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Your welcome on the info and I have more when you call me later. Congrats on the new car purchase!! Love the color too! Then again both our cars are blue. Hehe
Ugh! I never got the time to call you back! It's been crazy here again. Can you PM me your work schedule next week so we can set up a time?
This is the first blue car I've owned - I really liked a dark silver but this dealer couldn't get it in, and my cousin in Cleveland could, but it would add $850 to the price because it had to be flat bed shipped from Upper Michigan. My husband voted for the blue and I admit the color is growing on me, plus it will be easy to find among the sea of silver cars in a parking lot That's how we ended up with our Green Van.
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All caught up on your plans, everything sounds great!!
Thank you!
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So excited about the car and the Disney mail!!!
What a few days in this house!
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Cool new car and Disney mail all in one day!
Me too! We're at 33 days until we check in as of today
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Congrats on the Flex! I don't know how you do it, I have 1 DD who drives me insane anytime I take her anywhere! Lol
The water park sounds like fun for the kids. I'm sure they'll love it!
Would it help if I mentioned that the salesman gave the boys paper and pens to draw, a mechanic took pity on them and plied them with fun animal crackers and showed them how to use the water cooler, and by the time we left, they'd tattooed themselves all.over.their arms with the ink pens?
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Congrats on the car!
Thank you!
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Yay on the new car! Love the color! And kudos for doing it with the kids!!
Thank you! Before we purchased, I did test drive a car like yours In the end, we got a really, really good deal with employee discounting through Ford plus the dealer extended the warranty for 5 years, 100,000 miles to match what Chrysler was offering if we traded in the van...we had no intention of trading the van away but Brian wanted me to investigate before we purchased.
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Great looking new car!! Enjoy!! What was your Disney mail?!?!?!?!!
Tara, thank you! It's SOOOOO much fun to drive The Disney mail contained:
Luggage Tags - they're really cute with a retro type Mickey picture. We also were given 5 for the first time ever!!!! We got 2 on our first trip and none on the last trip (we booked that trip through AAA and had a ton of "glitches"). It also had a coupon booklet with 2 free passes for Mini Golf, 2 Disney Quest passes and a discount card that gives a % off at Sammy Duval's, the childcare and a few other places. The booklet also gave some information about the hotel
Next Disney mail should be our Magic bands as tomorrow is our last day to customize them.
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Don't know how you managed to purchase the car with 3 in tow. Well done!
I'm very lucky in that my boys spend so much time together (they are the only kiddos on our street, and we live about 15 miles from their school and school friends) they are pretty good at entertaining themselves.
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The 22nd will be our 2nd last park day, and we are planning on spending it at DHS.
Originally we were supposed to me my friend and her family here, but when I moved our dates around to give us a full day in the park, our schedules don't mesh. Instead we're going to try to meet at MK on the 18th OR for swim time on the 17th. The swim time is entirely dependent on the CM/Life guards because we're staying at 2 different resorts. She and her family are staying at the Grand Floridian.
We plan at being at DHS just before opening so we can head straight for Toy Story - along with everyone else. We will wait in the Stand by line. The other "must do" things include:
Disney's Magic of Annimation, Finding the Cars Meet & Greet, Frozen Fun and 2 spins on Star Tours.
Our FP+ get a bit complicated as I had to juggle different "wants" for the boys:
1:00 - Lights, Motor Action (Brian, and the boys)
1:30 Twilight Tower of Terror (Patrick and I)
3:15 Toy Story Midway Mania (Everyone)
4:50 : Star Tours (Brian and Nolan)
7:00 Frozen sing a long (Cullen and I)
Like the previous day, we have no firm eating plans. The big request from Brian was that we spend part of our vacation in relaxed "unscheduled" mode. This brings me to my next question:
Shipping things to a resort.
I haven't done this, but have ready MANY posts where people have We're a bit concerned about cargo space with the Flex (okay, he is - I'm not) because it doesn't have all the storage options that our minivan does. No stow-n-go for example. Having said that, I thought of using Amazon Prime to ship a few non perishable things - water, pop tarts, peanut butter, etc to cut down on what we have to bring in the car with us. How much in advance to I need to place an order and is there a pick up charge at the resort? I'd want it delivered to the Poly so we have the snacks etc on hand. Of course, another option is to stop at a grocery store before we check in, or send Brian after we unload the car and check in.
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I can't help you wil Amazon Prime but when we use Garden Grocer we order it about two weeks in advance. You HS day looks fun! Eating at DHS always causes me stress.
Too funny about how the boys ended up on the car purchase.
You don't want your box to arrive too early to the resort, so be mindful of when it would arrive. There shouldn't be a charge. You'll need to make sure you list your name and check-in date if it comes before your arrival.
Finally on board and all caught up with the PTR and all the changes. We are doing LEGOLAND too - first time. Siesta Key is so nice. I hope you can still manage to get there with all your changes.
I have never shipped from Amazon to the resort but have used Garden Grocer for delivery and it was fine. Very Convenient. If you have Amazon Prime and you order items avail from the "prime" account, they ship in 2 days.
Whenever my DH and I travel to WDW, we always stop at a grocery store to pickup a case of water and other essentials once we get down there. It's so easy and then it cuts the cost of what you're spending in the parks.
I can't help you wil Amazon Prime but when we use Garden Grocer we order it about two weeks in advance. You HS day looks fun! Eating at DHS always causes me stress.
It causes me stress too, and I don't know why.
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Great plans for HS!!
Thank you!
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Great plans for DHS!
Thanks!
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Too funny about how the boys ended up on the car purchase.
You don't want your box to arrive too early to the resort, so be mindful of when it would arrive. There shouldn't be a charge. You'll need to make sure you list your name and check-in date if it comes before your arrival.
Good tip, thanks!
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Congrats on the car!
Thank you!
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Finally on board and all caught up with the PTR and all the changes. We are doing LEGOLAND too - first time. Siesta Key is so nice. I hope you can still manage to get there with all your changes.
I have never shipped from Amazon to the resort but have used Garden Grocer for delivery and it was fine. Very Convenient. If you have Amazon Prime and you order items avail from the "prime" account, they ship in 2 days.
Great mention! I went and double checked and the bottled water is part of the Prime!
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Whenever my DH and I travel to WDW, we always stop at a grocery store to pickup a case of water and other essentials once we get down there. It's so easy and then it cuts the cost of what you're spending in the parks.
We will either ship it ahead of time, or stop off at a store on our way in
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because it had to be flat bed shipped from Upper Michigan. My husband voted for the blue and I admit the color is growing on me, plus it will be easy to find among the sea of silver cars in a parking lot
That's how we ended up with our Green Van.
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