JerseyJanice
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I wasn't posting here when we took this trip. I did write a report and submitted it elsewhere, but now that I have so many friends on the DIS, I thought I'd resurrect and post it.
I visited Disney World with my family first as a child in 1972 and then as a teenager in 1976. While I loved it then, it was not somewhere I had much desire to visit when I became an adult. My idea of a vacation when I was in my 20's was to lie on a tropical beach by day and go club hopping at night. I always thought I would want to go to WDW again when I had children of my own.
In August of 1998, while I was slaving away on my son's big second birthday party, my mother-in-law called to say that she and my father-in-law wanted to pay for a trip to Disney World as a Christmas gift to the family. She told me that they would pay for the airfare, hotel and transfers, but we would have to pay for our food and park passes. Would it be O.K.? Did we want this? Well, what do you think? I was absolutely thrilled!
There would be nine of us going on this trip. Mom and Dad-in-law, their daughter (my SIL), her DH, their 2 children (boy, Lorenzo, age 8 and girl, Nicoletter, age 5), my DH, myself, and our son, Louis, age 2 1/2. Mom and Dad booked the trip as a package through Continental and decided to go for a moderate resort. Coronado Springs opened in August, 1998 just as they were planning the trip, they chose it, figuring the newest would be the best resort choice.
Once the plans were set, I discovered Deb Wills' site on the web at work and this opened a whole new world for me. I'm something of an info-maniac, and Deb's site and the links provided there fed my now voracious appetite for Disney info. I started reading all of the trip reports on Pete Werner's and Brian Bennett's sites and savored each one. I knew that if my actual trip to Disney was disappointing, I at least had this much fun preparing for it. For this, I am grateful to everyone who wrote and posted their wonderful reports, and I now hope to return the favor.
I visited Disney World with my family first as a child in 1972 and then as a teenager in 1976. While I loved it then, it was not somewhere I had much desire to visit when I became an adult. My idea of a vacation when I was in my 20's was to lie on a tropical beach by day and go club hopping at night. I always thought I would want to go to WDW again when I had children of my own.
In August of 1998, while I was slaving away on my son's big second birthday party, my mother-in-law called to say that she and my father-in-law wanted to pay for a trip to Disney World as a Christmas gift to the family. She told me that they would pay for the airfare, hotel and transfers, but we would have to pay for our food and park passes. Would it be O.K.? Did we want this? Well, what do you think? I was absolutely thrilled!
There would be nine of us going on this trip. Mom and Dad-in-law, their daughter (my SIL), her DH, their 2 children (boy, Lorenzo, age 8 and girl, Nicoletter, age 5), my DH, myself, and our son, Louis, age 2 1/2. Mom and Dad booked the trip as a package through Continental and decided to go for a moderate resort. Coronado Springs opened in August, 1998 just as they were planning the trip, they chose it, figuring the newest would be the best resort choice.
Once the plans were set, I discovered Deb Wills' site on the web at work and this opened a whole new world for me. I'm something of an info-maniac, and Deb's site and the links provided there fed my now voracious appetite for Disney info. I started reading all of the trip reports on Pete Werner's and Brian Bennett's sites and savored each one. I knew that if my actual trip to Disney was disappointing, I at least had this much fun preparing for it. For this, I am grateful to everyone who wrote and posted their wonderful reports, and I now hope to return the favor.
How wonderful!
