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Where are the kids? At home with their Dads! TR April 13-19, 2010
Hello friends!
With only 40 days left until the big trip Heather and I decided we would get started on this trip report. Welcome to our tag team trip report that promises to be tons of fun!
So a little background on me in case you haven't met me yet. I'm Ginger, married to Zach for 10 years and have two beautiful girls-Isabelle (age 8) and Madeline (age 6). I have a love for Disney that is well understood by everyone here, but not so much by my husband (he's just ) or sometimes the rest of the world.
Anyway...in October 2009 me, my mom and the girls took a fabulous trip to WDW. It was during this trip and before that I met my new friend Heather (mpwife). We had met here on the passporter boards, then became friends on facebook, then started texting and emailing like we were sisters separated at birth. Lucky for us we were traveling to the happy place at the same time in October. We planned to meet and meet we did! We met up at the POP pool, had a great time at DTD, hung out at the MK(along with some other fabulous pp friends-shout outs to Sheri, Maria and Ben). We even got to enjoy MNSSHP.
Here's a picture of our girls together at the party: Belle is in the back, Maddy on the left and Bri on the right.
Heather and Ginger
As we all know after a disney trip there is this short period of the "disney blues" or otherwise known as PDD-post disney depression. Once you can get past that or in other words come up with a way to return to disney it's all good. So of course after the October trip my mind was racing with ideas on how to get back to the world sooner than I had originally planned.
It just so happens that it comes to my attention that there will be a Nurse Practitioner conference at WDW April 2010. Seriously???? I thought to myself! Then it turned into I gotta make this happen. So I took some vacation time and decided "I'm going to Disney World" for a conference, but who cares! I'm going!!!!!
UP NEXT: Who's going with me? I know you already know but play along! LOL!
Of course I had to request some time off from work to go to this conference. My friend (and my boss) Alma, who is a disney lover herself said count me in! Awesome! We usually always go to a conference every year together and with this one being at Disney it just makes it sooooo much better!!! I wish I had a picture of us together...but sadly I don't You'll just have to wait for the trip report pics.
Alma and I had decided that we would come in a couple of days before the conference for some "fun". Since I was a new DVC member I thought, lets just stay in a studio using some of my points. So I booked a studio at AKL. I was really excited because I have never stayed at that resort yet. Plus it was fairly close to CSR where the conference is being held. Remember the conference...the reason we are going to WDW?
Well a few days later a BRILLIANT idea came to my mind. An idea to invite a friend to come along with us as well. I wasn't sure if she would be able to make it or not. But I was certainly hoping she would be able to go with us.
So I sent Heather a text message that said something like this: "What are you doing April 13-18?" "Wanna go to WDW with me?"
I'll let Heather give you all her side of the story on this one. All I can say is we have been really excited and planning ever since!
UP NEXT: Cha, Cha, Cha, Changes! Every vacation has them right?????
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Yaa!! You started your PTR!!!! Can't wait to read more!
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Lovin' it! More please.
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Great start!! I can't wait to hear more!!
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Great start Ginger!!
Marnie!
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Great start, Ginger!
Cam!
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Wonderful start! I can't wait to hear more about your trip.
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great start
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Great start. Super excited to hear more.
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Great start!
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Great start! Can't wait to hear Heather's side.
Well thanks to everyone for coming along on our adventure! Heather is really busy right now planning an event this weekend in her son Robert's memory. So it may be just a bit before she gets here. But she'll be here promise!
I'm here , exhuasted, but here! I'll update my side of the story tomorrow. Today I am resting. As Ginger mentioned, last night we had a Beef-n-Beer in Robert's memory for SUDC research. It was a HUGE success, but Momma is tired!
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Welcome to our tag team trip report that promises to be tons of fun! 
) or sometimes the rest of the world.
Once you can get past that or in other words come up with a way to return to disney it's all good. So of course after the October trip my mind was racing with ideas on how to get back to the world sooner than I had originally planned. 
*Ginger*
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Awesome! We usually always go to a conference every year together and with this one being at Disney it just makes it sooooo much better!!! I wish I had a picture of us together...but sadly I don't
lets just stay in a studio using some of my points. So I booked a studio at AKL. I was really excited because I have never stayed at that resort yet. Plus it was fairly close to CSR where the conference is being held. Remember the conference...the reason we are going to WDW? 
I wasn't sure if she would be able to make it or not. But I was certainly hoping she would be able to go with us. 
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, exhuasted, but here! I'll update my side of the story tomorrow. Today I am resting. As Ginger mentioned, last night we had a Beef-n-Beer in Robert's memory 
for SUDC research. It was a HUGE success, but Momma is tired! 
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