[kpgriffin]

Thanks for the responses. I am excited to tell you that I reduced our trip by $300.00. DH and I were discussing the trip the other night and he complained that he didn't want to spend a lot of time going from park to park, etc. just to get to our dinner locals. (Does he really think that I didn't think of that in the 8-9 hours I spent writing up our ADR plans?). Anyway, I quickly told him that we couldn't do that anyway since we did not purchase the Park Hopper tickets. Well, later on that afternoon, I was working on my favorites list on the WDW website and I checked our reservations. I noticed that the tickets were (park hopper and water park included). I then created a sample ressie to see if it was a price break if you excluded the park hopper option and the water park option. It was...about $270.00 less. Now, we are not water park people. In fact, in all of my travels to WDW, I have never visited the waterparks. Also, we do not like to park hop and I am sure that we will not want to add that additional travels with the little ones. The only benefit of the additional expense would be if we decided to go to Disneyquest and honestly I did not have it in our original plans. So I called up and changed our ressies and reduced our package. Apparently the system automatically includes the options when the book. I know it automatically does it online. You have to remove it yourself. So...if you don't mind cutting the water parks and visiting only one park a day, then you can have so additional spending money.

Now, I am also planning to pre-purchase the photopass CD and save an additional 25.00. Ithink the CD is a great money-saver because I am a sucker for all of the photos I review. Even buying the cheapest option at 12.50, it quickly adds up.

Hubby also surprised me this week with the Disney Visa. Now, to some this may seem like no great thing but you have to know DH. He is an avid follower of Dave Ramsey and and VP at a local credit union. Needless to say, he is not a fan of credit cards. In fact, the only reason that he applied for this one was in hopes to get it in time to get early dibs on the free disney dining. Anyway, I encouraaged him not to get rid of it since we could use it to get a great personalized photo session at Epcot during our trip.

Now, I am anxiously awaiting May 1 for the MNSSHP tickets to go on sale.

Since most of my park planning is done, I am now moving on to what we'll all wear. First, I am making the AK outfits. I am thinking white t-shirts with a Minnie head made out of Zebra print fabric and A bow. I made this for LilliAnna for our trip a few years ago and we got so many compliments. I'll add a photo once I complete the outfit.