Top Secret Pixie Dust! A Surprise 13th Birthday PTR! NEW! TRIP REPORT LINK PAGE 220!

[Dancegrl624]

What a great DIS meet! It sounds like you all had a great time together.

 

[Happydog]

How much fun that you were able to meet everyone like that! I think that would be a great way to spend an afternoon! It looks like everyone had a nice time! So beach vacation it is, right? The way you wrote it, I was half thinking you were still reconsidering! No matter, maybe that F & W festival trip will become your annual fix?!!!

 

[yinyanggirls]

Yesterday, Chelsea and I were able to meet a bunch of DISers for lunch.

Two hours went by far too quickly! I truly hope that we are all able to get together again soon -- everyone was so much fun to hang out with!

It was truly a perfect way to spend part of our Saturday!

What a fun lunch! Had you met any of them before? I've read parts of Punkin's TR in prep for our visit to GA and SC (which was awesome!) but have only seen the names of the others. Looks like it was a great ladies lunch!

 

[MaryAz]

Hurray for a fun lunch. Great pic of all of you!

 

[winkers]

What a fun dismeet!

I can't believe how old Chelsea looks...she looks closer to 14 than 12.

 

[eandesmom]

what a great DIS meet! Chelsea looks adorable, it's fun to see them change actually, what a lovely little lady! And it was nice to see you with your hair down ...not as in let loose down, as in non-pulled back down lol!

Thanks! It is amazing to me how much she has changed in just this year alone!

Connor has already changed his mind after reading the third Kingdom Keepers book, but Chelsea is our lone hold-out. She keeps bringing up the fact that it is her 13th birthday, and she REALLY wants to go to the beach.

I need to read those, just finished up Peter and the Starcatchers and as soon as Eric finishes the first Kingdom Keepers...it's mine!

 

[timandlesley]

What a lovely picture of you ladies, so cool you were able to get together. Funny seeing so many familiar Diser's in the same photo. Glad you had a good time!
Lesley

 

[MegansMom]

I LOVE that you all were able to meet up!!!! What a fun day you all must have had indeed!!!!! I can't believe being around that many DISers didn't make Chelsea want to change her mind!!!!! Silly girl!!!

 

[ladybugmom]

Hi Jackie!! I'm all caught up with your PTR!! How fun that you got to have lunch with other DISers!! And now you're not going to Disney?! (I know--it's been awhile for me--I'm out of the loop)

 

[Native NYer]

Hi Jackie!
Hope you're having a great Monday.
Have you gotten Guide to the Magic for your kids? I'm trying to figure out if it would be worth ordering for my nephew. I'm not so impressed with the Birnbaum's DW for Kids book.

 

[BippityBoo]

What a fun DIS Meet!!! Chelsea is just adorable.

You are going to have a great time on your vacation!!! I am so anxious to read about it

 

[RunningthruDisney]

Love the picture. Sounds like you had a great time. I can't wait till I can read your beach report. I think that is where we are going to go next. Well after our August trip.

 

[JenAusty]

ok WOW I was wayyyy behind. But now I'm back and hopefully for good because I'm finally done with school for the summer!! So I can focus more my time to the dis again!

Thanks for the Zoo pics! I absolutely love animals and zoo's and I haven't been in about 2 years and I REALLY need to go.

I love looking at old pictures from past trips- whether they are from disney or not. Even though I have more recent trips and pictures, my favorite pictures to look at still are when DH and I went to WDW in Jan. 2005. This was my first time returning to disney since I was in 4th grade, and this was DH first time ever in FL that he could remember. idk what it is about that trip-we didn't have the dining plan, we didn't dine at a lot of places actually, it was a short trip, it was our first time flying.. and horrible time at that.. but that trip is just sooo magical! My mom also has pics from the WDW trip.. and maybe someday I will borrow them and upload a few!

I COMPLETELY understand your feelings on the trip change. If I could, I would go to disney every year- and because right now I'm still in school, and with DH's job he only get 6 1/2 days off for vaca a year- it kind of makes it hard to take more than one trip. Actually yesterday morning, we took a little walk and I ended up taking this new backpack I got- which is a small compact, shoulder bag- which I plan to use for work as well.. and Austin said- this would be a perfect bag for disney, and then we started talking about disney.. and he said "We're not going to go to disney every year, there are other places I want to go to". And I argued that once we are both done with school and everything that we will be able to take more than 1 vaca a year. But then after I thought.. I am being kind of selfish.. I mean DH loves WDW, but for the last like 4 years- we have only went to disney for our "big" vacations.. and I can't expect him to go to disney every year if we can't afford to go one 2. Plus, I REALLY want to go to other places too.. Georgia, S.Carolina, Tennessee, other cities in FL, and other countries.. so I really need to be flexible. I think my problem is- is that I could go to disney many times in one year, and only going one year to disney is not enough for me. So when someone says "you can't go every year- maybe every other year" that seems like a huge sacrifice! BUT I never thought of Disney's other vaca ideas.. and the Disney's Hilton Head Island Resort would be perfect because its in S.Carolina, on the beach, and has a little feel of disney!

 

[Lovemy3babes]

What a lovely group of Dis ladies we have here. Wonderful picture, even with the partially hidden MeMom. So typical.... LOL!!!

 

[MeMom]

I can't believe being around that many DISers didn't make Chelsea want to change her mind!!!!! Silly girl!!!

I think Chelsea was probably thinking 'silly girls' about us most if the meal. We were a bunch of grown women laughing hysterically. She was probably praying that none of her friends walked in.

Plus, Heather and Dawn were trying to steal her shoes!

 

[MegansMom]

I think Chelsea was probably thinking 'silly girls' about us most if the meal. We were a bunch of grown women laughing hysterically. She was probably praying that none of her friends walked in.

Plus, Heather and Dawn were trying to steal her shoes!

If she only knew how many others would have gladly traded her places to have a chance to sit in on THAT DISmeet!!!! Jackie, I am sure if you start telling her how envious so many of us are of her right now, she would SURELY change her thinking!!!! I am so glad that so many of you were able to meet up! I am sure there was MUCH fun to be had...with that crew for sure!

 

[punkin413]

Plus, Heather and Dawn were trying to steal her shoes!

 

[999ghostslover]

Hi Jackie!
Hope you're having a great Monday.
Have you gotten Guide to the Magic for your kids? I'm trying to figure out if it would be worth ordering for my nephew. I'm not so impressed with the Birnbaum's DW for Kids book.

What age would you say that guide is for? I'm hoping my DD is old enough to get her own guide next year. She will be 6. She can read very well for 6 but I would still like it to have a lot of pictures to help.

 

[Mndisneygirl]

Jackie - how did you go about making a reservation at Hilton Head? If you're not DVC and doing a cash ressie, do you have to call?
TIA

 

[mousescrapper]

such a nice way to spend a Sat afternoon I agree...what fun to have a little Disney magic close to home...