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Looking forward to hearing all about your plans! Congrats on staying at the Poly--that's my goal for next time . Love all your past pics--can't wait to see the skinny you .
Thank you! I am getting super excited. I can't wait less than 19 days to go
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Love the photos from your prior years. So sorry to hear about your grandmother. It's great you have those special memories of her.
Thank you! I actually have money she gave me for christmas saved so I spend it down there.
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Congratulations on the weight loss! I've lost 15 in the recent couple of months but I need to lose much more - I'll have to check out the support here on PP!
I love the passporter challenge. If it wasn't for all of those great people I don't think I would have lost as much as I did. I was so grateful to find them.
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Great start, Amy! And congrats on the weight loss! Can't wait to hear more. I'm interested to see where our paths might cross.
I was so disappointed that I can't make to the meet. I am hoping to bump into some people hopefully after our dinner. I have tried 4 times to change our ADR but no luck so far.
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Yay! Im so glad you started your PTR! I am so behind- glad I noticed the link in your signature!
Anyways, great updates! You guys are going to have such a blast! So happy for you!
Thank you another update will be coming soon.
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Great update!!! You are going to the extended time there!! Can't wait to hear more
I hope that you and your family have a magical time at the world
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This trip came about because of the bounceback with free dining last year. We were original going from Sept 23-Oct 4. We love going during Free Food because we can get more for our buck. Last year when we there we went to explore some other hotels. We thought we would like to stay at a deluxe this year but wanted to check them out. We looked at the WL & Poly but for the money we could stay longer at a moderate. We also went & checked out the POFQ but still loved the CBR. So before we left we booked our trip for Sept 23 to Oct 4 at the CBR. We went for 12 days last year & loved it because it gave us some R&R time. As I said before there is always some changes.
First change was Uncle Sam handed us this money & said here use this for your trip. Well Thank You Uncle Sam. Then as my dad would say my mom used her creative financing she came up with a way to be able to stay at the Poly. Since this has always been a dream for her. Hints where the trip report name comes into play. We weren’t sure if we could switch to the Poly. We called to see if we could & after some looking around we could change it. So now we are going to the Poly. When we first changed we thought just 10days was all we could do. I offered to help pay for some. Then we up to 11 well we just couldn’t get our schedule to work out. So my dad offered to put the extra in so we could stay another day. Well then there was airfare & that is a whole problem on its self. So we end up adding yet another day. Where did we add our other at?
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Just found your PTR and read the whole thing. Great start, Amy! Sounds like you and Mom definitely drank the Mickey juice... welcome to the club! Congrats on your accomplishment... that is awesome. I'm so sorry about the loss of your grandma. It is wonderful that you have those special Disney memories to treasure.
I loved hearing about your past trips and seeing your pics. How exciting that you're staying at the Poly! I would totally love to stay there some day. What a treat you have in store!
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Hurry back with more!
What a nice long trip you have planned!
Thank you I will be back with more details in the next couple of days
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Great update! Congrats on the Poly
I am so excited about this trip I can't stand it
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Uncle Sam and Disney math!! What's better than that?!?! Can't wait to hear more!!
That is what I was thinking.
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Just found your PTR and read the whole thing. Great start, Amy! Sounds like you and Mom definitely drank the Mickey juice... welcome to the club! Congrats on your accomplishment... that is awesome. I'm so sorry about the loss of your grandma. It is wonderful that you have those special Disney memories to treasure.
I loved hearing about your past trips and seeing your pics. How exciting that you're staying at the Poly! I would totally love to stay there some day. What a treat you have in store!
Looking forward to hearing more of your plans!
My mom & I love the Mickey juice. The rest of the family enjoy once we get on the airplane not usually until then. Thank you for reading my PTR
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I SO cant wait to see your pics! The Poly is one of my dream hotels! Im so excited for you!
Thank you!
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more please
The next update is coming real soon
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How wonderful that you're going to be staying at the Poly!
I can't even wait & I still have over 2 weeks to go.
I think like most people on here we had trouble with airfare. We love fly SW & have always had great luck with it. We patiently waited for their schedule to come out (yeah right). Finally it came out OK great. The first problem we ran into is that they have no late flights on Sat. The latest flight was 4:35 which we all know with the DME that meant we would have to leave at 1:30. I know we are staying all that time but I don’t want to leave my happy place any earlier than I have to. We had credit from the year before that we need to get extended. We couldn’t extend for a couple of days after the flights were release. So off to AirTran I went to check prices. They were still high but they do have a late flight on Sat night. So after our credit arrives we decide to book our flight down with SW. We did get a great flight we leave Pittsburgh at 6:45am & arrive at Orlando at 9:00 am. We waited a while before booking a flight home. AirTran had a special one weekend were our flight was $71 so we booked it. We also booked a room at the ASMu just in case. Last year we tried to fly home on Air Tran & they cancelled our flight. They were nice enough to put on flight that left 5 hours before so we cancelled & got our money back. We ended flying back with SW on a later flight. Well this year we came prepared. Well a couple of months ago we check Air Tran & low & behold they moved our 8:40pm flight to a 6:30. So that not to bad so we called made sure we were on there & picked our seats again since we paid for them. Well a couple of weeks later we check again. We are still on the same flight but now it is a bigger plane so they put people in between us. That was the last straw that is why we paid extra money to pick our seats. After a phone call we cancelled our seats & got our money back. So that we could book with SW on a Sun morning flight. My dad then decided that he didn’t want to switch hotels so we call WDW. We are able to add an extra night to our package. We called & cancelled the ASMu. That is how this trip came back with almost all of the changes. 13 days/12nights at the POLY. This trip really is a dream come true.
Up next: Where to eat & have to find a place to eat our last night.
I didn't want to make this update boring with no pictures. So here is a few from last year. You will notice the picture of the Florida coastline how cloudy it was. We should of known what lies a head.
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Can't wait to hear more. I'm interested to see where our paths might cross.
the extended time there!! Can't wait to hear more
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