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Heather, your Disney dreams are such a hoot!! I recommend the longhouses closest the Marina!! I love that area best. That's where we mostly seemed to wonder to when we stayed that night in October! I can't believe you are less than a month out! 28 days!! Seems like just yesterday we were all wondering around EPCOT looking for rides! I had so much fun with y'all and hope to see you all again very soon! Maybe 2012
I am so excited for your daughter! And it must be so nice that she shares your interest in the food/restaurants!! Shell be helping you plan these trips very soon, or perhaps, planning them for you,LOL!! Can't wait to read more and can't wait to hear all the WDW updates upon your return! You'll have to fill me in for our April trip!!!
Heather, your Disney dreams are such a hoot!! I recommend the longhouses closest the Marina!! I love that area best. That's where we mostly seemed to wonder to when we stayed that night in October! I can't believe you are less than a month out! 28 days!! Seems like just yesterday we were all wondering around EPCOT looking for rides! I had so much fun with y'all and hope to see you all again very soon! Maybe 2012
I am so excited for your daughter! And it must be so nice that she shares your interest in the food/restaurants!! Shell be helping you plan these trips very soon, or perhaps, planning them for you,LOL!! Can't wait to read more and can't wait to hear all the WDW updates upon your return! You'll have to fill me in for our April trip!!!
Hi there!!! So good to see you! Thanks for the rec. on the longhouse. I totally agree with you about it feeling like just yesterday that we were at our meet! And now we're just two weeks 'til the end of the year - crazy!!! We definitely have to get the group together again! You're so right about DD and the planning - my little assistant! Hope you and the fam are doing great!
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Glad you got your DME packet, I totally spaced and realized when I read your update that I don't have mine yet
We've stayed at Tokelau 2x, Samoa, Fiji. I loved watching Wishes from the beach on the other side of Fiji. My dh and I would go alone, very romantic. The walk back from the EPCOT monorail seemed to take forever, but that's probably because we are commandos and were exhausted.
Three week mark - the time is positively flying!!!! I saw a thread the other day that said that room assignments are now going to be made by the computer and it sounds like requests won't be seen in advance. After hearing that, I decided to stop stressing about which longhouse to request and just note something at check-in. My ideal is something above the first floor and away from the quiet pool construction. I think from there maybe I'll just let fate take it's course. We'll see how that works out for me, a control freak.
Trip planning is sort of on the back burner right now because I am so behind on Christmas preparations. I started off strong with almost all of my shopping done well in advance but then I stalled out and now I have baking, grocery shopping, cleaning and almost all my wrapping still left to do. Oh boy, wish me luck!
I totally agree about time flying by! I read that too about room assignments....I had planned on making a request, but I guess I'll see how things go. When we stayed at CBR this past Jan, we got the section we requested. Maybe you can let me know what you end up doing & how it works for you. Good luck with the Christmas preparations! Not long now!
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! Thanks for the rec. on the longhouse. I totally agree with you about it feeling like just yesterday that we were at our meet! And now we're just two weeks 'til the end of the year - crazy!!! We definitely have to get the group together again
The walk back from the EPCOT monorail seemed to take forever, but that's probably because we are commandos and were exhausted. 
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. Oh boy, wish me luck!
with your Christmas preps!
Susan
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