Celebrating as One Big Happy Family: 5/10/14 - 5/18/14 - Page 19 - PassPorter - A Community of Walt Disney World, Disneyland, Disney Cruise Line, and General Travel Forums
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There are other changes as well.
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Moving on with the current of the years.
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Ever on with each rising sun.
To a new day, we go on.
It's time to move on and move forward.
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OMG..............playing catch up now and I have to say..............so glad Mom was well enough for the trip.
Uhmmmm..........the cocktail..........when you said what was in it my first thought was.....wow, yumm, sounds refreshing!! Then when you said it tasted like cough medicine, I could totally see that as well
Uhmm, slide scare 2014
This first day sounds right up my alley and I have made the beach movies before but never the roasting marshmallows yet................so I need to fix that because it looked so sweet.
So glad your mom was feeling better! I can't believe DME took so stinkin long but what a great day enjoying the beach club! Why stay at such a nice hotel if you don't get to spend time there?!
I couldn't believe it either! The main reason for the delay was that our driver was also very slow.
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It sounds like a great first day!!!
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YEAH!!!! You started
Glad your mom was good enough to travel and come on the trip. Sounds like a great first day. Can't wait to hear more.
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Thank goodness your mum was able to make it - and what a wonderful start to your trip!
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Great 1st day
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So glad your mom was well enough to travel with you guys. Sounded like a fun first day except for the timing for golf.
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Sounds like a wonderful start to your trip. Glad your mom was well enough to travel!!
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Love this story!!!!
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1st day sounds great!!!!
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What a nice, relaxing time at the pool! Glad your mom was well enough to travel. I hope it stayed that way for the whole trip.
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Sounds like a great first day. Love all the pool time you got!
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Great first day---- Love burnt/black marshmallows
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What a great first day! So glad to see that Hope liked the water slide.
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Great first day! Glad your mom was ok to travel, I hope that there are no more episodes during the trip. Looking forward to more
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Great 1st Day!
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Great first day! Love the pictures! Glad your Mom was feeling better!
Thanks guys! I would give anything to be back at that resort right now.
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Great first day! Hope your mom didn't have any episodes in the bubble!
Thankfully she never did.
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Glad your mother was able to go on the trip!
What a great way to start a vacation! Looks like everyone enjoyed their time at the pool, well except the whole Trinity situation.
Poor Trinity. It's funny looking back on it now, but I felt so bad for her when it happened.
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Oh man, your poor mom! Glad she felt well enough to travel, hope it stayed that way!
First time roasting marshmallows , ah!!!!
I know...I'm a sheltered human being.
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Yay! Glad your mom was well enough to travel and also glad she's in the process of getting a diagnosis so it doesn't happen again. Too bad to have the delay on the DME bus to make everyone anxious and rushed. Good time at the pool, though, until Trinity's slide episode. It often seems to happen when two families travel together that one of the parents sort of opts out of child care and it falls to the other to pick up the slack! I hope this didn't continue all week!
We're still waiting to find out exactly what's going on with her because she had another episode about a week ago. And I made sure that Corinne didn't slack off anymore when it came to her parenting duties. We weren't there to be babysitters.
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Thank goodness, your mom was able to make it! for finding out what causes these spells. I love the relaxation of this first day, except for the bit of rush to get your dad and brother off to the golf course. Sounds like a perfect start to vacation time.
Thanks for the pixies. I'm hoping she'll hear something soon. Unless she already has and she's just not telling me. The ultrasound was on Friday, so I'm thinking she'd still be waiting for the results.
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Oh my gosh! So glad your Mom was ok enough for the trip. I hope it turns out to be nothing serious and easily treatable!
And really? Never roasted a marshmallow?! The black ones are the best too!
I have to admit, I did like the black part of the marshmallow the best.
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OMG..............playing catch up now and I have to say..............so glad Mom was well enough for the trip.
Uhmmmm..........the cocktail..........when you said what was in it my first thought was.....wow, yumm, sounds refreshing!! Then when you said it tasted like cough medicine, I could totally see that as well
Uhmm, slide scare 2014
This first day sounds right up my alley and I have made the beach movies before but never the roasting marshmallows yet................so I need to fix that because it looked so sweet.
Stay away from the cough syrup the next time you're there. And you definitely need to do the marshmallow roasting. The best part is that once you've gone through the marshmallows in your baggie, you can go back and ask for more. Never ending marshmallows...for free!
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Accidentally unsubscribed, so making sure I'm still following! (Hate those little buttons on the iPhone)
I have slippery fingers myself. Guess it's bound to happens when they're long and skinny.
Not that I am happy you had computer troubles but at least that means I wasn't PAGES behind. I'm finally caught up and looks like you had a wonderful first day. So happy your mom is feeling better and able to come. I'm havingso much stuff with my mom - medically right now and it is so hard. I don't understand how she can not go to a doctor when sick? I feel like I have inherited a second child.
Not that I am happy you had computer troubles but at least that means I wasn't PAGES behind. I'm finally caught up and looks like you had a wonderful first day. So happy your mom is feeling better and able to come. I'm havingso much stuff with my mom - medically right now and it is so hard. I don't understand how she can not go to a doctor when sick? I feel like I have inherited a second child.
I hope your mom is okay. I know it was hard watching my mom go through it with my grandmother. It takes a patient and loving person to take on that responsibility. Good luck. ixie
Just a quick update on why I haven't posted another update yet. I've actually been lucky enough to have scheduled a few portfolio building sessions over the past couple of weeks, and unfortunately it has sort of put my Disney pictures on the back burner. I'm almost done my last session, before I have another one scheduled for this weekend, so the plan is to get the second day of our trip edited before I have to work on the next batch. I know you all understand, but I just didn't want to leave you high and dry.
Also, a quick update on my mom. She got the results of both the blood work and ultrasound, and everything came back normal. They told her that if she had another episode she should schedule a Hyda Scan (gallbladder test) in order to definitely determine if that is or isn't the problem.
Glad your mom's tests came back normal, but it would be nice to know what was going on so you could relax about it. Congratulations on the portfolio building sessions.
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I have slippery fingers myself. Guess it's bound to happens when they're long and skinny. 
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They told her that if she had another episode she should schedule a Hyda Scan (gallbladder test) in order to definitely determine if that is or isn't the problem. 
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