The Sunshine Family (and Little Dude) Does Disney Again! - PTR - Sept 2011 UPDATED 7/25 - Page 6 - PassPorter - A Community of Walt Disney World, Disneyland, Disney Cruise Line, and General Travel Forums
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Just hAd an idea If you guys do MNSSHP DB will be easy Put him in a tye dyed tee shirt add a blow up guitar and sunglasses and you have instant Gerry Garcia Will keep an eye out for you
I thought of you this afternoon while we were at a party. One of my coworkers had his annual birthday BBQ party and everyone brought their dogs. Merlin went all decked out in his Service Dog in Training vest and he was the biggest and best behaved dog there!! LOL Three of the other five dogs looked like Little Dude type dogs, and the other two were dachshunds. All of the little dogs kept barking at Merlin and he just laid there in the grass by DBF's chair or under the table when we went in to eat. He was so good. This was his first outing as a service dog so we felt it was a great success. But I kept thinking how those other little dogs were just not very well behaved, unlike Little Dude and Merlin.
I thought of you this afternoon while we were at a party. One of my coworkers had his annual birthday BBQ party and everyone brought their dogs. Merlin went all decked out in his Service Dog in Training vest and he was the biggest and best behaved dog there!! LOL Three of the other five dogs looked like Little Dude type dogs, and the other two were dachshunds. All of the little dogs kept barking at Merlin and he just laid there in the grass by DBF's chair or under the table when we went in to eat. He was so good. This was his first outing as a service dog so we felt it was a great success. But I kept thinking how those other little dogs were just not very well behaved, unlike Little Dude and Merlin.
I'm glad you get to see that training makes a huge difference in the boredom and yappyness of a dog. After a while Little Dude would only act out if I wasn't around (i.e. when he's at the groomer) or if his cape is off (he's officially off duty and gets to be a dog when his cape isn't on). When I'm not around he either gets really nervous and becomes a crazy dog or he falls asleep on one of my sweatshirts or bandannas.
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Just tuning in here to your PTR - I'm sorry to hear about all the stress at your job but I do like your plans so far for Disney. Although I do have one teeny tiney bit of advice for you. Just because Stitch will have an ECV at DHS doesn't guarantee any of you seats in Fantamic. We went last year on a night when there were 2 shows and we got in line at 8 for the first one at 9. The theater was already at standing room only and it was difficult for the CM to find someplace to park Lenny's scooter where Abby and I could sit with him. We ended up almost all the way over to the left. Abby could sit next to Lenny on the bench but I had to sit in front of the two of them - and I think they were it was the last open ECV/wheelchair spot. I know you're going when Fantasmic will still be shown every night but I really don't know if this will help you or not in regards to seating but I did want to put it out there that an ECV won't guarantee you getting in or even getting seats (especially if it's standing room only).
Just tuning in here to your PTR - I'm sorry to hear about all the stress at your job but I do like your plans so far for Disney. Although I do have one teeny tiney bit of advice for you. Just because Stitch will have an ECV at DHS doesn't guarantee any of you seats in Fantamic. We went last year on a night when there were 2 shows and we got in line at 8 for the first one at 9. The theater was already at standing room only and it was difficult for the CM to find someplace to park Lenny's scooter where Abby and I could sit with him. We ended up almost all the way over to the left. Abby could sit next to Lenny on the bench but I had to sit in front of the two of them - and I think they were it was the last open ECV/wheelchair spot. I know you're going when Fantasmic will still be shown every night but I really don't know if this will help you or not in regards to seating but I did want to put it out there that an ECV won't guarantee you getting in or even getting seats (especially if it's standing room only).
Oh gees, thank you so much for that information. That would not have been fun to find out the hard way. Must think on this and figure out how to do this.....
An update!! Finally!! Didn't mean to go so long without a real update, but yesterday was shopping and tonight I had issues uploading my photos (then I realized that we were Netflix-ing, um, yeah that's why there is no network to upload files. DOH!!! )
So, what did we get? Somehow I knew you were going to ask that
Ok, so we got stuff to decorate our room when we get there!! We got some of that yellow poster tacky stuff to hang up the following:
Yes the blur is Little Dude. Seriously though, place mats make easy, durable posters!!
The before and after shots (Stitch is still coloring the Pooh drawing)
And check out these posters!! The Mickey one is slightly ripped so we got it for a quarter!!!!!
I think we're ready for pin trading!!!
At the Disney Outlet yesterday, we were able to snag 6 of these special NYC only pins for premium pin trading! They were on clearance, but still pricey, so the trade has to be a good one!!
We got special Mickey sweatshirts too, for a steal! Mine was original $50, down to $8 and Stitch's was originally $40 down to $10!!
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Just hAd an idea If you guys do MNSSHP DB will be easy Put him in a tye dyed tee shirt add a blow up guitar and sunglasses and you have instant Gerry Garcia Will keep an eye out for you
Ha!!! DB in a costume? Please! Since he wears Hawaiian shirts anyway, the best costume I have for him is "tourist"
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On another note, I unpacked the autograph books I did for DD and my DNephew for our November trip. (Actually, I just took them out of their hiding place. LOL) I wanted to get a pic of them to post in our future TR.
Pam, where did you get the black book? Stitch has been poking around looking for a book this weekend.
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Glad today was a better work day!
Read in your plans that you have Ohana planned. Food for thought ~ on our trip last Sept we had a 7:45am breakfast ADR. We stayed at Coronado and planned taking a MK bus then the resort monorail. When we got on the bus there was one other family one the bus headed to Chef Mickey. The bus driver dropped them off at the Contemporary then told us that he would take us directly to Poly. Saved us a lot of time and the Disney Magic was appreciated. Kudos to the bus driver!
Looking forward to reading more of your plans!
Wow, door-to-door service! I could live with that!
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Love all the purchases and I would say you are definitely ready for some pin trading
We love pin trading!!!! But not the price. All of those pins shown were either clearance or a vey good sale. With the exception of the NYC ones. They were on sale but not as low as I would have liked. Else I would have bought more (remember I'm buying for Stitch and I to trade )
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Pam, where did you get the black book? Stitch has been poking around looking for a book this weekend.
I bought it at my local Hobby Lobby store. You might find them at a Micheal's also. It was in the artist section. It's a sketchbook, not a scrapbook. The red one was int he scrapbooking section. I posted a link to the black book on HobbyLobby.com a few posts back.
Love your new purchases! What a great idea to decorate your room.
Sounds like you have a lot of fun plans.
I have to add that I love the name, Little Dude!
I don't remember where I hot the idea of the placemats but they're not going to rip! . We are having fun, but that work any day.
His nickname is Little Dude because when we first got him we had another dog. She was nicknamed Dude and speedbump. So then he became Little Dude. And Molly's nickname is fuzz ball, especially right before her hair cuts!
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One of my coworkers had his annual birthday BBQ party and everyone brought their dogs. Merlin went all decked out in his Service Dog in Training vest and he was the biggest and best behaved dog there!! LOL Three of the other five dogs looked like Little Dude type dogs, and the other two were dachshunds. All of the little dogs kept barking at Merlin and he just laid there in the grass by DBF's chair or under the table when we went in to eat. He was so good. This was his first outing as a service dog so we felt it was a great success. 
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We got some of that yellow poster tacky stuff to hang up the following:
Yes the blur is Little Dude. Seriously though, place mats make easy, durable posters!!
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