How our 10 year anniversary trip turned in to DS’s almost 5th birthday celebration PTR – YC April/May 2009 - Page 5 - PassPorter - A Community of Walt Disney World, Disneyland, Disney Cruise Line, and General Travel Forums
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Your almost there. I hope you cold goes away before you leave. Sounds like you have everything ready to go. Rest the next few days and have a great trip.
Glad you had a great morning at the movies and at the park, sorry you are not feeling up to par. Hoping you feel better real soon....can't believe the trip is in 5 days
Well....it's the day before we leave and I'm all anxious and nervous. Being a control freak really does have it's draw backs in life. We were to have a full morning at the mall with a friend followed with swimming lessons. Fortunately, my friend cancelled on us since her family had been getting sick all weekend and she was kind enough to not want to spread her germs around us the day before our vacation. As much as we were looking forward to our visit, we'll catch up after vacation. It also solved a problem I was having about checking us in on SW for our flight. I had 'trained' DH in exactly what to do and he was going to do it from work. Since our plans changed, I didn't skip a beat in firing DH and taking back the responsibility. He was very relieved. It will still be a little tight as our check-in time is at the precise moment that we would normally be heading out of the house for swimming lessons. Too bad, we'll have to be 5 minutes late - Right?
DS has been ecstatic the last few night as the gummy bear jar had been all but emptied. Last night, he told me, "Mommy there's only one loney bear in my jar. He had lots of friends, but I ate them all up and now we're going to Disney World." DH has his "honey do list" for things to do before we leave. My list is getting shorter and shorter, but I'm still annoyed by the number of things that always have to be done at the last minute..packing the toiletries, changing the sheets for the housesitter, switching around my purse for the trip...etc. etc.
I'm just about over my head cold. A little stuffiness off and on, but nothing that psudafed doesn't take care of pretty quickly. I've got a couple of doses in my purse for before and during the flight. Hopefully the Earplanes we got for myself and DS will work and keep our ears from being too uncomfortable. A little more anxiety is being added by this whole 'swine flu' news. We're trying to stay calm and not be nervous. If we were not going to WDW this week, we probably wouldn't even give it another thought, but since we'll be on an airplane from PHX to MCO for 4+ hours, well it just makes us more alert. I'm not sure if our flight originates in PHX or is a continuation from a flight in California. I was just watching Dr. Oz, and he gave some great advice about hand washing, using anti-bacterials, keeping your immune system up, but then he mentioned something about being prepared for a pandemic in which the CDC would recommend avoiding public places and that we'd know by Friday. We will already have flown on an airplane across the country and been in WDW for 3+ days by Friday???? We'll do our best to keep to 'best practices' (like we normally always do, esp. on vacation). Now if DS would cooperate and just keep his fingers out of his mouth!!!
I'm really rethinking the birthday party we took DS to on Saturday. All those kids and strangers and germs, Oh My!
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You sound like me! I'm a germaphobe to start with, it makes me nervous for my kids to be exposed to sickness on any given day........ but when were only days from vacation, I get really anxious about it. I hope you guys all stay well!
I checked in with SWA right on the 24 hour mark and got us A32, A38, A45...so it looks like we'll get to board pretty early.
I've topped off all our anti-viral hand gel and am feeling much more calm about the Swine Flu since all of what we already are in the habit of doing is what they are recommending to do. Check!
DH picked up Monday's $5.99 pizza special on the way home, so dinner and dishes are a piece of cake tonight. Our 'to do' lists are done for the evening and we only have a few more things to take care of in the morning. So it looks like we're ready to go. DH said he was really anxious all day at work and couldn't imagine how I was not completely freaking out at home. I don't know either.
Thanks again for reading and I'll be back with lots to report!
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Countdown to April/May 2014 Boardwalk Inn.....3 Generations trip with my mom (first trip) and DS9 (fourth trip). DS's gonna show his Gramma the world!
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