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The First Thanksgiving (some 400 years later) TR - COMPLETE!! 3/7
Okay, so I wasn't planning on doing a TR since I seem to be unable to finish them. That's why I didn't do one for the summer birthday trip. I just did live updates and a blog post here and there. I have to say, I missed doing a TR! It's fun to look back at them and "revisit" the trip. I mean, what else am I going to do at work when it's "I don't care Friday"? Actually work? Please. And I do enjoy writing from time to time. Perhaps that's the librarian in me. And I guess I just like to hear myself talk. I guess that's the annoying in me. I kid kid.. Either way, if you're on board for another Bakelin adventure, them so am I!
I woke up this morning with a vivid DDD in my head. What's a DDD you ask? It's what I have ordained the "Disney Disaster Dream". They start occuring sometime in the 3 - 4 week period before an upcoming trip. And for me, they started last night. It's almost a reoccuring dream for me. The "main idea" is always the same. We're in the bubble, all is well and good, but for some reason we're only there for a couple of days and it's already our last day, and we've spent like zilch time in the parks. WTF? How could I possibly have wasted so much time in the bubble? Last night's DDD included the in-laws T&K who traveled with us back in Dec. 2007. While we didn't waste time with them with us then, for some reason they crept into my subconsciousness and ruined my trip.
Well once the DDD's start I figure it must be time to think about the PTR. I like to put it off as long as possible b/c it means I start thinking about the trip about a bajillion gazillion times a day as opposed to simply the gazillion times before.
So we begin with the details. Once we figure out the details, we can decide on the main idea. Oh wait...that was what I said fifty times yesterday to second and third graders. Sorry.
WHO: Me and DH Andy. I'm a ripe old 29 and he's a spring chicken at 28. We'll be celebrating our 6th wedding anniversary (by seeing flippin' Roger Daltrey from The Who in a little club in Charlotte! ) the Sunday before we leave on Wedneday so we've planned a night at the Cali Grill to celebrate (a week late, but as Mike I. said on Top Chef "it's like, you know, whatevah whatevah"). Joining us as always will be the infamous Bakers. Brandi and Tom (aka Pom). We are of course uber excited to see our best friends again. It's been 4 months since we saw them last and we're having serious withdrawals. Pom wrote on my FB page a few weeks ago that he doesn't even know Loflins anymore. Sadness (Then again, Pom exaggerates). WHERE: We'll be staying at our beloved moderate - POFQ. We scored an AP rate which surprised the socks off of me. I didn't think we would actually be able to get one over the holiday but we were. WHEN: We'll be leaving Tuesday night after my 50 hour long professional development meeting here at school. We'll stop over at our home away from home, the Microtel in Brunswick, GA. Then Wed. morning the plan is to arrive at Epcot in time for opening. We'll see how that goes since I'm NOT a morning person. But then again, when Disney is involved, it's a whole 'nother Melissa. So our dates are Nov. 25-29. WHY: This will be our first time actually being in the bubble on actual Thaknsgiving day. We've been the Sunday through Wed. before (honeymoon) and the weekend before (and then cruise) last year. SO we are uber excited about eating turkey and breaking bread with the Bakers and the mouse for Thanksgiving. And like I said while ago, we'll also be celebrating our 6th anniversary.
Coming up: I smell a photoshop in my future. One that explains the title to this TR. And more details. It's all in the details.
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Great start...we have yet to stay at the POFQ maybe next trip...especially since i just found out they have Abita on tap there. I ran into Brandi a couple of weeks ago for the first time...she was watching the BI hollering at them to stop playing hermans hermit ...just kidding ...she was very nice.
I ran into Brandi a couple of weeks ago for the first time...she was watching the BI hollering at them to stop playing hermans hermit ...just kidding ...she was very nice.
I know you're not kidding I'm not surprised in the slightest that she would be doing such rebellious things. I might have to join her when we're there.
WOOHOO! A PTR means a TRIP! And soon! You have no idea how bad our Loflin withdrawals have been lately. And yes, Pom has been known to exaggerate on occasion. He's just got his panties in a twist because he doesn't talk to Melissa on the phone as much as he wants to. Let's face it, who really has an extra 4 hours in their day to talk to Pom?
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Bakelins chillin' at the pool after a fun week at Disney!
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Details! I need details! LOL You said you will be there on Thanksgiving. We will too and I would to have at least a "Hi/Bye" meet with one of my favorite TR writers. Seriously, I love reading your TRs. They are so entertaining. Plus DD will be taking her wheelchair for the first time, and if we run into the Bakelins then maybe she can get some pointers from Pom on how to enjoy WDW from a rolling chair. (Although, I don't think she will really have a hard time enjoying herself while we are there.)
We have been having Loflin withdrawls something awful. We just love our little Loflin friends even if Andy Loflin wants to slap me. Turkey day at the World is nice and we can't wait until you make the big move this way so we can do all the holidays in the bubble. If everyone behaves themselves I'll buy the cokes for everyone in Epcot but you have to be nice which means grab the reigns of the wheelchair occasionally. But the goodbyes are getting worse so I'm not sure how to handle those. No more DDD's, happy thoughts, I mean it's D-World for goodness sakes. And I don't exaggerate (sp?) I just get bad withdrawls when I call and hang up and no one calls me back. Can we watch the Frenchy Movie?
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Bakelins at RiRa Irish Pub in Uptown Charlotte, June 2010
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Please. And I do enjoy writing from time to time. Perhaps that's the librarian in me. And I guess I just like to hear myself talk. I guess that's the annoying in me. 
I kid kid.. 
Either way, if you're on board for another Bakelin adventure, them so am I!
) the Sunday before we leave on Wedneday so we've planned a night at the Cali Grill to celebrate (a week late, but as Mike I. said on Top Chef "it's like, you know, whatevah whatevah"). Joining us as always will be the infamous Bakers. Brandi and Tom (aka Pom). We are of course uber excited to see our best friends again. It's been 4 months since we saw them last and we're having serious withdrawals. Pom wrote on my FB page a few weeks ago that he doesn't even know Loflins anymore. Sadness 
(Then again, Pom exaggerates).
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I'm not surprised in the slightest that she would be doing such rebellious things. I might have to join her when we're there.
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to have at least a "Hi/Bye" meet with one of my favorite TR writers. Seriously, I love reading your TRs. They are so entertaining. Plus DD will be taking her wheelchair for the first time, and if we run into the Bakelins then maybe she can get some pointers from Pom on how to enjoy WDW from a rolling chair. (Although, I don't think she will really have a hard time enjoying herself while we are there.)
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