January 2009. . . Calling all Snowbirds ~ Part IV !!!

[EPCOT is a verb]

Oh boy, Oh boy! My daughters are counting down the hours now!

I need to get up early tomorrow to print the boarding passes (we have a 6:30 am flight Tuesday morning!)...last minute errands, post office, haircut, finish packing...

 

[sharadoc]

Vikings... figures.

At least my trip keeps me happy

Well - um, yay Sorry about your Vikings, but happy about my Eagles!

The thought occurred to me today that if the Eagles DO get to play for the NFC championship, we'll be driving during game time on 1/18! DH won't be too happy about that. Supposedly the NFC game starts at 3:00 that day. That would put a damper on our drive, for sure. We'll be searching the radio for a local station, I guess.

Anyone else having that "problem" with their trip - sports getting in the way?

 

[Dancegrl624]

You've been pretty chatty since yesterday! I had a lot to catch up on! For those that are leaving in the next few days, have a wonderful time! I can't wait to hear all about it! I'm hoping that time goes by quickly, but not too quickly. I have SO much left to do! With my DD going back to school tomorrow, I know I'll get a lot more done. I've had so much fun having her home and playing with all of her new stuff! But, it's time to get back to normal I guess. However, my DH is off tomorrow, so that means we're going out to breakfast. Yum!

So we get home from the lacrosse game last night (around 1am!) and my DH hadn't gotten the mail. Lo and behold, there were our park tickets from UT! I couldn't believe he had left it outside for 12 hours! Anyways....I'm so happy to have them in my hands! I put them with our gift cards we got for Christmas so I won't lose them. That would be the worst thing ever! I'm also excited about a slight change in EMH for our week. Like you all know, they have no affect on us since we're off property. However, our ADR for CP was on an AM EMH and I was a little bummed. I was looking forward to no one in the park until 9am. Well, that day is no longer an EMH day! WOO HOO! Just thought I'd share that with all of you. Well, I'm off to lounge around and watch some tv with my DH. Catch ya later!

 

[Remmy]

Good Evening Snowbirds,

Today was to be a great get things done day. Silly me thought if I took along DH more would be accomplished. Actually, the opposite happened.

Dear Friend came back from maternity leave (1 whole year!) at work and reminded me that I will miss her birthday and wondered if she could stow along. I remembered about another co-worker already has a birthday later that week and then I remembered so does the pharmacist. Three all in a row!! I am thinking of taking down Happy Birthday cards and ask the various characters I meet to sign them. I won't bog down lines with asking them to sign each one, I will only pull out one card per character so each have a sampling of each. I am also going to throw in a pressed penny for each. I am going to have so much fun with this.

I pulled out our Disney totes we are driving down with.......

Good News -DS has a multitude of Disney t-shirts he can wear

Bad News- -they will fit DS next year, oh well, at least I tried

The rest of the clothes I tried to plan ahead with all fit for the rest of the family so that is good news too.

I wanted to say Great Job to all the crafty people with the t-shirts. They are all great designs. I wish I was more crafty.

I also want to add this website for the Photopass:
http://www.stitchkingdom.com/disneysphotopass/
I find this site very helpful too.

I will wish all Snowbirds that will be leaving soon, much safety and fun.

To all Snowbirds currently there, please enjoy it to the fullest and come back and tell us all about it.

Remmy

 

[spokanemom]

They closed school again for tomorrow. Spokane does NOT close school. Ever. I am beginning to feel a little guilty about taking my kids out of school now. The teachers & counselors already know and are ok with it, but how are they supposed to get an education since the snow won't stop falling and their mother won't leave them in school instead of taking them on Disney vacations. Hey, maybe they will aspire to be characters or something, then at least I could deem the vacation as "research"!

 

[jenjolt]

Good evening...well I'm still working away on grades...only have 2 classes left WOOT...hopefully before bed tomorrow!! Well if I get grades done and I get my welcome letter done I will most likely be bored tomorrow at work so I'll be on to help us make it to thread V before we leave on our trips LOL

 

[peach3es]

Shelly- Do you know how happy it makes me to see my name in a list with the title "Snowbirds leaving over the next week"!!!!!!!!

No kidding! I'm overwhelmed, but excited! I spent the afternoon printing iron-ons! Now it's time to cut and iron. I hate ironing. Maybe this will be more fun than the run-of-the-mill ironing...or more stressful.

I bet you do hate to pack, Carrie - since your packing involves traveling thousands of miles to places that don't have the same things you're used to. Hopefully, packing for WDW will be a breeze compared to packing for Jerusalem....

Well, now that certainly helped put things in perspective for me. If I can pack up our life in Jerusalem for a 7 month stint in the US, I can certainly handle packing for Disney!

 

[Remmy]

For Peach3es:

I you tubed and found a very brief look at a room at Sports, here it is:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=99IT9tMOyX4

I hope this helps. I think there are others on there (you tube) if you wish to explore.

Remmy

 

[debbieandroo]

For Peach3es:

I you tubed and found a very brief look at a room at Sports, here it is:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=99IT9tMOyX4

I hope this helps. I think there are others on there (you tube) if you wish to explore.

Remmy

Remmy, another one for the google award....who knew that kind of thing would be on youtube?!??!!??!

Thanks - I'll look mine up too.

 

[sarbah77]

Here is a little weather forecast in Soleil's absence ~


Detailed ten-day forecast

Sunday
Jan 11 Fair
Hi: 79° Lo: 56°
Mostly clear skies. High 79F and low 56F.

You're going to laugh, but I honestly went "OMG TOO WARM!" It's marathon day and it would be better for my DH if it was cooler!

Let's see where everybody is eating!
Sarbah77
Jan 10 My DH didn't want any sit-downs!
Jan 11 Lunch - Rose & Crown / Dinner - Boatwright's
Jan 12 Breakfast - Kona Cafe / Dinner - Crystal Palace
Jan 13 Dinner - Boma
Jan 14 Lunch - SciFi
Jan 15 Dinner - Boatwright
Jan 16 Lunch - Le Cellier / Dinner - Chefs De France

Okay, I have a whole bunch of changes - SORRY!!!

No breakfast on the 12th.
Jan 15 Dinner - Raglan Road
Jan 16 Dinner - Spoodles

ACK! I'm leaving this week!

*note to self - dryer works much better if one turns dryer ON in hopes of drying clothes *

Now back to your regularly scheduled Snowbird thread....

Shoot, your telepathic powers weren't any good?

Vikings... figures.

At least my trip keeps me happy

Yeah, DH said the same thing. I "let" him check in on the game during dinner.

And thank you everyone for the birthday wishes. It ended up being a very nice day!!! The freezing rain was done by noon, so we were able to safely get to downtown to EAT!

 

[Mndisneygirl]

Crzyrd - where did you find the designs for the Experience the Magic shirt? I thought a while back someone - maybe you- said you could also get clip art from maybe googling disney clip art or something?
When you download these things, is there a certain program to use to edit? I need to go find a sticky with some good instructions on getting the art and editing it.
TIA -

Welcome to our new snowbird friends! I stopped by HD today and got a couple more LGMHs so I can make some tags for my bag.

No luck on the crocs, but did shop for clothes and got a couple things. Then DH and I went to dinner and to see Grease! Very fun! Now all those songs are stuck in my head. Born to Hand Jive baby!

 

[crzyred]

Crzyrd - where did you find the designs for the Experience the Magic shirt? I thought a while back someone - maybe you- said you could also get clip art from maybe googling disney clip art or something?
When you download these things, is there a certain program to use to edit? I need to go find a sticky with some good instructions on getting the art and editing it.
TIA -

My sister and I, *I believe* got most of our designs from a wonderful lady on the DISigns board. Kellybell is her name. A lot of the designers will personalize their stuff for you. I have no idea what program you would use to edit it, I'm not so much that talented! Lucky for us, none of our designs had to be "fixed" at all.

I would recommend just heading over to the DISigns board and just having a look at what some of the designers have.


Well my birdie friends, I'm off to bed. My list of things to do the next 48 hours just got longer.... Everyone have a great night.

*AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I probably won't be able to sleep at all tonight or tomorrow night!

 

[MelXThree]

Has anybody been on www.DisneyWorld.com lately? They changed the entire home page. I am so use to things being the way they were, it kinda scared me

 

[DisneyLifer87]

Has anybody been on www.DisneyWorld.com lately? They changed the entire home page. I am so use to things being the way they were, it kinda scared me

They must have listened to you because they changed it back! I did see the remake before they converted back though. Very confusing!

 

[debbieandroo]

Has anybody been on www.DisneyWorld.com lately? They changed the entire home page. I am so use to things being the way they were, it kinda scared me

Seriously, I try to stay away from the WDW site as much as possible - I can't find anything there! I just use my favorite search engines - Shelly, Wendy or Remmy - they're a lot nicer, too 'cause they don't slow down my computer.

 

[jenjolt]

Seriously, I try to stay away from the WDW site as much as possible - I can't find anything there! I just use my favorite search engines - Shelly, Wendy or Remmy - they're a lot nicer, too 'cause they don't slow down my computer.

Oh me too...half the time I come and ask on here first before I even google my question because someone on here is going to know the answer for me LOL

 

[Remmy]

Has anybody been on www.DisneyWorld.com lately? They changed the entire home page. I am so use to things being the way they were, it kinda scared me

They must have listened to you because they changed it back! I did see the remake before they converted back though. Very confusing!

That would be the reason why I couldn't always access it last night. I too found the new page but then later it would say Error. I gave up.

Seriously, I try to stay away from the WDW site as much as possible - I can't find anything there! I just use my favorite search engines - Shelly, Wendy or Remmy - they're a lot nicer, too 'cause they don't slow down my computer.

Thank you very much for the mention. I am humbled. At the most my computer skills are usually like this . I only know how to do a few basic things. I too find the WDW site not that user friendly as I usually go on a wild goose chase to find anything.

Remmy

 

[Remmy]

I wanted to wish every Snowbird has a magical day.

I hope all us have a good, healthy and safe day. For all us this is our Disney month. Yes, I am celebrating the whole month, I don't think there is much wrong with that.

Remmy

 

[Lil'Mermaid75]

Okay, so I have to share this with you. We made a countdown chain last week I guess it was. Our DS took it upstairs and put it in his bedroom. Honestly, out of sight, out of mind. When tucking him in last night, I stepped on it! I thought for sure he had forgotten about it. Counted the chains, and NOPE - it's completely correct. So, I woke him up this morning, got him dressed, and we're halfway down the stairs. He stops and bounds back up the stairs, without a word. He goes to his bedroom, turns on the light, and tears off a link! He's so excited! He wasn't about to forget about one of those links, even though Mommy had!

 

[peach3es]

Good morning, Snowbirds! Hope you all slept well! I finished many of our t-shirts and they turned out well! I did notice the DISign had a spelling error AFTER printing them all! Instead of "starring The Dressler Family" it says "staring The Dressler Family." Scot didn't notice and even after I pointed it out we questioned the spelling.

I can't worry about it...the shirts are done and I'm sure someone will point it out to us, but my kids won't notice and we will be staring, wide-eyed at everything, right? Accurate! Today I still have about 25 shirts to do and we're off to Walmart this morning to buy the last minute things. I'll start packing the suitcases tonight. I plan to use 2 gallon ziplocks and 1 gallon for the smaller people to pack their clothes. That idea sounds like a dream! No fights about who's wearing what and the suitcase doesn't get dumped all over in a frantic effort to find something! Love it!

And looks like we'll have 2 good sized carry-ons where we'll pack a change of clothes for each of us, plus the "park essentials" and a few snacks. The kids will carry small backpacks on the plane with their entertainment options. And that's that.

Does it sound like I'm at least decently organized? Still have some of this to get done. That's neverending with 4 kids!

I can't believe I'm going to Disney in just 3 days. We've known each other for quite awhile, haven't we!