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Good morning one and all! I'm sure everyone else had that 2:30am wake up call this morning?? Well, we are all up and at 'em and getting ready to run. This morning we are running as some denizens of Pixie Hollow. Not really in costumes, per se. But representing the fairies to the best of our...

And here we go. Brifraz and @MeffysMom are headed back to the World. Once again a VERY different trip. Yes, we've done Race Weekends. Yes, we've done short Springtime trips. But... this will be my first time doing a 5K and 10K back-to-back (yes, @MeffysMom is doing 5K, 10K, and 10-miler) and...

Seeing it tomorrow afternoon. Very excited. I’ve read the book many times. Actually really like aspects of David Lynch’s version. Part 1 was beautiful and I enjoyed it but missed a lot of the character stuff from the book. Hopeful and looking forward to tomorrow.

Wish I could share pictures of them, but just far too much stuff would have to be redacted. The main 'super' trip spreadsheet was really impressive. Three main pages, but also 6 subordinate pages - that one tracked the kids stuff: payment, rooming, bussing, fund raising, chaperones. Then there...

Thank you for the kind words. I have an amazingly supportive community at my school. And, I've lucked into a trio of truly exceptional parents right now who have become close friends as well. Two of them have been involved since I arrived at this school, 10 years ago (multiple kids through the...

Never is pretty absolute, but highly doubtful. This is my 30th year teaching in Maryland which means I can retire at the end of the year and collect full pension immediately. I'm not likely going to do that, but I highly doubt that I will still be at it in 4 years when the next likely trip would...

A couple bonus pictures from parents... A different view of our stage performance. And, this one I like to call "Strange old man in suit wanders into parade at Magic Kingdom"

Alright, let's finally get this thing wrapped up! (Happy President's Day, as well) When I left you, I was in the DVC lounge enjoying a quieter moment to myself and checking every futurecast, radar loop, etc. that I could find. And 2pm was looking pretty terrible. Except on the standard iPhone...

Hey howdy hey! Let's get to the last day. Relatively normal wake-up for me. Up before 6am and got everything packed up to load onto the bus. Somehow, I managed to get downstairs holding my garment bag, suitcase, two paper boxes (full of medications), and my backpack all in one trip. Wish I had...

It's about time for day 3 of this adventure going. Of course, I was up early and down to the lobby to distribute meds and get some breakfast for myself. Early on, there wasn't a whole lot of drama - well, except the excitement at 7am as people got their Tron boarding passes (myself included). As...

Anyway, got to the group where two kids who needed meds were (at Chicken Guy) and chatted with them about the game a bit. Turns out that one of the kids had assigned points to different things. They all know that I am not a big fan of selfies like they are, so getting a selfie with me was worth...

Alrighty, then... let's take a look at the second day at WDW for my crew. It started with an early morning wake-up call as this is our stage performance day. 91 of the kids have to be ready to head to the Imagination Campus facility near Disney Springs to get ready to perform, so we get everyone...

Okay. It's been a few days. I feel sufficiently recovered to share the tale. The tale of a fateful trip. So, earlier I shared some from our drive down. It was fairly uneventful. Left home pretty much on time. Hit a ton of traffic on the DC beltway but then things were surprisingly clear south...

Got back to school yesterday at about 2:30pm local time. After all the unpacking of the busses, getting things back into a snowed in building, and getting medications back to parents, I left school at about 3:30pm. Home at 4pm. Got cleaned up, then decided to just have a pint of ale (scotch...

I know. Worst live trip reporting ever. We are about 9 hours into our drive home and crossing fingers that roads aren’t too terrible when we get closer to home. School is actually closed today because of the snow so lots of parents concerned about our return. Just the latest anxiety cause… I...

Sorry to leave you all hanging. It’s been a quite rough trip for me so far. Kids seem to be enjoying for the most part. Not going into detail now, but multiple sick kids on day 1, one requiring paramedics. Hotel moved us to a ‘partner’ hotel which is not nearly as nice. (if it hadn’t been...

Let’s just say that day 1 is over now. It’s 1am and I’m getting to bed. So much to tell everyone but after the last 5 or so hours… well I gotta sleep. Teaser - got to meet and spend quality time with a variety of Disney and Reedy Creek first responders, am dealing with a bait and switch...

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It’s almost midnight and most of my bus is asleep. The first few major anxiety moments are past. We managed to load up - it’s very tight under these busses. And stop for food and meds. And no issues so far. Here’s my Bus 1 crew… Got on the road a little before 4pm, which was bit later than...

It's departure day, so... of course, I was awake at 3:30am. I've gone through everything I can accomplish at home (and then some... you know the dishes needing hand washing) this morning, so I'm trying to sit and relax for a few minutes (it's about 5am now)on the couch with the cats and my usual...