VWL Lovers & Groupies Thread: Meese-ka, Mice-ka MOOSE-kateers

[saintstickets]

We will book our first reservation next week using our newly acquired VWL contract. We will get a 2br for 5/20-5/25/12. There will be 6 adults - DH, DW, DS, DSgf, DD, DDbf. Naturally DW and I will get the master bedroom and the two girls will share the 2nd bedroom. The two boys will have to suffer on an air mattress and the pull-out sofa in the living room. Any suggestions on room requests? I think I read somewhere on the DISboards that some 2br's have two queen beds in the second bedroom - is that correct?

We will not venture into the WDW parks this trip but instead visit the WWOHP at IOA, Seaworld, Discovery Cove and maybe a daytrip to Kennedy Space Center. Weather and time permitting, we will fill in with horseback riding at Ft. Wilderness, jet-ski rental, DTD and miniature golf. Any suggestions for other non-park activities?

We are really looking forward to our first stay at VWL. If the reality comes close to the expectation, this will be a great trip!

Welcome Home

Just to let you know they do not have Jet Skis at Disney. They do have boats but not jet skis. VWL is a great place to stay and since we just got back..... I cant wait to go again.

Thx for the tip. I guess we can always go to one of the other resorts that do rent them if we must do that.

CONGRATULATIONS ON YOUR NEW VWL OWNERSHIP!!! That's just huge!!

At VWL, all dedicated 2BR's have two queen beds in the second bedroom. In the lock-offs, there will be a queen and then the sofa sleeper bed since it can also be a studio. Of course, the lock-off second bedroom will also have the kitchenette and separate entrance. Generally, they try to reserve the dedicated 2BR units first since they can't be broken up into two villas. Gives them more flexibility. They will be able to tell you when you make the reservation what kind of villa you have. At 11 months for that time of the year, you should have no problem getting the dedicated 2BR villa.

As for room requests, it's a small resort with almost all rooms having a view of trees. The only bad view rooms are at the end overlooking the maintenance area (called the Infamous Dumpster View). Only a couple of rooms have that view. You could request lake side room to avoid that, though you really don't have a lake view because of the trees.

As mentioned, no jet skis but there are boat rentals available (16 or 18 year old age minimum to drive...can't remember which). Also surreys and bikes. Over at Contemporary you can book parasailing.

Grab a Hidden Mickey Hunt map at guest services...that will take up a lot of time chasing them down all over WL and VWL.

Enjoy your trip. Discovery Cove alone will make it a fantastic one!

Great info. We will definately request a dedicated 2br. Don't want the girls fighting over who gets the real bed vs the sofa bed! We are really looking forward to Discovery Cove too.

We stayed in a 2 bed really close to the elevators, 2nd floor and loved it! It is huge. We really liked the layout because it provided good privacy for those in master area and other 2 queen bedroom. Wish I remembered room #, but just as you step off elevator, turn left and it is corner room. 2 balconies, just over top of Sturdy Branches Health Club. Great view of pool area.

BTW, I am a Carolina Panthers fan and got the honor last year of sitting 10 rows up, 30 yd line and saw Drew Brees play. I told my DW, why cant we have one of those on our team. Can we borrow him this season? Pleeeezz

HEY!! Keep your hands off "Breezy"! We've already given you Jake Delhomme (he was good for a while) and now you've got Jeremy Shockey. Now if they can just get their act together and play football!

 

[Muushka]

Hi all and a big Andy's Room welcome to our new visitors!

Nicole, what a handy dandy crafty gal you are!

Ink, I'm glad your husband is recovering well and hope that nip that PTH producer in the bud!
About your friend's prayer request. I find that combo of pneumonia and meningitis interesting in a personal way. First, I hope that her husband gets better soon, some scary stuff. But remember my sister (who is doing GREAT)? She had been in the hospital with bacterial pneumonia and shortly after that she developed abscesses on her brain, bacterial. See the similarities? In my sister's case they claimed that they had no idea where the abscesses came from, but I begged to differ! Very strange stuff. I hope all will be well.

 

[KAT4DISNEY]

Thx for the tip. I guess we can always go to one of the other resorts that do rent them if we must do that.

You'll be close to the only place that I think rents jet ski's - the Sammy Duvall center at the CR. But I think they're fairly restrictive on how and where they can be ridden. Otherwise all the other Disney marina's have the personal watercraft "mice".

Ink - continued prayers for your DH and now for your friend.

 

[twinklebug]

You'll be close to the only place that I think rents jet ski's - the Sammy Duvall center at the CR. But I think they're fairly restrictive on how and where they can be ridden. Otherwise all the other Disney marina's have the personal watercraft "mice".

Ink - continued prayers for your DH and now for your friend.

There are two jet skis in the BLT marina. Not sure what they're doing with them but saw someone bringing one in when we were there. It's possible the plan is to test rent a few and see how it goes.

 

[jimmytammy]

Ink

We will lift up your friend and continue prayers for your DH

 

[jimmytammy]

Saints

Must be a NC/LA connection We will take all you can send. Loved that Saints won the SB, now its Panthers turn!!

 

[Dizny Dad]

Ink

We will lift up your friend and continue prayers for your DH

We're lifting too! Let Tom, Rita, et al, know that the word is spreading and that the prayers are increasing . . .

 

[Dizny Dad]

DiznyDi & I traveled to our local airport to pick up our DS, arriving from his final duty station in Hawaii. With a banner unfurled and two flags waving, we did our best to welcome him home. The response in the airport was heartfelt. Many approached him and thanked him for his service.

How different it was from an earlier time when I welcomed my brother home from Viet Nam. Let’s all work to be sure the old welcomes never return!

DS has now completed his active duty in the US Army as a combat engineer, and we are certainly glad to see him back in civilian life. After a few weeks with us, he and DDL are off to their new life in Virginia.

We pray for his buddies he left behind and soon to be deploying to Afghanistan; that they may support each other in these new trials and return home whole; and pray that they carry the armor of God into their future.

 

[stopher1]

Hey Groupies... it's been a while since I've been on here. I have had absolutely NO TIME in the past two weeks. I just wanted to pop in quickly and say hi... Nearly every day for the past 2 weeks I have been busy, busy, busy all day long - not getting to bed til 1 or 2am, and up again at 7 to start all over again. It's been crazy.

With my wife being gone for 10 days to spend time with her dad... and my grandmother dying... and getting ready to storm the beaches of Normandy (not quite, but it sure feels like it as our Scout Troop prepares to move out Sunday morning for a week in Summer Camp) - I have been absolutely swamped with stuff and my available time for this kind of fun has been less than nil. But I will be back around when we return from the woods and a fun-filled week in camp. I see we'll be into version 11 even before I leave on Sunday!

As you may or may not recall I am the Summer Camp Director for our Troop. We are the oldest Troop in the state, the 2nd largest Troop in the state (142 active boys and 98 active adult leaders), and the largest Troop contingent in camp during any of the 9 weeks they operate. My numbers for camp this year are up 18% on the Scout side and 39% on the Adult side... this year I'm taking 91 Scouts and 39 Adults to Summer Camp. Planning, coordinating and directing is a massive undertaking... I might as well be adding an attraction or two to Fantasyland! My leader staff that help me out as I direct this fun has grown this year as well, up 16%. What a great group I have to work with.

I did get my ticket the other day for my trip west for my grandmother's memorial service. It will be in mid-July. She was laid to rest this past Saturday with no fanfare at all, just a quiet burial. But family from all around the country are planning to be there - so that will be nice to see aunts & uncles, cousins, my brother, my dad... my mom has decided not to attend, since she just feels way too strange around my dad... they've been divorced and both remarried to others for the past 15-16 years... so despite the 25 years she spent as my grandma's DIL, and the 4+ years before that that she spent over at my grandma's house (my dad's sister and my mom were best friends in high school... ) she feels kind of out of place. Both my brother and I, along with a couple of our aunts and my uncle all told her she should come and celebrate with us... but she's holding firm. Oh well.

My sweet wife returned home from California very late Wednesday night (really Thursday morning) and then I was off yesterday to a customer meeting in central Ohio, but back home again before the kids went to bed.

Oh and my personal email was hacked on Sunday night... claiming I was in London, mugged, stranded... blah blah blah... same scam I've seen so many times before. Idiot hackers... so add that fun to my list of "no time" too. Oh well... "life's a beach" as my aunt says... you just have to roll with the tide sometimes.

Anyway - enough - I have a ton of work to get done today before I head out for a week of not-so-relaxing-but-sure-to-be-a-blast-regardless vacation days in the woods. This is my hands-down favorite Scouting activity all-year. I can't wait. I'm almost as giddy as when I'm close to heading to Disneyland or Walt Disney World...

Have a great day guys, and have fun closing out this thread. See ya in a little over a week.

 

[eliza61]

My sweet wife returned home from California very late Wednesday night (really Thursday morning) and then I was off yesterday to a customer meeting in central Ohio, but back home again before the kids went to bed.

Oh and my personal email was hacked on Sunday night... claiming I was in London, mugged, stranded... blah blah blah... same scam I've seen so many times before. Idiot hackers... so add that fun to my list of "no time" too. Oh well... "life's a beach" as my aunt says... you just have to roll with the tide sometimes.

Have a great day guys, and have fun closing out this thread. See ya in a little over a week.

Hey Chris, I got that email too. Didn't know it was you!! I think I posted a funny post on the cb about it last week.


have fun on your scouting trip (and thanks for the work you do with the scouts, my sons didn't get into it when they join but I was a girl scout for 16 years and loved it). You've had a hetic few weeks/months lately so don't forget to recharge the spirit.

Why are we getting a new version? We're only on post ~500.

 

[Dizny Dad]

. . . . . . . . As you may or may not recall I am the Summer Camp Director for our Troop. We are the oldest Troop in the state, the 2nd largest Troop in the state (142 active boys and 98 active adult leaders), and the largest Troop contingent in camp during any of the 9 weeks they operate. My numbers for camp this year are up 18% on the Scout side and 39% on the Adult side... this year I'm taking 91 Scouts and 39 Adults to Summer Camp. . . . . .

May the FORCE be with you . .

 

[Muushka]

May the FORCE be with you . .

Yes, Stopher, you will need that force!

DiznyDi & I traveled to our local airport to pick up our DS, arriving from his final duty station in Hawaii. With a banner unfurled and two flags waving, we did our best to welcome him home. The response in the airport was heartfelt. Many approached him and thanked him for his service.

How different it was from an earlier time when I welcomed my brother home from Viet Nam. Let’s all work to be sure the old welcomes never return!

DS has now completed his active duty in the US Army as a combat engineer, and we are certainly glad to see him back in civilian life. After a few weeks with us, he and DDL are off to their new life in Virginia.

We pray for his buddies he left behind and soon to be deploying to Afghanistan; that they may support each other in these new trials and return home whole; and pray that they carry the armor of God into their future.

Amen DDad. I will also pray for these brave soldiers.

And I am also glad that today the soldiers return to a welcome home that they deserve and that the things that happend after Viet Nam never happen again.

I am so glad your son is home! Please add me to the list of those thanking him for his service.

How is Katie doing?

 

[horselover]

Happy Father's Day to all the groupie dads!!

 

[jimmytammy]

Happy Fathers Day to all the great Dads here!!

 

[Granny]

Happy Father's Day to all Dads as well as teachers, scout leaders and others who mentor children.

 

[Corinne]

Good morning groupies, and Happy Father's Day to all of our dad's here!!

My DH and boys are still on as our beloved Boston Bruins won the cup earlier this week!!

 

[I Book He Pays]

To all the Groupie Dad's...
Wishing you a
Happy Father's Day!​

 

[blossomz]

Happy Fathers Day to all of you groupie Dads! Hope it is a great day!

Disney Lovin Iowan/Pennsylvanian....where have you moved in PA? Anywhere near south Central PA?

Any news about Stan?

Well...only 6 more sleeps and away we go!!!

 

[Muushka]

I've said it before and I will say it again:

The men on this thread, the Groupie Guys, are the best example of fathers and husbands you will ever see. I have met many of you Dads/husbands in person and some not yet (like Granny for example) and what I read here on the boards matched what I saw in person. Therefore, to me.

Groupie Dads are the best!!

Happy Father's Day Groupie Dads!!​

 

[Disney loving Iowan]

Disney Lovin Iowan/Pennsylvanian....where have you moved in PA? Anywhere near south Central PA?

We aren't too far from you. We are in the Reading area. We can't wait to go see some Phillies and Flyers games!!!!!