does your trip planning go in stages? dreaming vs reality?

[imgoingtodisney]

We booked at the 11 month window. I did some major planning/dreaming. Then summer came and I havent been planning as much, (writing down as much). After Labor Day we will only be 12 wks to our Nov 30th cruise! yahoo/yippee. Does anyone else notice their planning goes from dreaming to cutting down to reality? Does this make sense?

[JLSE50]

YES! I think that part of it, for me at least, is that the dreaming takes place in the winter when I am deprived of sun and warmth. I think about the cruise, I read literature and websites, I cruise the DIS board, etc. When warmer weather arrives and I can be outside I get the sun there. The planning goes on continually however as I add things to my list or to the big red Disney Store bag on the closet floor.

Jan :earsgirl:

[floridaminnie]

I don't think that I ever left the dreaming stage. Between looking at the menu's at Dave's website and Barb's website with the navig. and then these boards, I never left the dreaming stage. I think I'm starting to go in panic mode now with only nine more days to you. YIKES:earseek:

[BeanoC]

What you suggest is definitely true. I have noticed that for each of our Disney trips: The excitement is uncontainable when you first book it and realize that it is actually gonna happen! But this year for example, I have slowed down considerably with summer here. I've no need to dream about tropical climates - it was 113 degrees here today! (Yes, 113). I can tell just by looking at my posting activity here on the boards. I will sometimes go a few weeks without a single post, then I get the itch and make dozens of posts in just a few days. Honestly, I feel a liitle bit of 'Disney burn-out' if I go too far overboard. And this year, since it is not our first trip or our first Disney cruise, there is very little of the 'mystery element' to our trip.

But one great thing remains constant: The last week, and particularly the last couple of days before we leave, the excitement is unbelievable!! I am looking forward to that again. We leave in less than 3 months.

Plan, have fun, embrace it!!! It's your vacation...


'Beano' :cool:

[mrsltg]

I definitely get the disney burn-out. I go in stages where it's all I can do not to book a vacation for this weekend... then I'm okay to wait for a long stretch of time before the vacation. I'm coming close to breaking the hundred day mark on my next trip, and that's got me pretty excited. I think that it'll really hit me when the documentation starts arriving (tickets, ps #'s, etc etc).

Erin :D

[manchurianbrownbear]

The anticipation is half the fun! I think planning evolves from the "want to" stage to the "trip's getting close, I have to" stage. I have to admit that my DW does most of our planning and does a fabulous job.

We're booked on a 11/03 cruise so we still have A LOT of anticipation ahead of us!

[Mjasp]

Dreaming and Reality? For me its obsession! LOL Just ask DH. Still have 10 months to go. I'm on these boards like I'm going next week.

[atigeg]

I am so bad that I have actually booked our next WDW vacation while waiting for the plane in MCO when returning home from one!!
With the cruises, I'm pretty compulsive...an envelope for each, containing the confirmation, plane tickets, etc. When final payment time rolls around, that's my cue to reconfirm the air arrangements, book a hotel via Priceline or Hotwire for the night before (if I haven't already), and book our Happy Limo transfers. After each cruise, I transfer our birth certificates from the "current" envelope to the next trip coming up.
This time, it should be interesting as the documents should start arriving soon for the three-peat. Let's hope I can keep everything in order!
Barb
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[Dave_from_Marietta]

Originally posted by atigeg

After each cruise, I transfer our birth certificates from the "current" envelope to the next trip coming up.

What?!? With all the traveling you do, you haven't bothered to get passports?!? Barb!!! I'm <b>shocked, <i>shocked!!!</i></b>

[Tluvs2talk]

We do the same thing as barb. We alway's book another cruise when we get home and transfer our birthcertificates in an envelope with our confirmation for next trip. This way we alway's have them when we need them.

[atigeg]

Don't worry, Dave, the passports are coming soon!
We are planning to go on an African safari in the end of 2003, so we will be forced to finally get them.
I have an official sealed copy of my birth certificate, but I used to have a lot of trouble when using the original (not for cruises, but for getting a drivers license and things like that). My mother originally named me Nefer, as she was very into ancient Egypt, and my grandmother convinced her to change it. On my original birth certificate, you can see that it was changed...looks hinky, even tho' it has a seal.
Barb
Visit the Platinum Castaway Club at: www.*****************

[JLSE50]

What kind of envelopes do you keep your items in?

Barb: do you wish your Mom had won out in the name decision?

Jan :earsgirl: