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ajrwdwgirl

ajrwdwgirl

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Cesar R M said:
The lowest prices for Disney in Alaska is in september/october.. the last cruise before the season closes.
It was near 2,000 USD cheaper.
Plus I got the "hidden varandah" in the Wonder.

The best part of these dates are.. almost 80% of the cruise was only adults, very few children.
So if you're of the calm type.. you will do better at the date.

The problem? FOG and storms will be prevalent.
We had luck and barely rained in our trip (only hard rain we had, was the first hours In Juneau, then it cleared up)
The bad? we couldnt see carp in the "white pass" mountain railroad.
The fog was so dense.. You could get the "silent hill" fog type stuff..so dense you cant see 10 feet away.

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It would be nice to travel when Disney had their lower prices on the cruises. Unfortunately with my job as a teacher, I can only take long trips during June, July, or August and that is when Disney jacks the prices. Oh well, maybe when I retire in like 30 years.
 
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Goofyernmost said:
It's on International Blvd. just a short distance from the Orange County Convention Center. In fact, just about one block away from the center and due east of WDW on the other side of I-4.
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Thanks. Likely a hotel that caters to the Convention Center. That is where we have had our National School Board conventions. I stay at the Portifino at Universal for conventions. There is a bus pick up at Hard Rock to take us to the convention center.
 
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Songbird76 said:
I think with my mom it was fear. She didn't want me to make her mistakes. She just went about it the completely wrong way, trying to micromanage everything. If she didn't like the way I handled something at work, she'd call my boss and try to rearrange things. She wouldn't let me date or wear makeup or rat my hair, or peg my jeans. And when I was 19, she came to visit at college and she snooped in my drawers and found my checkbook and lectured me about how I was spending my money. Then when I got engaged, she told me I WASN'T engaged, because I didn't have permission to be. I told her that the law said I didn't need her permission, I could go to the courthouse and get a license and get married without her having any say over it, but that I wouldn't do that because I felt she needed to have the opportunity to see her daughter get married and I'd LIKE her blessing, but I didn't need permission. She all but disowned me for about 4 years over that, and then when I broke up with the guy and called off the wedding, she tried to keep me from dating. She told me I was too young (23) to date and that I should do everything in life I wanted to do before I started dating....I should be at least 30. I reminded her there's no magic age at which you are suddenly able to pick the right partner and waiting until her 30s had not worked for her as she was around 35 when she got married to my dad and they had a horrible marriage and got divorced after 13 years. Once she met my husband (before we were married, obviously) she loved him and had no problem with me marrying him. Our relationship started to heal...but she passed away less than a year after I got married, so unfortunately we never really got back the relationship we had when I was younger. Strict and controlling as she was, she was always there for me to support me with my music, or help with the theater productions I was in, or to talk to a teacher who was unfair, or to supervise the building of a homecoming float, or to take over my brownie troop when there was no leader....she did so much for us when we were younger. Just those 4 years of college when I broke away to make my own decisions, she couldn't handle it. And like you said, it wasn't that I got into any trouble or anything....on the contrary, I got mostly straight A's in college, graduated with honors, worked the whole time, payed my own bills...she just didn't like that I wouldn't let her call the shots anymore, and she never quite got over it before she was gone.
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Oh Dear. That would have been my life if my would have had his way.
 
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MinnieM123 said:
About 5 years ago, I finally tried a turkey leg. It tasted o.k., but it was waaaayyy too big for me. Plus, you either walk around with it, (but you can't go on rides, or in a gift shop with it), or you just stand someplace and try to eat it. If I could have cut some of it and put it on a plate, I would have liked it better (still wouldn't have finished all of it). But just standing up and eating a turkey leg without veggies and something to drink, was awkward to me.

Like you said, you try it once, and then never again! ;)
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Ha! I can just picture you gnawing away on a turkey leg. lol. I did do a flashback of you though. The time you bought a rotisserie chicken from the store sat down at the table and played gobble gobble. That time at least you were eating like a human with a fork, knife, table and indoors.
 
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ajrwdwgirl said:
Good advice. I actually don't feel that unsafe using Uber alone and I am pretty independent. But hubby doesn't want me using it alone, and since I don't need too (I'm fine relying on Disney transport) I promised him I wouldn't. I do text hubby when I get back to my hotel at night and actually when I'm leaving a park to go back to my room. It makes him feel better about my safety, and it doesn't take much time.
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I do this with my adult kids to and they do so very willingly. Should something happen people know where you were at, going and how you're getting there. My DD was attending a convention this past week, a ways away. I got a text in morning Leaving via McArthur. Then I'd get a text-Here- Then at night Leaving via Highway then Home a while later. I'll still get texts from my DS when he is traveling. Made it and usually once a day that says Alive. No real conversations just a paper trail.
 
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ajrwdwgirl said:
I really like our stay at the Swan in November and I was hoping they would have a rate cheaper than a Disney value for March. But the All-Star was cheaper. I will be taking Magical Express, which also made the All-Star cheaper. I did like the car service we took in November, it is going to make Magical Express seem super duper slow now.
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Swan and Dolphin both have Educational Staff discounts for staff. Have you checked those rates?
 
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ajrwdwgirl said:
It would be nice to travel when Disney had their lower prices on the cruises. Unfortunately with my job as a teacher, I can only take long trips during June, July, or August and that is when Disney jacks the prices. Oh well, maybe when I retire in like 30 years.
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And the reason why I travelled with my kids when in September, October or November. We could get all sorts of perks back then, low lines and cheap packages. We could get almost double the stay vs School Holiday/vacation time. We still did do some Christmas' 4th's and Thanksgiving, actually have been to WDW in every month but the Bulk were Fall for the rates.
 
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ajrwdwgirl said:
I like Magical Express too, but sometimes it can be so slow to arrive at the hotel. Or maybe it just seems long because I'm anticipating arrival at WDW. But you are right, it is a festive atmosphere.
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I'm pretty good about going from hotel to hotel, it is when the I have to queue up too long to board a bus or worse put us on the bus later in the evening and sit at the airport for 45 minutes waiting to head to the resorts. Annoying. The last few trips have been better arriving around 9am at MCO
 
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Gabe1 said:
I do this with my adult kids to and they do so very willingly. Should something happen people know where you were at, going and how you're getting there. My DD was attending a convention this past week, a ways away. I got a text in morning Leaving via McArthur. Then I'd get a text-Here- Then at night Leaving via Highway then Home a while later. I'll still get texts from my DS when he is traveling. Made it and usually once a day that says Alive. No real conversations just a paper trail.
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I usually ask my girls even when on a family trip to just text me and let me know when they get there and when they get back home. It is usually expanded to include "where I am now" types of texts, but, they know that in spite of the fact that I do not control them, nor try to, I'm still a Dad and they are my babies. All I want to know is if they are alright. If there is no other reason for loving cell phones, that is certainly one of them.
 
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betty rose said:
posting a few pictures...we had a nice flight...thanks for the pixie dust!

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I spy a Thanksgiving Sandwich!!!! So jealous. I also spy green landscaping. So jealous. Where is that resort? I don't recognize.

So happy you got out and you are there
 
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Goofyernmost said:
I usually ask my girls even when on a family trip to just text me and let me know when they get there and when they get back home. It is usually expanded to include "where I am now" types of texts, but, they know that in spite of the fact that I do not control them, nor try to, I'm still a Dad and they are my babies. All I want to know is if they are alright. If there is no other reason for loving cell phones, that is certainly one of them.
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My DS during his Disney CP was having the time of his life. Here and there he'd just send me a food photo or the Water Parade something like that and I knew all was well. He was never a talk on phone guy. But there was a stretch where I hadn't heard from him in like a week or so which was odd and he didn't return my text messages. I became a bit worried and there really isn't a way to contact them without causing real problems via Disney. He was young and I got that but still a simple 'alive' would have done it. Well I did what I had never done before and never did after, I pulled his phone record up on my laptop. Yes he was fine. Then I didn't pay his cell bill. When it was past due and then disconnected- Amazingly I got a call (from a different number ha!) After a bit of sarcasm on my part he got it.
 

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