Webcam page is ready!

Right now, I'm using webcam images from us decorating our tree on Friday night. Starting Dec 5th, it'll give you (hopefully!) a webcam during the trip! On Dec 5th, we'll have wireless access - for free! - so I want to put the webcam up then. And we're hoping to connect once or twice in Disney. I'll post when the webcam is up and the link to the page is in the right hand column under Links, and that page has a button in the top nav bar back to here.

Webcam page!

The trip is so close!

Pal Mickey is ready!

Pal Mickey is ready!, originally uploaded by eblackwell.

Santa at the Magic Kingdom

Santa at the Magic Kingdom, originally uploaded by mhuffman.

Nice photo from Flickr! We'll be there in 8 days!!!

Two weeks!

Two weeks! I love it! It's getting so close!

Itinerary

•          Our journey to Florida

            •          Leave home: 12/5 at 1:30 am

            •          Arrive at Fort Wilderness: 12/6 at noon

            •          Stay overnight at Country Oaks in Georgia

•          Thurs, 12/6

            •          Set up site and decorate

            •          Pickup golf cart

            •          Take boat ride to Magic Kingdom

                        •          Dole Whip meet at 7pm

                        •          Magic in Pixels: digital photography tips and tricks

                        •          Dinner at Columbia House or similar restaurant

                        •          Attend Christmas Party including cocoa, cookies, parade and fireworks (castle decorated with new lighting - see photos used in this page

                        •          Small World meet

•          Fri, 12/7

            •          Animal Kingdom in morning

                        •          Morning safari

                        •          Ride Everest

                        •          Flame Tree BBQ or Pizzafari for lunch

            •          Walk the dogs and relax - view from dog walk

            •          Disney Studios

                        •          Dinner at Mom’s Prime Time

                        •          Host “Ho Ho Ho Lotta Lights” Christmas Light Party!

                                    •          First 100 attendees get free pin from us!

                        •          Fantasmic (hopefully!)

            •          Gift exchange at Yacht and Beach Club

•          Sat, 12/8

            •          Terry and Jennifer arrive

            •          Epcot

                        •          Dogs go to kennel since we’re here all day

                        •          Brunch at the Ball - Electric Umbrella

                        •          Mega Meet for John - Erin goes shopping for John’s present and see
decorations at the Yacht Club and at the Beach Club (click links for decoration photos)

                        •          Start viewing holidays celebrations in other cultures

                        •          Walk Dogs

                        •          Mexico! For the World Showcase Hidden Mickey tour!

                        •          Dinner at new Italian restaurant - Tutto Italia

                        •          Dog and relaxation break - view from dog walk

            •          Karoake at Kimonos lounge at the Swan hotel

•          Sun, 12/9

            •          Magic Kingdom

                        •          Columbia Harbor House or similar for lunch

                        •          Capture the Magic: photo scavenger hunt

            •          Dog and relaxation break - view from dog walk

            •          Dinner at Whispering Canyon in Wilderness Lodge

            •          Special dessert café seating for Illuminations - afterwards, Deb Wills, who is hosting this party through her famous site, All Ears Net, has asked to stay around for 'extra magic'. We can't wait to see what that means!

•          Mon, 12/10

            •          Animal Kingdom

                        •          Tour Christmas decorations - if we're lucky, we'll be picked for the parade!

            •          Lunch at Pepper Market

            •          Dog and relaxation break - view from dog walk

            •          Dinner at Boma in Animal Kingdom Lodge

            •          Pleasure Island

•          Tue, 12/11

            •          Do what you’d like to morning!

                        •          Erin on Fort Wilderness Segway tour

                        •          John - ?

            •          Lunch is up in the air!

            •          Dog and relaxation break - view from dog walk

            •          Epcot in afternoon?

            •          Dinner at Le Cellier in Canada

            •          Pleasure Island

•          Wed, 12/12

            •          Disney Studios - morning

                        •          See Harlem Gospel Choir

            •          Lunch at Raglan Road

            •          Dog and relaxation break - view from dog walk

            •          Animal Kingdom for evening Extra Magic Hours

            •          Pleasure Island

•          Thurs, 12/13

            •          Animal Kingdom

            •          Dog and relaxation break - view from dog walk

            •          Dinner at Jiko in Animal Kingdom Lodge

            •          Pleasure Island

•          Fri, 12/14

            •          Magic Kingdom

                        •          Dinner at Tony’s Italian Restaurant

            •          Dog and relaxation break - view from dog walk

            •          Pleasure Island

•          Trip home

            •          Leave Fort Wilderness: 12/15 at 11 - noon

            •          Arrive home: 12/16 at 1pm

            •          Stay overnight in North Carolina/South Carolina border area

            •          Cry. A. Lot.

Keep the kids busy! It's a long drive!

John surprised me with 3 new DVDs to watch on the way to Florida!

• History Channel's Walt Disney World: Modern Marvels - the cover alone is gorgeous!
• Pixar's collected shorts
• Ratatouille

When I said it'd probably be okay if we watched one movie, he snatched them from me and said he was going to hide them until the trip. LOL!

A sweet place to spend the night

We're stopping at Country Oaks Campground on the way down. We stayed there last year and it's a great little campground. The main house with it's big wraparound porch is wonderful, and any place that has a campground dog is fine our book.

Decorations for FW

Decorations for FW, originally uploaded by eblackwell.

We got Pluto new for this trip!

We're set!

I have my video widgets figured out. Nothing did everything I wanted: wiremob lets me do by phone and posts immediately, but their widget only shows the last video. YouTube will do cellphone and Blogger gives me a good widget, but YouTube takes forever for videos to show up in search. Flickr is immediate but it only does photos.... but now I have photos and videos all set. The videos that are posted as of today are naturally just test ones.

Of course, if I could just have wireless while in Florida.... sigh. But still, I think this will be a lot of fun!

Now watch me be so exhausted every day that I'll end up not sending a thing. ;)

I hope you like the theme. I played around a lot with basic layouts and then customizing them. I'll probably play some more, but I like this. Thanks to Disneyland's commercial for the Snowman and Wallyspam on Flickr for the castle photo.

My next task for this trip blog: getting a cable so camcorder and my laptop talk to each other because right now, they don't!

Meanwhile, it's time to get some content together! Such as, what we've been doing to prepare for the trip. After all, we have most of our packing done. ;)

Hi!

What do you do when you get a new wireless notebook so you can send vacation photos and videos, maybe even have a webcam? You go somewhere without wireless! Whoo hoo!

So that's when I started looking into other venues and found the Wiremob widget and Blogger. I'm hoping I can share our vacation with everyone back home here. And then we'll have to read and view when we get home!

Bear with me as I set everything up. We'll get to more interesting things very soon.