The Dis Dad's Club II

[DaPanMan]

Just back from a quick day at Blizzard Beach. I coach my daugher's AAU team here in Michigan and we qualified and attended Nationals in Ft. Myers. Got eliminated on Monday and spend 2 nights at AKL. Not too bad.

Reminded me of: "Hey, you just lost at AAU Nationals!!! What are you gonna do!?!?!.........I'm going to DISNEY WORLD!!!!!!!"

Anyway, just planned our next trip, Feb. 6 - 11 at Boardwalk villas, and then off to the Wonder for a 3 night cruise.

Gotta love DVC!!!!

[rotlex]

Just found the new thread....saying hello again as it's been a while! Been getting ready for our 2nd trip to WDW this year, end of August, beginning of Sept......free dining....here we come!

[DVC-Don]

Thanks for the new thread link. I don't post here much, but do look in to read up from time to time. One more month and I'll be packing for my (our) third WDW trip this year.

[MarkinNM]

Only 119!!!


I am game!!!

[Captain_Oblivious]

Originally Posted by KTME

Hey Dads,
I finally found the new thread. I have not been around for awhile but for good reasons. This has been a REALLY busy three months. Started out at the end of April with a trip to Disney for my 39th Birthday. What a great trip. I had planned on doing a full trip report and just did not have the time. I did get to meet a fellow Dis Dad (Emma's Dad) which was really cool. After Disney, I spent the next month getting caught up with work since I was off for a week to go to Disney. Baseball games and flag football games for the 9 year old have been have been keeping me busy as well.


Last year my MIL decided to organize a family reunion trip in June to Bermuda. We had already had our trip to Disney planned and half the trip payed for when we found out. Thankfully, she paid for the trip.

That was quite the experience. It statred out with the day before the trip. I spent all day Saturday June 20th either packing or helping set ujp and tear down our community art festival. I finally got home saturday night around 8 and began the final packing. My wife ran out to pick up some more stuff. The kids were asleep and all of a sudden CRASH from upstairs. I ran up to find my oldest son screaming. Here the ceiling in his room collapsed! Thank God it did not fall on him. What a great start to the trip.

We left out of New York on a Sunday, got to Bermuda on Wednesday and left Bermuda on Friday to come back to New York on the following Sunday. We saw the sun for a total of 1.5 days. We had steady rains, 30-40 mph winds and 12-18 foot seas. It started feeling like the Deadliest Catch. We did get to witness a 3 am middle of the ocean rescue of a small sail boat. We were the closest boat (or is it a ship? I was in the Army so I am not sure) in the area and rescued the poor guy. Ended up he lost his engines in 12 foot seas. My oldest son and youngest son were on and off with being sea sick the whole trip. My wife....well she was sick most of the cruise. Not sea sick.....morning sick!

Turns out right before we left for the cruise we found out that she is pregnant. It must have been the Disney Magic. I will be getting a brand new shiney baby for my 40th birthday.

Like I said it has been busy. Welcome to the CLub to all the new Dads out there. All Dads getting ready to go have a great time and have a Dole Whip for me!

This needs to be turned into a movie script!

[Emma's Dad]

Originally Posted by DaPanMan

Just back from a quick day at Blizzard Beach. I coach my daugher's AAU team here in Michigan and we qualified and attended Nationals in Ft. Myers. Got eliminated on Monday and spend 2 nights at AKL. Not too bad.

Reminded me of: "Hey, you just lost at AAU Nationals!!! What are you gonna do!?!?!.........I'm going to DISNEY WORLD!!!!!!!"

Anyway, just planned our next trip, Feb. 6 - 11 at Boardwalk villas, and then off to the Wonder for a 3 night cruise.

Gotta love DVC!!!!

Sorry to hear you didn't win, but you got to go to Disney World! That's awesome! So where's the ticker for the next trip

Originally Posted by rotlex

Just found the new thread....saying hello again as it's been a while! Been getting ready for our 2nd trip to WDW this year, end of August, beginning of Sept......free dining....here we come!

2nd trip this year... recession must be treating you well You gotta love FREE DINING! I hear the crowds have been quite low recently.. hope that continues for your trip!

Originally Posted by DVC-Don

Thanks for the new thread link. I don't post here much, but do look in to read up from time to time. One more month and I'll be packing for my (our) third WDW trip this year.

THIRD TRIP! Wow... I really need to look into DVC! Glad you stopped by to give us on update.

Originally Posted by MarkinNM

Only 119!!!

I am game!!!

Only 20 more to be double digits... sweet!

I'm glad you guys came by to check out the new thread. I was able to send PMs to all the dads except a handful that do not accept PMs. It takes a while to do it since you can only PM 5 people at a time! Hopefully we will see some more dad's that haven't been by in a while. But I am getting worried about Fanatic... anyone hear from him yet??

[trennr]

Check out this YouTube Video!

Skipper Dan!

[Emma's Dad]

I had to edit this post... there is no live Podcast call in show tonight. It has been canceled due to the recent tragedy. You may read more here:

http://www.disboards.com/showthread.php?t=2225674

[colinsdad]

Great to see we have another thread up!

Me and the family are heading back to Disney next month to celebrate my DS's 5th B-day at the Beach Club.

Any DIS Dads going to be at WDW the week of August 22-29?

[rotlex]

2nd trip this year... recession must be treating you well You gotta love FREE DINING! I hear the crowds have been quite low recently.. hope that continues for your trip!

LOL, yeah. Actually, we were going to do an end of summer trip to the beach or something, but with free dining, and POP, it's actually going to cost us less to do Disney again than to go to the shore, LOL. Gotta LOVE free food!

[Emma's Dad]

Originally Posted by colinsdad

Great to see we have another thread up!

Me and the family are heading back to Disney next month to celebrate my DS's 5th B-day at the Beach Club.

Any DIS Dads going to be at WDW the week of August 22-29?

I only wish I was going. Our 16 year anniversary is the 21st... wonder if I can use that as an excuse to go?!?

[rotlex]

Originally Posted by Emma's Dad

I only wish I was going. Our 16 year anniversary is the 21st... wonder if I can use that as an excuse to go?!?

Wife and I are celebrating our 20th anniversary, our daughters 7th birthday, and our son's 1st, LOL. Those are my REAL excuses for going twice this year.

[Emma's Dad]

Originally Posted by rotlex

Wife and I are celebrating our 20th anniversary, our daughters 7th birthday, and our son's 1st, LOL. Those are my REAL excuses for going twice this year.

You guys don't look old enough to be celebrating 20 years of marriage!! I just checked out your Disney album... you have a great looking family! Your DD is too cute. I bet she's excited to be going back so soon

[dvczerfs]

Originally Posted by trennr

Check out this YouTube Video!

Skipper Dan!

ok, how did you find this?

[rotlex]

Originally Posted by Emma's Dad

You guys don't look old enough to be celebrating 20 years of marriage!! I just checked out your Disney album... you have a great looking family! Your DD is too cute. I bet she's excited to be going back so soon

Hehe, thanks on the age thing....married VERY young.

We actually haven't told our daughter about the trip yet. We came back in June, and told her we would probably not be going again until her little brother turned 4.

SO, her birthday is July 30th. My wife wrapped a pair of mouse ears, a luggage tag, and a picture I made of her at Disney with a custom message saying we were going back again, put it in a box and wrapped it. I can't WAIT to see her face when she opens it!