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Here's what we'll do everyday...."because that's what I do"
With 48 days left to go....I'm getting so excited...not that I haven't been all along. Like this trip is the only thing I talk about 24 hours a day. This is what the final plans are going to look like. I'm going to spread this put over a week or so, so that I can keep this going.
Friday August 13th-Departure Day
Since our flight does not leave Providence until 6:10pm, we have plenty of time. So if all goes well, we should be all packed by now. We each have a suitcase and a backpack.
This is I am hoping our timeline will come out to be. I say hoping because my wonderful DH Dave is pokey. He is an habitually late person and runs on his own time. He has to check things 3 or 4 times after I have already done so...Anyway...
9am-take Buster, our dog, to Apple Acres. His home away from home.
10:00am-walk around the house a few times to make sure everything is secure and unplugged.
10:30am-have everything in the car and we are on our way to Providence. Pull back in the driveway because I can't remember if I locked the slider door to the patio and run back in to check because that what I do.
12:00pm-stop at the Providence Place mall to go to Dave and Buster's for lunch and for a few games.
3:00- head over to the T.F. Green Airport in Providence. Put the car in the lot, get all our gear and head over to the terminal. I will have done everything so that we have our seats and all, so we should be able to dump our luggage and go through security, then head to our gate after stopping at the restroom and getting a few sodas. Check my backpack a few times to make sure again that I have everything...because that's what I do.
6:10pm- leave Providence and fly to Florida.
9:10pm-arrive at MCO and go to Alamo to pick up rental car. Get a pretty white car, cuz I hear it all the rage. I kid...anyway...tell David just as we are leaving I have to go to the restroom because it's what I do. Drive over to the lovely Hyatt Place and check in.
10:30pm-I'm thinking this is what the time will be now. Dave wants to go to Wallyworld and pick up all the stuff he didn't want to pack in the suitcase. Suntan lotion, deodorant, etc. you get the picture.
11:30pm- head to bed and snore because that's what we ALL do!!!!
And that is Day 1.
Should be a great travel day....
I just found your PTR and am now all caught up. Sounds like you have a great trip planned. I used to work at the Home Depot way up here in Everett, Washington.
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Dawn,
Great plans for the first day. About that cold and the quiting cold turkey, drink lots of orange juice. The vitamine C helps in an obvious way with the cold, but it also helps to flush the nicotine out of your system so you don't crave it so much. My DMIL used this method 20 some years ago when she quit and has never even wanted to go back. Good luck and feel better!
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My 19 year old hero! Hurry home! (A.K.A. D_Stitch)
We will get up bright and early!?!?---remember they are pokey----grab breakfast and head out to Universal IOA for the day.
We will hang out with all the other Harry Potter people until I can't stand it no more!!!We also want to go to:
Spider Man
Incredible Hulk
Jurassic Park
Sinbad
After the park if it is not too late, we will head over to BJ's to pick up a couple of cases of Soda and water to bring with us to WDW on Sunday.
We'll go have a nice dinner somewhere close whether it's Bubba Gumps, Buffalo Wild Wings, or one of the other 400 resturants on international drive and beyond.
I don't expect us to be at IOA very late. Then we head back to the hotel and make sure we are all set to go and head to bed.
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