kickpuncher305
Earning My Ears
- Joined
- Sep 14, 2014
Trip Introduction
Hello Everyone! Welcome to my trip report!
This is my first attempt at writing a full trip report here so I apologize in advance for any mistakes or if I mess something up. As you can probably guess from me apologizing three sentences in, I am from Canada! As the title of this trip report suggests, I am a recently graduated University student from the University of Calgary. After my last exam of my degree, my parents surprised me with a five day trip to Disneyland with my Dad! Normally I have months and months to get excited for a trip and to plan everything down to the second. However, this time I had but a few weeks before my trip!
Now for some Disney-related info on myself! This trip was my sixth ever trip to Disneyland and eight total Disney Parks trip. Over the past few years, I have become Disney (and specifically park related) obsessed! Studying and working on university work is so much easier listening to Disney podcasts and music loops.
Normally, trips to Disney consists of (from left to right):
My Mom (Joanne), my Sister (Steph), my Dad (Rick) and Me (Aaron)! [From a 2013 trip to Disneyworld]
Animal Kingdom 2013
Splash Mountain 2010 (With me hiding behind Dad in the front)
DCA 2010 with Mom (With OG World of Color still being built)
However, this trip was a going to be a boys trip! My dad has also become a huge Disney fan with me and we were super excited for another trip! We are both big fans of thrill rides but we also enjoy some nice relaxing attractions as well.
We were going from January 9th to 12th, with 3 days at Disneyland and 1 day at Universal Studios Hollywood. The trip worked out that our first two days at Disney were right before the massive closures of 2016 was starting so we luckily got these in before they closed for a long time. This trip was also the trip of never ending walking! At the end of every day, we recorded how many steps and kilometers (remember that we are Canadian, eh?) were walked and I'll try and remember to add this to the end of each day here!
We were staying for our trip at the Super 8 Anaheim near Disneyland, which I was pleasantly surprised with (and I'll talk about during the first day of our trip). I am never a huge fan of spending lots of money on hotels for these short trips to Disneyland, as we normally only spend time sleeping in the hotel room. On long trips (especially to Disneyworld) I totally understand spending more on a nice hotel but we end up spending so much time at the parks that we just need a place to crash midway through the day and at night.
Anyway, I'll finish up this text heavy intro here and get started on a quick post about our travel day (more of a travel evening...) before we finally get to the trip itself! If you have any questions or anyways that I could improve this trip report, feel free to let me know and I'll try to answer it or fix it!
Hello Everyone! Welcome to my trip report!
This is my first attempt at writing a full trip report here so I apologize in advance for any mistakes or if I mess something up. As you can probably guess from me apologizing three sentences in, I am from Canada! As the title of this trip report suggests, I am a recently graduated University student from the University of Calgary. After my last exam of my degree, my parents surprised me with a five day trip to Disneyland with my Dad! Normally I have months and months to get excited for a trip and to plan everything down to the second. However, this time I had but a few weeks before my trip!
Now for some Disney-related info on myself! This trip was my sixth ever trip to Disneyland and eight total Disney Parks trip. Over the past few years, I have become Disney (and specifically park related) obsessed! Studying and working on university work is so much easier listening to Disney podcasts and music loops.
Normally, trips to Disney consists of (from left to right):
My Mom (Joanne), my Sister (Steph), my Dad (Rick) and Me (Aaron)! [From a 2013 trip to Disneyworld]
Animal Kingdom 2013
Splash Mountain 2010 (With me hiding behind Dad in the front)
DCA 2010 with Mom (With OG World of Color still being built)
However, this trip was a going to be a boys trip! My dad has also become a huge Disney fan with me and we were super excited for another trip! We are both big fans of thrill rides but we also enjoy some nice relaxing attractions as well.
We were going from January 9th to 12th, with 3 days at Disneyland and 1 day at Universal Studios Hollywood. The trip worked out that our first two days at Disney were right before the massive closures of 2016 was starting so we luckily got these in before they closed for a long time. This trip was also the trip of never ending walking! At the end of every day, we recorded how many steps and kilometers (remember that we are Canadian, eh?) were walked and I'll try and remember to add this to the end of each day here!
We were staying for our trip at the Super 8 Anaheim near Disneyland, which I was pleasantly surprised with (and I'll talk about during the first day of our trip). I am never a huge fan of spending lots of money on hotels for these short trips to Disneyland, as we normally only spend time sleeping in the hotel room. On long trips (especially to Disneyworld) I totally understand spending more on a nice hotel but we end up spending so much time at the parks that we just need a place to crash midway through the day and at night.
Anyway, I'll finish up this text heavy intro here and get started on a quick post about our travel day (more of a travel evening...) before we finally get to the trip itself! If you have any questions or anyways that I could improve this trip report, feel free to let me know and I'll try to answer it or fix it!