It's Halloween!

Today we're heading out to Brooklyn to do some trick or treating in my old 'hood..One Darth Vader, one Chewbacca and two tired parents in tow. :) Seriously, this halloween thing is terrible for my waistline. I bought reese's cups for the kids because we missed out on the goodies at the Financial Center party last weekend, and of course Michael and i have eaten most of the bag ourselves. Blech.

I am almost recovered from being sick, thank goodness. It really sucks being sick when your kids are full of energy and perfectly HEALTHY. In addition to recovering and chilling at home, I have spent most of the last week being sucked in to the vortex known as DISNEY WORLD VACATION PLANNING HELL. Did you know that Disney World is twice the size of Manhattan? Did you know that there are over a dozen on site resorts and many complicated 'levels' of ticketing that you have to maneuver? Did you know that there are a variety of coupon codes out there that can give you a discount on certain days, but not on others, and only in certain rooms, with certain views, in certain resorts, but nobody tells you which ones? I swear, I know more about the damn Magic Kingdom (or "MK", as aficionados call it) than I truly care to. I know which resorts are on the monorail, the ETA to arrive from AK (yes, that's Animal Kingdom Resort) to MK, which rides will be closed, which rides will have waits, and which characters are booked for dinner (yes, you can actually book a meal with a character. Luca and Julian have requested Buzz Lightyear and Cinderella...so far....)

I *think* tomorrow a so-called "general" coupon code comes out giving a discount for travelers in January. That would be us, if i can hold it together long enough to actually pay for the trip....I have a travel agent working with us, and she's being quite patient as I ask her such arcane questions as "will 7 nights in the Poly with a MYW ticket plus dining and park hopping cost less than a 6 night vacation at the WL with the MYW ticket plus dining but skipping the park hopping??" Yes, I really asked that.

I was asked to be the guest designer for Scrap for A Cure for November, and am sharing my creations. Get on over there and buy a kit--they're for a good cause too--Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Research.

Comments

[Lisa]

Great layouts as usual. Love the Swing page and the celebration at the pizza parlor. You can really crank these out in fine form. I need to be a more efficient scrapper so I can get more pages done. Happy Halloween!

[Leanne Stamatellos]

We celebrated Halloween also here in Australia but on a much smaller scale - with almost 100 trick or treaters visiting last night it was heaps of fun for all of us especially for Ethan and Joshua.
Love the new layouts - the star wars one caught my eye.
Disney world sounds like heaps of fun - for the boys !!!

[Anna Dögg]

FAB LO ! I just got my Dec CK issue in the mail today. I loved your LO in it !

[Bets]

You are doing a wonderful job researching all WDW, but I do recommend the Park Hopper. There were many days when we would only do 1/2 day at one park, and then the rest of the day at another park. Or you would visit one park in the morning, and have dinner at another park. We just returned 2 weeks ago, after our 5th visit in 15 years. Its a lot to go through, but fun when its done, and you actually are in Disneyworld.

[Caroline Ikeji]

wow bigger than manhattan? that's insane.
loooove those LOs :)