For anyone wishing to sign up for the half-marathon in January 2010 and hasn’t yet, I checked the website and it is over 80% filled already! I just wanted to mention it as I thought I would have a few more months until I had to book it, but saw that I couldn’t wait.
Carri in Chicago

I just wanted to say for those of you with small children, the baby care centers have water coolers. We always filled up our water container there to have water for bottles or diluting juice.
Lindsey

This week’s Trip Announcements are: * *****Monday*****: None * *****Tuesday*****: None * *****Wednesday*****: None * *****Thursday*****: None * *****Friday*****: None * *****Saturday*****: None * *****Sunday*****: None * * * To receive an Announcement for your upcoming Trip from TheMouseForLess list, please be sure to place your Trip start date in the member calendar on the Yahoo site. Please include your email address in the “description” section of your record. Make sure that you check the “DO NOT REPEAT” box for this occasion. Anniversaries will have to be re-entered each year. Also, DO NOT set a reminder to be posted to TheMouseForLess list. http://groups.yahoo.com/group/TheMouseForLess/calendar
Have a great trip!
?O? Dennis O’Shields ?O? MFL ImaginEAR web : http://www.themouseforless.com

From all of the entries in to the “Ten Best Reasons For Joining MFL” Countdown Contest, we selected 10 winners. Every winner was awarded a coveted MFL “title” which was awarded for our “favorite” reason from their list. The first two winners selected will receive prizes in addition to their “title”
The winner are:
1. Heidi Our favorite reason: New Disney friends who are just as obsessed about the Mouse and Disney Heidi won the Cinderella Journal and was awarded the title: Oddball’s “Finding MFL Friends Who Are Mouse Obsessed” award.
2. Suzy Our favorite reason: Help others plan their trips. Suzy won the Tinkerbell Mug and was awarded the title: Patch’s “Helping MFL’ers Plan A Perfect Holiday” award.
3. Maria Our favorite reason: Everyday is a magical day on MFL! Maria was awarded the title: Moose’s “Everyday Is A Magical Day On MFL” award.
4. Sharon Our favorite reason: Trip reports (particularly the real-time ones). Sharon was awarded the title: Two-Tone’s “Taking Time To Trip Report On MFL” award.
5. Sabrina Our favorite reason: Incredible Discounts Sabrina was awarded the title: Domino’s “Find Incredible Discounts On MFL” award.
6. Rhonda: Our favorite reason: Restaurant and accomodations reviews are second to none. Rhonda was awarded the title: Rolly’s “MFL Restaurant And Room Reviews Are Right On” award.
7. Yvonne Our favorite reason: The Laughs Yvonne was awarded the title: Lucky’s “Loving The Laughs On MFL” award.
8. Judy Our favorite reason: Chances to be a part of one of the programs that you offer. Such as sending postcards during WDW visits so that they are postmarked from there. Judy was awarded the title: Pepper’s “MFL Participating In Postmarking Pixie Postcards” award
9. Tracey Our favorite reason: The packing list ( I always forget something). Tracey was awarded the title: Penny’s “Putting Together The Perfect MFL Packing List” award.
10. Joan Our favorite reason: Find fabulous ideas for Disney themed things you can do to keep you going until your next Disney vacation. Joan was awarded the title: Freckle’s “MFL Finds Fabulous Ideas For Disney Fun” award.
Heidi H. and Suzy Kozicki, can you please send me your mailing addresses OFF LIST, so we can get your prizes out to you. Send to MaybeFall @ aol.com . (REMOVE THE SPACES ON EITHER SIDE OF THE @ SIGN)
Winners, please be sure to add your new titles to the your signature and show off your MouseForLess connection!
Congratulations all!
Tina C MFL ImaginEar
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I just love this group. I found it while on another site about Disney and joined up. Scrapbooking and Disney are a few of my favorite things.
What is your name? Paula
Where are you from? Tallahassee, Florida What is your favorite thing about Disney? Fort Wilderness/Camping
How long have you been scrapbooking? about 8 years (but don’t have 8 years scrapped yet!)
Are you working on a Disney album now? yes, it is one of my ongoing projects and will never be finished since we go almost every year.
I love looking at all your posted pages and hope to add one of my own one day.
paula

Your dresses/costumes are terrific. I use to make quite a bunch for my friends before kids. I have made Roger Rabbit, Cookie Monster, Sylvester and Tweety Bird, Snow White and Supergirl [for my daughter-only ones thus far]. The others were all for adults. I have revived Cookie Monster and Sylvester quite a bit [now retired]. Your costumes/dresses are way better than my attempts. I will have to take lessons from you. Linda

I am leaving in 9 days. I created a travel journal for me to record special events and pockets to collect things. I made mousekeeper envelopes to leave in the rooms with a tip for them. I even made the autograph books for my 7 yo and 5 yo. I will try to download them to the site later today. I had them spiral binded at Kinko’s for a small price. My kids were going around practicing how they are going to approach the characters. I had to laugh. I will be more than happy to help you with your pet project. Linda St Louis, MO [home of the losing Rams :0(]

Thanks everybody for telling me how to find this beautiful paper piecing its awesome!
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bozmdds wrote: > > > My questions are: Can I change my reservation to another travel agent or to Disney themselves and if so, what do I need to do? also I have included the Disney travel insurance and it states that it is nonrefundable, can I also transfer that or will I lose that amount? All I have paid so far is the $200 deposit. > It is easy to change your reservation to another agent but if they charge a fee I would assume you would have to pay that if you change since they won’t be getting paid for the work they already did for you. If you change to another agent they will give you their info which you include in a letter with your confirmation number to WDW. As long as you keep the reservation the insurance will be ok but if you canceled that reservation it would be lost–what agent you are using doesn’t matter for the insurance. I have used a AAA agent who specializes in WDW and they did send a letter stating they charge extra fees if you cancel/change significantly but they don’t actually charge the fees as long as you book for another date with them. I think the agents only get paid when the trip is actually taken so I can understand them not wanting to work for free. I would definitely talk to them and get specifics if you already would owe them etc. If it isn’t the agency but the individual agent you don’t like they can probably switch you to another agent. The other thing to check out is if you cancel the insurance may cover the fees as well. I don’t use the WDW travel insurance so I’m not sure but the policy I use does cover cancellation fees.
Yvonne

They also sponsor our monthly challenge. Gift cert to their online store. www.mousememories.com Sometimes they write articles for allears.net’s newsletters.
Lisa in Lakewood (CO)