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Great WL trivia. I love the bear looking at you. The lights look like eyes. It's amazing! Gotta love Disney!
Love the Disney mail and the added bling!
I can't wait to see Captain America. Glad it was good!
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Just read through your PTR (very quickly) and I'm so excited to read all about your trip when you return! Spring is the only season we have not been to the world in. We typically go in Fall or Winter. Looking forward to reading about and seeing all your pics from the Flower and Garden Festival!
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Yay... love the magic bands, especially the extra bling! I was so excited when ours arrived for our last trip. Just another reason to anticipate the upcoming vacation! Sorry to hear about your scare. The whole My Disney Experience gave me a few panic attacks, but it all worked out in the end. Your trip is getting closer!!!
Great WL trivia. I love the bear looking at you. The lights look like eyes. It's amazing! Gotta love Disney!
Love the Disney mail and the added bling!
I can't wait to see Captain America. Glad it was good!
I agree that the lights looks like eyes. I'd go see Captain America in a heartbeat.
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Just read through your PTR (very quickly) and I'm so excited to read all about your trip when you return! Spring is the only season we have not been to the world in. We typically go in Fall or Winter. Looking forward to reading about and seeing all your pics from the Flower and Garden Festival!
We used to always go in June, so it's exciting to try another time of year. I plan on taking loads of pictures.
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boy that was a scare. glad it is all sorted out and congrats on the Magic Bands
With everything on the computer now, it just scares me if I can't get to it all.
Glad you got everything figured out with the website!
Me, too! I don't how many times a day I've been logging in recently as we are getting closer to the trip.
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Glad you got the login scare straightened out, although that was certainly strange!
Luke did read on the Dis boards today that someone else had had this happen yesterday. So we weren't alone.
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Yay... love the magic bands, especially the extra bling! I was so excited when ours arrived for our last trip. Just another reason to anticipate the upcoming vacation! Sorry to hear about your scare. The whole My Disney Experience gave me a few panic attacks, but it all worked out in the end. Your trip is getting closer!!!
This will be our first time using the magic bands, the Memory Maker, etc. so I'm a wee bit anxious, but I'm also very excited.
Over the years, I have carried a wide variety of bags to the parks. Our first three trips I carried my usual purse. Then after I joined the PassPorter boards in May 2004, I noticed quite a few discussions on what bags were best for carrying in the parks. There were even conversations about what to carry in that bag to the parks each day. On our June 2004 trip, I had purchased a Mickey backpack that worked fairly well for that trip and the 2005 trip. But the more I read the threads here about the Baggallini crossbody bag, I knew I wanted one. So for 2006, I ordered an orange one that made a couple of trips to WDW. Ultimately, the bag was uncomfortable as the metal slider bars to adjust the strap rested right on my shoulder bone. The next bag was a cute, small, and comfortable Kilimanjaro Safaris backpack at AK. I loved that bag until 2 days later the zipper broke. We took it back, and got an exchange. It also worked for 2 days before the zipper broke. When I returned it that time, I told them I was sorr,y but I didn’t have time left in my trip to check out defective backpacks for them and would need a refund. I came home so disappointed. I would have to wait two years before Disney produced another small KS backpack with a functional zipper, padded shoulder straps, and back padding. This backpack has been my pal for quite a few trips now.
This past October though I thought I was ready to change to one of the crossbody Disney Vera Bradley bags. But when I saw how small it was, I knew it just wouldn’t work for me. When we got back home, I began checking the Vera Bradley site for a Vera Bradley Mailbag that I had seen in a shop in Glasgow when I was visiting family. A week or so later I got an e-mail from verabradley.com with a code for $20 and free shipping on my first order. I immediately went to the site and located the bag again, which was also on sale. I chose the Baroque pattern, which arrived about a week later. It the mailbag has a flap with two pockets and then a zippered section with a cubby for a cell phone.
Two flap pockets
Zippered pocket
Sometime this winter Vera Bradley had an incredible sale (50% off one item with an additional 50% off a second item) on small accessories. I got both a wallet and coin purse in the Baroque pattern. The coin purse I’m planning on using for all our Disney gift cards.
Also during the winter, Luke got an e-mail about a small battery charger that would work with my iPhone. He figures that using my phone for MDE and Facebook will call for extra power. So he got me the cutest little lime green charger by LePow and a second charging cord, so I could have these handy in my bag.
I haven’t carried the bag at all yet as I keep rotating my collection of D&B and Harvey Disney bags. Later this week I plan to switch over to it, so I can be used to it before the trip. Who knows, I may even pack my faithful KS backpack for just in case.
Love that bag. I carried a smaller Baroque cross body bag in October. My mom is going to the Vera Outlet sale this Friday. She's already gotten an order from the short one at my house. I need to look on the website to see what I might want her to look for!
Love all of your plans for this trip. Can't wait to read all about it. I've looked at the Smashbooks too but hadn't shifted to a blank journal with Disney washi tape. May have to add my name to the list of those borrowing that idea.
I don't know much about the WL but now I know a little more!
Love the bling for the magic bands! I believe for October you can link your current bands to your reservation - so hopefully you won't get another set. We got 2 for our stay last year and online we can deactivate one set.
Love the Vera! I got a puffy crossbody for Christmas that I'm saving for Disney.
I have 3 Vera mailbags that I rotate. the mailbag is great as a park bag and I use one everyday. My Ipad mini fits in it perfectly. Mine are Paisley meets Plaid, Summer Cottage and Doodle Daisy(that was my first one)
Liz
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