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There are other changes as well.
Why? Well, the world has changed. And change with it, we must. The lyrics to "We Go On" for IllumiNations say it best:
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Moving on with the current of the years.
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To a new day, we go on.
It's time to move on and move forward.
PassPorter is a small business, and for many years it supported our family. But the world changed, print books took a backseat to the Internet, and for a long time now it has been unable to make ends meet. We've had to find new ways to support our family, which means new careers and less and less time available to devote to our first baby, PassPorter.
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Ok so we have 25 days to go before our first ever trip to Disney World. I say first ever because this will be our first time together. Anyway we had already been planning on going back next year but things have changed so many times I just want to scream.
At first it was just supposed to me, DH, DS(5), DD(3), DD(2) and MIL
Well that got changed over the 4th of July weekend. It got changed to:
Me, DH, MIL, DD(12), DD(8), DS(5), DD(3), DD(2) .. ok thats fine. I can deal with that.
Well now it has gotten changed again.
Now its Me, DH, MIL, DD, DD, DS, DD, DD, DN (17) + my husbands friend from Michigan, his wife and their 7 year old boy.
I am beginning to wonder who else hes going to invite before we actually go.
And its not that I don't want them to go. I welcome them all but the big doozie here is that the hubby has decided that hes going to foot the bill for nearly all of it.
And again its not like we don't have the money its just well I don't know.
Anyway we are going to stay at Pop Century, 6 nights/7 days with Park Hopper and Dinning. We will have to get 3 rooms.
Ok so I do have a question or two. We are going to try and get the free dining again. Is their a limit to how many in a party that can get the free dinning? Ok well maybe thats one question. I think I had another but really can't remember it.
The big thing is that I am going to be left to plan everything for 12 people. UGH well hopefully I will get thru it all.
I believe free dining had to be booked by sometime in June. Maybe if you are adding people to your existing rooms they can get free dining (not sure) but you can't book more rooms with free dining now.
If you're planning on doing lots of TS, I'd call asap to try to make the changes to your ADRs. Sounds like things are booked pretty heavily during free dining.
Ok so plans are almost the same just minus 1 person - DN (17)
I guess that I should have explained that this trip will be for next year for September 2009 and I was talking about getting the bounceback offer for free dining because we are going September of this year.
I'm sorry if I'm confusing you. I'm confiusing myself at the moment.
First...take a deep BREATH. It is not that hard to deal with doing it for 12 people. And besided it is not like the trip is in 5 days and all this was tossed onto you. You have a year. You just need to get organized to deal with it. First I would get a 3-ring notebook and some deviders and a hole puncher. Devide the notebook into sections...one for hotel, one for dinning, one for parks, one for general things, and one that will hold ALL conformation numbers. You don't have to deal with all 12 people just the adults in the planing stage...so that will be easy for you. Come up with your own charts so that you can stay organized. You can also go to themouseforless.com and get downloads for journals, autograph books, and other things to help also. Get rates for both staying at a value and PO. See what will be the cheapest. I would also suggest not to count on free dinning or bounce backs....that way you are not banking on something that may not happen. With you going this year, make sure you bring back a few extra maps and time guides from each park. That way you can use them for planing over the next year. I would also keep a journal this trip for infomation that you can also use to plan. Keep reciptes and things like that to help the other family get an idea of prices for shirts and such.
In the planing of it...just keep notes on things, talk to DH, DMIL, and hubbys friend and wife. I would pick some menues out from allears and print them out. Because of the age range you would want to do some charicter meals, some fun ones, some places like O'hanas and such, maybe look into doing MBYBBQ. At the first of the year send them on to DF & wife to get their ideas. Maybe even talk to DMIL and the 17 year old to see if they will keep the kids one night so that you, DH, DF, and DF's DW could go out to dinner. Buy one of the 1.00 pp to send to them so that they can start looking at stuff.
From there things will go into their own direction. Also make sure that you do it through Grand Gatherings...with GG you can do some meals that are not offered to non-GG people.
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