We did Spring Break weekend at Gulf Shores.
I'm heading home to PA for a week the first of May.
When college finals are done, we have a weekend in Alpine Helen, GA.
I'm hoping to fit in a Charleston or Savannah trip in the fall. Then Disney in December 
and back to PA for Christmas!
My one non-Disney trip will be to Oklahoma to visit my grandfather in June. Then it's 3 WDW and 1 DCL cruise vacations planned. 
Dee 
Member of the 6 castle club and working to pay for my next Disney vacations: 1/5-10/18, September 2018 for my 50th and 2018 the year of Disney cruising.
My one non-Disney trip will be to Oklahoma to visit my grandfather in June. Then it's 3 WDW and 1 DCL cruise vacations planned.
Dee
Where in OK? I lived in Tulsa a few times, it was nice.
We did Spring Break weekend at Gulf Shores.
I'm heading home to PA for a week the first of May.
When college finals are done, we have a weekend in Alpine Helen, GA.
I'm hoping to fit in a Charleston or Savannah trip in the fall. Then Disney in December and back to PA for Christmas!
Where in PA? I live in CT but am from southwestern PA.
Molitva wrote:We did Spring Break weekend at Gulf Shores.
I'm heading home to PA for a week the first of May.
When college finals are done, we have a weekend in Alpine Helen, GA.
I'm hoping to fit in a Charleston or Savannah trip in the fall. Then Disney in December and back to PA for Christmas!
Where in PA? I live in CT but am from southwestern PA.
Indiana, PA. I can't wait to get some Sheetz hotdogs!
We're from Erie, PA. I went to Edinboro but spent lots of time at IUP with friends. Don't miss the weather!
Julie
Faith, Trust and Pixie Dust
Myrtle Beach, South Carolina.
JoAnn C wrote:Molitva wrote:We did Spring Break weekend at Gulf Shores.
I'm heading home to PA for a week the first of May.
When college finals are done, we have a weekend in Alpine Helen, GA.
I'm hoping to fit in a Charleston or Savannah trip in the fall. Then Disney in December and back to PA for Christmas!
Where in PA? I live in CT but am from southwestern PA.
Indiana, PA. I can't wait to get some Sheetz hotdogs!
I grew up in Punxsutawney. I miss Sheetz.
Molitva wrote:JoAnn C wrote:Molitva wrote:We did Spring Break weekend at Gulf Shores.
I'm heading home to PA for a week the first of May.
When college finals are done, we have a weekend in Alpine Helen, GA.
I'm hoping to fit in a Charleston or Savannah trip in the fall. Then Disney in December and back to PA for Christmas!
Where in PA? I live in CT but am from southwestern PA.
Indiana, PA. I can't wait to get some Sheetz hotdogs!
I grew up in Punxsutawney. I miss Sheetz.
Just up the road then 
There's quite a few of us yinzers in here!
Tony wrote:Have you done the trip to swim with them? I can highly reccomend it. Not sure if I am allowed to say what tour company we went with when we did it.
someone told me it was like super illegal to touch one in the wild, which is true. but then I asked if there was any company or something you could do something through and they said something along the lines of "no way! you can't get close enough or its illegal!"
There was a long list of rules when we went, things like not being able to go into certain parts of the river, only touch them with one hand, don't completely surround them and never get between a mother and her calf. Google "swim with manatees orlando" and you'll find lots of tour companies offering the experience. It'll cost about $100 to PS130 including transport depending on the package you go for.
I can only please one person per day. Today isn't your day... tomorrow doesn't look good either.
Molitva wrote:JoAnn C wrote:Molitva wrote:We did Spring Break weekend at Gulf Shores.
I'm heading home to PA for a week the first of May.
When college finals are done, we have a weekend in Alpine Helen, GA.
I'm hoping to fit in a Charleston or Savannah trip in the fall. Then Disney in December and back to PA for Christmas!
Where in PA? I live in CT but am from southwestern PA.
Indiana, PA. I can't wait to get some Sheetz hotdogs!
I grew up in Punxsutawney. I miss Sheetz.
Golly. I can't drive in any direction without passing a Sheetz eventually. Amazed those of you who moved away are waxing nostalgic for them.
Jessi5989 wrote:Tony wrote:Have you done the trip to swim with them? I can highly reccomend it. Not sure if I am allowed to say what tour company we went with when we did it.
someone told me it was like super illegal to touch one in the wild, which is true. but then I asked if there was any company or something you could do something through and they said something along the lines of "no way! you can't get close enough or its illegal!"
There was a long list of rules when we went, things like not being able to go into certain parts of the river, only touch them with one hand, don't completely surround them and never get between a mother and her calf. Google "swim with manatees orlando" and you'll find lots of tour companies offering the experience. It'll cost about $100 to PS130 including transport depending on the package you go for.
Thank you so much! I'm totally planning this for me and my friends if I move to Orlando! They will be so excited!
JoAnn C wrote:Molitva wrote:JoAnn C wrote:Molitva wrote:We did Spring Break weekend at Gulf Shores.
I'm heading home to PA for a week the first of May.
When college finals are done, we have a weekend in Alpine Helen, GA.
I'm hoping to fit in a Charleston or Savannah trip in the fall. Then Disney in December and back to PA for Christmas!
Where in PA? I live in CT but am from southwestern PA.
Indiana, PA. I can't wait to get some Sheetz hotdogs!
I grew up in Punxsutawney. I miss Sheetz.
Golly. I can't drive in any direction without passing a Sheetz eventually. Amazed those of you who moved away are waxing nostalgic for them.
Haha! I seriously crave their hotdogs. And 2 hotdogs (w/sauerkraut) for 99c? That's insane. I need a ticker for my countdown to more Sheetz hotdogs
Good afternoon!
I went to Cape Cod on a Starr Tours (http://www.starrtours.com/) escorted bus tour for four days and three nights, June 17-20, 2012. Went to Martha's Vineyard and did a Provincetown dune tour in an SUV. Ate lots of seafood at Seafood Shanty in Edgartown (where the film "Jaws" was made in March, 1975; so when the actors were told to get out of the ocean, they happily complied) and at the Lobster Pot in Provincetown. I'd never seen Cape Cod, supposedly so named because the codfish were so plentiful that one could walk to shore on their backs, and it was on my bucket list.
Sadly, no Disney trips (or any other trips) planned for this year or next year. I'd like to kill off my credit card debt first.
Jim
That sounds like a great trip Jim. It's on our list of places to go someday too. Do you do a lot of the smaller get-aways, or was this your first?
Diana
Time marches on. Eventually you realize it's doing it across your face.
Sadly, no Disney trips (or any other trips) planned for this year or next year. I'd like to kill off my credit card debt first.
Excellent goal!
I am going on ladies church retreat to Bethany Beach, DE 9/28-30/12 and to my brother's in Pensacola, FL 11/15-24/12 for Thanksgiving. Next October 2013 Disney Oh and I am a "Yinzer" also from Charleroi PA.
We just went to Gettysburg Bike Week last month and are prepping for two comic conventions - Small Press Expo in September and New York Comic Con in October.
Fellow Americans, I hear your tambourines inside my head and that's no lie!
February of 2013 we're going on a cruise (not with the though 
)! But nothing else planned as far as I know this year after my trip a few weeks ago. Look forward to hearing about everyone else's trips!
omnia mea mecum porto.
@byhardy on twitter.
February of 2013 we're going on a cruise
Cool, where are you going and what line will you be traveling on? My husband and I did an Western Caribbean NCL trip out of New Orleans in the spring and it was wonderful.
Biltmore House, Asheville, right before Christmas!
Hardy0109 wrote:February of 2013 we're going on a cruise
Cool, where are you going and what line will you be traveling on? My husband and I did an Western Caribbean NCL trip out of New Orleans in the spring and it was wonderful.
Carnival, believe it is called Magic. I don't know what places (haven't asked parents) but I know we are going to Belize because we love that place 
omnia mea mecum porto.
@byhardy on twitter.
We did make it to Paris for my birthday, even snuck in a day trip to DLP 
it was SO lovely going to Paris in the summer as for the last 4 times I've been there it's been in winter, just being able to walk around outside not freezing my toosh off on a side note, there were loads of Americans there, weird! Much more than I ever notice in London!
Our Very Merry 24 nighter Nov/Dec 15
Watson's go West May 15
The one with all the birthdays Oct 14 4 Big Birthdays and a Vow Renewal thrown in
The OMG trip June 14 30th Birthday present from the hubs
Girly trip March 14 A last min cheapy week
September 13 our first all DVC stay
TR May 2013 the last min bargain trip offsite
Oct 2012 TR with a cruise!big family trip featuring the beach club, AKL, the dream and a villa offsite
TR on a budget May - June 2011offsite condo
TR Sept - Oct 2010 big family trip in an offsite villa
Hi finngirl,
It was my first-ever trip to Cape Cod. I forgot to mention that after we got back to Woods Hole, MA on the ferry from Martha's Vineyard, and back to the Heritage House Hotel in Hyannis (259 Main Street, Hyannis, MA 02601; phone 1(508) 775-7000), I walked a couple blocks to McKeon Field and took in a Cape Cod Baseball League game, the Cotuit Kettleers at the Hyannis Harbor Hawks, but I stayed only three innings because I was tired from the day's outing.
I don't take a lot of little getaways (it was only my second Starr Tours vacation, the first being June 15-16, 2003 to the Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum in Cooperstown, NY) because I do not drive and must always keep in mind how to get around without a car. Taxis are expensive so are a last resort; I prefer to use trains and buses if available. That's one reason that WDW is such a great destination; if you're staying on property, Disney Transit is pretty efficient. Other places to visit with good public transportation are any major cities along the northeast corridor (Boston, NY, Philly, Washington).
Jim
I've started to plan trips where I don't have to drive either. DH has medical issues and doesn't have a license, so I do ALL the driving for us. I love the buses at WDW - I know that people complain about the waits, grumpy people, etc., but for me it's a true vacation to get to be a passenger for a change.
We have done a few tours with Caravan - we were pleased with them. You are right - with a tour, you don't have to worry about how you will get around your destination cities, unless you go off on your own for a day. It seemed really strange to do a tour of the Rockies with an American company (we are Canadian!), but I couldn't find a Canadian company that offered so much of what we wanted for a reasonable price. When I saw some of the roads our driver was handling, I was doubly glad that I wasn't driving!
Diana
Time marches on. Eventually you realize it's doing it across your face.
Planning a return to Mammoth Lakes, CA in October for our anniversary. This is where we spent out honeymoon and try to go back to at LEAST once a year. So excited for this!
Happily none...every trip from this point until 2013 is a Disney trip 
Wooohooo!
Member of the 6 castle club and working to pay for my next Disney vacations: 1/5-10/18, September 2018 for my 50th and 2018 the year of Disney cruising.
Happily none...every trip from this point until 2013 is a Disney trip
Wooohooo!
Same here Dee.
We went to Myrtle Beach, South Carolina in May. Nice, lazy beach trip. That and the WDW trip in October will be it for us this year.
Why would I go anywhere else other than WDW? 
