MeLaNie9
DIS Veteran
- Joined
- Mar 31, 2006
If you don't know Barney Stinson (hilariously played by Neil Patrick Harris) from How I Met Your Mother (a favorite of DH and I), the title is a Barney-ism.... He (NPH) will actually figure prominently in this TR!
About US:
I was lucky to go to WDW a few times with my family as a kid. However, one such trip to WDW was also our last family vacation EVER I may relay this story in this TR as it is a classic!
DH (Ralphie) took his first WDW trip with me in 2000 before we were married, on a TIGHT budget. We're talking packing sandwiches for the parks each day tight!
Now we've been married for 5 years and have 2 wonderful boys - DS3 (Nemo) and DS1 (Brother Bear) - and have been to WDW 3 times since.
DH made a huge life change a year and a half ago - left his job and became a stay-at-home-dad. Much went into this decision and he is really doing a great job as SAHD. I work a lot. I mean a whole lot - days, nights, weekends, etc. etc. Any vacation for me is very, very WELCOME!!! So let's just say that we both needed this one!
How this trip came about:
My MIL (Dee) retired this past summer and decided she wanted to celebrate with her first trip in WDW. She also really wanted to see the Christmas decorations. So we booked POFQ with DDP for the week after Thanksgiving (11/26-12/2) for the 4 of us, Dee, and SIL Kay. And Ralphie and I started the planning
All good DISers know that you aren't REALLY planning if you aren't changing stuff around a zillion times! We ended up adding days: 11/26-12/3 for Dee and Kay, 11/26-12/4 for the 4 of us. (I felt that I would really last day to decompress and just be with Ralphie and the boys after a week with the in-laws! ) We also changed to CSR to save a few bucks and we made our ADRs plus a CP package ressie. Then we added another CP package - when we realized that my beloved NPH would be the narrator while we were there!
Ralphie and Kay had gotten a bunch of pins on Ebay and while we hadn't pin traded in the past we were all going to do it. We decided on doing a pin scavenger hunt where we each had a list of a bunch of pins to get during the trip (like Christmas pin, resort pin, ride pin, etc). Whomever had all pins from their list (we each had like 14 to trade) first would win.
Our "pin draft" - selecting pins that were either on our list or that we would trade:
Dee holding Bear, Me, Nemo, Kay, the pins and our lists
Up next: Why I became SCARED of this trip
About US:
I was lucky to go to WDW a few times with my family as a kid. However, one such trip to WDW was also our last family vacation EVER I may relay this story in this TR as it is a classic!
DH (Ralphie) took his first WDW trip with me in 2000 before we were married, on a TIGHT budget. We're talking packing sandwiches for the parks each day tight!
Now we've been married for 5 years and have 2 wonderful boys - DS3 (Nemo) and DS1 (Brother Bear) - and have been to WDW 3 times since.
DH made a huge life change a year and a half ago - left his job and became a stay-at-home-dad. Much went into this decision and he is really doing a great job as SAHD. I work a lot. I mean a whole lot - days, nights, weekends, etc. etc. Any vacation for me is very, very WELCOME!!! So let's just say that we both needed this one!
How this trip came about:
My MIL (Dee) retired this past summer and decided she wanted to celebrate with her first trip in WDW. She also really wanted to see the Christmas decorations. So we booked POFQ with DDP for the week after Thanksgiving (11/26-12/2) for the 4 of us, Dee, and SIL Kay. And Ralphie and I started the planning
All good DISers know that you aren't REALLY planning if you aren't changing stuff around a zillion times! We ended up adding days: 11/26-12/3 for Dee and Kay, 11/26-12/4 for the 4 of us. (I felt that I would really last day to decompress and just be with Ralphie and the boys after a week with the in-laws! ) We also changed to CSR to save a few bucks and we made our ADRs plus a CP package ressie. Then we added another CP package - when we realized that my beloved NPH would be the narrator while we were there!
Ralphie and Kay had gotten a bunch of pins on Ebay and while we hadn't pin traded in the past we were all going to do it. We decided on doing a pin scavenger hunt where we each had a list of a bunch of pins to get during the trip (like Christmas pin, resort pin, ride pin, etc). Whomever had all pins from their list (we each had like 14 to trade) first would win.
Our "pin draft" - selecting pins that were either on our list or that we would trade:
Dee holding Bear, Me, Nemo, Kay, the pins and our lists
Up next: Why I became SCARED of this trip