(I just posted this info in the Cdn forum, so if you're on there too you've probably already seen this.)
Ooo, I've had a fun planning morning. I think it's fair to say many of us here are planners. I have a couple of versions of spreadsheets and tables to build plans, but I just stumbled on my new favourite online. There's a community/site called "The Dibb", which is primarily for UK lovers of Florida. They have their own crowd calendar, and other info resources and forums.
But the real gem is the vacation planner. It generates a trip plan easily, and has lots of menu drop-downs to fill in different vacation activities, as well as a notes field for things that don't fit in the other categories. You can even just move stuff from one day to another without having to delete and start over if, say, you don't get the res'n you want on the day you planned. I only have two complaints: took me a while to figure out the "Add Now" button was to save the current entry (e.g., if you'd entered an ADR or something). Also the pdf it generates for printing has a smaller font than I'd choose, but it's still pretty readable. It prints with a banner ad at the bottom, but that's a small price to pay.
I also love that it will pull park hours into your plan if you select a certain theme park for the day, and it uses the park logo in the margin so you can see at a glance what's planned. Now the Universal hours aren't yet up for our trip, grr, but when I selected Seaworld, I didn't have to cross reference to find the hours, it just pulled the opening and closing hours into the plan for me. It would be
really cool if it cross-ref'd the parks with the prediction from their own crowd calendar, but I guess you can't have everything!
You can also make it public, but I haven't tested that out--not sure if public means anybody, or just other community members.
You do have to sign up to access it, but it's free and doesn't seem obnoxious. Start here
http://www.thedibb.co.uk/index.php and look for the vacation planner tab across the top once you've registered. I remember years ago I paid for Tour Guide Mike, and tried that planner, but this free one is way better.
So now I'm
almost ready to make an ADR or two!
But Legoland is good for younger kids...
Decisions decisions . 2 rooms...7 tickets, adds up, I need to be more thrifty with vacations (I really am in real life at least)
I meant to type AUGUST travellers
. Office, August.....oh yeah, they're pretty close to the same
. Clearly I should not type and watch TV at the same time
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I figured it was autocorrect! It's gonna be fun passing the next 5 months everyone here 
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Glad you didn't make the little ones wait around at the station for years like Ginny. 
I am trying! They all loved SW, feeding Stingrays even. Here's a tip. $5 for 3-4 raw shrimp....wonder if you can bring your own....it's right when you walk in so you wouldn't carry them around all day. 
Trust me the only thing keeping me from WDW is the $$$ 
I have been saving Air Miles (it's like a "non-denominational" travel reward thing here in Canada)...10,000 miles takes a looong time to gather when you get "Get 4 miles when you buy 4 bags of Green Giant veggies!!" Ds also has a cc that gets us 1 pt for every $15, which is good, but it's still takes a heckuva lot of determination to get to 10,500!
Buthe told me when he is 25 he will marry and have 3 kids, 2 boys and a girl..there you have it 
But it does add time, and the kids might revolt. I really want to drive NL-BC with them someday, so I should save up that road trip mojo.
for about $120/nt.
