If I was in Orlando, I'd be crying in my Butterbeer!

Can you sense from the title of my post that I'm starting to get frustrated?  I mean come on, it's not like we've been sitting around waiting for this house sale to go through for months. Oh, wait a minute that's exactly what we've been doing.

It's funny how a seemingly innocent e-mail, meant to keep us informed has got me so irritated. This afternoon,  I happened to be thinking that we should get our usual update today or tomorrow. When I saw the ping of new e-mail on my phone I took a peak at the subject lines appearing at the top of the screen and saw the house address attached to an e-mail from our Realtor's assistant. Yippee! Not so it seems.  I started to read and actually put my phone down and decided I needed to read this on the computer so I could make sure I was reading the e-mail correctly.

I like to think we've been pretty patient up to this point. A lot patient for that matter. I think that's changing.  The e-mail was just to let us know that the bank requested information from the lawyer and listing agent on a Friday evening with the deadline for response being Sunday morning. How many lawyers do you know that work on the weekend?  Anyway, I assume the deadline was missed and the lawyer had to call the bank and ask them to extend the deadline as it had been unreasonable. The bank agreed and here we are waiting for the listing agent to update the house listing and then for the lawyer to upload it to this Equator system. All the while things are delayed once again.

I think that I should just forget about planning what I'd like to do with the kids when we go down, because every time I start thinking about it things seem to go awry.  So chances of us getting to see Mickeys Very Merry Christmas Party, The Osbourne Family Spectacle of Dancing Lights or even Grinchmas at Islands of Adventure are pretty slim. Maybe I'll plan on seeing Transformers the ride! For those not in the know, it's Universal Orlando's new dark ride coming Summer 2013. Ha! for that matter why don't I just say we'll go down when the Harry Potter expansion is finished and that date hasn't even been announced!

Putting this all down on virtual paper actually makes me feel better.  Since I'm not a beer drinker I can't cry in any, and I'm not in Orlando so there's no Butterbeer here either. So that kind of moping is out. I'm thinking of a quote one of my favourite Princesses "A dream is a wish your heart makes", but even that's not helping my outlook today.  I think what we have to look forward to at this point is paperwork. Fingers crossed that once they upload the listing we'll be back on track...maybe...hopefully.....

My New "List"!

It's just a quite Sunday morning here. It's been raining and we have lots of work going on outside that isn't getting done because of it! I thought I'd take the opportunity to make a new "list".  For those of you that don't know me I have for as long as I can remember been a big Mickey Mouse fan. I still wear a t-shirt I got on my first visit to Walt Disney World circa 1986.  Since then I've managed to take my husband and 2 kids and converted them into Disney lovers (not that that is hard).  This whole journey we are on to buy the vacation home in Kissimmee will just enable us to visit Disney World just a little more often and hopefully help others do the same.

Now onto my new "list".  I thought I would make a list of things that I want to do at Disney World.  Truth be told I would love to visit all the Disney parks around the world but that is a loftier goal. We have been to Disneyland (minus our youngest who wasn't born yet), but their is still Paris and Tokyo and a few Cruise ships left to discover. Okay enough rambling and back to the list.  This list is by no means exhaustive.   My list is in no particular order.

• See Wishes fireworks display at Magic Kingdom (MK)
• Main Street Electric Parade (MK)
• Have the kids join the Pirates League (MK)
• Have a Dole Whip
• Attend Mickey's Not so Scary Halloween Party (MK)
• Attend Mickey's Very Merry Christmas Party (MK)
• Star Wars weekends at Disney Hollywood Studios (DHS)
• Osbourne Spectacle of Lights (DHS)
• See all the stage shows in the parks (So far The Festival of the Lion King at Animal Kingdom is my favourite)
• Visit a Disney Water Park for the day
• Go on the Tower of Terror (DHS)
• Go on Rock 'n' Roller Coaster (DHS)
• Attend the Food and Wine Festival at Epcot (E)
• Play Agent P's world showcase adventure (E)
• Dinner theatre somewhere in The World
• Stay in a Deluxe resort (we visited all of them but never stayed)
• Have one of the fantastic cupcakes I see pictures of everywhere
• Take my daughter to the Bibbidi Bobbidi Boutique one more time before she decides she's "too old" for it.

I could go on and I know that I've missed many things that I would love to do. This is my list. I am a bit of a crazy researcher before I head off on vacation and learn more information than I ever need on a given trip. It does come in handy though. I don't like being over scheduled, which if you have kids you know never works anyway.  So if you are heading to Disney and have any questions please ask me and I'd be happy to help. And if I can't give you the answer, chances are I;ll know where to go to find the answer or someone else who can give it to you.

Thanks for stopping by and reading my "list". I'm going to see what work I can get accomplished today. I might even take a trip the the Halloween store, one kid is taken care of but still have one more costume to go. Take care!