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All caught up! Glad you enjoyed the fair. That slide looks like fun!
Good Luck with the party! My oldest DS will be 4 a week from today! I can't believe it either. He wants to go to Red Robin for dinner and have a Lightning McQueen cake.
Tell Alex congrats for riding the big slide--I used to love those potato sack slides as a kid! It sounds like your plan to take a longer break in the afternoon is a good idea. Good luck tweaking the meal plans!
I will tell him. He seems to do better when he gets to play for a bit and do what he wants to do instead of just following along. We looked through our ADR's and are having trouble figuring out what to drop, we want to keep them all lol, so we will most likely keep them and just hope the longer nap was enough.
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Good luck getting the ADRs sorted out and figuring out your plans!
We think we have everything figured out. I am slowly working on Touring Plans but the next 2 weeks are going to be busy so it will be put on hold for a little bit.
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and for getting your ADRs!
Thank You!
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with the ADR's!!!
Thank You!
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Good luck with ADR's PM me about doing drive in 1 day I might have a few ideas you ban use
Thank You! I am def. interested in your ideas.
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All caught up! Glad you enjoyed the fair. That slide looks like fun!
Good Luck with the party! My oldest DS will be 4 a week from today! I can't believe it either. He wants to go to Red Robin for dinner and have a Lightning McQueen cake.
The slide really was fun and it was his first time on it so that makes it much more special. Kids grow up soooo fast. I definitely cherish everyday he is this young.
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I think it has been awhile since my last update. Sorry about that it has been a VERY busy couple of weeks. This week is no different. It is Alex’s birthday on Friday and I am making brownies for his class. Plus the day before his birthday he has a couple doctor‘s appointments and an apple picking field trip tomorrow. Busy week but it will make it go by faster and our Disney trip closer so I am ok with it.
This past weekend we did a test car rental for Disney and everything worked out great. We had a problem trying to rent last year and didn’t want the same problem again. We rented a Honda Pilot and loved it but we still think a Mini Van will be better for the trip to Florida since it is more roomy. We went to Carver, MA this weekend for Day Out With Thomas. It was the start of his birthday celebrating and he had a great time.
Ok so that picture doesn't look like it but it was close to the end of the day. But he really did have a great day.
Unfortunately when Thomas pulled up there was a bell going and then he whistled which scared Alex so the picture wasn't as nice as I wanted but oh well. The next day we went to Manchster, NH and I got myself a little gift for the trip.
I know this picture is not great but I have never had a really good camera and wanted to take LOTS of pictures on this trip.
Speaking of the trip we made another change. We are back at Fort Wilderness Cabins. When we started to run the final numbers for the trip they were just getting a little too high so a change needed to be made. I am sure we would have loved the Wilderness Lodge but because of all the Dining experiences we want to have for this trip it just doesn’t work. Maybe for my 30th b-day trip we can try the Lodge then. Actually I am more excited about the trip now since it seems like they were just refurbished from pictures and videos I saw. Plus the numbers work better so we are ALL happy with that. I am working on organizing my To Do list a little bit today. It was getting large so I needed to figure out when I have to do things. I doubt I will get anymore done on it this week anyway, way too much going on. Hopefully I will have more updates next week and will let you know how our little guys’ birthday was.
Thank You for Reading!
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I forgot to put in my last update. My DH had a great packing idea. I am a rubbermaid queen and he suggested we pack in those. I LOVE the idea. Most of the reviews I read about the cabins complain about the lack of space so I think the rubbermaids would have storage already. A big plus for me is that they are clear and can be sealed pretty well. After the fleas this summer I am bug phobic and don't want to bring anything home with me.
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