Goofy's Lemon Surprise Pre-Trip Report - UPDATED 5/17 - Page 9 - PassPorter - A Community of Walt Disney World, Disneyland, Disney Cruise Line, and General Travel Forums
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Wowzers just caught this TR and I am jealous.....I wisj we were going too, you want to adpot a coupel of straglers....hey our team won the 2006 World Series...we love baseball too
Just got caught up on the PTR. Hope everyone has a great time. I look forward to hearing how much your niece enjoys herself. We are taking my nephew on this trip and they are about the same age.
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They caught us all smiling and looking at the camera!!!
Just got home from the game and it was great! Of course you always feel good about coming home from a game when your team won.
So it's after 3 in the morning and I'm wide awake compiling a list of all of the stuff left to do... working in a last PTR update before the big sending off.
I just pre-ordered my photo pass and now I'm off to get my grocery list together
Shouldn't I be sleeping? I caught a few winks on the 4 hour drive home from the game, but I guess I'll follow in Bon Jovi and Bob Dylan's words and sleep when I'm dead It's highly overrated anyway lol.
Jeanette, love you you quoted Bon Jovi (I'm a huge fan and think he's a hottie). I'm glad you had fun at the Yankees Game (you're forgiven for being a Yankees fan since you're from NY-said the Red Sox Fan). Hope you have a safe trip to Florida and fun with the whole gang going with you!
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can't wait to hear about your trip when you get home.
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WDW- sept 2013 port Orleans riverside
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Good morning all PP friends!!
It's the eve of departure and I can now just say...
Tomorrow, tomorrow... I love ya tomorrow!
Well originally I was going to post pictures of the water bottle slings I made, but we've been so around here that I haven't even had time to take pictures. Going to that Yankee game really set me back a chunk of time. Leaving at 11 am and returning at 2:30 in the morning. It doesn't matter though because it was TOTALLY worth it!
Well here's where I am with my planning...
Last night DH helped me by getting all of the remaining laundry completed... we did say he's a sweetheart didn't we? In case you missed it, here he is again:
Anyway, as he was bringing clean clothes up from the basement, I was either putting them away or packing last minute items. There were just the whites left to finish when I went to sleep I was exhausted after having just 3 hours of sleep.
I woke up this morning (4am) to all of the whites being put away and two sleeping 8YO twins... the only problem was that the sleeping lovelies were in my living room on the couch and the loveseat. (I needed to do stuff in there lol)
They are just so excited... God only knows what time they fell asleep last night.
I finished the rest of the packing and gathered all of my travel documents to check and re-check.
It's a go!!
Today's agenda:
Go to work at 8:30 and get the team ready for my absence; complete the schedule for the next two weeks; pick up two more Mother's Day cards (I realized we'll be in Orlando with two mommies, DMIL and DBIL's GF so we'll have to bring those cards with us).
Once finished at work I'm taking myself out for a mani and pedi... it's nice to have this little bit of relaxation just before a vacation.
This afternoon: DH wants to go down to the inner harbor where they are having some sort of event where there will be some good ol fashion cajun crawfish. (They call it crawfish but my dad still says it's bait )
5:00: Church
Evening: Finish and print my daily newsletters that I put together for the family. If you'd like I can post one tonight before we leave.
Dinner will be pizza (I intentionally did not go shopping since we won't be here.)
8:30: Lights out for the kids. We'll need to get them up at 4:00 so I may even try to get them in bed by 8:00. They probably will go for it.
9:30: Lights of for us.
I promised you all some sending off remarks...
Here goes:
Over the past 6 months I've spent so much time preparing and planning. I believe that magic starts at what you create of it yourself. Sometimes the magic really isn't in what you personally experience, but instead it's what you've created for others. The feeling you get seeing their faces light up at the littlest things, the joy that spreads over their faces when they see Mickey for the first time or the feeling of accomplishment when you know you pulled out some fun surprises. This is the magic we receive. Anything else is just icing on the cake!
Up next: The Lemon Reveal! (To be posted 5/13 or 5/14)
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Over the past 6 months I've spent so much time preparing and planning. I believe that magic starts at what you create of it yourself. Sometimes the magic really isn't in what you personally experience, but instead it's what you've created for others. The feeling you get seeing their faces light up at the littlest things, the joy that spreads over their faces when they see Mickey for the first time or the feeling of accomplishment when you know you pulled out some fun surprises. This is the magic we receive. Anything else is just icing on the cake!
I couldn't agree with you more! Have a wonderful and magical trip!
Jeanette, I hope you have a magical time and all the magic you've created pays off for you Happy Birthday and Happy Mother's Day early! When you mentioned Crawfish, had Erick read that bit, he would have been envious given that's his favorite thing from Louisiana (his home state). Hope everyone's surprised with the Lemons
can't wait to hear about your trip when you get back
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Heather - "I'm Tinkerbell's biggest fan!"
WDW - August 1997 Off Property
WDW - January 2005 AKL
WDW - May 2006 Pop Century
WDW- november-dec 2007 pop century
WDW- dec/jan 2009/2010 pop century
WDW- oct/nov 2012 art of animation
WDW- sept 2013 port Orleans riverside
WDW- july 2015 beach club
Those are very wise words. I hope it's a truly wonderful trip with all the magic you deserve......
Thanks... no matter what it's going to be great!
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Have a magical trip!!
Thanks for all of your help
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Hope you have a magical trip.
Take lots of .
Can't wait to read about it when you get back.
We have the Photo pass and I've got (2) 8G SD cards for the camera... you may have to tell me to stop posting pics
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Almost time!! Hope you have a magical visit!
Thanks!
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I couldn't agree with you more! Have a wonderful and magical trip!
Thanks... I believe in magic!
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Jeanette, I hope you have a magical time and all the magic you've created pays off for you Happy Birthday and Happy Mother's Day early! When you mentioned Crawfish, had Erick read that bit, he would have been envious given that's his favorite thing from Louisiana (his home state). Hope everyone's surprised with the Lemons
I'll have to let you know the next time they have a festival. It'll give you another reason to come to Syracuse for a meet Either way, we have a restaurant here that cooks them up very well!
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can't wait to hear about your trip when you get back
This is my first TR so I'm very excited. Like I said above... you may have to tell me to stop
Well, I've been to bed and I'm up again. It's 12:46 and I'm up 3 hours before my alarm goes off
I woke to remember that I didn't print off all of my newsletters so I'm off to do that and then try to sleep a bit more. What's wrong with me?
I know everyone talks about "too excited to sleep" but I didn't know it was this bad.
A quick note: I wasn't going to bring the laptop because I have a larger one and I was afraid it wouldn't fit into the safe, but DDad showed me how to disconnect my hard drive so I'm going to just put the hard drive and the battery in the safe which would make the laptop useless if stolen. ( I really don't think it will be an issue anyway) So, that means possibly some real time updates and/or photos. We'll see how it goes. DD really wants to make sure her Ipod is charged at all times... <sigh> to be 8 again lol. I can already see her at the pool listening to her music. Anyway, see you all real soon!
What a great deal with Jet Blue...I would definitely help with their overbooking for a nice $800 credit Loved the introductions...what a great family you have. Hope you have an amazing trip.....
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