I got back about two weeks ago from a trip that came up a little unexpectedly.
Let me explain.
My Mom and I work together. It's a family business started in 1949 by my grandfather that now is run by my Mother and my 3 Uncles. My Mom is my boss and we are both big Disney fans, so when we saw that the users group for the Accounting Software that our company uses was having a conference in Orlando, FL, we got to thinking.....
After about 1/2 a second.....we decided that it might be kind of nice to attend it .you know .
just for the benefit of the company, of course....If we happened to want to go on over to Disney World and have a meal or something, well, that wouldn't be a bad thing now would it???
So, if you couldn't tell from my trip report title in my signature, we were just there in February,
but hey
this is for work, right? TOOOOTTTTAAALLLLYYYY DIFFERENT!!!
A little background on our history with Disney. My Mom has been a fan since the beginning, having attended opening year with my brother who was not even 1 at the time. She continued to go back with my Dad a few more times while we were little, since my Dads parents didnt live too far from Orlando. Then we returned during the mid 1980s when she had remarried to my step-dad and we all took a big family trip to FL! (We had some very hip 1980s pictures that we are oh-so-fond of!!)
More recently, we traveled together in 2002 with my sister and her family (my oldest son was just 1 at the time), then back again with 12 of us in 2006 (where we all came down with the stomach bug). Then in 2007 we took the big Thanksgiving week with 16 trip otherwise known as herding cats(see trip report link below). Since that trip, we have been back in October of 2008 when we celebrated my youngest daughters 4th birthday and went to the MNNSHP (trip report link below), and then again in February of this year (very slow-moving trip report link in my siggie)!
Phew.
That sounds like a lot when I write it all out! My Mom has also been down twice alone with my step-dad (once back in 1995 to celebrate 10 years of marriage awww and then just a little over a month ago when they went to the Poly and stayed Theme park view Club level and spent a lot of time at the Flower & Garden Festival. I have also been a couple of times without my Mom once on a girls trip in Dec of 2008 (woo-hoo) and then again in May of 2009 with just my husband (first time at the Poly). Ok. Got all that???
What's funny is between joining us in February, going in April for F&G, and this trip ..my Mom has now gone to Disney 3 times in 4 months this year!! And she calls ME the Disney nut???
Since Im a big fan of reports with pictures, here are a few pics of Mom and I on our trips to Disney. Some of them are from much earlier days at the World, and some of them are kind of scary .ahem .80s styles mixed with pre-teen and teen awkwardness = not the best outcome:
(Mom and I on the Carousel circa 1979)
(1979 - Mom on the left, me next to my grandmother)
(Moms in the back, Im on the passenger side circa 1986)
(Moms on the left, Im in the middle 1986)
(Mom in 2002 with my little guy who is not so little anymore .)
(Mom and I in Jan 2006 at CRT with my girls who werent so interested in meeting Cinderella .
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(The group in 2006 Mom is next to my BIL who is standing; Im on the right holding Emily. Not the best picture, but the only picture that all 12 of us are in from that trip since we all got sick at one point or another! One of those times being literally right AFTER this picture was taken my little one on the end in green (good color choice).
(One of my favorites from our November 2007 trip over Thanksgiving! This is us at DHS standing in the Osborne Lights. Mom is on the left; Im in the middle with the green bag)
(Thanksgiving trip 2007 rocking the matching shirts in AK that day!!! Mom is on the left; Im well...you should know by now!!)
(Epcot in October 2008)
(Rocking the ponchos on our trip in October 2008)
(February 2010 trip!)
(In February 2010, with our GGLCS (well, my glass is already empty ..oops
)I seriously could go on and on, but I will stop now. Its fun looking at past trips though!
So, the conference was for May 16 19th and we made the decision to make the trip only around the 2nd week of April, I believe. Yikes!
With only a month to plan something, my head was spinning
. First off
where are we going to stay on this lovely work trip??? Thanks for reading!!
Sara
I am in love with this trip already!! A Mom that is more Disney obsessed than you is amazing! All of your old pics are just so precious. Love the title 
Can't wait to hear all about your "work" trip. 
This will be the first TR of yours that I have read. I'm excited to get in at the beginning!
Too bad you don't make a "guest" appearance though...
Different trips are good for different reasons!! 
