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New news: DF and her 2 kiddos WILL be joining us at WDW, and though we haven't committed with $$$ yet, we are now looking at 4 day park hoppers through the Military Salute discount. (Her DH is active duty.) This possibility just never crossed my mind before. Whee!!!
Next step is to book the hotel room dates. With 4 days at the park I think I want at least 8 nights....I have park hopping I still want to do!
Booked in Kissimee! Off-site 1 star-Rodeway Inn Maingate, July 12th though 20th. Whoo Hoo!!! Sure hope DF comes through, because if not, that a LOT of resort-hopping! EEEEKKKKKK Just can't wait.
From now forward, this TR will focus on the non-Disney World portion of our trip.
Current Revised Itinerary:
NYC - June 24-31
Pitt? Camping in Upstate NY? - Jul 1-3
Charlottesville, VA - Jul 4-6
Blueridge Mts, VA (camping) - Jul 6-11
Disney World - Jul 12-20
Northern GA (camping/backpacking?) - Jul 21-31
Thanks! I'm just so thrilled about Disney, it's hard to focus on the other parts of the trip, but I feel really solid about them. Nothing there that is going to bum me out! But, I did forget to add Washington DC in the agenda. When DH and I talked about this last, we spaced it! We are planning to do that toward the end of our trip.
Revised Itinerary
NYC - June 24-31 - DH and his sisters grew up here. His youngest sis is getting married here. Plans: visit friend, eat a lot of bagels. on 6/26 it's DS's 6th birthday, we are going to ride the ferris wheel at Coney Island . Informal wedding ceremony in central park (they will have actually married at courthouse earlier in AM), I'm officiating the unofficial wedding! For the following days, we'll mostly tag along with new SIL and her parents from England, who are over for wedding. Sites I don't want to miss: Natural Hist Museum, LiLac chocolate company (something special from DH's childhood). Everything else can be decided by someone else.
Pitt? Camping in Upstate NY? - Jul 1-3 Plans: TBA
Charlottesville, VA - Jul 4-6 - Will be camping in DCollegeF's yard (haven't seen eachother in >10 years. Arrive 7pm, before fireworks start, hopefully, if train is on time. Go watch fireworks in town with DF's family (DH and DS4). In the following days, visit U of Va and Monticello!
Blueridge Mts, VA (camping) - Jul 6-11 Self-explanatory. Not sure if we are renting a car or getting more creative than that (taxi? DH drops us off, returns to town, hitches out? I'm leaving the details to DH, as long as I'm not hitch hiking with my 6yo!)
Disney World - Jul 12-20 See PTR in WDW forum.
Northern GA (camping/backpacking?) - Jul 21-27 TBA. This looks amazing!
DC-July 28-31 Do all that free stuff on the mall.
Whew! This looks really good to me!
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THE BIG NEWS: 76% of the way to savings goal for this trip. We are on track to meet our goal!
Mini-updates:
NYC - June 24-30 - DSIL's wedding in CPark has gotten bigger, they had to get a permit! There will be 5 other kids, so it should be a blast during the picnic part!
Pitt? Camping in Upstate NY? - Jul 1-3 Still TBA
Charlottesville, VA - Jul 4-6
Blueridge Mts, VA (camping) - Jul 6-11 Self-explanatory. Planning to do very rustic camping if we can afford the rental car, otherwise we will just camp in DF's yard in C-Ville the rest of the time too.
Disney World - Jul 12-20. Still no update on whether DF will be willing to come and bring us Military Salute tickets or whether we will be on our own for tickets. I'm trying so hard to give her space and not rush her or pressure her, but this is HARD!!!! I'm budgetting 340 to spend in the parks (price of 2 M.S. tickets). If we end up just getting a one-day MK pass, we'll use the extra to do a charcter meal or something. Highlights I'm looking forward to include water transportation "tours", visiting multiple resort playgrounds, and Beaches and Cream!
Northern GA (TBA, camping/backpacking?) - Jul 21-27 TBA. We're now looking at Charleston, SC instead...We have lots of flexibility with this and are still up in the air.
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. Informal wedding ceremony in central park (they will have actually married at courthouse earlier in AM), I'm officiating the unofficial wedding! 
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