A Spring Adventure: Wilderness, Flowers, and the Force (with Cam and Luke) PTR Updated 5/22 - Page 12 - PassPorter - A Community of Walt Disney World, Disneyland, Disney Cruise Line, and General Travel Forums
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Love, love, love the bathroom! Especially the tile, faucet, and shower curtain! It all looks so great together, and the framed pictures are perfect in there!
I could believe my luck in noticing how the bronze framed pictures would work in the bathroom. No expense since I'd already owned them for years.
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Late to the party...but can't wait to catch up! I simply love your PTR & TR!
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Late to the party here -- cannot wait to continue reading. I always thhoroughly enjoy reading your PTR\TRs I did catch a few glimpses of the new bathroom - it looks fantastic! Off to catch up from the beginning now!
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Wow Cam! I'm finally all caught up. Your plans sound great thus far, and I'm so happy that you're able to fit in the F&GF for the first time, as well as your usual SWW! Your re-do of Stefani's bathroom looks absolutely fantastic. Both you and Luke did a great job!! What a great hubby!! And you have such great taste!!
I LOVE the bathroom. You both did a wonderful job!
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Late to the party here -- cannot wait to continue reading. I always thhoroughly enjoy reading your PTR\TRs I did catch a few glimpses of the new bathroom - it looks fantastic! Off to catch up from the beginning now!
Have fun catching up.
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Wow Cam! I'm finally all caught up. Your plans sound great thus far, and I'm so happy that you're able to fit in the F&GF for the first time, as well as your usual SWW! Your re-do of Stefani's bathroom looks absolutely fantastic. Both you and Luke did a great job!! What a great hubby!! And you have such great taste!!
Luke did the hardest work and I just had fun picking everything out.
On November 2, 2013, Luke was shopping around for flights with Southwest, enjoying day 2 of retirement while I taught two ACT workshop for English and Reading at the local boys’ and girls’ club. When I got home, we talked over lunch. He felt the prices were comparable to our previous trips, so I asked if we were ready to book. And we were! WooHoo! Luke logged into our desktop computer, and we looked over all our options. Our final selections were:
Monday, May 12 Depart Nashville at 1:35 PM (CDT) Arrive at Orlando at 4:25 (EDT)
I was a little disappointed that earlier flights were way too early as we’ll have a two-hour road trip to get to the Nashville airport. But this still gives us an evening to enjoy Disney. Our flights back are:
Tuesday, May 20 Depart Orlando @ 6:25 PM (EDT) Arrive at Nashville @ 7:20 PM (CDT)
This will give us quality park time before DME pick up, as well as getting us back to Owensboro around 10 PM, barring any delays. Keeping my fingers crossed.
On January 29, 2014, Luke on a whim checked on our flights with Southwest, and noticed the price had been drastically reduced. He quickly rebooked. Now we have credit to use for our fall trip flights.
Flights from the past:
Since booking our flights, we have received tickets for 4 free drinks aboard SWA.
Congrats on the credit with SW! I've gotten 2 sets of 4 free drink coupons so far this year. I gave a set to a friend who will visit WDW in July (that set didn't have my name or SW rewards # on it). I'm holding on to the others just in case, but sadly I don't think I'll get to use them because our vacations this year include a road trip to Mid Coast Maine and a long weekend in DC (we'll fly JetBlue....they had a fare deal I couldn't pass up!)
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Luke did an amazing job with the bathroom, it looks beautiful! I love that shade of brown on the walls, it's very warm and inviting. Congrats on getting the flights booked, and a credit to boot!
I'm just joining in now and I'm super happy, but a bit jealous, you are going o F&GF.............We just LOVE that and now with the new food booths it has us loving that festival even more than we did before. So happy you get to see that all PLUS your SWW too!!!
Something about WL has me so wanting to stay there, Arnaud isn't to keen on it but I just love the theming and not to mention the boat ride to MK. Oh, I hope you make time for the HDDR!!!
LOVE the bathroom makeover!! I so adore your relationship with Luke and how you both work on such amazing projects together!!! We have sooooo many projects to work on here I wonder when they will ever get done............one day I'm sure. Until then.....I love reading about yours!!!!
Just signing in! Love the plans so far, so excited to hear how you like the festival! The bathroom looks absolutely beautiful, such a great idea and it came together so nicely
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