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How neat to have a couple of PP meets with Shelley and Stephanie!
It's great! Been thinking alot about all of you lately. - and other things sent your way!
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I just started your PTR - sounds like a lot of fun! I am hatin' a little on SWW... Dh will probably never let us go back again, he hates Star Wars
Happy planning!
Sorry to hear that! It's only the weekend - he could go do something else.
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Sounds like a fun weekend! The cupcakes look amazing! We recently had a vegan cupcake store open in the city next to ours...we've yet to try it (maybe next weekend when my parents come to visit) because the younger two have been sick.
Have you hear anything about any schedulled events for SWW? Just curious as I haven't had much time to be on the computer lately. Congrats on the additions to your ADR's!
Hope your boys are feeling better soon.
Haven't heard anything. DH said he heard a rumor that Ashley Eckstein may there every weekend, so likely she's the host.
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I swear this PTR is so different from all my other ones as I don’t have much in the planning to write about. I’ll share what we did over the weekend – enjoying this weather we’ve been having and then I’ll share airfare stuff so it can actually relate to the trip this time.
Again, another busy weekend. Friday night we had dinner at my Mom’s (Dad was up at the farm) with my brother and his wife (Kevin & Becki) and just hung out.
Saturday was the first soccer game for the spring season at 9am. Dylan scored his first goal!!! And I missed it. I was watching Lukas. After the game we stopped by Bread co (oh sorry – Panera Bread) with my Mom & Kevin who had come to the game. Then we went to my cousin’s son’s 1st birthday party where Mickey was a special guest! Dylan loved him, Lukas not so much. This doesn’t look so good for all the character meals we have planned. Oh well! Later on we went to visit Mike’s parents and went to the playground.
Sunday was church then we went to the Museum of Transportation and Ted Drewe’s (frozen custard) for dinner.
Now on to trip stuff:
As soon as dates were released for the trip I went to Southwest.com. I think only the flight out was available as dates into June hadn’t been released just yet. We each had a $112 credit from airfare going down for our September trip so I used that to book our outgoing flight as we had to fly before the end of May to use the credits – another reason why the start of the trip was booked when it was. I paid $7.70 per ticket (3) for outgoing flights. Score! Lukas is still under 2 and therefore will be a lap baby. I wish I would’ve waited because by the time our return flights were released prices had dropped and I wouldn’t have had to pay anything. Oh well! So now that return flights were out I booked that and used a $25 SW gift card I’d gotten from my coke rewards. Out of pocket I paid $297.20 for our round trip flights. Not too shabby for 3 tickets!
And now flight info:
We are departing STL at 6:35am and are due to arrive at MCO at 9:50am and will travel to AKL via DME.
We leave MCO at 3:35pm and are due back in STL at 5:00pm. I’m banking on a 12 or 12:30pm DME pick-up.
We almost always take the 1st flight out and the last flight back and we did for outgoing but the return isn’t as we all have to return to normal life the next day and this will give us time to eat dinner and get a normal bedtime in.
Han Solo: Han Solo. I'm captain of the Millennium Falcon. Chewie here tells me you're lookin' for passage to the Alderaan system? Obi-Wan: Yes indeed, if it's a fast ship. Han Solo: Fast ship? You've never heard of the Millennium Falcon? Obi-Wan: Should I have? Han Solo: It's the ship that made the Kessel Run in less than twelve parsecs. I've outrun Imperial starships. Not the local bulk cruisers mind you, I'm talking about the big Corellian ships now. She's fast enough for you old man. What's the cargo? Obi-Wan: Only passengers. Myself, the boy, two droids... and no questions asked. Han Solo: [chuckles] What is it? Some kind of local trouble? Obi-Wan: Let's just say we'd like to avoid any Imperial entanglements.
I figured I’d have something about the Millennium Falcon since we were talking about flying. Mike used to have a bumper sticker that said something like ‘My other transport is the Millennium Falcon’.
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score on the airfare!! so did you get a new credit since the prices dropped? I always loved getting southwest credits to use for next trip. now of course we have been driving! The pics of the boys are so cute!
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Awww....the boys look so cute together. You got some great photos of them.
I love my new camera! I couldn't believe how good they looked.
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Looks like another great weekend!
It was!
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Dylan on your first goal! Looks like a fun weekend!
Thanks! He earned a disney dollar for that goal (guess I better explain that in a post).
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score on the airfare!! so did you get a new credit since the prices dropped? I always loved getting southwest credits to use for next trip. now of course we have been driving! The pics of the boys are so cute!
I did get a new credit, but since they expire befoer we can use them it was useless - it's all based on the original purchase date which was last May. Wish I did though because September pricese keep going up.
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Great prices on the airfare - glad you were able to use those credits. $300 for 3 RT is definitely a nice way to start off the vacation.
Definitely! Wish I could get the same deal for September.
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Another fun weekend! Love all the pics! My son has those same Adidas shoes. The charcoal grey with blue accents.
He got those for Christmas from Kevin & Becki - we picked them up at the Adidas outlet last November.
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We picked up Asher's at the Adidas outlet in Myrtle Beach during New Years weekend. We went down there for our anniversary and found those on sale and couldn't pass them up. He needed new shoes and we knew he would love those.
Great photos from the weekend! Lukas seems to be at the age when you can practically see him growing as you watch. Congrats to Dylan on his first goal!
Great deal on the airfare. I am still waiting for SW to release dates in November as we are planning on Thanksgiving week. Great pics of the boys....I love Sundays after church where you can just relax and enjoy the time together as a family
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Sorry to hear that! It's only the weekend - he could go do something else. 
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He got those for Christmas from Kevin & Becki - we picked them up at the Adidas outlet last November.
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