Of Mice and Margaritas--The Box is Growing **Updated 8/22** PTR COMPLETE!! - Page 11 - PassPorter - A Community of Walt Disney World, Disneyland, Disney Cruise Line, and General Travel Forums
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To a new day, we go on.
It's time to move on and move forward.
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Alright! Day off! Two Margarita Lunch! LOVE IT! I am currently working on my packing list! I've got so many Disney T shirts its crazy. I think I'm trying to decide which ones will look the best in pictures. I'm also trying to decide if its worth it for a five day trip to buy the photopass cd ahead of time. Anyone have an opinion? I've never bothered with the cd before . . . I just usually ask the PP guy to take one with my camera as well. I'm getting really excited . . . 19 days to go!!
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There are a lot of threads on the PP right now going on...but for me i think its a must to have. Especially when there's only two people. It was worth the money for us to get it and we actually got nearly 70 pics out of it and could personalize them as well. The pictures always turn out so good too!
Sorry to hear about the economic stress going on down there hang in there!
Your plans look fab for disney though and looks like you can use the break by the time you get there
you dont have much longer so hang in there!
Hello out there! I promise you will get a full post tomorrow! I got called into work today because someone else was sick . . . we're kind of running with a skeleton crew. (Hmm I might have to fashion everyone pirate presents as a reward for sticking through the summer! I bet I could find some cool stuff in the POTC gift shop).
Anyway it turned out to be a really good day at work and it looks like I will get an extra day off on Saturday to make up for this one. Laundry pile? Can anyone guess how many loads of laundry I am behind? Not to mention how many trash bags will exit my apartment in the next two days . . . See you soon!
Oh I got all of my Disney mail! Yeah! ME and my package stuff as well! Very cool!
More Planning . . .
I am working on the packing list . . . I have too many Disney T shirts to possibly be able to pick five or six for my vacation. Brandon thinks I have a T shirt problem.
Today was is my day off so of course I went shopping to pick up some necessary items for my trip. By necessary I mean completely unnecessary . . . I got these on sale at the Gap in PURPLE!
I have been waiting for this shirt to go on sale at Hot Topic and today it was on clearance for about $6
It is going directly into the to be packed pile.
I've been hunting the Disney store sales and my Walmart for other T shirts.
I'm going to share a secret . . . a very big secret. Disney store boys size large is just a little big smaller than a women's large. I am quite comfortably wearing a boys L Donald Duck Ringer T right now.
Recently I've picked up:
I'm not sure what possessed me to buy another pink T shirt . . . I have red hair now and pink no longer looks good on me. I'm favoring anything in Ariel teal or purple now.
I think I've spent about $30 on all of these put together most of them were $4 at the Disney store . . . I did not blow the bank. I just accumulate when things go on sale. (There is NOTHING new on sale at my Disney store today. In fact there is no grown up stuff on sale at all.)
So that's my shopping update. You'll get to see what actually gets packed when I post my trip pictures!
I spent the rest of my shopping trip stocking the bar for the rest of the week and planning a very nice European lunch for tomorrow. I got my favorite bottle of Italian Primativo, some mozzarella cheese, a sourdough baugette (sp?) and some prosciutto for a mini picnic! Yum!
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