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I used to teach 6th grade foreign language but last year I got moved to 3rd grade (and I love it!!).
As far as the online check in, when I did it it the area for requests had nothing to select. I went back several times during the 10 days and this never changed. ( last year when I did the online check in it gave me options to pick from). So even though I did the online check in, I also called to double check that my previous requests were noted on my reservation, and they were. So all was well! Good luck!
I tried doing that on my last visit and HISTK had at least 50 people waiting to get into the playground.
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Have fun at your friend's cabin!!
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Catching up, Shelly! the Mousekeeping envelopes! Impressive haul with the surveys! Continued Hannah! And her little friend sounds like a priceless friend! I have not idea about AK morning EMH. Sorry! Enjoy your time at the cabin!
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Yall have fun at the cabin!!!
We did!
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I realized I forgot omention how much I LOVE your mousekeeping envelopes! They are perfect! Great idea! I love how things just "seem" to work out for a reason! I know Heavenly Father knew to have the little autistic boy standing around Ben as he was talking about his bday party. Once again, it shows your great parenting skills that even though Ben secretly did not want him there, he still invited him,and what a blessing that turned out to be!!! We all need a friend who will love us for our good, bad, and ugly times (because we all have them). I'm so glad Hannah has found one for her. That little girl sounds like a keeper for sure! I hope they end up in the same class together this year. I'm sure your trip will be great, but I understand your worries.
Thanks for your kind and encouraging words!!
[QUOTE=stardust190;3996527]Ok so I'm late in reading your PTR, but I finished reading it before you left! Sounds like your planning was a little back and forth at times, but that you've got great plans for the trip now!The Boneyard was the highlight of the trip for DS.
I can't believe how much income you have from garage sales and surveys.
I will say I'm a little disappointed that you aren't driving...
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Is the boneyard sheltered at all from the sun?
I think my garage sale tally has as much to do with our busy city garage sales as anythin else!
After a 2-hour drive to my friend's cabin....me and the kids are all very relieved that we are not driving to WDW!
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How does your daughter do with sudden loud noises? When you walk into the boneyard, on the right side toward the back there are large dinosaur footprints. They can be accessed either through a cave, or going around the cave. They make a huge t-rex worthy roaring sound when someone walks/jumps/runs over them. It scared the daylights out of my youngest - so much so that we had to avoid roaring noises, fireworks and large dinosaurs for the remainder of that day. In fact, he woke up this morning yammering about "scary noise" and pointed to a plastic dinosaur the boys have in their room.
You might want to prepare Hannah for it, or help her to avoid that area until she's used to the sound.
Thanks for the warning about the boneyard. Hannah can react to sudden noises!
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As far as the online check in, when I did it it the area for requests had nothing to select. I went back several times during the 10 days and this never changed. ( last year when I did the online check in it gave me options to pick from). So even though I did the online check in, I also called to double check that my previous requests were noted on my reservation, and they were. So all was well! Good luck!
I will be updating about my online checkin experience next...
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Hope you're having a great time at the cabin! Glad Hannah has such a great friend!
There are parts of the boneyard that have some shade, but the Honey I Shrunk the Kids playground at DHS seemed to have more shade. We got to that area around 12:00 ish and it wasn't very crowded, but then again we seemed to have pretty good luck with crowds during our trip.
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We are back from the cabin. It was wonderful but I am now facing a pile of laundry!
I just completed my nline checkin for POR. There were no requests available for me to check. When I clicked on the "special requests" button I was only given an option to check is I wanted a play yard. I was not given a phone number to call to confirm anything.
My confirmation noted the special request of graound floor, which is not really
I have paid for a Water (river?) view, only because that was all that was available with my discount--no standard and no preferred. I do not care about any water view but I did request to be close to laundry in case my food-allergy child has one of her bad reactions....When I made that request over the phone originally, the woman I spoke to kept asking me if I wanted a "ground floor." I eventually said yes if that will help me get closer to laundry. It was as if tat was the most relevant button she could click! LOL My requests in order of inportance are:
1. Close to Laundry
2. Close to main pool
3. Ground floor
View is not important. I would rather be taken out of the water view category if it means getting my #1 and any of the other requests.
I called Disney...and after entering all of the prompts in the system...I hung up after being on hold for 20 minutes.
I then set about finding contact information for POR so I could reach them more directly. I will try to call tomorrow as I would expect the more "regular" staff to be working on weekdays.
If my math is correct...I should also be able to checkin onliune for OKW tomorrow. We arrive there Aug 9 (our anniversary!). Perhaps I will look up their direct contact information as well. I would really love to have one of the one-bedrooms that have two doors on the bathroom so the kids do not need to enter our room to use the bathroom.
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Sorry room requests have been a pain. Hopefully when you call you'll be able to get it all straightened out. As far as the Boneyard goes I don't think there was all that much shade. AK is the least shady park in WDW and I think the Boneyard follows that. There was some shade, but not much. Even looking at our pictures I found them all to be really sunny without shade. They do have some tunnels or something for the kids to run through that would probably be shady. We didn't go into them though as they had water running down them and we didn't want DS to get all wet.
Sorry room requests have been a pain. Hopefully when you call you'll be able to get it all straightened out. As far as the Boneyard goes I don't think there was all that much shade. AK is the least shady park in WDW and I think the Boneyard follows that. There was some shade, but not much. Even looking at our pictures I found them all to be really sunny without shade. They do have some tunnels or something for the kids to run through that would probably be shady. We didn't go into them though as they had water running down them and we didn't want DS to get all wet.
So we should try for the boneyard early in the day! Thanks!
I tried to do online checkin this morning for OKW but the system did not seem to be working well. It kept re-directing me back to the sign-on page.
I decided to send a fax to POR and OKW to make my requests. It is the first time I have ever done that, so we will see hwat happens.
I tried again now to do online checkin for OKW and it worked!
My checkin options were different at OKW than POR.
In the requests area, I clicked on "special requests" and the following options appeared:
Room Requests:
Add up to 2 room requests. Though we try to honor all requests, we cannot guarantee them, unless otherwise indicated below.
Room Requests Requests Dual Lavatory Entrances
Request Miller's Road Area
Request Old Turtle Pond Road Area
Request Canal View
Request Fairway View
Request Canal View
Request Peninsular Road Are
Ground floor
Request South Point Road Area
Request Hospitality House Area
Near transportation
Housekeeping Requests Pack 'n PlayŽ Playard
It also prompted me to add my celebration, which I did not see on the POR checkin.
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You would think they'd all have more specific requests on the site? Maybe it's too much work to organize it all though, so they just take requests from those who take the time to contact them directly. Hope it all works out for you! Not much longer until you find out!!!!
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I have not idea about AK morning EMH. Sorry! Enjoy your time at the cabin! 
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