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Already have my ADR's, counter service meals, and tourimg plan on my big @$& spreadsheet for December. Bring it on.....
Can I even tell you how tickled I am that Big A@$ spreadsheet has become part of the Passporter lexicon? But Melissa, my dear, you have not reached unprecedented levels of nerdiness until you actually calculate how many bills of each denomination you'll need during the trip. In honor of you, I've got the song "White and Nerdy" by Weird Al in my head now. It's seriously Z-Man's favorite right now. "They see me roll on, my Segway..." By the way, you are prepared for all the grief Ms. Eileen is going to give you over your daily "rest" periods, right? Right?
I'm so freakin' excited for you two, you'd think I was going with. Have a great time!
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Karen, aka Zack's Mom - Lover of all Things Disney and the San Francisco Giants!
Oh I forgot about Eileen and her misunderstanding of our rest periods...
And, you really haven't seen nothing yet chickie! I may not determine how many of each bill, but I have determined how much cash to carry to each park.
And, I've really become one with my notecards....you shall see
Can I even tell you how tickled I am that Big A@$ spreadsheet has become part of the Passporter lexicon?
Figured you'd like that. The description fits so well. Hope you aren't going to hit me up for $ because I used it.
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But Melissa, my dear, you have not reached unprecedented levels of nerdiness until you actually calculate how many bills of each denomination you'll need during the trip.
Now, that's just plain scary.
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I just caught up!! I don't understand how I just found your pretrip report. I am loving it and can't wait for more. Hopefully you will miss most of the racing traffic. We live off of I-40 and have to watch out for UT football game traffic. Hope you have a safe and wonderful trip.
I'm so disappointed, we'll be arriving the night you're heading home! Let us know if plans change again, and you guys add a day on to the end of your trip!!
Moving along, it's time to show my nerdiness. I'm sure my nerdiness doesn't compare to some of your nerdiness....but in my family circle, I am the queen nerd
So, I started my planning fun by checking out Eileen's site (great site by the way!!! here's a plug for it.... Eileen's Mouse House )
I found her daily park hours chart and I snagged it and sort of made it my own. (That's what we teachers do... we steal great ideas, change 'em up a little bit, and make them work for us )
In the end I came up with this...
That's the final version, with a few scratched out plans and moved plans... you should have seen the sloppy copy (first grade writing term) that I started with. It had all kinds of revisions marked all over it. It kinda looked like a football play card
After that was pretty much set, I moved on to making notecards for the little hidden treasures that you can find around the World. I used the lists on All Ears and made notecards for each park of the things I wanted us to see and remember.
Then I moved on made notecards for the Hidden Mickeys we wanted to find this trip. We have found a few in the past (thanks to Angie) and I want to try and find as many as I can this trip (within reason). I used my Hidden Mickey guide book to make these and then found a few more on the website that printed I out and added to the collection.
Once the schedule was completely final I wrote out the plans for each park for each day so we could carry them in and not forget anything....
Then, this is where I scare Andy a little bit....
I redid some of my Hidden Mickey cards b/c originally they were all done by park...but I couldn't separate them by day that way b/c we would be in different sections of the park each time we visited.... so I redid them based on where we would be on a specific day... Now all my cards are organized by day, parks for that day, plans for the parks, hidden mickeys in those parks, and the little things to remember for each park. Yes, I've completely lost it....
So here are some pictures to show you my cards organized by day/park...
You've already seen Day one in the examples....and I didn't make them for our surprise day or the Friday we drive down...
These are the rest of the days...
So now we can just carry in the 3 or 4 cards for the specific park, not forget anything, and not be loaded down with notes or my PP
I'm sure Andy will have some raggy comment about my obsessive compulsive behavior... Sometimes I remind myself of the anal retentive chef (SNL)
One more update from me to come before the trip..... so stay tuned....
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In all seriousness...I really love Melissa's nerdiness And it makes for a much smoother and more enjoyable trip and we get WAY more done. I almost don't even have to look away from the video viewfinder when walking because it is planned so well!!
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Melissa and Andy, Charleston SC, February 2008.
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Coming up: July 2010 - Animal Kingdom Lodge for Mel's 30th Birthday!!!!!
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But Melissa, my dear, you have not reached unprecedented levels of nerdiness until you actually calculate how many bills of each denomination you'll need during the trip. 
In honor of you, I've got the song "White and Nerdy" by Weird Al in my head now. It's seriously Z-Man's favorite right now. "They see me roll on, my Segway..." 
By the way, you are prepared for all the grief Ms. Eileen is going to give you over your daily "rest" periods, right? Right?
Oh I forgot about Eileen and her misunderstanding of our rest periods... 
The description fits so well. Hope you aren't going to hit me up for $ because I used it. 
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