VWL Groupies...yes, we love the Lodge!!

[Corinne]

Get 'em while they're hot! I just booked out tickets for Columbus Day weekend.

We decided to go back for our anniversary instead of December this year. I was so thrilled our first night was available at the VWL for Sept, (it wasn't previously), so I snapped that up! I had received the email from SW, and our airfare had gone down, so I booked that as well! I will be pm'ing Jimmy with our dates!!!

 

[blossomz]

Happy birthday Kat!!

Well just 6 more sleeps till home again?

 

[Homemom]

I'd be happy to jump aboard right now!

FYI to anyone traveling this fall. Southwest is having a sale.

72 Hours Only – Fall Travel Super Sale!

Time to get a fun & fabulous cool weather getaway on the books! For the next three days, catch some of our most amazingly awesome deals of the year for travel August 13 – November 14, 2012, only at southwest.com.

Offer ends Thursday, June 14. Don’t wait -- book your Fall trip today & save big!

Get 'em while they're hot! I just booked out tickets for Columbus Day weekend.

I just booked this today. Saved us $400 on airfare! I was able to extend our VB vacation by 1 night and chose to spend it at VWL after enjoying MNSSHP. Can't wait, we've never stayed here before!

 

[MiaSRN62]

Thanks for the head's up on the Southwest sale Julie !!!!

 

[jimmytammy]

I just booked this today. Saved us $400 on airfare! I was able to extend our VB vacation by 1 night and chose to spend it at VWL after enjoying MNSSHP. Can't wait, we've never stayed here before!

Welcome to the groupies Homemom!!!
And you are going to enjoy your stay at VWL, we all do(course you want find any partiality amongst us)

 

[jimmytammy]

I was reading an article on Allears and the author was talking about how even the smell in the bathrooms at WDW is a specific one. Made me laugh as I shared with Tammy how the other day an employee of ours was approaching the side door of our work van and I asked him to stick his head in(he gave me a weird look) and I asked him what it reminded him of. I told him it reminded me of the restrooms at WDW after they have been cleaned, that smell, citrusy in a way. He is a DVC owner so he knows it like we do, and the smell just really stuck out. It was Swiffer wet refills in a package that was really standing out in our van. He told me I have it bad!

So, what smells, sights, sounds, etc. jump out at you that remind you of WDW?

 

[Corinne]

I just booked this today. Saved us $400 on airfare! I was able to extend our VB vacation by 1 night and chose to spend it at VWL after enjoying MNSSHP. Can't wait, we've never stayed here before!

Homemom! the VWL is a special place!

 

[Corinne]

He told me I have it bad!

So, what smells, sights, sounds, etc. jump out at you that remind you of WDW?

Haha! Yes you DO have it bad, but I laugh because I do this all the time!! There is a restaurant chain here that has wood fired brick ovens, and every time we are there I think of the "Rome burning" scene on SE! There are so many times when you just get "that feeling". I also have it bad, and I don't want a cure!

 

[twinklebug]

I was reading an article on Allears and the author was talking about how even the smell in the bathrooms at WDW is a specific one. Made me laugh as I shared with Tammy how the other day an employee of ours was approaching the side door of our work van and I asked him to stick his head in(he gave me a weird look) and I asked him what it reminded him of. I told him it reminded me of the restrooms at WDW after they have been cleaned, that smell, citrusy in a way. He is a DVC owner so he knows it like we do, and the smell just really stuck out. It was Swiffer wet refills in a package that was really standing out in our van. He told me I have it bad!

So, what smells, sights, sounds, etc. jump out at you that remind you of WDW?

The smell of laundry bleach always reminds me of the WDW fountains, although I know they don't use chlorine... is it bromine they use?

I have clorox wipes for the kitchen that are orange scented - they don't remind me of WDW, but rather the welcome station into FL where they (used to, not sure if they still do) serve fresh OJ in tinsy cups. As kids we'd down about 20 each until they cut us off... and then Dad would be mad when we needed a restroom break only 10 minutes into the continued ride.

One more smell/sound I relate to FL: summer storms. I love the energy from a good summer storm and always feel the desire to walk 5 miles after one (just no place to do it here without traffic)

 

[blossomz]

I just replaced a vanity in one of my bathrooms and every time I open it it reminds me of the wood smell in the vanities at AKV! I guess because they too are fairly new and still retain that wood smell!

 

[KAT4DISNEY]

Hey Groupies, we have another one!!!

Happy Birthday, kat4disney!
Hope it is the best.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY KAT4DISNEY !!!​

Happy Birthday kat4disney!!!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY KAT4DISNEY hope you have a great day!!!!!

Happy Birthday Kat4Disney

Have a Magical Day !

Kathy, wishing you a very Happy Birthday! Hope you've enjoyed your special day.

Happy Birthday Kat!!!

Enjoy it completely!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY KAT4DISNEY!!!!

Happy birthday Kat!!

Well just 6 more sleeps till home again?

Thanks everyone for the wonderful Birthday wishes! I've been celebrating at DL for the past few days and am just getting a chance to respond. Had an especially special day thanks to a very nice DISer who invited DH and I to the Carsland AP preview that was held on my birthday!!! We spent the morning wandering around checking out the shops and the rides. It's a great new addition to DCA! Slowly we've watched the preparations for the big media day tomorrow and grand opening on Friday. The next two days should be very crazy here and then I'm getting out of Dodge and heading home. We got most things done that we wanted to so it can just be a couple of days of relaxing and taking in the sights from the opening. Oh - and tryng to get on the Matterhorn when it reopens on Friday! I'm hoping everyone will be at Carsland so the wait isn't too bad.

Happy Birthday Kat4

I hope it is a very happy one. Where are we eating???

Thanks Barb! That would be the Cozy Cone Motel in Radiator Springs!

I'm not too late to wish Happy Birthday to Kat am I?


HAVE A MAGICAL BIRTHDAY KAT!!

Never too late - thanks Eliza! As I get older my birthdays get longer. Seems only fair!!

 

[blossomz]

Happy Birthday Kat!!!

 

[Muushka]

Kat4, it sounds like you know how to celebrate a birthday!!

For the life of me, I never understand those who dread them and don't celebrate them!

 

[horselover]

HAPPY BELATED BIRTHDAY KATHY!!!

 

[Corinne]

It sure is quiet around here! Who's heading to the World next????

ETA Looks like Blossom! Are you packed!!!????

 

[Muushka]

It sure is quiet around here! Who's heading to the World next????

ETA Looks like Blossom! Are you packed!!!????

Well, I am heading to FL, but no World.

We bought me a new car! Yay!! And my good friend in Jupiter, FL is buying my old one. So I am personally delivering it to her on Sunday and will fly out of Miami on Thursday.

It will be a solo trip for me (12 hour drive by myself )
But I will be so happy to see my good friends that still live there.

 

[blossomz]

Why thanks for asking! That I am!! lol.... I can't wait! Only 3 more sleeps!

Still no one joining me down there?

 

[tea pot]

Welome to the Groupies Homemom You'll love it here

I was reading an article on Allears and the author was talking about how even the smell in the bathrooms at WDW is a specific one. Made me laugh as I shared with Tammy how the other day an employee of ours was approaching the side door of our work van and I asked him to stick his head in(he gave me a weird look) and I asked him what it reminded him of. I told him it reminded me of the restrooms at WDW after they have been cleaned, that smell, citrusy in a way. He is a DVC owner so he knows it like we do, and the smell just really stuck out. It was Swiffer wet refills in a package that was really standing out in our van. He told me I have it bad!

So, what smells, sights, sounds, etc. jump out at you that remind you of WDW?

As My Daughter would say....Oh Man....

I always notice that "Florida Smell" it hits you just as you walk out of the airport that Greenhouse plant smell.... Love it....

 

[Corinne]

Well, I am heading to FL, but no World.

We bought me a new car! Yay!! And my good friend in Jupiter, FL is buying my old one. So I am personally delivering it to her on Sunday and will fly out of Miami on Thursday.

It will be a solo trip for me (12 hour drive by myself )
But I will be so happy to see my good friends that still live there.

Yay, Muushka!, that's exciting! Congrats n your new car! I am really trying to hold off buying a new car until DS #2 graduates from college, but I'm not sure that's going to happen. What did you buy!!??

Blossom only 3 more sleeps!

 

[Muushka]

Yay, Muushka!, that's exciting! Congrats n your new car! I am really trying to hold off buying a new car until DS #2 graduates from college, but I'm not sure that's going to happen. What did you buy!!??

Blossom only 3 more sleeps!

This will be my 7th Nissan. I strayed for 1 car, but I'm back.

I got an Altima that has many cool features.

Did you that The Muush loves The Gadgets???

I can open my garage door with a button on my rear view mirror!!

I got a 2012 that they took $5,000 off of! Now's the time, Corinne.

PS have a great trip!

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