Really, I've been preparing and counting down the days since March. But now with only one week to go things are really taking shape.
Each week in the summer I bought a new item of clothing, mainly T-Shirts and a few pairs of trousers. These have never been worn. They have been ironed, folded, and are already in the suitcase ( which has been properlly packed TWICE just to see what space we had ). All the travel documents and passports are arranged in order of use, and have been sealed in an A4 envelope for about 2 months now.
Just to prove how organised I like to be ( this is a result of having such a large DVD collection which is arranged alphabetically and documented ) below is a list I made
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Yeah, I know, borderline OCD !!!! But in the days to come, I also have a lot of walking to do. Went to the local forest last Friday cause I really need to exercise. That's the problem with working 12 hour shifts in a bookmakers, I sit on a seat for most of my time. Walked for about 1 1/2 hours and I could feel my legs starting to hurt, not a good sign with 6 days around DL coming up.
Oh, and I also made 40 pictures to use as a countdown signiture on the Forum ( anyone noticed the changes in the pictures ? No, not yet ? If not I made an animation of them all too ).
So, in order to have plently of time to pack etc. I've got 12 hours shifts on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday so that I've got the rest of the week to get organised. Don't wanna leave it too late :wink:
N.B. Before the jokes start, the hair straighteners are my wifes, ok ?
I love the way you put "kids" in the final checklist. How could you possibly forget them?! :lol:
I can just imagine you getting there, only to realise that your kids are still back at home waiting to go. :lol:
Quote from: "RnRCj"I love the way you put "kids" in the final checklist. How could you possibly forget them?! :lol:
I can just imagine you getting there, only to realise that your kids are still back at home waiting to go. :lol:
HAHAHAHA! I was thinking the same thing!!!
Wow!
You're very organised!
I'm the same, I love to be fully prepared before we go, and so make many lists.
I'll make any excuse to make a list as its fun :mrgreen: 8)
Quote from: "RnRCj"I love the way you put "kids" in the final checklist. How could you possibly forget them?! :lol:
I can just imagine you getting there, only to realise that your kids are still back at home waiting to go. :lol:
Haha yeah I agree, though it would be terrible for the poor kids!
Quote from: "Pete's Dragon"N.B. Before the jokes start, the hair straighteners are my wifes, ok ?
What makes you think someone would joke about you using straighteners?? lol :mrgreen: :lol:
I was actually gonna joke more about the kids thing than the hair straighteners! XD
I use them, my hair always goes REALLY curly!
Hey,
I totally don't blame you for the excitemnet, the days can never go quick enough until the day comes to actually leave! I bet you will have a great time, i hope these next few days go quickly for you!
And i bet more men use hair straightners than you think hehe!!
Aveen xxx
well not me, my hair's about 1cm long :wink:
By the way, has anyone noticed the changes in my signiture ?
I've noticed them =]
I thought it was a countdown off the internet lol :mrgreen:
1cm...perfect for straightening! lol
Quite a few men I know straighten their hair.
I don't straighten mine at all, used to but then decided against it because it was damaging my hair too much. Now I just leave it to be its natural mess haha :lol: :mrgreen:
Yes! Do you just make that on paint?
I did something similar to that for my MSN background for my trip last year!!!
Who is the last character to be rubbed off?
I used photoshop. The characters are disappearing from the back to the front, so smeone along the front line will be last to go and there's only one character there who deserves to stay till the end ( unless your name is Javey that is ).
Minnie?
Think it should be Micky my self :D
you forgot to add to the final part of your checklist to make sure you have put all the cases in the car :D
:lol: :lol: at the kids in the last minute checks, reminds me of that bit from Father Ted,
"Did you bring the scrabble Dougle?" "Yes ted i brought the travel scrabble for when we're travelling and the orginal scrabble for when we arrive......... actually Ted i didn't bring either of them" "Ah Dougle you'll be telling me now you forgot to lock the front door!" *shows scene of their house with man running out of it with TV* :lol:
As for the hair straighteners it got out that my friend used some once, boy will he never let that down :lol:
And yeah i did notice your changing sig, very clever :D
To be honest, I didn't actually notice the changing signature. I was just looking at it every day, scratching my head and thinking "I could of sworn there were more characters yesterday." :lol:
Quote from: "bigrossco"you forgot to add to the final part of your checklist to make sure you have put all the cases in the car :D
gonna do that on saturday when the kids are asleep. not gonna tell them we're going, just gonna wait and see if they realise before we reach the airport :)
heres the sig. pic i you wanna see who's missing so far.
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Yeah, I noticed the sig, very clever. I hope you have a great trip :)
Good, I'm glad someone noticed. Was thinking I'd wasted an hour of my life. :)
Well, you's probably wont hear at lot from me for the next 4 days. Once I get these 12 hour shifts out of the way, I've gotta enroll at University on Thursday. Then Operation GetSortedForDLRP begins !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Quote from: "Pete's Dragon"Good, I'm glad someone noticed. Was thinking I'd wasted an hour of my life. :)
Well, you's probably wont hear at lot from me for the next 4 days. Once I get these 12 hour shifts out of the way, I've gotta enroll at University on Thursday. Then Operation GetSortedForDLRP begins !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Aww!
Not a waste at all, at first I thought it was my eyes...but then I realised that it was changing haha!
I enroll Thursday too! I'm not looking forward to it, I have so many questions and I'm going to forget them :o
Well it's almost two months until I travel and I also have a long list of stuff to pack already. As I'm trying to get to sleep I'll suddenly remember I've forgot to put deodorant on the list or something, then I have to get up and write it on.
It's great that you're surprising the kids, my sister tried to do that with my niece but when they got to Ashford they asked her if she knew where they were going expecting a no, but she said Disneyland. She was four and had only been once before so how she knew is anyones guess!
Never mind the straighteners, I'm surprised no ones noticed the manbag!
well the kids know they are going, they just dont know exactly when
Quote from: "jeakat24"I'm surprised no ones noticed the manbag!
I am quite comfortable with my Manbag. 8)
Hey pete! Wish you a lot of fun and magic at DLRP!!! =D>
Quote from: "Riebi"Hey pete! Wish you a lot of fun and magic at DLRP!!! =D>
Thanks Riebi.
Going down to see how many Euros I can get for my £££££££. Hope the bank's feeling generous today :D
Wow, just 3 days left for you, you're really lucky :)! Wish you a great trip!
Its so close now I can smell the croissants !!!
The house is tidy (except for the living room, kids locked in there), the car is bursting with petrol, the camera's fully charged, my Manbag is ready to go, all the clothes were ironed on Thursady and the suitcases packed. Spending money counted and split in 2 ( half for me, half for Jasmine ).
All that's left to do is dump the kids with the Granny for a couple of hours so we can finish up ( well, after the Liverpool match that is ).
:D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D
Wow, that's actually a great tip for me, make a checklist. I'm always so excited I forget half I want to take... :P
Enjoy your trip! (Maybe we'll bump into each other accidentally, my plain leaves monday. :D/ )
Glad you've got your priorities right pete.
C'mon the 'pool :-)
You're so lucky! I want to come too!
Have a great trip! You seem to be completely ready :D
Have a great trip!!! Looking forward to your report already...
Have a great trip, I'm sure you will. Don't forget your manbag, my partner did last time and it had our passports, travel docs etc so we had to rush back (it was the first and last I trusted him with those!)
Looking forward to the trip report and I'm glad to see Mickey is the last one standing!
Have a great trip to DLRP Pete's Dargon!!
I'm looking forward to your trip report!!!
(Liverpool won by a fluke!)
By a fluke? Ha! We were clearly the better team over the ninety minutes.
I'm sure the boys in Red are sending you to Disneyland in a more than bouyant mood Pete! Enjoy yourself :)
Have a great time at DLRP, Pete. :D/ :D/
Saying that, you seem to be struggling to get of the ground in your flight, this is over 3 pages now, I'd suggest you try some Pixie Dust... :lol: :lol: :mrgreen:
Anyway, look forward to your Trip Report on your return with the all important photies.. :wink: :D
Have a wonderful time!!!
And make sure you take lots of pics, and share it all with us when you're back!!
Looking forward to a trip report Pete's Dragon!!
And photographs :D
Hope you have a fandabby dosey time!!! :mrgreen:
Thanks everyone for the good wishes. Oh there will indeed be a lot of photos to share when I return.
Going to set the kids down in the morning and explain to them that we're leaving for DLRP in 10 mins. and record their reactions !!!!!
Well, I guess I'll speak to yous all in a weeks time. Dont have too much fun without me.
The only thing left to do is change my signiture pic for the very last time. Bye !!!!!
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You mean they don't know?!
BTW, nic new sig!
Quote from: "MinniesBestPal"You mean they don't know?!
BTW, nic new sig!
They know we're going at some point. My son told his Granny today that it was in 5 weeks time !!!!!!!!!!! Boy is he gonna be surprised. Although I thought he would have guessed. He's been dressed in rags for the last week cause all his nice clothes have been packed.
Quote from: "Pete's Dragon"Quote from: "MinniesBestPal"You mean they don't know?!
BTW, nic new sig!
They know we're going at some point. My son told his Granny today that it was in 5 weeks time !!!!!!!!!!! Boy is he gonna be surprised. Although I thought he would have guessed. He's been dressed in rags for the last week cause all his nice clothes have been packed.
Awwwwww thats soooo coool! lol
:mrgreen:
PD, you may not get to DLRP, you'll be in ICU instead, after the've all had cardiac arrests with shock... :shock: :mrgreen:
I know what Jen was like when she thought she was going to London, she was only told that she wasn't going to London and it was DLRP instead, getting on the plane.... :shock: :D/
Put it this way, I don't know what the cabin crew or the passengers thought.. :lol: :lol:
Quote from: "Javey74"PD, you may not get to DLRP, you'll be in ICU instead, after the've all had cardiac arrests with shock... :shock: :mrgreen:
I know what Jen was like when she thought she was going to London, she was only told that she wasn't and it was DLRP instead getting on the plane.... :shock: :D/
Put it this way, I don't know what the cabin crew or the passengers thought.. :lol: :lol:
AWWW!
How cool are you two as dads! haha
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My dad wouldn't be able to keep it from me! I'd guess something was up, and then start thinking about it... and wondering "What if it IS dlrp?" and then get up early just to wait for the post to come! :P
Quote from: "MinniesBestPal"My dad wouldn't be able to keep it from me! I'd guess something was up, and then start thinking about it... and wondering "What if it IS dlrp?" and then get up early just to wait for the post to come! :P
Aww but what if he was really trying to keep it a secret from you!
lol
Hope you have a great trip PD! :D
Can i please please tell the kids [-o< ? Its killing me :cry: :?
Quote from: "Jasmine"Can i please please tell the kids [-o< ? Its killing me :cry: :?
For the last time NO !!! If we tell them now then we've got 2 crazy, excited kids on our hands for 2 hours. They'd probably wreck the house we spent all day cleaning ( well, except for when I nipped out to watch the mighty Liverpool destroy the Manc Scumbags ).
Tell them at 10am
Quote from: "Pete's Dragon"Quote from: "MinniesBestPal"You mean they don't know?!
BTW, nic new sig!
They know we're going at some point. My son told his Granny today that it was in 5 weeks time !!!!!!!!!!! Boy is he gonna be surprised. Although I thought he would have guessed. He's been dressed in rags for the last week cause all his nice clothes have been packed.
Lol, that's so cool. My parents did the same thing to me when I was about 5, we arrived at the Channel Tunnel, and I said that it looked like the way we go to get to Disney, then they told me the truth :mrgreen:
Have a fantastic trip PD and Jasmine :)