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for June's allergies. I know from bitter experience how miserable those can be.
Luke and I both have seasonal allergies that seem to last all year, so we've been on loratadine for years.
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I'm glad to hear your dad is doing well.
for June!
I'm thankful that Dad is improving and June, at least, isn't in pain.
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Glad to hear that your dad's recovery is coming along and hope that the rash clears up soon. I've had seasonal allergies so I know how miserable it can make you feel. Hope June feels better soon. So happy that at least the park hours are up on the DL website and hopefully you'll be able to make the dining packages soon!!!
I'm getting used to the weirdness of the DL website, and I'll be sharing some more in today's update.
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Hope June is feeling better soon! I know all about those allergies as I'm suffering from them right now.
I take medicine but when the pollen counts is as high as it has been this past week, I still have an itchy nose and throat and weepy eyes. Poor June is experiencing all this for the first time and it has hit her hard.
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Honestly, the dining portion of Disneyland’s website just keeps getting weirder. This morning I checked first for World of Color dining packages. The calendar still showed no dates past October 3. I moved to park hours and was excited to see that October 10 had been added. Then I got curious and returned to dining. I checked to see if dinner times had been added for Carthay Circle. To my amazement, there were now dinner times. So I switched our 3:00 dinner to 6:00, cancelling the earlier one. So that was a wee bit of progress. I could also have switched our Café Orleans 3:30 late lunch to dinner, but we agreed we like the idea of a late lunch, so we can return to the room with plenty of time to change into our costumes before Mickey’s Halloween party. Next I checked to see if dinner times were open for Wine Country Trattoria even though we couldn’t yet book the WoC package. Another surprise I could, and I quickly asked Luke if we should go ahead just in case. He agreed, and now we have a reservation for 5:00. When the WoC package opens, I’ll cancel this one. At this point I felt I’d done all I could do.
Around 3:00 this afternoon, Luke got curious and went to Disneyland’s dining site and discovered that WoC packages were now available for Ariel’s Grotto and Carthay Circle. But we may have failed to be thorough in our check as we wanted neither of these. For Wine Country Trattoria it was still showing no times available. I did get the idea to check the Fantasmic package. Still no dates appeared to be open. I then checked to see if I could get a dinner without the package at Blue Bayou. No dinners were available, but I could book a late lunch. I debated and then decided to go ahead with a 3:40 PM lunch. Again I will cancel when the dining packages open up. When we got home tonight from church, on a whim I decided to check yet again. My computer has this website memorized. My heart skipped a beat when I clicked on World of Color, selected Wine Country Trattoria, and the calendar showed dates, real dates. I selected October 8 and a time of 5:00 PM. Then clicked Find a Table. Well, the joy ends there as the message for every single time of day I chose was No Tables Available. Now I don’t want to believe that between 3:00 PM and 7:30 PM that every single dining package was booked. But I’ll be honest this makes me a bit anxious. At least I’ve made sure that we can eat somewhere we want each day. I can promise you that I will be on first thing tomorrow morning checking again.
I'm glad to hear that your Dad is doing well! I hope your sister is feeling better. I recently went through some allergy thing, so I know how she feels.
That is really cool about doing the tour. I always think about doing one at WDW, but just have not been able to afford it. Hopefully one of these years!
Ugh - well I guess at least you made some progress, even if it's not quite there yet...
I do feel a wee bit better about our plans, but I really want those packages.
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I'm glad to hear that your Dad is doing well! I hope your sister is feeling better. I recently went through some allergy thing, so I know how she feels.
That is really cool about doing the tour. I always think about doing one at WDW, but just have not been able to afford it. Hopefully one of these years!
I love all that I learn on the tours, but they are a bit pricey.
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Glad you are finally making some progress with the ADRs and got some of those you wanted! Hopefully, you'll get the WOC package you so much desire! I can't see every table being full already. Must be a glitch on the DL site.
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for June's allergies. I know from bitter experience how miserable those can be. 
Luke and I both have seasonal allergies that seem to last all year, so we've been on loratadine for years.
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Must be a glitch on the DL site.
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