All About Kimberly

Ok..we are not technically in Disney yet, but since we did leave home, we are officially on our vacation right? So I wanted to start with a trip report. I hope to be able to get into my blog on dialup at Disney, but I’m not sure if I will have the patience.  If I can, I’ll post my trip report every day for the previous day, but if not, I’ll post the rest when I get home.

Today I got up at 5:30 to be sure I was wide awake and ready to check us  in with Southwest Airlines at 6:30 (the most important 24 hour mark).  I also wanted to be sure our Internet was working, and if not, have time to make it to town to my mom and dad’s and use their Internet.  I had the page ready and the confirmation information typed in and ready at 6:20. Not knowing how my time compared to Southwest’s, I started trying to login at 6:25 every few seconds.  Finally at 6:32 by my time I was able to log in and we were officially checked in with a loading order of A19, 20 and 21.  However, there was a problem, I couldn’t print the boarding passes. The printer wouldn’t print (isn’t that always how it works?).  I restarted the computer though and printed them without a problem. (Thank Goodness!)

Next I worked on some other little crafts and goodies I wanted to print. And then worked here on my blog for the next hour or so. I wanted to be sure to cover some topics I had on my to do list ,and I had some paid reviews to finish up before we left as well as some Sunshine offers and such.

I got the girls up at 8:30 and we finished up loading the last of our suitcases and went to the school where Becka had a student council meeting. While there we looked at one of the Disney travel books we have . On the cover is a picture of Expedition Everest. Cameron looked at it, flipped through and found the description of it and informed me that it should be called “Expedition Neverest.”  I thought this was quite clever of her. Yes, she’s my little scared one who doens’t like fast, drops, dark, or upside down. After the meeting we ran by the bank and post office to take care of last minute details and headed to Houston!

After being on the road for about an hour, I could tell the girls were getting bored. I had an answer for that - a gift bag of Disney goodies they didn’t know about. I told Cameron where it was, and she pulled it out and the girls went through their new Disney travel stuff. I bought 3 books (Hidden Mickey’s, Treasure Hunt, and Trivia), a starter set of pins for them to trade, Disney magic grow towels, and Disney pedometers.  Becka napped some on the trip, but Cameron went through and read the books the entire trip.

We arrived here at Misty’s at about 3 and sat around and visited for a little while before heading out to the mall to do some wedding dress shopping. Yes, she’s getting married Saturday (a small simple wedding so last minute is ok) and we got to help pick out her dress!!  I also had to hit Payless as when we went to pack last night we realized Cameron had no athletic shoes that fit. We haven’t bought back to school shoes and she’s outgrown last years.  We picked up a cute pair of tennis and then sat around the rest of the evening at Misty’s for Wii Fit and Mario Kart time.  We also headed over to Catherine’s blog to watch some Disney ride videos and get ourselves even more in the mood before turning in. We’ll be aiming to leave here at 3, by 3:30 at the latest, in the morning so it’s important to get our rest.