pigletto
DIS Veteran
- Joined
- Oct 27, 2007
The condo looks beautiful Gina!!! Congratulations! And I am so glad to hear that Jake’s heart is mending and he’s doing well. You know, every time I look at my beautiful children and my amazing husband I think to myself “I am right where I am meant to be”. I had more than one broken heart , but it all led me here. Jake will be with his true partner one day and think the same. It can be so painful getting there, but so worth it all. 
Enough of my middle age mom philosophizing (my kids are rolling their eyes somewhere right now and don’t even know why
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I am off to Tampa on Friday!!! I am really excited. Four days of fun and sun with all the women in my family. How much do you want to bet I come home and start planning a trip to Orlando?
Enough of my middle age mom philosophizing (my kids are rolling their eyes somewhere right now and don’t even know why
)I am off to Tampa on Friday!!! I am really excited. Four days of fun and sun with all the women in my family. How much do you want to bet I come home and start planning a trip to Orlando?
. As we were driving around the quaint little streets the day we went to the first open house, Steve actually looked at me and said, Doesn't this kind of remind you of Disney World? Kind of Port Orleans-ish. Don't you think?
. The law of averages is bound to catch up with us eventually.
. Just kidding, of course. 
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. He knows Nana adores him, and I can't help but spoil him rotten. 
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. Apparently its referred to as a "neo-traditional community" (I had to Google that myself, had never heard the term before). Every home has a front porch and/or front balcony, and all garages are in the rear. It's supposed to create a better sense of community and encourage neighbors to interact with each other. Only having been here a year (and in a rental community for that time), we've still made limited friends here in Michigan, so I'm hoping this is the kind of place that we'll make lots of great connections.
. We usually do hotels but a couple of years ago we went to Williamsburg with another family and rented a time share there. I actually really enjoyed it and would consider other time share properties to rent. This place looks very nice to try and I love having good reviews. 
. I agree with bright spring colors on a suit it looks so pretty. 
) I'm glad you're a part of it, too, bobbie68! We always have room for a new friend here!
I'm a little bummed to be missing out on such a spectacular new addition to the park......our AP's ran out just a tad too soon.
Kobes it is! 
Guess we'll have to break up the gluttony over two nights 
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).....so when this opened up last fall, I may have let out a little scream of joy. We couldn't fit it into our trip in October, so its a must-do for this upcoming vacation!!
. I was so gutted! It sounds like an absolutely amazing new offering from DC, and I have no doubt that if Discovery Cove is spear-heading it, it will be nothing short of superb.
. We had drivers licenses to renew yesterday at the Secretary of State (otherwise we'd be walking everywhere 
.... we were cutting it close to their expiry!!) and we've been knee deep in getting our documentation ready to file our taxes (which always puts me in a sour mood: the cross-border taxation specialists that Steve's company uses are difficult to deal with and make an already annoying process even more so). We've had moving stuff to sort through (getting quotes from moving companies, completing paperwork, selling some of the things we won't need in our new home, shopping for some of the new items we will need for the condo) and then, of course, there's this trip that continues to sneak up a little closer with each passing day.
. While its normally unlikely that the first booking will end up being the one we actually use, perhaps we'll be surprised this trip and that will actually be the case?
) and be a little more money smart, considering the big costs coming up as a result of the move. Much as we both really wanted to try those two Disney meals (and both would have been new experiences for us), we can eat equally as well for a fraction of the cost at one of the multitude of offsite restaurants.....and offsite doesn't necessarily have to be 'same old, same old' either. For example, a meal at 4 Rivers BBQ (which has been on our to-do list FOREVER) would be half the cost of Ohana and scratch another to-do off our Orlando wish-list. Breakfast poutine at Disney Springs would be a third of the price of Boma; heck, we could do the Characters in Flight balloon ride again afterward, and STILL be saving a notable sum versus the Boma ADR. So, I think we'll likely pull the plug on those reservations and do the right 'adult' thing. Much as we try to be wild and crazy and throw caution to the wind where our vacations are concerned, the reality is.......we are just money-conscious people by nature, and with the newest personal developments on the homefront, it's best to be frugal where we can be on our trip when it doesn't sacrifice the enjoyment. There will be plenty more trips (once we are fully settled into our new home) where we can do both Boma and Ohana if we so choose.
