Happydog
DIS Veteran
- Joined
- Mar 10, 2007
Well here it is! OR here is where it WILL be! The official start to my TR for my December 2009 Christmas trip!!! 
Here is a photopass picture of my family on Christmas Day... I hope you will join me!
So about this time last year, we made the plan to go to Disney for a do over trip. If you need more background or want the details, see my June PTR posted below!
That "do over" was wonderful, but as we were planning for it, my DH fell apon a Christmas at Disney reservation at the Beach Club Villas and so before we had even been on our "do over" trip, we were planning a Christmas trip as well!!!
Indeed it was sometime in January or February while I cant recall the exact dates, I do know that if I knew THEN, that I would be sitting here NOW, typing away, jovially preparing a report of a Christmas trip to Disney, I would have laughed myself silly. Really. Me? Going to Disney for Christmas? You got to be kidding!
Never would I ever have thought I would be making that sort of trip. But in a little over a year and a half, I have made 5 trips to WDW. I still cant get my head around this truth. For some, this is probably the norm. I KNOW that this is the norm for some on the DIS! But for someone like me, who never really fancied herself a Disney fanatic, it is pretty amazing that I have fallen head over heels into the world of Disney. I know it has a lot to do with my kids
but it has a lot to do with the kid in ME, as well
And fortunately my DH seems to be fine with it, he likes Disney for much of the same reason I do. He has been as much the planner as I have -- he is the navigator and logistical planner (with the pocketbook!! 
) And so I feel pretty confident that we will continue to visit. Now, maybe not as OFTEN as this past year 
, but if booking for this summer and the following summer already are any indication , I am sure he will surprise me with one more visit between 
... A few days ago he even mentioned Christmas in San Diego next year
and well
you know what is right up the freeway, dont you???
Okay, enough jabber. ON with the SHOW!.... (Gee, it isnt like I have been to Disney Hollywood Studios or anything lately, right!!??)
Here is a photopass picture of my family on Christmas Day... I hope you will join me!
So about this time last year, we made the plan to go to Disney for a do over trip. If you need more background or want the details, see my June PTR posted below!
That "do over" was wonderful, but as we were planning for it, my DH fell apon a Christmas at Disney reservation at the Beach Club Villas and so before we had even been on our "do over" trip, we were planning a Christmas trip as well!!!Indeed it was sometime in January or February while I cant recall the exact dates, I do know that if I knew THEN, that I would be sitting here NOW, typing away, jovially preparing a report of a Christmas trip to Disney, I would have laughed myself silly. Really. Me? Going to Disney for Christmas? You got to be kidding!
Never would I ever have thought I would be making that sort of trip. But in a little over a year and a half, I have made 5 trips to WDW. I still cant get my head around this truth. For some, this is probably the norm. I KNOW that this is the norm for some on the DIS! But for someone like me, who never really fancied herself a Disney fanatic, it is pretty amazing that I have fallen head over heels into the world of Disney. I know it has a lot to do with my kids
but it has a lot to do with the kid in ME, as well
And fortunately my DH seems to be fine with it, he likes Disney for much of the same reason I do. He has been as much the planner as I have -- he is the navigator and logistical planner (with the pocketbook!! ) And so I feel pretty confident that we will continue to visit. Now, maybe not as OFTEN as this past year , but if booking for this summer and the following summer already are any indication , I am sure he will surprise me with one more visit between ... A few days ago he even mentioned Christmas in San Diego next year
and well
you know what is right up the freeway, dont you??? Okay, enough jabber. ON with the SHOW!.... (Gee, it isnt like I have been to Disney Hollywood Studios or anything lately, right!!??)
Welcome!!!
Now of course the weather people are likely to exaggerate, but it was a LOT of snow. NOT that we were around to see it or play in it, because we were in Florida by then, but I digress… the anticipation on Friday of the doom that was to occur “sometime after 9pm” was indeed in the air -- ALL over the Washington Metro area. We were all at work in a panic. There we were each watching the weather channel, watching the images on the computer, emailing back and forth about our plans that were now firmly changed. Originally, we had planned to leave Saturday, after a “leisurely” morning with Christmas gifts, a final swim lesson, and last packing of the car, we would make our merry way down 95 to Disney. Nope. Not this time folks, our first time driving, our Amtrak AutoTrain tickets LONG gone, there was NO turning back.
I recommend this method to ANYONE interested in a surprise! They LOVED the word scramble! As soon as it sunk in, they were really excited you could see, and directly after that, I took my DS7 to karate. While he was there, I was next door getting a manicure and pedicure! 
With the boys in front of 
He had packed his suitcase the night before. I had barely started making piles! But boy did I hurry! Suitcases filled, DH started packing the car. I packed our grocery box and car bags for the kids (snacks, etc). I had two big Disney shopping bags, BIG RED from my last trip the “Celebration!” bag, and the bag I bought back in 2005, “Happiest Celebration on Earth!” These had Christmas presents and decorations. I frantically packed these and turned them over to my DH for the Car. He is very tactical about car packing, everything has to go “just so”… I then moved to the house, which was in TOTAL disarray b/c I was expecting to have another day to put it all in place! So I ran around with a watering can, I packed up remaining xmas cookies some for us on the trip, some for my two neighbors, I ran plates down the street to them, and then I tried to neaten up the pile of clothes that I hadn’t packed but needed to fold, made beds, shut blinds, etc. etc… Ever so often I looked at the clock: 
At one point, I remember cramming a toiletry bag of everything I saw on my bathroom counter, and at the end, as my DH was shooing my outside so he could set the alarm, I ran around upstairs and downstairs with my oversized handbag (one I wouldn’t have brought normally – big stylish leather thing not at all Disney-like!) throwing various this and that’s into it… DH brought the car around to the front of the house, and the boys were loaded in the car. We gave them their goody bags, they were very excited, we hooked up the DVDs and made sure they had their Leapster and Digi, neck pillows, confiscated 1st class airline pillows 
But I'm here!! Now back to read! I'm dying to hear about your drive down! 
