is a guy Donald works with who told him yesterday he used to work at a tie dye shop in Key West. Hello? Why didn't you tell me this before? Didn't you know we would need the help. He said he'd come over next time and show us how it's done.

But for this trip, Milo is just going to have to look like a goomba with Tie Dye Mold on his shirt. We gave it our best shot.

As for my cold, I feel a lot better today, though breathing is hard. I woke up at 1 am & had the worst ear ache ever. I took 5 Tylenol, one at a time from 1-2 am, until the pain went away. And a Mucinex. I was worried that I would wake up this morning and have an actual infection, but I think it was just pressure. So today I'm off to work & a normal day.

 

[mlraabe]

Oh My! If I had time to write pre trip report - ours would sound about the same! You sound more like my sister than my actual sister (although I still love her lots!). Although you have planned far more out than I have. I keep saying to DH that the past two times we were even packed by now. We just rented our house!!! With good reason - the house we originally wanted 10 months ago was booked, then after some searching we found a wonderful house called .... Magic Palace - booked (wonder who?). So we decided since there were so many other available we would wait to make a great deal and we did - 6 BR with everything from game room to pool and hot tob for .... $840 all inclusive, taxes and pool heat! We did have better luck with the royal carriage though - so far ours is still around.

I think we will try to tie dye this weekend. I will be prepared for a real mess with my crew and the rest of the trip goers around!

Can you believe it is almost time?!!!!!

 

[estherhead]

Oh My! If I had time to write pre trip report - ours would sound about the same! You sound more like my sister than my actual sister (although I still love her lots!). Although you have planned far more out than I have. I keep saying to DH that the past two times we were even packed by now. We just rented our house!!! With good reason - the house we originally wanted 10 months ago was booked, then after some searching we found a wonderful house called .... Magic Palace - booked (wonder who?). So we decided since there were so many other available we would wait to make a great deal and we did - 6 BR with everything from game room to pool and hot tob for .... $840 all inclusive, taxes and pool heat! We did have better luck with the royal carriage though - so far ours is still around.

I think we will try to tie dye this weekend. I will be prepared for a real mess with my crew and the rest of the trip goers around!

Can you believe it is almost time?!!!!!

Aww, so sorry we stole your house! I guess I'm glad we starting booking so early, otherwise you would have grabbed it first. That's an awesome price you got on your house, though, so you might be glad we got it first too!

I'm OK on the stroller now. I've been moved to #2 and I only lost 1.5 days. My girls are big & don't really need a stroller except as a safe haven when the crowds get too overwhelming, as a place to store our stuff, and when we want to move quicker than their little legs can carry them. So it really is OK that we won't have the stroller the first day & a half. Maybe it's even better.

It was just a panic attack being so close to our trip. I really hope everyone is responsible from here on out, though. I don't want to be the person who discovers it's lost!

PLEASE tell me how your tie-dying goes. I'm interested to see if you have better luck than us with the Mickey heads.

 

[estherhead]

OK, here is a non-Disney (kinda) thread.

We're 8 days away from leaving. I'm trying to pretend like I'm not interested in Disney while totally obsessing about it to my dh & Suzy. I wake up in the middle of the night with Disney nightmares & then am sick to my tummy. Paranoia, I tell ya, paranoia.

In an attempt to pretend like I only care about my family & am enjoying and embracing the snow & freezing temperatures today, I made a simple turkey dinner. So what follows is my own "Rachel Ray" chef's hat version of Turkey day in 30 minutes (& low in fat & calories too!) But it takes 60 minutes to bake.

Ingredients:

Honeysuckle marinated turkey breast (these are on sale now & often go on sale buy one get one.) The one I used was Lemon Pepper

1 small can pumpkin
1 container light Cool Whip
1 box instant sugar-free cheesecake flavored pudding
1 reduced fat graham cracker crust
pumpkin pie spice

2 cans green beans
1 can 98% fat free cream mushroom soup
1 small can Durkee onions

Chicken flavored Stove Top
1 apple
frozen minced onions
1 can chicken broth

1 box Betty Crocker Yukon gold mashed instant potatoes



Directions:

Put thawed turkey breast in a oven safe dish, cover with foil & bake at 325 degrees for 60 minutes.

Pumpkin Pie:
Whisk 3/4 cup skim milk with pudding. Whisk in can of pumpkin and 3 tsp pumpking pie spice. Whisk in 1/2 the tub of Cool Whip gently. Pour into pie shell. Top with remaining Cool Whip & refrigerate.

Green Bean Casserole:
Drain the green beans. Mix them & the soup in a glass pie plate with 1/2 the onions. Top with the other half of the onions. Pop into the 325 degree oven for 30 minutes.

Stuffing:

Peel & mince the apple. Throw into a saucepan with 1/4 cup of the frozen, minced onions and a tbsp of water. Heat & soften the apple & onion. Follow the directions on the box for liquid, although I always replace the butter with chicken broth. Then add the stuffing & seasoning. Fluff.

Potatoes:

Follow the directions on the box (I make both pouches for my family of 5 & it is barely enough.)

Pull out the turkey & beans. Pour the liquid off the turkey into a saucepan. Add 1 cup chicken broth to it. Sage, salt, & pepper to taste. Make a slurry of 1 tbps cold water & 1/2 tbsp cornstarch. Boil the broth & once boiling, add the slurry. Gravy!

There ya go. I started tonight at 3:50. I was done working on it at 5:11. I just kep the stuffing & potatoes warm. I then sat down & helped with homework & did a little thing for my mom. Then the timer went off at 4:40 & I pulled out the beans & turkey. I made the gravy & we sat down to eat before 5 o'clock!

My kids proclaimed it the best meal they'd ever had.

OK, so now that I'm done being a little homemaker (I'm a pretender) let's get back to the important things.

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I finished all the t-shirts for real today. I had made a mistake on one of Donald's & had to re-do it but that is done & they are all in our possession & on our official packing table.

I called Alamo to see if I could use the kiosk since I bought from Hotwire. The answer was: Yes! Skip the line. Yippee!

I checked out the pricing of parking for ten days at the airport. $54.00 in the economy lot. Not too shabby.

I told work I needed my vacation money next Tuesday. Weeee! Vacation money!

I transferred all my reward dollars to my rewards card. $376.00! Let's get to spending, eh?

I pulled out my hair color & highlights. I'll do that tomorrow. I pulled out my sunless tanner (darn sunless tanner! Why do I have to be so stinking pale that it ruins the family photos if I don't use it? Totally hate it.)

I pulled out all the make-up/toiletries I'm taking & put it in my travel bag which is now sitting in my bathroom to be used for the next week.

I bought 2 pairs of jeans that actually fit me so I won't be uncomfortable if it is cold down there.

Which, total side note, but I've been a little bit crazy with checking the weather every day. As if the simple act of typing in www.accuweather.com would miraculously make it 80 degrees & no rain the whole time we're there. As if, somehow, with the thinking of happy thoughts (any happy little thought?) I could will the weather to be perfect for us.

But since pixie dust doesn't actually work in the real world , I bought the jeans. Suzy bought 2 pair also. Yes, I freely admit it. There was a big sale. We're suckers for the big sale. One Levi's none-the-less! Buy two pair & get an extra $10 off. It made my bill for two pair $58.00 (that includes tax.)

I also bought Wall-E!!!! Yippee!

Wanna hear about my deal? CVS totally rocks.

OK, I had 2 ECB's to start this whole game.

I went in Sunday on my way home from Bible-learnin' I stopped & bought 4 8 packs of Duracell batteries at $5.99 each. They had buy 2 get $5.00 off coupons. I used two. I also bought 2 Soft n Dry deodorants for $2.99 which had $.55 off coupons on them. So I spent $20.04 on the 4 packs of batteries & 2 deodorants. They gave me $19.00 ECB's back ($15 for the batteries, $4 for the deodorant.)

I then went in yesterday & got a L'oreal fancy-schmancy face lotion. It was $15.99 & they gave you $15.98 in ECB back. I used my Duracell ECB's ($15) and only spent $1.06 on the lotion. And got $15.99 back.

I then went in today & they had a deal that if you spent $20.00 on Coke (3 12 packs for $10) you could get Wall-E for $9.99. So I bought Wall-E & 6 12 packs of Coke Zero (I Coke Zero) for $9.44! ($20.00 + $9.99 - $15.99 - $4.00) I thought it should be $10.00 flat by my math, but I just did what the computer told me & it was 9.44.

So the final for everything?

32 batteries
1 fancy schmancy face cream
6 12 packs of Coke
2 anti-persperants (of my favorite kind!)
Wall-E

= $30.54

Say it with me all you budgeters: I CVS!!!!!

Also wanted to say that Sunday night we had a special Disney game night. My mom took the babies (who destroy board games.) We played Magic Kingdom game. I ADORE that game. And Disney Trivia DVD Scene-It. It was super fun. We also had brownies which I cut into mickey heads & Suzy turned into fancy desserts with chocolate syrup & little balls of ice cream. It was a bit thrown together but I thought it was rather lovely. And we all got along really well. Not one meltdown. Even though there were winners & losers. The winners didn't gloat. And the losers didn't complain. Go TEAM!

OK, now I have to go & do important non-Disney things. And try to get them all done so I can leave them all behind. And stop being a pretender.

Goals for the next week:

Watch Pocohantas (never seen before )
Watch Wall-E
Watch Toy Story
Finish laundry
Pack

Stay tuned for my next "I don't care about Disney but secretly care about nothing else" post.

 

[estherhead]

Just a little update to say we've been working hard at getting in the mood. In addition to only listening to Disney music in my van for the last two weeks, I've also been watching Disney movies. So far we've seen quite a few things I'd never seen before:

Cars: I thoroughly enjoyed this. I loved Lightening McQueen. I just really enjoyed this. The reason I had never seen it was because I really don't understand Nascar & I thought it would be all about that. But I obviously forgot who Disney was. Naturally it was all about the personalities and catching flies with honey instead of vinegar. How could I be so foolish?

Pocohantas: Can you believe I'd never seen this? I love history too. I was just afraid it was going to be so not historically accurate that I wouldn't be able to stand it. Or too much like Brother Bear, confusing and abstract. But again, I was wrong on all counts. It was good. And though not accurate it didn't do them a disservice. It didn't paint the English as bad & the Indians as good or vice versa. I liked Cars better.

Bolt: But even more than Cars, I like Bolt. Really liked Bolt. The opening scenes were very action packed. And the cinematography was amazing. I got a tiny bit concerned that Bolt was a bit too much like Buzz Lightyear in his delusions. Even Ariel leaned over & said, "This is just like Toy Story 2!" But then it switched and was a dogs are great & a traveling across America movie. I love road trip movies. Definitely glad I saw this at the theater, though I could not get the audience to clap. I clapped, but no one else did. Oh well.

Then we just finished watching a movie I had seen, Wall-E. I truly love the message of this movie. The earth is not doing well because greedy businesses are ruining it & only humans bonding together and taking over will save it. And it is worth saving. I liked this environmental movie a lot better than the penguin movie morale which seemed politically driven. Wall-E is not about that. It's about doing any little thing you can no matter what. Breaking the mold. Not staying on the little lines. OK, so I like Wall-E.

And that is what I've been doing. Two negative things happened today. I lost some of my photos to a broken hard drive. SUPER sad about that but trying to get over it. It isn't like I lost all my photos or my house burned down which happens to people, ya know?

The other negative is Mulan has a fever. Am I allowed to say darn it on this board? Do you know how hard I've been working? I scrubbed all germs from this house on Thursday. They've been on a strict vitamin C/multi-vitamin regime for the last week. We've Zicamed. We've anti-bacterialled. We've washed hands. I'm hoping she has what we all already had. But if not, then darn it!

Tomorrow we pack. Donald just packed 7 pairs of short, 2 swim trunks, 2 pairs of sandals, and some jammies. I have to drag all the stuff I have set aside in the basement up here tomorrow morning (maybe tonight) and then we will pack. Depending on how it goes we may ship any overflow to the UPS Store on 192. We'll just have to see how it goes. This is me:

On a final note, we had a little dinner at a local restaurant tonight for Milo. He got his PhD and didn't want a big fuss, just a little fuss. Well, we insisted on the little fuss, not sure if he wanted it or not. But let me tell ya, getting a masters & PhD degree while having/raising 4 boys has not been a walk in the park & Suzy & he have made a lot of sacrifices, cried a lot of tears, taken a lot of Tylenol these last years. A little fuss needed to be made. His parents prepared beautiful speeches. He got sweet cards from his kids & wife. And I made him a cake. Tomorrow, I'll post photos of the event.

And tell you how the packing is coming with Boo destroying everything as I pack??? I leave you with that cliff hanger:

Can Suzy & Perla pack with Boo & Jack-Jack ripping everything apart?????
Will the screaming and crying make them go insane?????
How many times will Perla yell "No!" at the top of her lungs????

Stay tuned........

 

[estherhead]

It's finally here. Monday of the week we leave. I have this nagging nausea that simply will not go away. That is always the case when I go on vacation. I think it is silly. It is only 10 days of my life, it's in the United States, a fairly safe country & one where I happen to speak the language relatively fluently. There are Wal-Marts everywhere so I can't forget anything huge.

Why am I so freaky about leaving?

Normally this is the point where I stop being excited & Donald's excitement kicks in. But his has kicked in & I still have mine. Maybe it is the added factor of Suzy & Milo coming. Maybe it is because we had such an amazing time last year. Maybe it is because we really need this. I don't know. But I'm excited.

And I'm packed. Yipee! Photos of luggage corner:



Here is inside one bag of chaos:


Is that a refillable mug I see? Going back to Disney? Shocking. No worries, we're not staying at a resort, member? So I can't cheat. It's just my everyday coffee mug & there is no way I'm living without it. So don't kick me when you see me. I'm not stealing coffee from Disney in my 2007 mug, I swear.

And I didn't have to scream bloody murder to get it done. Boo actually fell asleep. I got up early yesterday & sorted all the clothing out & put it in 2.5 gallon Ziptop bags. By the time she was up & getting into stuff I had the clothing done. Mulan & Ariel raced around like crazy throwing all the random things into suitcases & I zipped up so she couldn't destroy. Then I left & went to my religious services (and CVS, "bought" more free batteries) and came home on a mission to get the laundry done.

It's done! The last load is in the dryer. I even sorted the socks. That made Donald do this: . I never sort socks. He couldn't believe it.

Then the baby took a beautiful nap right when I was getting ready to pack the miscellaneous stuff. Perfect. So with very little fighting, yelling, bickering, etc. we are basically packed. I even got the kid itineraries done which Mulan is really excited about. She is a planner just like her Mommy.

Today I will do the toiletries & load my MP3 player with books to listen to & go to the library to get a few magazines and books. I'm a library girls & always grab free stuff before I leave. One time on a cruise I dropped the book I was reading into the pool. Bummer since it was a library book! They didn't even make me pay for it when I brought it back. Said it happens all the time.

My goodness, I'm hyper aren't I? Wouldn't you be? Hmmmm? Did I mention we are going to Disney & I am packed?

So, I promised a few photos of Milo & his graduation feast. Here are two. I didn't have permission from his extended family to post their photos so I didn't want to post too many.

Here is Milo & Suzy & the cake I made for him:


And here is part of the fam looking at the great scrapbook his mom made of his childhood accomplishments.



His parents both had sweet, sweet speeches written out that they read. I was surprised they could get through them without crying & I think they were too! All in all it was very nice. It was a little short as Mulan had a fever and was shivering & kind of a mess (yes, we were terrible parents & dragged her out in the freezing cold with a fever!) And the other kids were a bit rambunctious to say the least. I guess Jack-Jack had been a handful all day so Suzy just wanted to get home and put him in his crib. But really all of that just verified why it was such a huge accomplishment. He got a Ph.D. with all of that going on around him! Amazing focus.
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OK, back to Disney. I had a very proud moment last night. Boo has been having some language problems (I'm meeting with someone today to see how severe.) And one things she really struggles with is names of people. She has been comprehending more & more and she finally knows who Mommy, Daddy, Mulan, & Ariel are. Finally. But other names are generally not of interest. Well, last night I was working on the kid's itinerary & my computer had a Mickey Mouse image on it. I showed her him for the millionth time & said, "Mickey Mouse!" About 15 minutes later a Disney commercial came on with Mickey on it & she came rushing over to my computer all in a tizzy pointing & jumping & then said, I swear she said this in her little jumbled way, "Jabber, jabber, MMMjabber Mouse!" My baby knows & can say Mickey Mouse. The pride I feel.

Signing off for now. I'm leaving you with one of my favorite photos from last year's trip:

 

[estherhead]

We're watching Toy Story! Boo's first time. She is loving it. Ahhh, eating popcorn & Koolaid while watching Toy Story, my favorite movie of all time. Poor Mrs. Nesbit.

Mulan came home from school sick today And here is a photo of Donald trying to deal with his sinus headache and pretend it was something other than a new cold:

And here is my gorgeous kitchen that he spent 2 hours cleaning from top to bottom last night. We put this in about 2 years ago. Yup, we're the coolest. Did it for about $5,000 dollars.:

We also lost power for about 2 hours today. It is a vacation ritual for us to lose power the week we leave. Even in the summer. Don't know why but we rarely lose power except when we are packing for a trip.

As soon as we had power back I spent an hour making my mom a card. She is really sad that we are taking her grandchildren away for over a week. So I made her a calendar with stickers of their little faces, one for every day. I thought it turned out cute. Thanks Cricut!

 

[stitcharoo]

good thread!
i can't believe you're leaving in three days!
wow!
i bet you are so excited!

we're leaving in less than a month and we just started our PTR! =]

 

[estherhead]

good thread!
i can't believe you're leaving in three days!
wow!
i bet you are so excited!

we're leaving in less than a month and we just started our PTR! =]

I know, I started my PTR a little early. But I was so super excited, ya know? And now it is FINALLY here. Finally. Hopefully my TR will help entertain you while you wait for your trip to be here. I know I've been scouring the TR's this past 2 weeks. Right now I'm looking at the food porn thread #3 while looking at Allearsnet.com menus.

Have you started packing yet? Ooops, don't answer that, I'll go find out on your PTR!

 

[missstcroix]

I have to hear the trip report!!! HAVE A GREAT TIME! Loved reading this!

 

[estherhead]

I have to hear the trip report!!! HAVE A GREAT TIME! Loved reading this!

Welcome!!! And thanks. You just never know if people will really care about your story, ya know? At least on the Dis you know there are a few people who share your Disney obsession.

We're 26.5 hours away from leaving. But who's counting?

 

[estherhead]

It's 4:40 a.m. & I couldn't sleep so I thought I'd come say hi.

The weather is so nice we went to Blizzard Beach yesterday after the MK got crazy. Today we go to AK & then if the rain holds off we'll go to B.B. again tomorrow. I've already teared up twice from happiness. Once ar rope drop when we got our pixie dust & again on Splash Mt. Ahhh, Disney.

We've already had a little bit of excitement around these parts but you'll have to stay tuned for all the details....