Kris is home and recovering, she got back on Monday 1st Feb - so a quite a few days in hospital. They changed her diagnosis to pneumonia.
She said the care she received was great and the crew at Paradise Pier did a fantastic job of looking after her family. I will let her know you guys were asking after her, I know she will really appreciate it and she can give you some more of her trip report.
I wrote a long post about our Disney goodies and unfortunately lost it before it went up, and have been meaning to re-do it. I was thinking about it today because my daughter and I made Mickey shaped choc-chip cookies with our Mickey cookie cutter! We bought alot of great stuff for the kitchen that we use all the time: bowls, placemats, Mickey pancake mold ...it's a nice way of remembering. We told the kids they could choose one thing to take home but
look in the shops as much as they liked and they bought it, probably because it was right after Christmas and they got a tonne of Disney stuff for Christmas and before the trip! My son chose a light sabre after he took on Darth Vader in Jedi training session and then my daughter decided she would have the Mickey sabre/torch type thing too. We also bought alot of random stuff like a baseball, hairclips, stationary, pens, pins, taffy, photo frames... we were spoilt with our embroidered Mickey ears by the promoters and of course the autograph books with so many signatures are fantastic souvenirs for the kids.
You might be interested to know a journalist that was on the trip has asked us to contribute to an article about the trip for a parenting magazine, so I will let you know when it is published!
I was suffering Disneyland withdrawls badly last week, so we worked on our Photopass order on the weekend and my husband has been putting a few little videos together for the family to see so that has helped a bit
I'm also starting to help mys sister with her trip to HK in April so that will be good (until they go without us!!!) In the meantime, entering LOTS of competitions and hoping we haven't used up all our luck!
Jo