Wendy & Chuck's PJ and TR Merged 2/4/08 Escape SBP/JIKO: Updated 9/19-Pleasure Island
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angel*lady
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Hey guys, save a cupcake for me!!! 
Wendy, you poor thing! What a day! I can totally understand the school stresses - I'm working and going to school full time as well. Planning a wedding would have pushed me over the edge!!
Regarding the office wedding gift - I would definately write a thank-you note to the entire group. Send it in care of the top dog or admin and then they can post it or pass it around. Even if your DH has verbally thanked the people, I think that you should officially thank them as well. I wouldn't worry about individual thank you notes.
Can't wait to hear more!
Wendy, you poor thing! What a day! I can totally understand the school stresses - I'm working and going to school full time as well. Planning a wedding would have pushed me over the edge!! Regarding the office wedding gift - I would definately write a thank-you note to the entire group. Send it in care of the top dog or admin and then they can post it or pass it around. Even if your DH has verbally thanked the people, I think that you should officially thank them as well. I wouldn't worry about individual thank you notes.
Can't wait to hear more!
hope1826
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If by out there... you mean in school all weekend... yeah, I'm out here.I hope to type up the next installment tonight! dusting, moping and vaccuming can all wait!! I need some Disney in my life. I'm already figuring out ways to squeeze in a weekend trip in May!
Sorry for leaving you hanging, but I can gurantee pictures in the next installment!
Darn! You'd have so many weddings to lurk at if you could squeeze in a weekday trip the first week of May! You can lurk at either my wedding or scottish/canadian's wedding on Monday and then Lynn's wedding on Wednesday!!
Can't wait for pics!
hope1826
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As for the "Thank you" notes, I plan on using this article as a guideline... http://www.tricitiesweddings.com/Stationary/invitations10.shtml...
The last two samples on the page show how you could deal with notes to groups of large or small gift givers.
The last two samples on the page show how you could deal with notes to groups of large or small gift givers.
MistressOfAllEvil
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I don't have time to comment back to everyone here at work, but I promise I will. I figured you guys would rather have the next installment with it's lone picture! 
Day 1, Part 1 - Friday, February 1, 2008
Bad things happen when you live in Michigan. Perhaps you have a mild winter; hardly any snow for Christmas. And just when you think you’re safe Mother Nature and Old Man Winter get together and brew up a nasty storm to ruin all of your plans 3 days before you’re supposed to get married. Okay, maybe it’s not that bad.
The alarm was set for 4am, but I was up before that. I showered, woke Chuck and worked to complete all of our last minute packing. All the while I’m looking outside and watching the snow come down in buckets? In pillows? What’s the appropriate unit of measure for snow? Anthony texts at 5:30am wanting to know what we want from Starbucks and I have Chuck text him to skip Starbucks and come straight for us. Do not stop, do not pass go. He arrives at 5:50am and we are packed and ready to go. We ended up with 3 large pieces of luggage to check, we each had our computer bags and I had my large black WDW bag with my purse in it that I carried on as my ‘purse’. We load everything up in his truck and take off.
I spent the whole trip doing one of 3 things:
1.) Using Google maps on my iPhone to check traffic to the airport.
2.) Praying that Anthony didn’t spin us out of control.
3.) Calling my sister to ensure that she got up and left early enough for the airport since her flight was at 9:40am.
The roads were bad. Really bad. And Anthony was trying to get us there as fast as possible so he was driving a little too aggressively for my taste. There were a couple of times I wasn’t sure we would even survive the drive.
I also called my sister at least 8 times before she finally answered. Let me preface this by saying that I have no faith in my sister. She’s only 15 months younger than me, but there was a three year grade difference in school and she’s in my mind still so young and irresponsible. I thought she for sure was going to miss her flight. She finally answers as we’re pulling up to the service drive for the airport. Not only had she not overslept, she was already at the airport! AMAZING! I was so proud of her in that moment. And I felt really bad because I left her all these crazy messages warning her of how bad the roads were and ‘hoping’ she was already up and on her way! She even laughed at us because we weren’t there yet (we were 5 minutes from being dropped off curbside.) I breathed a sigh of relief, wished her a good flight and promised to talk to her when we got in to MCO.
We arrive at the airport, get checked in with no problems, stop at the Starbucks for some beverages and head off to our gate. Chuck picks on me because he’s an airport pro since he travels for work so much. I have no idea where we’re going because we’re in the fancy, new terminal flying on Northwest. Normally I fly out of dirty, grimy, old Smith terminal on Spirit.
While we are waiting to board the flight I speak with Keith from Carolyn Allen and let him know that my flight is still showing that it’s on time. He says to just come from the airport to the salon for Chuck to get fitted. I try calling Veronica again from Beaute Speciale since she wanted pre-payment for our make-up appointments by Wednesday and it’s now Friday. I get her voicemail again, so I leave a message. Miraculously she calls me back just a few minutes later and I give her my credit card information. It turns out that she does all the booking but she’s on the West Coast. That just doesn’t make sense to me. And, she said that she doesn’t check her voicemail often. Now that really doesn’t make sense to me. However, we’re all paid and confirmed so I’m A-OK on that front.
Chuck and I were just hanging and chatting and I was going a million miles a minute doing the almost-my-wedding-day-overloaded-bride thing and I remembered that I needed to D-O-C-U-M-E-N-T for the Dis and this TR. I pulled my camera out to take the first picture of the trip and the guy sitting across from us was kind enough to offer to take the picture!
I cannot find that picture?!?
While we were waiting, Chuck took the opportunity to tell me how we were going to board. We were still in coach, but we were flying business elite so we got to board the plane right after first class. In this case, extra time on the plane was not to our advantage.
We board the plane on time. And then we waited. And waited. And waited some more. Then the flight attendant gets on the speaker to let us know we’re waiting for some people who need to be on the flight who are still on their way to the airport?!? I’ve never heard of such a thing. After 20 minutes or so a group of 4 people get on and get settled. Yet, they don’t close the door. So, we’re still waiting. Then the attendant gets on the speaker again saying that we’re now waiting for some folks from a connecting flight!! Finally, those people board. An hour has passed since we boarded ‘on time’ and we’re still sitting there. Our seats were just in front of the engines and we were lucky enough to watch them defrost them. I’m not a nervous flyer, but this was a tad scary to me. We finally start taxiing and the pilot comes on to let us know that we’re pulling up to a station to be de-iced. He made a lame attempt at a lame joke to let us know that we had an appointment so it should take long. Ha! When we finally finished with that the pilot comes back on to let us know that we’re taxiing to the runway and that we’re second or third in line to take off. Apparently that didn’t work out for us because we ended up being directed to another runway and we waited FOREVER.
During all this waiting, I decided to document and we did a self-picture on the plane.
Note the snow outside the window of the plane!
Finally we take off!! At this point we’re over 2 hours late. I’m thankful that we’re flying but I’m also concerned about all the errands we have to run when we land and that we lost 2 hours out of our day. I’m also really excited to be leaving the cold, snowy, nasty weather of MI and arrive in my sunny, warm happy place. I don’t know about the rest of you, but when I step off the plane everything plumps. My dry skin becomes supple and my hair poufs out and there’s this distinct Florida smell in the air and I
FL.
Up Next: Landing at MCO and the chaos that ensues.
Day 1, Part 1 - Friday, February 1, 2008
Bad things happen when you live in Michigan. Perhaps you have a mild winter; hardly any snow for Christmas. And just when you think you’re safe Mother Nature and Old Man Winter get together and brew up a nasty storm to ruin all of your plans 3 days before you’re supposed to get married. Okay, maybe it’s not that bad.
The alarm was set for 4am, but I was up before that. I showered, woke Chuck and worked to complete all of our last minute packing. All the while I’m looking outside and watching the snow come down in buckets? In pillows? What’s the appropriate unit of measure for snow? Anthony texts at 5:30am wanting to know what we want from Starbucks and I have Chuck text him to skip Starbucks and come straight for us. Do not stop, do not pass go. He arrives at 5:50am and we are packed and ready to go. We ended up with 3 large pieces of luggage to check, we each had our computer bags and I had my large black WDW bag with my purse in it that I carried on as my ‘purse’. We load everything up in his truck and take off.
I spent the whole trip doing one of 3 things:
1.) Using Google maps on my iPhone to check traffic to the airport.
2.) Praying that Anthony didn’t spin us out of control.
3.) Calling my sister to ensure that she got up and left early enough for the airport since her flight was at 9:40am.
The roads were bad. Really bad. And Anthony was trying to get us there as fast as possible so he was driving a little too aggressively for my taste. There were a couple of times I wasn’t sure we would even survive the drive.
I also called my sister at least 8 times before she finally answered. Let me preface this by saying that I have no faith in my sister. She’s only 15 months younger than me, but there was a three year grade difference in school and she’s in my mind still so young and irresponsible. I thought she for sure was going to miss her flight. She finally answers as we’re pulling up to the service drive for the airport. Not only had she not overslept, she was already at the airport! AMAZING! I was so proud of her in that moment. And I felt really bad because I left her all these crazy messages warning her of how bad the roads were and ‘hoping’ she was already up and on her way! She even laughed at us because we weren’t there yet (we were 5 minutes from being dropped off curbside.) I breathed a sigh of relief, wished her a good flight and promised to talk to her when we got in to MCO.
We arrive at the airport, get checked in with no problems, stop at the Starbucks for some beverages and head off to our gate. Chuck picks on me because he’s an airport pro since he travels for work so much. I have no idea where we’re going because we’re in the fancy, new terminal flying on Northwest. Normally I fly out of dirty, grimy, old Smith terminal on Spirit.
While we are waiting to board the flight I speak with Keith from Carolyn Allen and let him know that my flight is still showing that it’s on time. He says to just come from the airport to the salon for Chuck to get fitted. I try calling Veronica again from Beaute Speciale since she wanted pre-payment for our make-up appointments by Wednesday and it’s now Friday. I get her voicemail again, so I leave a message. Miraculously she calls me back just a few minutes later and I give her my credit card information. It turns out that she does all the booking but she’s on the West Coast. That just doesn’t make sense to me. And, she said that she doesn’t check her voicemail often. Now that really doesn’t make sense to me. However, we’re all paid and confirmed so I’m A-OK on that front.
Chuck and I were just hanging and chatting and I was going a million miles a minute doing the almost-my-wedding-day-overloaded-bride thing and I remembered that I needed to D-O-C-U-M-E-N-T for the Dis and this TR. I pulled my camera out to take the first picture of the trip and the guy sitting across from us was kind enough to offer to take the picture!
I cannot find that picture?!? While we were waiting, Chuck took the opportunity to tell me how we were going to board. We were still in coach, but we were flying business elite so we got to board the plane right after first class. In this case, extra time on the plane was not to our advantage.
We board the plane on time. And then we waited. And waited. And waited some more. Then the flight attendant gets on the speaker to let us know we’re waiting for some people who need to be on the flight who are still on their way to the airport?!? I’ve never heard of such a thing. After 20 minutes or so a group of 4 people get on and get settled. Yet, they don’t close the door. So, we’re still waiting. Then the attendant gets on the speaker again saying that we’re now waiting for some folks from a connecting flight!! Finally, those people board. An hour has passed since we boarded ‘on time’ and we’re still sitting there. Our seats were just in front of the engines and we were lucky enough to watch them defrost them. I’m not a nervous flyer, but this was a tad scary to me. We finally start taxiing and the pilot comes on to let us know that we’re pulling up to a station to be de-iced. He made a lame attempt at a lame joke to let us know that we had an appointment so it should take long. Ha! When we finally finished with that the pilot comes back on to let us know that we’re taxiing to the runway and that we’re second or third in line to take off. Apparently that didn’t work out for us because we ended up being directed to another runway and we waited FOREVER.
During all this waiting, I decided to document and we did a self-picture on the plane.
Note the snow outside the window of the plane!
Finally we take off!! At this point we’re over 2 hours late. I’m thankful that we’re flying but I’m also concerned about all the errands we have to run when we land and that we lost 2 hours out of our day. I’m also really excited to be leaving the cold, snowy, nasty weather of MI and arrive in my sunny, warm happy place. I don’t know about the rest of you, but when I step off the plane everything plumps. My dry skin becomes supple and my hair poufs out and there’s this distinct Florida smell in the air and I
FL. Up Next: Landing at MCO and the chaos that ensues.
lov2b@disney
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Glad your back!I don't have time to comment back to everyone here at work, but I promise I will. I figured you guys would rather have the next installment with it's lone picture!
Day 1, Part 1 - Friday, February 1, 2008
Hey guys - didn't a MistressOfAllEvil post on this board? It was a long, long time ago -- feels like years and years ago?
Did someone swipe her name?
Boo Hiss, Wendy - for snowy weather and slippery roads!
And delayed flights! And watching them deice the plane. (I witnessed that once and wanted to promptly disembark from the plane! )How do you like your iPhone?
Don't answer any of these questions -- just finish your TR and post lots of photos!
(My daughter's favorite style of wedding gowns is much like yours - I'm anxious to see your photos. We're going to drive 3.5 hours ONE way this Saturday to a bridal trunk show! )Wendy,
Don't you just love the NWA terminal?
The Smith has been dirty and nasty for about 20yrs(since I started flying regularly for business, thank goodness they updated the bathrooms though), but the replacement is opening in September.
I would consider a 2hr delay not bad considering the weather. I was very worried you wouldn't get out until afternoon.
We upgrade on Airtran at Thanksgiving, my 11 yr old son has now decided thats the only way to fly.
Younger sisters. It's either
or
Don't you just love the NWA terminal?
The Smith has been dirty and nasty for about 20yrs(since I started flying regularly for business, thank goodness they updated the bathrooms though), but the replacement is opening in September.
I would consider a 2hr delay not bad considering the weather. I was very worried you wouldn't get out until afternoon.
We upgrade on Airtran at Thanksgiving, my 11 yr old son has now decided thats the only way to fly.
Younger sisters. It's either
or 
caryndisneydiva
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so i'm guessing that your sister was on a different flight than you were?
i'm hoping that as we get further and further into this tr that things start to get better for you OR you at least get some liquid therapy going...
i'm hoping that as we get further and further into this tr that things start to get better for you OR you at least get some liquid therapy going...
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...Or cupcake therapy!!!
i just made pecan twix brownies!!!!!!!!!!!
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Did someone say cupcakes?
There...that should help! (made it myself!)
Anxiously waiting for more of your TR!
There...that should help!
(made it myself!)Anxiously waiting for more of your TR!
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Did someone say cupcakes?
There...that should help!
Anxiously waiting for more of your TR!
that was very mean to do to a pregnant girl!!!!!
i want that cupcake right now!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Honey...if I could figure out how to send it to you, I would!!! Anything for a pregnant one!that was very mean to do to a pregnant girl!!!!!
i want that cupcake right now!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Honey...if I could figure out how to send it to you, I would!!! Anything for a pregnant one!
awwwwwww thaaaaaank you...i think i will make eric take me for cupcake mix now
ps-did u really make that cupcake because it honestly does look freakin delcious
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Sorry...didn't mean to be mean...honest!! lol...cupcakes are my thing. I'm an amateur cake decorator and do lots and lots and lots of cupcakes. So when someone says cupcakes, I just can't resist!!
And yes Amanda...I did make that myself!
As soon as I figure out how to ship them safely, i'll be sure to request addresses...especially since I was mean enough to post a picture here!
Sorry to hijack your TR Wendy! And now...back to your regularly scheduled TR!!
And yes Amanda...I did make that myself!
As soon as I figure out how to ship them safely, i'll be sure to request addresses...especially since I was mean enough to post a picture here!
Sorry to hijack your TR Wendy! And now...back to your regularly scheduled TR!!
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Chaos when you get off the plane..gosh!!! I would have been freaking out waiting in the plane that long and just knowing that I am 2 hrs behind would drive me nuts. Sorry you had to go through that.
This TR better get better soon lol..enough with the stress lol.
This TR better get better soon lol..enough with the stress lol.
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