Li Li
DIS Veteran
- Joined
- Oct 11, 2012
Well, let's try a trip report! It will be quick as was our trip. Earlier in the year, we had jokingly priced out a trip over Memorial Day weekend, because hey, why not? We'll have Monday off, so we should obviously spend our three-day weekend in Disney World! But we never pulled the trigger because we were already going to WDW in September! Our BB was all booked for a week at POFQ in September, so we'd be crazy to squeeze in a May trip, right?! Well, apparently, crazy is our middle name.
Here's the crazy:
That's me (Li Li) and DH (Nigel).
I've only ever written a PTR before and really, not well at all, so who knows how this will turn out. If it's anything like my PTRs, it will just be me and DH.
So, what pushed us over the edge to book a last minute getaway? Really, I think it all came down to Ashley and Joe. You know Ashley and Joe, right? The stars of See ya reel soon! They have a YouTube channel where they post informational videos and video trip reports, and we've been following them for almost a year now. Well, they announced they were going in May and we thought, why not us too? I swear, we are not crazy stalkers! Unbeknownst to each other, we started pricing out flights and rooms and then confessed all to each other.
The more we talked, the more we got excited about the idea. We started seriously talking and then pricing some more. We promised ourselves we wouldn't book unless we could do it under $1,000.00. Well, we came mostly close to that in the end!
So, proper introductions:
Li Li - a 30-something attorney with a lifelong love of Disney
Fav movie - Beauty and the Beast
Fav park - It really is a toss up between MK and Epcot.
Fav ride - Tower of Terror
Nigel - a 40-something attorney and history buff whom I can't believe loves WDW as much as he does
Fav movie - The Rescuers or 101 Dalmations
Fav park - MK (I think, he'll correct me if I'm wrong and I don't feel like screaming for him to come downstairs and answer my questions!)
Fav ride - Haunted Mansion
So, there you have it...we made the decision to go for Memorial Day weekend, which meant we could fit in the 24 hour event and Star Wars Weekend! Would it go smoothly? Would we overspend (of course!) Would it be worth it? Duh, of course!
Here's the crazy:
That's me (Li Li) and DH (Nigel).
I've only ever written a PTR before and really, not well at all, so who knows how this will turn out. If it's anything like my PTRs, it will just be me and DH.
So, what pushed us over the edge to book a last minute getaway? Really, I think it all came down to Ashley and Joe. You know Ashley and Joe, right? The stars of See ya reel soon! They have a YouTube channel where they post informational videos and video trip reports, and we've been following them for almost a year now. Well, they announced they were going in May and we thought, why not us too? I swear, we are not crazy stalkers! Unbeknownst to each other, we started pricing out flights and rooms and then confessed all to each other.
The more we talked, the more we got excited about the idea. We started seriously talking and then pricing some more. We promised ourselves we wouldn't book unless we could do it under $1,000.00. Well, we came mostly close to that in the end!
So, proper introductions:
Li Li - a 30-something attorney with a lifelong love of Disney
Fav movie - Beauty and the Beast
Fav park - It really is a toss up between MK and Epcot.
Fav ride - Tower of Terror
Nigel - a 40-something attorney and history buff whom I can't believe loves WDW as much as he does
Fav movie - The Rescuers or 101 Dalmations
Fav park - MK (I think, he'll correct me if I'm wrong and I don't feel like screaming for him to come downstairs and answer my questions!)
Fav ride - Haunted Mansion
So, there you have it...we made the decision to go for Memorial Day weekend, which meant we could fit in the 24 hour event and Star Wars Weekend! Would it go smoothly? Would we overspend (of course!) Would it be worth it? Duh, of course!