Well imagine my surprise!June 2009 PTRw/pics 7/7 pg. 76 NEW TR started link on pg. 76

[timandlesley]

Wow,
That is a lot to take in. Wish I had known about the Crocs deal, we all need new ones. CONGRATS on the Disneyshopping buys, crocs buys, luggage buys and tickets, how cool! I am concerned about what you are saying about DHS, I need to look at that and my dining plans and make some changes too, yikes!!!
CONGRATULATIONS on the full time job. What exactly will you be doing? I assume teaching, what grade?
That is INCREDIBLE about the Disney dollars!!!!! HOW EXCITING!
Also, how exciting for your spontaneous and FREE trip for the weekend. We're going to Gatlinburg and can't wait to get out of town, I hope you guys have a great time. Here's hoping for Southwest fares to go down as well. Have you checked out other airlines? I always do a search on kayak.com
GREAT UPDATE!!! We're getting so close!!!!
Lesley

 

[Trentmom]

Score on the great shopping deals!!!

That stinks about DHS....makes it very hard to plan now


CONGRATS ON THE JOB!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! What grade will you be teaching?



WOW...How awesome on the amount of Disney rewards you have

Have a wonderful weekend!! Sounds like it will be a lot of fun for the boys

 

[Dylan_&_Blake's_mom]

Just started reading your report. Great so far, the boys are adorable. LOVE their Donald shirts and the Disney ones you got,

 

[CRSNDSNY]

WOW! Congrats on the job! That's so awesome!!!

And those Disney Dollars???!! That'd feed us for a week (and then some)....I'd be head over heals over that one! Awesome!!!


Love the loot, too! Your trip will be here before you know it! Have fun in AC! We're trying to figure out where to go for this long weekend, as well. Thinking Ithaca, NY or Hershey, PA.

 

[kaysmommie]

Wow Diane great update . First off congrats on the full time teaching postion! What grade are you teaching? Love the new crocs and Disney T Shirts. Thomas has that Donald one. The $900 on the Disney rewards is awesome too . I'm in the same boat with Southwest. We need to purchase 2 tickets ( we have 2 free flights) and they are not going under $250 each and that would be flying out of Nashville which is 3 hours west from here. I can drive for much less and it will only take 1- 2 more hours total with driving to Nashville, waiting around in the airport, flying and taking ME. I'm hoping for a ding or something. Did you try Spirit Airlines? Anyway hope your family has a great weekend in AC!

 

[disneyhockeymad]

Congrats on the job Diane things look like they're going great!! Your $900 in rewards is amazing too! Looks like 2009 is your year!!
I'm sure DHS won't as swamped as they like to make out, people are always hyping things up, just look at my experience with 4th July last year!!!

 

[dddisrunner]

Congrats on the job- what grade are you teaching (are you teaching?). Congrats too on the VISA reward points... that is so awesome!

I agree that HS sounds a bit scary on Fantasmic days. I am thinking we might purposely not go on a Fantasmic Day now.... or splurge for hoppers!

Thanks Laura! I wish the whole Fantasmic thing would just go back to the way it was!

I am having the exact same dilemma with DHS -- we want to avoid both EMH and Fantasmic, but Wednesdays and Sundays were already scheduled for other parks in my mind. Whatever will we do???

Congrats on the job! That's awesome!

Thanks Jackie! Reworking this whole dining thing is a huge bummer!

Wow,
That is a lot to take in. Wish I had known about the Crocs deal, we all need new ones. CONGRATS on the Disneyshopping buys, crocs buys, luggage buys and tickets, how cool! I am concerned about what you are saying about DHS, I need to look at that and my dining plans and make some changes too, yikes!!!
CONGRATULATIONS on the full time job. What exactly will you be doing? I assume teaching, what grade?
That is INCREDIBLE about the Disney dollars!!!!! HOW EXCITING!
Also, how exciting for your spontaneous and FREE trip for the weekend. We're going to Gatlinburg and can't wait to get out of town, I hope you guys have a great time. Here's hoping for Southwest fares to go down as well. Have you checked out other airlines? I always do a search on kayak.com
GREAT UPDATE!!! We're getting so close!!!!
Lesley

Thanks Lesley! Have a GREAT trip!

Score on the great shopping deals!!!

That stinks about DHS....makes it very hard to plan now


CONGRATS ON THE JOB!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! What grade will you be teaching?



WOW...How awesome on the amount of Disney rewards you have

Have a wonderful weekend!! Sounds like it will be a lot of fun for the boys

Thanks Kelly we are super excited!

Just started reading your report. Great so far, the boys are adorable. LOVE their Donald shirts and the Disney ones you got,

WELCOME!! Thanks for joining us and posting! Thanks for the sweet compliment about the boys too!

WOW! Congrats on the job! That's so awesome!!!

And those Disney Dollars???!! That'd feed us for a week (and then some)....I'd be head over heals over that one! Awesome!!!


Love the loot, too! Your trip will be here before you know it! Have fun in AC! We're trying to figure out where to go for this long weekend, as well. Thinking Ithaca, NY or Hershey, PA.

Thanks so much! Have a great weekend wherever you decide to go!!

Wow Diane great update . First off congrats on the full time teaching postion! What grade are you teaching? Love the new crocs and Disney T Shirts. Thomas has that Donald one. The $900 on the Disney rewards is awesome too . I'm in the same boat with Southwest. We need to purchase 2 tickets ( we have 2 free flights) and they are not going under $250 each and that would be flying out of Nashville which is 3 hours west from here. I can drive for much less and it will only take 1- 2 more hours total with driving to Nashville, waiting around in the airport, flying and taking ME. I'm hoping for a ding or something. Did you try Spirit Airlines? Anyway hope your family has a great weekend in AC!

Thanks Nichole! ALL of the airlines are outrageous right now I am hoping they will come down in a few weeks!

Congrats on the job Diane things look like they're going great!! Your $900 in rewards is amazing too! Looks like 2009 is your year!!
I'm sure DHS won't as swamped as they like to make out, people are always hyping things up, just look at my experience with 4th July last year!!!

Thanks so much! I hope you are right and it is all just being hyped up!






Sorry I wasn't more clear about the job! I am certified in elementary education and physical education. The job is for health and physical education in the middle school which is grades 6,7 and 8 BUT I am thrilled to have this job!! Thank you all for your support and well wishes! I hope you all have a great weekend! We are leaving right now to pick up the boys and then we're outta here baby!

 

[Trentmom]

Sounds like a great job


Have a fun weekend

 

[CRSNDSNY]

That's really awesome!!!

 

[carissanboys]

Wow! Congrats on the new job Diane!

I have those same crocs (albeit a MUCH larger size).

That's so awesome about the $900 reward dollars AND the trip to Atlantic City! Have a blast!

 

[dddisrunner]

Sounds like a great job


Have a fun weekend

Thanks Kelly!

That's really awesome!!!

Thank you so much!

Wow! Congrats on the new job Diane!

I have those same crocs (albeit a MUCH larger size).

That's so awesome about the $900 reward dollars AND the trip to Atlantic City! Have a blast!

Thanks Carissa!! I am excited to see what Tuesday brings!! Enjoy your weekend too!

 

[disneyhockeymad]

Diane! Just incase you were wondering what 4th July is like in WDW I've just posted the first segment to that on my TR, the links in my sig (I know it's taken me ages to write!) if you wanted to check it out. I should have the next part to it up within the next few days!!

 

[lmillercrew]

That's so awesome, about your job! Congratulations!!! And $900 can go a long way!!!

 

[catherines_mama]

Just subscribing. We'll be there at the same time and if ya'll do Ohana on 6/21 we'll be there too. It's my bday and that is my pick for the night. Followed by Wishes from the beach. I'm dieing for hrs to be released so I can get more detailed on my planning. As of now it's so draft its crazy.

Congrats on the permanent job.

 

[dddisrunner]

Diane! Just incase you were wondering what 4th July is like in WDW I've just posted the first segment to that on my TR, the links in my sig (I know it's taken me ages to write!) if you wanted to check it out. I should have the next part to it up within the next few days!!

Thanks! I checked out your report and I can't believe how much you guys got done!!

That's so awesome, about your job! Congratulations!!! And $900 can go a long way!!!

Thanks! I was floored when I saw how much was there in rewards! It was a GREAT surprise!

Just subscribing. We'll be there at the same time and if ya'll do Ohana on 6/21 we'll be there too. It's my bday and that is my pick for the night. Followed by Wishes from the beach. I'm dieing for hrs to be released so I can get more detailed on my planning. As of now it's so draft its crazy.

Congrats on the permanent job.

WELCOME! Thanks for joining us! I am hoping all the hours and such are completed before my ADR date!

 

[dddisrunner]

So as you all know we hit Atlantic City over the long holiday weekend! We were there on Thursday and Friday nights! The boys had off from school on Friday and Monday! So we picked them up from school about 45 minutes early and we were on our way! We checked into the hotel and immediately made our way to the pool, the boys were dying to swim....

Eric is saying "COME ON MOM!"

Enjoying the pool!

Eric giving it a big thumbs up!

After about an hour or so we decided to get ready for dinner!

There were tons of choices but we decided on Hooters! GREAT place to take young boys!

Matthew insisted on crab legs..boy has this boys taste gotten expensive!

Eric's strong opinion of the crab legs!

After dinner we went exploring around the resort and casino!

My boys!

Lifesize rubber chicken!

AWESOME WOOD CARVED SORCERER MICKEY!

The boys decided on ice cream for a treat!

We went into some other yummy goodie stores and found this!
A chocolate covered pretzel covered w/mini m&m's! Remind you of Goofy's or what!

We then called it a night and went up to our room! We were BEAT!

We then got ready to have breakfast!

After breakfast we did some more exploring!

The car in front of the Cuba Libre restaurant!

Posing by the slot machines! Sorry boys you have to be 21!

After sight seeing we ventured outside to the beach and boardwalk!

A view from the beach of the famous Atlantic City boardwalk!

The boys!

The boardwalk!

We then walked over to the outlets!

Ruth Chris Steakhouse! YUM!

The Atlantic City signs by the outlets!

And this is when my camera battery DIED! We forgot the charger too! We had a wonderful time and got some GREAT deals! Bryan and Matthew went to the Imax theater and saw Under the Sea in 3D and loved it! I can't do Imax and 3D together...it makes me SICK!


Changing gears!

Today was my 1st full day at work and it was a GREAT day! I really think I am going to enjoy it once I get used to getting up so early! 5:40am! I found out today that my principal will be in Disney the same time we will be in June and so will another coworker...how funny is that!

Not much news on the trip front other than, I just realized that my 90 day ADR date falls on a Monday and they open at 7am for ressies and that is what time I need to be at school!!!!!! Do you think it's a big deal if I don't call till 8:30? Any suggestions?

Diane

 

[addicted2dizney]

Love the pictures! That Sheraton in the background is where I always stay! Of course I'm always there for cheer competitions that happen at the convention center behind it. These pictures are some great PR for AC! looks like you guys had a wonderful time!
Dana

 

[Charleston Princess]

Looks like you had a great time in Atlantic City!!! Those crab legs look yummy!

Hurray for a great first day! I think getting up early is the worst part of being a teacher -- no matter how much sleep I get, that alarm is always set too early.

 

[IluvXU]

For a great first day! I thought of you this morning and wondered how day #1 went. I think you will be fine with your ADRS... you can always move things around days if you have to and still get to eat all the places you want!

 

[Trentmom]

Looks like you all had a blast this weekend!!!!

That chocoolate covered pretzel with M& Ms looked great!!

Indoor swimming looks awesome!!

Your boys look adorable as always