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Title: Pete's Dragon Prepares to Take Flight
Post by: Pete's Dragon on September 07, 2008, 12:18:48 PM
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

(//http://i342.photobucket.com/albums/o427/Brtweed1976/DLRP2008/plan.jpg)

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 ?
Title: Re: Pete's Dragon Prepares to Take Flight
Post by: RnRCj on September 07, 2008, 01:15:03 PM
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:
Title: Re: Pete's Dragon Prepares to Take Flight
Post by: MinniesBestPal on September 07, 2008, 01:20:06 PM
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!!!
Title: Re: Pete's Dragon Prepares to Take Flight
Post by: burntsienna on September 07, 2008, 01:22:07 PM
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:
Title: Re: Pete's Dragon Prepares to Take Flight
Post by: MinniesBestPal on September 07, 2008, 01:31:52 PM
I was actually gonna joke more about the kids thing than the hair straighteners! XD

I use them, my hair always goes REALLY curly!
Title: Re: Pete's Dragon Prepares to Take Flight
Post by: Aveen2008 on September 07, 2008, 01:39:59 PM
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
Title: Re: Pete's Dragon Prepares to Take Flight
Post by: Pete's Dragon on September 07, 2008, 01:42:24 PM
well not me, my hair's about 1cm long  :wink:

By the way, has anyone noticed the changes in my signiture ?
Title: Re: Pete's Dragon Prepares to Take Flight
Post by: burntsienna on September 07, 2008, 02:56:27 PM
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:
Title: Re: Pete's Dragon Prepares to Take Flight
Post by: MinniesBestPal on September 07, 2008, 02:58:48 PM
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?
Title: Re: Pete's Dragon Prepares to Take Flight
Post by: Pete's Dragon on September 07, 2008, 03:01:25 PM
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 ).
Title: Re: Pete's Dragon Prepares to Take Flight
Post by: MinniesBestPal on September 07, 2008, 03:06:39 PM
Minnie?
Title: Re: Pete's Dragon Prepares to Take Flight
Post by: bigrossco on September 07, 2008, 03:41:52 PM
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
Title: Re: Pete's Dragon Prepares to Take Flight
Post by: -breeno- on September 07, 2008, 03:54:33 PM
: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
Title: Re: Pete's Dragon Prepares to Take Flight
Post by: RnRCj on September 07, 2008, 03:59:33 PM
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:
Title: Re: Pete's Dragon Prepares to Take Flight
Post by: Pete's Dragon on September 07, 2008, 04:25:06 PM
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  :)
Title: Re: Pete's Dragon Prepares to Take Flight
Post by: Pete's Dragon on September 07, 2008, 04:26:51 PM
heres the sig. pic i you wanna see who's missing so far.

(//http://i342.photobucket.com/albums/o427/Brtweed1976/cd/disney_banner14.jpg)
Title: Re: Pete's Dragon Prepares to Take Flight
Post by: The Butlin Boy on September 07, 2008, 08:31:24 PM
Yeah, I noticed the sig, very clever. I hope you have a great trip :)
Title: Re: Pete's Dragon Prepares to Take Flight
Post by: Pete's Dragon on September 08, 2008, 09:15:18 AM
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 !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Title: Re: Pete's Dragon Prepares to Take Flight
Post by: burntsienna on September 08, 2008, 01:12:47 PM
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
Title: Re: Pete's Dragon Prepares to Take Flight
Post by: jeakat24 on September 08, 2008, 01:51:36 PM
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!
Title: Re: Pete's Dragon Prepares to Take Flight
Post by: Pete's Dragon on September 08, 2008, 02:26:25 PM
well the kids know they are going, they just dont know exactly when
Title: Re: Pete's Dragon Prepares to Take Flight
Post by: Pete's Dragon on September 11, 2008, 09:23:40 AM
Quote from: "jeakat24"I'm surprised no ones noticed the manbag!

I am quite comfortable with my Manbag. 8)
Title: Re: Pete's Dragon Prepares to Take Flight
Post by: Riebi on September 11, 2008, 12:27:17 PM
Hey pete! Wish you a lot of fun and magic at DLRP!!!  =D>
Title: Re: Pete's Dragon Prepares to Take Flight
Post by: Pete's Dragon on September 11, 2008, 01:50:23 PM
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
Title: Re: Pete's Dragon Prepares to Take Flight
Post by: Nala_84 on September 11, 2008, 05:05:46 PM
Wow, just 3 days left for you, you're really lucky :)! Wish you a great trip!
Title: Re: Pete's Dragon Prepares to Take Flight
Post by: Pete's Dragon on September 13, 2008, 11:28:06 AM
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
Title: Re: Pete's Dragon Prepares to Take Flight
Post by: theralmetallord on September 13, 2008, 12:35:03 PM
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/ )
Title: Re: Pete's Dragon Prepares to Take Flight
Post by: Gerry-amp on September 13, 2008, 12:42:11 PM
Glad you've got your priorities right pete.

C'mon the 'pool :-)
Title: Re: Pete's Dragon Prepares to Take Flight
Post by: MinniesBestPal on September 13, 2008, 12:42:36 PM
You're so lucky! I want to come too!
Title: Re: Pete's Dragon Prepares to Take Flight
Post by: DLP-Photos.com on September 13, 2008, 12:46:17 PM
Have a great trip! You seem to be completely ready  :D
Title: Re: Pete's Dragon Prepares to Take Flight
Post by: ColdSun on September 13, 2008, 01:01:56 PM
Have a great trip!!! Looking forward to your report already...
Title: Re: Pete's Dragon Prepares to Take Flight
Post by: jeakat24 on September 13, 2008, 04:13:56 PM
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!
Title: Re: Pete's Dragon Prepares to Take Flight
Post by: SophieD on September 13, 2008, 04:17:36 PM
Have a great trip to DLRP Pete's Dargon!!
I'm looking forward to your trip report!!!



(Liverpool won by a fluke!)
Title: Re: Pete's Dragon Prepares to Take Flight
Post by: Gerry-amp on September 13, 2008, 05:52:52 PM
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 :)
Title: Re: Pete's Dragon Prepares to Take Flight
Post by: Javey74 on September 13, 2008, 06:30:18 PM
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
Title: Re: Pete's Dragon Prepares to Take Flight
Post by: never2old on September 13, 2008, 08:20:34 PM
Have a wonderful time!!!

And make sure you take lots of pics, and share it all with us when you're back!!
Title: Re: Pete's Dragon Prepares to Take Flight
Post by: burntsienna on September 13, 2008, 09:42:02 PM
Looking forward to a trip report Pete's Dragon!!
And photographs :D
Hope you have a fandabby dosey time!!!  :mrgreen:
Title: Re: Pete's Dragon Prepares to Take Flight
Post by: Pete's Dragon on September 13, 2008, 10:52:40 PM
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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Title: Re: Pete's Dragon Prepares to Take Flight
Post by: MinniesBestPal on September 13, 2008, 10:57:51 PM
You mean they don't know?!

BTW, nic new sig!
Title: Re: Pete's Dragon Prepares to Take Flight
Post by: Pete's Dragon on September 13, 2008, 11:02:27 PM
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.
Title: Re: Pete's Dragon Prepares to Take Flight
Post by: burntsienna on September 13, 2008, 11:03:53 PM
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:
Title: Re: Pete's Dragon Prepares to Take Flight
Post by: Javey74 on September 13, 2008, 11:06:06 PM
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:
Title: Re: Pete's Dragon Prepares to Take Flight
Post by: burntsienna on September 13, 2008, 11:08:31 PM
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
 :lol:
Title: Re: Pete's Dragon Prepares to Take Flight
Post by: MinniesBestPal on September 13, 2008, 11:34:50 PM
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
Title: Re: Pete's Dragon Prepares to Take Flight
Post by: burntsienna on September 13, 2008, 11:42:09 PM
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
Title: Re: Pete's Dragon Prepares to Take Flight
Post by: -breeno- on September 14, 2008, 12:30:43 AM
Hope you have a great trip PD! :D
Title: Re: Pete's Dragon Prepares to Take Flight
Post by: Jasmine on September 14, 2008, 08:42:52 AM
Can i please please tell the kids  [-o< ? Its killing me  :cry:  :?
Title: Re: Pete's Dragon Prepares to Take Flight
Post by: Pete's Dragon on September 14, 2008, 09:04:24 AM
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
Title: Re: Pete's Dragon Prepares to Take Flight
Post by: The Butlin Boy on September 14, 2008, 12:30:27 PM
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 :)