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StarWarsGirl

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In the Parks
No
@StarWarsGirl I was tempted to go to Hawaii by myself but I am leaving on Tuesday for a 2 week trip to The World and it feels a little over the top to go to Hawaii on my own the next month as well.
I should start looking for a new job when I come back from Disney but if my sister had wanted to go I would have had a good excuse to postpone that.:)
Fair enough. Although for me personally, when I graduated from college and didn't have to work, I vacationed as much as possible. This resulted in going to DL and WDW in the same month...not over the top at all...:hilarious:
 

ajrwdwgirl

Premium Member
Oh ok then. Sounds about the same like we pay.;) Cannot beat driving down in your own car. :)We could drive down in one day if we leave at 2am. We would get there before dinner. Then we save a hotel stay. Going home we always stop at a hotel. Never in a rush to get home.:oops::rolleyes:

The last (and only time) hubs and I drove to Florida we made a couple stops along the way but only spent one night in a hotel. And on the way back we made a side trip to Memphis for a night. It was nice not to just go home after Disney, but sometimes once the vacation is done I just want to be home.
 

StarWarsGirl

Well-Known Member
In the Parks
No
Sympathy like. I hope today is better for you. btw still rooting for the Camry
It may come down to the Camry and the Malibu. Going to look at the Camry again on Saturday. It may come down to which one with all the features I like can I get for cheaper.

I do have to say though, if the service department is anything like the sales department at this Chevy dealership, I should have been taking my car for service at this dealership. Seriously, totally not pushy about the purchase, friendly, and the general manager even called to make sure I was satisfied. Ah, hindsight. Always 20:20.
 

Songbird76

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Your ds makes mine look like the best eater in the world. I thought he was picky until you described your ds eating habits. My littlest dd will eat just about anything as long as there is cheese in it/on it. :hilarious:
He really is!!! A lot of it is a texture thing. When he was a baby, I could feed him ANYTHING from a babyfood jar as long as it was pureed. As soon as he graduated to the jars with the little chunks in it, everything came back out. Banana with cookies in it....right down the chin. He'd eat pureed fish, for cripes sake...but mashed banana with little pieces of cookie? Nope. And then he got some bug once, and I think everything tasted odd for a while because he wouldn't even eat his favorites. I would make these potatoes....I'd chop them up bite sized and fry them in a bit of oil with onion, salt and pepper. He couldn't even walk without holding onto the table, and we ate at the coffee table so he could sit in a kid chair rather than a high chair...he HATED the high chair. So he'd get up out of his chair, shuffle his way all the way around the table to where we were sitting, steal the potatoes off of our plates, shuffle back and put them on his own plate...after he ate all his own, of course. And once they were on HIS plate, they were his. He LOVED those potatoes...he got sick that one time and wasn't eating anything, so I made the potatoes just to get him to eat SOMETHING....he hasn't touched them since. They were his favorite...and now he won't eat them. Same thing with spaghetti...it was one of his favorites until he got the flu, and then suddenly he wouldn't eat it anymore. We HAVE noticed since he started at the new school, he's tried a couple of things he didn't want to try before, and those went over well, so hopefully by our next trip, he'll have added at least a COUPLE of new foods. But he really is the pickiest eater I've ever seen in my life.
 

DryerLintFan

Premium Member
We were pondering the idea of moving to California down the road but that stuff makes me think twice.....or three times!

California is so big that it has pretty much every climate available. I grew up in the Santa Cruz mountains and we had earthquakes and mud slides, but they weren't a big deal. If you relocate to the Tahoe area though, you don't really have earthquakes but you'll have snow. If you relocate to Sacramento you don't have earthquakes, snow, or mudslides, but you might have fires nearby. I think every place you go has something you have to deal with.

No California! Florida! :):cool: Or the Carolinas.:happy:

The Carolinas are amazing. I could see moving there in the future.
 

Goofyernmost

Well-Known Member
Oh ok then. Sounds about the same like we pay.;) Cannot beat driving down in your own car. :)We could drive down in one day if we leave at 2am. We would get there before dinner. Then we save a hotel stay. Going home we always stop at a hotel. Never in a rush to get home.:oops::rolleyes:
Back when I lived in Vermont and made the family trip to WDW we always drove the 1540 miles. I always allowed extra time for that because I cannot enjoy anything if I am over tired. I know a lot of folks that made the trip non-stop, I would be a pile of useless flesh if I did that. Yes, I could do it, but whatever time I saved would be wasted just trying to recharge my batteries. When we first started doing it, we would leave home on Friday night and drive from Vermont to Albany, NY. To me that was always the worst part of the trip because usually I had worked almost all day, run around like a chicken with its head cut off, but, I wanted to get the 150 miles out of the way. We would stay overnight had head on south in the morning. Back then we went down through New Jersey and Maryland and DC then continue on I-95 to Richmond, VA, next day to the bottom of So. Carolina, then on to Kissimmee arriving on Monday at noon or so. After one trip like that we shortened it up by Just leaving home on Saturday and going through to Fredericksburg, VA, next day to the So. Carolina Border and then on to Kissimmee arriving around 3pm or so. Rest up and hit the parks on next morning. I know to many that seems like a waste of time, but, for me the journey was as much fun as the destination. I would get to the parks on Tuesday morning full of energy and just have a great time. I hated the return trip, however, that one seemed to go on forever, but, we actually took the same amount of time. We also avoided all the tolls in NJ and Maryland, by cutting across to Pennsylvania and then back down through Maryland, W. Virginia and Virginia then cutting over and stopping again in Fredericksburg, VA. It was just the way that we enjoyed the trip. Odd I know, but, different strokes for different folks.

Now that I am older and my love for road trips still remains, but, at a more sane level, I leave Raleigh at 6am and arrive in Kissimmee at 4pm. Much better and way cheaper then flying. That way I easily can stay offsite and avoid any car rentals. However, the times that I elected to fly down, I found that the car rentals costs in Florida were so reasonable that I still had a car, stayed offsite and save a boatload of money. Even the one time I stayed onsite at POP, I had a rental car and out of a seven day trip I spent 3 of those days exploring other parts of central Florida. I wouldn't change a thing about my travel habits.
 

Mr Ferret 75

Thank you sir. You were an inspiration.
Premium Member
It may come down to the Camry and the Malibu. Going to look at the Camry again on Saturday. It may come down to which one with all the features I like can I get for cheaper.

I do have to say though, if the service department is anything like the sales department at this Chevy dealership, I should have been taking my car for service at this dealership. Seriously, totally not pushy about the purchase, friendly, and the general manager even called to make sure I was satisfied. Ah, hindsight. Always 20:20.
I say go for the Chevy ....
 

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