"Is it Disney Today?" PTR (Sep/Oct 2012) - UPDATED 8/9 - Page 3 - PassPorter - A Community of Walt Disney World, Disneyland, Disney Cruise Line, and General Travel Forums
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Thanks Everyone!! Landon is asleep now & he had a much better day as far as his allergies go & his allergic reaction was all gone by yesterday. Cold meds are helping me
Our last trip was in Oct/Nov 2010, we had a few mishaps during that trip. We stayed at ASMovies, & had a few issues while there. It was a first for us bc we had never had any problems with cast members or managers. I did email Disney about the accident we had & how the manager didn’t handle it right at all, of course Disney being the wonderful company they are were amazing about it. Not sure if anyone else has gone through this while on vacation but here are a few things that happened: Landon’s backpack strap broke while getting off the plane, then his croc strap broke while in our room, two cameras broke on me, & then my shoes were ruined but I don’t remember how at this moment. I did my best not to let anything mess with our wonderful trip; I have to say I kept thinking what else is going to happen?!?!?
After that trip by Jan 2011, we had booked a trip for the beginning of Sep 2011. But we moved it until Feb 2012 in hopes of running the Princess Half Marathon. Well we had applied to pre-school for Landon (it was actually a last min thing & we knew he wasn’t going to make it in as the school year had already started and it was Oct.) but about a week after we sent in his application they let us know they had an open spot & it was ours if we wanted it of course we took it. I also had went back to school, well I don’t exactly remember what happened but we pushed the Feb trip back until the fall of 2012, I was hoping for early December, but Dewitt wanted Oct or November for the Food & Wine Fest. So one day I came across the TOT 10miler & just knew that was the perfect time bc there was a run for me (I have been itching to do a run in Disney for almost 4yrs now) & the Food & Wine Fest for Dewitt. So I registered for the 10miler, DH for the 5K, & Landon for his age group (200 meters). I called our TA who got us all set up at Port Orleans Riverside, which is a first for us. Then we were also able to get the Dining Plan for free which we upgraded to the Deluxe DP. So we took a few days to pick out all our ADRs, our TA made them for us & we were able to get everything we asked for.
Up Next: our ADRs & some other plans
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Congrats on the free dining, I am keeping my fingers crossed it will be extended for November, can't wait to see what places you picked. Hope everyone is feeling better.
Congrats on POR! Can't wait to hear about the ADRs!
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Congrats on free dining!! Cant wait to read about your ADR's!
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Congrats on booking POR and free Dining!!! Hope you and Landon are feeling better!
Thank You! We are doing great now
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Congrats on the free dining, I am keeping my fingers crossed it will be extended for November, can't wait to see what places you picked. Hope everyone is feeling better.
Thanks everyone for the pixies!! Landon’s allergies calmed down, & I finally got better by Thursday. I laughed about it bc Landon was sick for just over 24hrs & he gave it to me, it laid me flat for about 4 days, of course Dewitt didn’t get sick at all.
I hope everyone had a great Father’s Day!! Landon is very into Star Wars so I got the boys matching Star Wars shirts to wear & I just had to share a few pictures I took of them.
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