Hey everyone! Planning a trip to the Mouse for DBF (34-will be 35 at time of trip) and myself (29...will reluctantly be 30 at time of trip). We are heading to Orlando May 6, arriving at 12:46 pm. We will be in Orlando until May 11, and we leave that morning for Port Canaveral and our cruise on the Carnival Dream!
This is DBF's first vacation to Florida, and his first cruise. I have been to Florida twice (and when I say "Florida", I mean Disney and Universal haha), once as a child, and then about 6 years ago. I am very excited to show him the World, because I love it, and Universal, because he is a huge fan of anything superhero/comic book related.
So far, we have our cruise and our flights booked. Waiting on the 2013 WDW packages to be released (only 2 more days!
) to book the hotel. We have our heart set on Pop Century, so here's hoping the prices work out. Given that we don't want to rent a car, I think Pop will end up being the same price as a cheaper rental, considering the extra transportation costs if we stay offsite. Can't wait to be officially booked!
I have a loose touring plan at this point. I know I want to do MK on the first day, because by the time we get to the resort, get checked in and have lunch, we won't get to a park until about 4:00. So I figured it would be nice to just leisurely go through MK, show DBF the park, watch the fireworks and electric parade, meet some characters, and maybe ride a couple of rides.
I also know that I want another day at MK, where we will do rope drop, leave around lunchtime, spend some time in the pool, get dinner, then return to the evening ad do more rides while others are watching parades and fireworks.
We are planning on a day each (or a 2 day-2 park pass) at US and IOA. Since those parks appear to close at 7 or 8 pm, we can have nice relaxing evenings by the pool or DTD on those evenings.
That leaves one full day, and we would like to visit the Outlet Stores at Lake Buena Vista. I would be content to just make it a pool and shop day, and I think DBF feels the same way, but we are still debating on whether we should do another Disney park, and if so, which one: EPCOT, DHS or AK. We figure if we do DHS or AK that could be done by early afternoon which will leave time for shopping, but that EPOCT would take the full day.
How is everyone else's planning going?
but I agree. Sure wish the mom would not have taken the girls and left. You can't take that back. Bad memories.... It would have been soooo much better if she would have "played" like everything was fine and spent, spent, spent 
along the way going about the rest of the vacation as if nothing was wrong....just for the sake of the kids. Or, perhaps these we high school kids and they all saw if coming....if so, I may have done the same thing!
