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We got back from WDW on Sunday night and I wanted to get an update in tonight.
So here goes.
Our plan was to leave on September 25 after DH got off work to start our drive. DH suggested I drive him to work to save time. I said sure. I got up with him at 6:00 am and we bothed showered and got dressed. While he ate breakfast I started some last minute packing. Then I woke DS up and we dropped DH off at work and returned home. DS and I ate breakfast. I finished packing and loaded up the car. It was now around 10 am. I was ready to go, but had to wait on DH to finish up at work. He said he would call if he could leave.
I feed DS lunch and decided it was nap time around 12:30. I laid on the couch and dosed hoping for the phone to ring. DS never feel asleep, but I thought he was just playing in his bed. After 2 hours (my minimium time for him to rest) I went up stairs to get him and found him out of bed (the first time he has climbed out of his toddler bed since he started sleeping in it in May) with diapers, baby wipes, clothes, blankets, and stuffed animals all over his room with the biggest and proudest smile on his face . I guess he was excited to leave for WDW too. I cleaned up his room and it was now around 2:45 pm so I called DH to see if was about ready to leave. He said no a problem had come up he had to deal with.
So DS and I went to McDonald's to get a Happy Meal and then went to the park until time to pick DH up at 4 pm when the office normally closes. But of course he got stuck on the phone with a client and we did not leave until 4:30 pm. There went my leaving early.
We finally got on the road and DS feel right to sleep. Well of course he used all of his energy removing diaper and clothes from the draws in his room so he felt it was time to nap. We drove till around 6:30 pm and then we stopped at a Long John Silvers for dinner.
Back in the car we went. DS was up and playing for about 2 hours then happily went right back to sleep. We drove till around 12:30 am and decided to stop just south of Charlotte, NC for the night. We got a room at the Marriott. DS never woke up. I got ready for bed and went to sleep. DH had some work to do that he had to send off in the morning so he worked for an hour or so.
We got up at 6:30 am. After showers and getting DS dressed, DH sent off the project he had worked on before bed and we went to McDonald's to grab breakfast.
We were on the road by 8 am. We were making great time and then DH gets a call from work saying their biggest client was threatening to not do business with them because DH was on vacation and he needed something taken care of right then. We stop at a rest stop and DH calls this client and gets things calmed down, but now he needs to do some more work. DS is now watching movies quietly, DH pulls out the labtop to work, and I start driving. DH gets everything that needs fix done. We then needed to find somewhere for DH to get internet access so he could email off what he had finished.
We lost about 2 hours of driving time trying to find somewhere for DH to get internet access, by this time I am getting annoyed becauce we are on vacation. We grab a bite to eat while trying to find internet access and then once DH emails off the project. The day is saved and we are back on the road.
We finally arrive at WDW around 4 pm. We do not have time to make it MK before our 5 pm ADR's at Ohana so we check into the CRB and unload.
Up next: pictures of our room and dinner at Ohana
PS: I am still sorting though all of my pictures so it may be a day or two before the next update.
Great start. Sorry about all the delays. Clients should be more understanding of people going on vacation. Whenever one of our vendors is out there is always a backup in the office to cover for them.
Niki, I think you deserve a vacation and soon. Also, I think you deserve much more then that, you deserve help from the family on holidays. Since you are kind enough out of the goodness out of your heart to have everyone gather together in your home for holidays you should have cooperation from them too. It is not a holiday for them if they don't pitch in and make it a holiday. The relatives could bring a dish that is a speciality of theres as holidays, or a home-baked dessert, or both. They if everyone helped with setting up and doing the dishes cleaning will go faster too.
There are homes for seniors run by the state or the city. In their own home in that community they meet people their own age to socialige with, play bingo, cards, read, shop, exchange health woes and cures. There is medical alert sysntems as you know, and they can wear a bracelet or necklace with help just at the touch of a button. Visitors are fun and the senior relative can entertain you and your family, perhaps even serve you a cup of coffee or tea. The seniors go places together as a group for even more fun too. Your mother-in-law is missing out on life by living with family and over time will probably feel even more alone and try to boss you and her son. Not good. I will pray for you, your husband, and your family.
Welcome back. Great start... AAAGGHH Work!! You'd think that you could at least get away from it on a well deserved vacation. Your DH should find out the next time that client goes on vacation and call him while he's sitting on a beach somewhere with an umbrella drink and keep him on the phone until his pina colada melts!! Then maybe next time he'll have a bit more understanding!
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. I guess he was excited to leave for WDW too
. I cleaned up his room and it was now around 2:45 pm so I called DH to see if was about ready to leave. He said no a problem had come up he had to deal with. 
Whenever one of our vendors is out there is always a backup in the office to cover for them.
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Then maybe next time he'll have a bit more understanding!
with the computer issues!!
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