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Glad the waitlists came through! What a great deal on the car, and perfect timing, too. I hope the drive down goes smoothly. I agree that it's better to arrive the night before the cruise. At the very least, it eases the anxiety levels, and you'll board the ship feeling rested.
I definitely feel a lot better about the drive now that we're staying over the night. I won't feel so rushed or worried.
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Whoohoo! It's getting SO close!!!
I knew you got a good deal on the car, but not that good! That was awesome!
12 more days!
Now it's 9 days (for me at least)!!!!
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I'm glad the waitlists came through, and that you were able to add on the extra night at AKL!
What an awesome deal on that new car!! I hope that everything goes smoothly with the drive down to FL.
So do I! Now that we'll be driving during the day, all I can envision is Hope talking our ears off for the entire trip, and I wouldn't put it past her because that girl can do some talking!
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Congrats on the new car! What an awesome deal. It sounds like things are coming together nicely!
Thanks!
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Originally Posted by chezp
Congrats on the new car and the extra Disney time! You'll love the Halloween Party.
I'm so excited about the party! All I've heard is great things.
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Glad you have a place to stay! Congrats on the new wheels!
Thank you!
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What a great deal on the car!! Looks perfect for a 14-hour car ride.
It does seem perfect for a nice car ride, all though I'm really not looking forward to being stuck in it that long.
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I'm sorry..................did I just get "CHALLENGED"????
Why yes, yes you did.
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Glad the wait list came through and Congrats on the new car!!!
Thanks!
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Congratulations on the new car!! What a fun trip that you guys are going to have. Great choice to drive down a day earlier so you guys are not too tired to enjoy yourselves.
I feel like I'm tired ALL the time, and I could just imagine what I would be feeling like on our first cruise day. Kelly and her family would think they were hanging out with a bunch of party poopers.
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What a fun trip this is going to be! Can't wait to read about all the good times!
Hey there! Thanks for joining in. Haven't seen any of your great TR's in a while, but now I just noticed you have a new TR in your signature. Guess I'm going to have to jump in there too.
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Glad you got your hotel taken care of. You sound like me with the worrying. I would not have been comfortable driving all night. I would have had the same concerns as you and even handled it the way you did so good job on that one! And congrats on the car. Great deal although.... don't you think the $900 airfare would have been cheaper? Just sayin'.
Well, it would have been $900 for the airfare and then the price of the car too. There's was no way I was going to be able to push my car for that much longer anyway, so this trip just made the decision to make the purchase a bit easier.
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Congrats on the new car, you got an awesome deal! I'm glad your wait list came through. I agree, it's definitely a good idea to drive down a day earlier so you can rest up and make sure you make it to the port on time.
Definitely don't want to get to the port late. We want the boat to be there when we arrive, not the opposite way around.
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Signing on! You're all going to have such a great time - on the cruise and at the party. And what luck with AKL, and the new car!!
congrats on the car. Normally I would be very nervous getting a car that had had damage to it. But knowing it comes from family and they are trustworthy...I'd say you got a great deal
I wanted to get in one more update before the weekend started, but the day somehow got away from me, so it’s turned into a mini-update. Since this update has to be short and sweet, I thought it would be the perfect time to discuss one of the most important themes of this trip…Halloween!
I’m not a Halloween person. I know there are people out there that look forward to this holiday all year long, not just for the tons and tons of candy they get for free, but for the chance to dress up in over-the-top costumes and morph into some crazy character that is the complete opposite of their personality. Yeah, it’s not for me. BUT, I do enjoy dressing up every once-in-a-while if the situation calls for it.
The last time I dressed up for Halloween was right after Hope was born, and we were invited to a huge Halloween party for a friend. I couldn’t pass up the chance to dress Hope up in something super cute for her first Halloween, and because there were going to be costume contests, I decided to get all of us involved. Hope and I were bugs (a ladybug and a bumble bee), and Chad was a bug collector. We ended up actually winning the prize for best group costume. Yay us!
Because DCL decided to add their Halloween on the High Seas celebration to our cruise, I figured it would once again be a good time to dress up as a family. I wanted to do something simple with a Disney theme, and try to use a costume that Hope already had on hand. So after a lot of thinking, we chose Peter Pan, Wendy and Tinkerbell. It ended up being an even better decision than I had originally thought because 1) Kelly and her family were doing Hook, Smee, Jake and Cubby, and 2) Dawn (dsteiny23) was letting me borrow her Peter Pan and Wendy costumes so I wouldn’t have to try and make them. That would have been an epic fail!
And because we’re dressing up for Halloween on the cruise, we decided to forgo costumes for MNSSHP, and just do Halloween shirts. We went through a custom t-shirt site this time, thanks to a suggestion from Linny, and came up with these…
So that’s what we have in store to help celebrate Halloween on our vacation. Hopefully it doesn’t get too scary out there in the middle of the ocean!
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I'm not into Halloween much myself, either, but I do enjoy others' excitement. Your group insect costumes are wonderful and Hope is the cutest ladybug ever! Can't wait to see both families all dressed in Neverland-themed outfits on the ship. This is going to be such a fun vacation.
The shirts really did come out great and hopefully you can get more use out of them like we have with ours.
I think I told yo gals before that on our 4 night Dream cruise we were sailing around a storm, it was never bad, which was a good thing, but I felt more movement than normal. Staying outside was helpful.
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and the extra Disney time! 
You'll love the Halloween Party.
Why yes, yes you did. 
There's was no way I was going to be able to push my car for that much longer anyway, so this trip just made the decision to make the purchase a bit easier. 
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