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Love your story and your plans. We are going to be there starting 9/3, so Its getting close for us as well. Sooo exciting. I love the planning and packing almost as much as the trip. Just remember to let it go if it doesnt go exactly as you had planned(because it rarely ever does) and to know you cant do everything. It just gives you a reason to come back often. Hve fun!!
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About a week ago we got our Disney mail! I had to call and change our DME flight numbers, which took all of a few seconds. My parent's resevered to hotel rooms with queen size beds for our hotel stay the night before. And I have 3 chucky cheese type places (I don't like chucky cheese) picked out for that evening. One is Monkey Joes. Which is a building full of bounce type toys. And there is a toddler area for Tyler. So we would have to eat somewhere else then go there. Then there's a Happy Joes (Pizza place) with a jungle bungle attached (which is a 3 story area full of tubes and slides and balls to play in) and the last in the Incredible Pizza Company, which has a buffet and resembles Chucky Cheese, you buy tokens and play games. We are staying at a Jumer's Casino, and I just found out today that they have a small pool. Now I'm trying to decide if we should take extra suits to use there, and leave them in the van to dry out while we are gone... I'm not packing up wet suits and taking them to FL.
I ordered a double stroller and a single stroller from Magic stroller rental. It was $170 for the week, with us adding 2 extra days to make sure we have them the whole time. I thought that was a pretty good deal..
I also got our Photopass preordered.
This weekend I was sitting at home while the kids were aout playing and I sent my Hubster Ben a text message that said "2 weeks til vacation I feel like I should be doing some thing." His response was "Sleep!".
Soooooooo naturally I started packing.. I tried to hold off, but I just couldn't. Tyler's suitcase is packed, because he doesn't really need any "nice" clothes for the next 2 weeks. I can't pack my girls because they start school this week and I can't have them going to school looking all raggedy!
I started packing myself also. I have a small *cough* shopping addiction, and I have more than enough clothes.. Sadly, I'm packed and I keep thinking I need to add more!
My sister in law passed on 4 of those 3 in one laundry sheets from her vacation last year, and I have a M&M mini's tube filled with quarters, so really I don't even need to pack as much as I have.. Ben keeps telling me to "pack light.. So we can bring home more memories!" Which is sweet.. But IMPOSSIBLE! He doesn't seem to get that, yes, chances are we aren't going to need the children's tylenol... BUT if we don't pack it and we do need it.. That 3 dollar bottle of tylenol will be 8 dollars at the gift shop or 40 dollars if we have to call a cab to take us to Wal-Mart.. It's just better to be prepared... Right?
Once the packing was done I started cleaning like a mad woman. I'm living in this delusional dream that my house will stay clean for the next 2 weeks.. righhhhhhhhhhhhht... My kids had it messy 20 minutes after I cleaned it. So I'm just making myself nuts recleaning what I just cleaned! I don't know how the stay at home mama's do it!
So now I just have to wait it out. We have open house and school starting, next weekend I have plans to go out to eat with a friend of mine, and Ben has plans for a poker tournament and we are taking the kiddos swimming next weekend. I started my last minute to do list. And I keep adding to it.
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I had to call and change our DME flight numbers, which took all of a few seconds. My parent's resevered to hotel rooms with queen size beds for our hotel stay the night before. And I have 3 chucky cheese type places (I don't like chucky cheese) picked out for that evening. One is Monkey Joes. Which is a building full of bounce type toys. And there is a toddler area for Tyler. So we would have to eat somewhere else then go there. Then there's a Happy Joes (Pizza place) with a jungle bungle attached (which is a 3 story area full of tubes and slides and balls to play in) and the last in the Incredible Pizza Company, which has a buffet and resembles Chucky Cheese, you buy tokens and play games. We are staying at a Jumer's Casino, and I just found out today that they have a small pool. Now I'm trying to decide if we should take extra suits to use there, and leave them in the van to dry out while we are gone... I'm not packing up wet suits and taking them to FL. 
He doesn't seem to get that, yes, chances are we aren't going to need the children's tylenol... BUT if we don't pack it and we do need it.. That 3 dollar bottle of tylenol will be 8 dollars at the gift shop or 40 dollars if we have to call a cab to take us to Wal-Mart.. It's just better to be prepared... Right?
Liz 
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