49 days to go - time to work on my costume!

[schachteles]

We have never been to MNSSHP, so we booked tickets for two nights...hope that it is worth it. Now we have to decide if DH and I are going to dress up.

On Tuesday the 16th we are going to take DDs to BBB to get their hair done and buy dresses...then we are going again on the 18th and I am debating if we should buy them seperate outfits, make them wear the same ones again or not dress up?!?!? So many decisions!

[Kycha]

The costumes we wore were kinda heavy and black(of course). Which didn't go well in the Florida heat and humidity of September very well. You might want to take that into consideration.

Also, even though the party doesn't start until 7pm(I think), you can get in as early as 4pm. We got there around 4:30pm, got our party wristband and put our costumes into a locker(which is free on party nights). We went straight to Tomorrowland, then Fantasyland. By the time we came out of Mickey's Philharmagic, around 6pm, they were closing down Fantasyland to prepare for the party. They hustled everyone with a wristband over to Liberty Square, and everyone else was escorted to the exit. We then put on our costumes and partied. The best thing about showing up so early, is that all the rides were walk on. There was no wait whatsoever. We rode more rides in that 1 1/2 hours, then we do in a full regular day at the park.

[schachteles]

I SO hope that we get some good lines when we are at the party. It sounds like such a good time. We are hoping to get into the park ASAP, one night we are eating a 5pm dinner at Ohana and then the other night like a 4:30 at Crystal Palace.

[wdwabby]

Kycha - thanks for all of your positive comments about the party - I read nothing but good things before we bought the tickets and then aftewards found some not-so-fantastic reviews.

I'm so excited for it!

schachteles - dress up! do it! do it! if you can't be a kid at Disney, then where can ya?

I'm excited about the whole trip, right down to the little black mickey heads I drew on my dry erase calendar at work for each day of the trip I'll be gone in September

[wdwabby]

Ok, well if I see you on the forums this weekend I will be sure to remind you that you should be working on your costume instead!

my own personal taskmaster! limited computer time this weekend - scouts honor!

[wdwabby]

As promised, here is the picture of what it looks like so far. The blouse still needs its buttons (I waited because I wasn't sure how fitted the dress would be because it's a pattern I hadn't used before and didn't want visible button bumps and didn't know if I would go with velcro instead) The dress and apron need to be hemmed to their appropriate length, I need to make the white underskirt and the blue hair ribbon...



Let me know what you think!

If any of you are on the DIS and like reading Pre-Trip Reports and Trip Reports, you can read my pre-trippie over there: It's called Fairytale Remix:Cindy and the 3 Bears. I don't know if it's ok to post a link or not, so I won't. Hedy is over there with me too, so come join the fun.

[Chelley00]

Great job! We loved MNSSHP last year, so much so that when the dates came out for this year, we added a night to our trip just to be able to go again.

This year the 3 boys will wear basketball jerseys, our daughter a cheerleader, DH the coach, and I'm wearing a referee shirt

[LuvMyBoys]

It's looking great!! I can't wait to see the finished product! Congratulations too on paying for the MNSSHP!! That must feel good!

[wdwabby]

Great job! We loved MNSSHP last year, so much so that when the dates came out for this year, we added a night to our trip just to be able to go again.

This year the 3 boys will wear basketball jerseys, our daughter a cheerleader, DH the coach, and I'm wearing a referee shirt

great theme for the costumes! (I used to play basketball in high school and almost did in college, but did track instead)

We extended our trip specifically for the party as well. We were originally scheduled to fly out on Friday the 14th in the evening and then realized that there was a party that night ... so after much deliberation (and consulting people on the DIS, where we got "well, I won't tell you what to do, but my family plans a trip down specifically to go to the party and you'll already BE there ... so you probably would want to do it" type answers) we decided to do it. I said I'd find a way to do tickets and we're on! We can't wait!

[wdwabby]

It's looking great!! I can't wait to see the finished product! Congratulations too on paying for the MNSSHP!! That must feel good!

Thanks! I think I'm pleased with it, at least for the most part. My mom and I sew quite a bit, but not much in the way of apparel sewing - this little baby involved quite a bit of pattern modification (The collar was not included in the shirt pattern and the dress was actually supposed to be a button front and we turned it into a zippered back w/ inset zipper - that was hard!) I'm going back to my parents next weekend (the 3rd - 5th) because my best friend will be in town to see her parents (we live in Michigan, bff lives in Texas so I don't see her much) and I'll be able to finish it then. The hemming won't take long at all, but I need to pull up some screenshots from the movie to determine how much I need to shorten it.

and it does feel good to pay for the party - my parents haven't asked for much of me for the trip (just a $500 contribution, which we all know for a Disney vacation isn't that much) so it feels really good to do something nice in return and be able to contribute. My dad has worked really hard to put together a number of surprises, mostly for my mom since I was able to figure some of them out don't accidently drop hints and expect me not to Google my way to the answer! I think it's going to be really important to make this trip as special as possible. My dad's health is not doing well at all and we just recently found out that he has macular degeneration in his left eye, and there's no telling how quickly that will advance So we're very excited and I can't wait to hand over my hard earned GCs thanks to SR : )