Grrrrrrrrr

So I want to go to Disney but the general public special on my dates expired on 12/20 before I even really had thought about things and the new general public discount starts on 2/17 I know when I want to go is off season. Most people have to work and school is in session. In fact I'm hoping to arrive for a Sunday night and stay through Wednesday night. But I'll be damned if I am going to pay rack rate.

I contacted Small World Vacations because they are recommended all over the place but they got me the exact same rate I could get booking directly through Disney not saving me a penny. Why in the heck would I rather book through them vs. Disney?!?! I think this is why I stopped using travel agents and just started to do all the legwork myself. ~.~

I really resent the way they are trying to pressure me to book now because otherwise the rates could go up or the rooms could vanish. This is not some hot time of year to travel. Considering we're in a depression/economic low/whatever you want to call our current recession and Disney is extending their special rates into most months except the middle of the summer I find this pressure ridiculous. It's a bit like cord banking. In the end I decided against it because it seemed like the companies could offer few concrete benefits, just a lot of potential promises and pressure and playing on a parent's love for their baby. It just makes me so GRRRRRR So now I am going to call Disney after a nice relaxing shower and see if I can get somewhere with them.

YOSH!!!!!!!

Guess who is going to DisneyWorld!!!!! Now all I need to do is book our airfare. While I usually prefer United they (and Continental and USAir) do not have any directs from any of our nearby airports. So we're going to try JetBlue since they have 4 flights a day of the closest airport to where we live. The fares don't seem so bad and we will buy a seat for Adina so we do not have a baby on our laps for 3 hours.

So.... we're trying the Grand Floridian! *_____* I'm excited. I booked through Disney direct and got an annual passport so I am set to book a trip in November and to once again not need to buy park tickets. Now, it's time to book restaurants. We splurged and got the deluxe Disney plan since going out to eat is one of the points of the trip. I do love to cook, I really do, but it takes a while and with the baby it is harder. I also get tired of doing dishes which have been something I've been doing a lot of lately. You can really tell with my hands. :( I also splurged and got trip insurance just in case we get snow either the day were are leaving or the day we are coming back. I can't face being stuck in Orlando overnight and sleeping on the airport, not with Adina. Now to book places to eat! I want to try Jiko and the character breakfast at 1900 Parkfare (I love Alice even if Adina was the winning name lol) and go back to the California Grill. I'm pretty sure this trip is about the same price as what we were going to have at the Poly except it includes more and is the Grand Floridian which will be such a treat! I hope the pool and hot tubs are amazing. I'm so excited to have a vacation with the baby where i can swim and relax. I just need to get us new suits lol I like my old suits, but really want a tankini for when I need to go to the bathroom. I need to figure out if I a a DD or DDD >>; Adina is also getting a swimsuit! I shall probably order tomorrow.

I also had the misfortune to have Shuuta and Yuusuke, my two hard drive from my old desktop circa 2005 go dead in early January. Or well the file structure went dead the drives are still working. We were able to recover the majority of the data though! So now if you have avis of Gundam Seed Destiny and would be willing to upload some to MegaUpload it would be much appreciated. I have most of the episodes but I'm missing a few. I might have lost some Japan pictures I was looking for though and now only have them in resized format like my 2007 trip pictures. Meh. It could be worse though I was able to recover all of Whistle and a ton of saved fan-art, so all in all I'm feeling lucky.