Rusafee -- do you want me to tell you the Immodium story again?
Your poor DH! Sonds like you and your boys ran him ragged that week
You can tell me the Immodium story again - but you know.... I think the last 2 days of your TR would hold me over too.
Just sayin'
I am copying them for myself as a trip diary, so I have extra motivation. We are having quite a week here with friends over every day. The kids hang out in the family room -- where the computer is -- so it's been hard to get some quiet moments with enough time to think!Bagsmom...what a fantastic story! My dd's are 7 and 4.....thinking Princess outfits and crossed fingers! We're going the week after New Years, so maybe it won't be to busy. I think I'll add that to my plan worksheet!
Sarah -- do you guys have kids? I'll give you this bit of info, to see if it might sway your DH....
We got our matching tees from jiffytees.com. I really liked them -- cheap with a gazillion options.
My DH thought it was goofy to be matching, but let me tell you, as a mother, those shirts were just a godsend. When the kids were younger, especially, it made it so easy to spot the kids in a crowd. It was easy for them to spot us also! Each day we started out knowing that everyone was bright green. Or everyone was turquoise blue... Even this time around, with my two baby giraffes, we ALL really liked the matching shirts. Our pictures looked darned nice with us all matchy-matchy -- and it was still a great way to keep track of each other. Just being able to narrow down your visual options by color makes it much faster to find your family in a sea of people.
I bought a ton of them for our trip, since I didn't want to do laundry on vacation. I'm setting aside about 6 sets of them for our vacation next year.
And I SO agree on matching clothes, DH is slowly realizing (now that DD2 is getting faster) how much easier it is to keep an eye on them in public situations.... Right now I am fortunate that I can get a lot of matching items but its going to be harder next year. We did get a lot of comments on their matching sundresses last trip.
A) of all, I agree with horse--er, Jules--that you should book your entire stay--I vote for OKW, too--then waitlist your entire Lodge stay, or as
We'll have a laptop, so we'll keep in touch a bit, and I plan to keep updating my TR. Ciao! (That means "Starbucks" in Italian!)A) of all, I agree with horse--er, Jules--that you should book your entire stay--I vote for OKW, too--then waitlist your entire Lodge stay, or as
SAT says, perhaps do a split stay by making your second waitlist just the first (or last) few days. B) of all, welcome cahedberg! C) of all, luv and I leave for FL tomorrow afternoon! We'll stop overnight so as not to wear ourselves out driving (probably stop in Brunswick, GA, as they have Starbucks, IHOP, Cracker Barrel, Starbucks, and a very clean, neat La Quinta with excellent rates. Did I mention Brunswick has a Starbucks (of course, we've marked all the exits with them between our house and Orlando in an atlas)? We're not heading to WDW right away, stopping instead in Melbourne to visit my oldest daughter for three days. We check in at the Lodge on Monday.
Thanks! We'll be careful. We're in the weather pattern here that has had (and will have for the foreseeable future) severe, pop-up thunderstorms. So, we figure it will only be hotter and wetter heading south out of the mountains. Seven* days! We'll be pulling out later today. . .Sly -- I think we are supposed to have rain today... not sure how it will play out for Brunswick -- be careful! Have a big caramel macchiato for me! Your countdown numbers are getting smaller!!!!!
Another vote for OKW here. Im not much on moving around once at WDW, takes so much time away from what you are there for. I would go for OKW and waitlist for VWL.
A) of all, I agree with horse--er, Jules--that you should book your entire stay--I vote for OKW, too--then waitlist your entire Lodge stay, or as
SAT says, perhaps do a split stay by making your second waitlist just the first (or last) few days. B) of all, welcome cahedberg! C) of all, luv and I leave for FL tomorrow afternoon! We'll stop overnight so as not to wear ourselves out driving (probably stop in Brunswick, GA, as they have Starbucks, IHOP, Cracker Barrel, Starbucks, and a very clean, neat La Quinta with excellent rates. Did I mention Brunswick has a Starbucks (of course, we've marked all the exits with them between our house and Orlando in an atlas)? We're not heading to WDW right away, stopping instead in Melbourne to visit my oldest daughter for three days. We check in at the Lodge on Monday.
