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Old 08-02-2008, 06:10 PM   #1
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Next Mousefest Chat 8/23

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Come and share your 2008 Mousefest hopes, questions, and just meet your fellow (or future) Mousefesters.

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Wish I could attend, but I'll be working (can't wait for summer to be over)
Hopefully you'll be able to write up a summary of what goes on during this chat session
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I will write it on my calendar and try to be on. Thanks for the info!
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Sounds like a plan!
Is that 6 central time?
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Is that 6 central time?
I think so.... presuming you observe daylight savings...
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Somebody take notes! I leave for WDW on the next day--so I am sure I have to work!
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Its this Saturday

Mousefest chat is this Saturday.

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I'm hoping to make it this time - but I can't guarantee it. We move Jennie down to college that day - we've got to leave here around 5:30 am - no idea what time I will get home.
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Yay-I'll be able to catch a little of this chat since I don't go into work until 11P that night!!

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I will try and make it this time . . . but with our crazy schedule lately and trying to get ready to relocate to my parents' for 4 months (leaving on 8/28), I am not 100% that I will be there.

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Hey - did this happen?

Can anybody tell me what was discussed - sorry I missed it!
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Hey - did this happen?

Can anybody tell me what was discussed - sorry I missed it!
Only had one visitor
Had a great time sharing back and forth for about an hour. This will be the visitor's first trip. She even suggested groups share a cab from their resort to the Megamousemeet...since it you enter Epcot you will have time for maybe one attraction and have to start walking to the gateway and the host hotel. Great idea She is staying at the same resort as me
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Sorry I missed it last night, was having some computer issues. Hopefully the next time there is one
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Hopefully Chrissi or I will schedule one more before the Cruise...
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I can't believe I missed it, I even wrote it on my calender!
Can we do one on a week night? It would be much easier for me
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