Where are the kids? At home with their Dads! TR April 13-19, 2010 - Page 7 - PassPorter - A Community of Walt Disney World, Disneyland, Disney Cruise Line, and General Travel Forums
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You know I have to say that the highlight of our October 2009 trip was meeting all my passporter friends.It just made our trip so much more special!
I had the opportunity to meet up with: WOW! Look at all these passporter friends! Maria, Ben, Melissa, Stephanie, Sheri, Sharon, Amy, Amy's Mom, Matt & Bethany. That was alot of fun!
Me and Miss Sheri
Me and Melissa(southernbelle)
Here's me, Heather and Isabelle
Princess Sharon, Heather and Me at MNSSHP
I only wish I had more pictures to share with you! My goal is to take more pictures of friends this trip for sure.
So my advice is that if you are going to WDW make time to meet up with friends. It makes the trip absolutely 100% more special
Meeting up with these passporter friends for sure!
Matt (mattuga) and his girls Allie and Lindsay. They will be in the world April 17-22. Allie is having an all out birthday celebration at Epcot on Sunday 4/17 I am hoping to catch some of that after this conference I have to go to. Then there is some Tower of Terror happening on Saturday 4/18. I think it's Lindsay that wants to ride for the first time. So we are headed over to DHS to do that for sure.
Then one of my favorite friends Sheri (skateycat) has planned to come over for the weekend. Yay! I can't wait to see her smiling face! She is so much fun to be with and I have missed her. See ya real soon Sheri
Now Liz (disneydreamer33) had told me in a post she would be there during our trip. I sent her a PM but haven't heard from her yet. So if you are reading this Liz-let me know what is going on.
Maci (xwewhisper) is doing the college program right now. She is at the Yacht Club if I remember right. I'm hoping to catch up with her sometime as well for a little hello.
I think that is all I got on the schedule for right now as far as meets. But if you are going to be there let me know. OR if you see me in the parks-please stop me and say Hi!
Great updates so far. Welcome to the boards Alma and Judy. Love the ADR choices. We love O'hana, definitely one of my favorite character meals and Boma is also one of those we have to do again places. Go hungry becuase there is just so many ownderful things to chose from. Chef de France was new for us last year and definitely a great meal. Already booked again for this year. California Grille is on my wish list so I will be looking forward to your reviews.
I totally forgot, tell Mom Hi for me!!! While Ginger is going with stuff she already has, I needed to get some new things. Wish I didn’t, but the stress of the past year finally caught up with me & I put on a ton of some weight. I didn’t have much for warm FL weather, but I managed to find some sweet deals on last season’s stuff! I needed a new bathing suit, got a decent one at Walmart. I also found 2 tank tops that were from last summer’s line for $3 Since I am selling Avon now, I ordered a nice tank top & a cool convertible dress for our ADR at California Grill. I only have a few meets planned. The one with Matt & his girls…..I hope they wanna do lots of Kim Possible missions b/c I missed out on doing that back in Oct. J I am also very excited to get to spend more time with Ms. Sheri! We had such a nice time at MK with her in Oct & chatting at CHH. The only down side…I think we’ll need more BAIL Money once Ginger, Sheri & I get together Hopefully Maria & Ben can sneak down for a FAB or two as well (hint, hint) Here are some of my pics from Oct: Ms. Sheri is better at the self pics then I am! (I cut half of Me out & ALL of Bri!! On Aladin) Princess Bri is GOOD at taking pics! (after we all road Aladin) The whole gang!!! My little Miss Chatterbox talkin Ms. Sheri's ears off! (Seriously she is!!! Yet another of Mommy's characteristics she inherated)
Great pictures from your October PP meets -- I'm now I'm sad that we must have missed you at Sheri's meet as we arrived a little later.
Looks like you'll have more PP fun this time, too!
Cam if I remember correctly you were meeting up with Mary Poppins I was so sad that we had to get going and we didn't get to meet you. Next time for sure!
Heather-I love all your pics from October. I had not seen any of those. Bri is good at taking pictures!
I think I better try on some capris to make sure they still fit. I certainly hope that they do. I'll just bring the spanx for sure
How much longer?????? I can hardly wait! The next few weeks are busy, busy here at work. I have to get through that first.
And I wish we could get some straight information about this Wishes Dessert Party. Because I am ready to eat alot of Creme Brulee! Again, that is what leads to the need for Spanx.
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It just made our trip so much more special! 
My goal is to take more pictures of friends this trip for sure. 
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I am hoping to catch some of that after this conference I have to go to. 
Then there is some Tower of Terror happening on Saturday 4/18. I think it's Lindsay that wants to ride for the first time. 
So we are headed over to DHS to do that for sure. 
So if you are reading this Liz-let me know what is going on. 
that we must have missed you at Sheri's meet as we arrived a little later.
for me!!! While Ginger is going with stuff she already has, I needed to get some new things. Wish I didn’t, but the stress of the past year finally caught up with me & I put on a ton of some weight. I didn’t have much for warm FL weather, but I managed to find some sweet deals on last season’s stuff! I needed a new bathing suit, got a decent one at Walmart. I also found 2 tank tops that were from last summer’s line for $3 
Hopefully Maria & Ben can sneak down for a FAB or two as well (hint, hint)
Ms. Sheri is better at the self pics then I am! (I cut half of Me out & ALL of Bri!! On Aladin)
Princess Bri is GOOD at taking pics! (after we all road Aladin)
The whole gang!!!
My little Miss Chatterbox talkin Ms. Sheri's ears off! (Seriously she is!!! Yet another of Mommy's characteristics she inherated) 
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The next few weeks are busy, busy here at work. I have to get through that first. 
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