taythecray
TinkerTaylor
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Oh mother.....this is why I do the research 
Apparently the other weekend when TLC was running their Disney World highlight special, my mom and sister watched it. My mom has also been looking at rooms online in an attempt to figure out where to stay. Of course the one resort that sticks out to her the most that she (and everyone else in my family) will love has to be Animal Kingdom Lodge. I seriously don't have the heart to tell her how expensive it is and that it's out of our price range
I really want to make it happen, but she's already talked about possibly not being able to afford the full week and asked me to look into not as many park days and offsite resorts. I haven't given her any prices yet because I'm still trying to figure out options, but it would be amazing if we could swing AKL. Room discount maybe? My entire family LOVES zoos and animals so it would just be amazing. Plus my mom always feels bad that she can't afford much for us so it would be awesome if I could find a way to surprise her with this. I have a feeling my new part-time job is going to be taking advantage of all the free rewards apps and earning Disney gift cards 
If my mom books a value resort using her card, could I then call and upgrade using my card? Assuming I would be able to pull this off which....yeah we'll see 
Apparently the other weekend when TLC was running their Disney World highlight special, my mom and sister watched it. My mom has also been looking at rooms online in an attempt to figure out where to stay. Of course the one resort that sticks out to her the most that she (and everyone else in my family) will love has to be Animal Kingdom Lodge. I seriously don't have the heart to tell her how expensive it is and that it's out of our price range
I really want to make it happen, but she's already talked about possibly not being able to afford the full week and asked me to look into not as many park days and offsite resorts. I haven't given her any prices yet because I'm still trying to figure out options, but it would be amazing if we could swing AKL. Room discount maybe? My entire family LOVES zoos and animals so it would just be amazing. Plus my mom always feels bad that she can't afford much for us so it would be awesome if I could find a way to surprise her with this. I have a feeling my new part-time job is going to be taking advantage of all the free rewards apps and earning Disney gift cards If my mom books a value resort using her card, could I then call and upgrade using my card? Assuming I would be able to pull this off which....yeah we'll see 
I have never rented DVC points but I feel like this may be a good option for you depending on the math. Im gonna look into DVC points for a land and sea at AKL in a a year or 2 to see if its possible for me to make my moms dream happen. I wish you the absolute best organizing your possible upgrade. I realized today that my part time job is gonna kick it into over drive this year to get my car completely paid and all my debts settled so I can start next year (hopefully!) on a clean slate 
Good luck to you in your updrade <3 I hope you can make it work because that would be such a beautiful surprize!
Good luck with paying off your car and debts as well! That's probably something else I should get to focusing on but there's just too many other things in life that I want to do more 
We booked our flights today, which means this is actually happening. AHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!
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Only thing about it is that it haves us leaving on Saturday instead of Sunday, but I figure we have most of the day Monday and Saturday for the parks and we weren't planning anything for our original departure day anyway so it works! I am so excited! 
I've flown Spirit before so I know all about their bag charges, no free drinks/snacks on flight etc. That's fine with us! Now I just have to go back and readjust our park plans a little. We'll probably head over to Epcot on arrival day now. The next thing on my list is to convince my mom that we HAVE to stay on site. Everyone is going to want to get up and go to the parks and leave at different times, it would be too much of a hassle only having one rental car. Of course she's been looking at really cheap vacation rental condos offsite so we'll see what happens.
Things have been up in the air for us since the beginning but I figured since Disney is always on my mind I could at least share my thoughts and findings. I'm sure I'll run out of things to post eventually (maybe?) 
He says it doesn't bother him because he really does love Disney, he could just care less about what we end up doing and tends to just go with the flow. Plus he knows how much I love planning so he's always up for listening (at least he hasn't told me otherwise) 
It's funny though because aside from my mom, Tony, me and Austin, nobody else has ever even been to Florida! I am so excited for this trip ^_^
They have the nights and points available, and it looks like it will be costing us $2,000 for the five nights. I COULD CRY I AM SO EXCITED 
I know this is a little more than what my mom wanted to spend, but it gives us more space, easy access to the parks, and so many other perks that I think I finally won her over (actually I think she just really wants to stay at AKL) 
Now that we're booked I don't have to obsess over resort details, and until park hours are released in June I can't officially plan our days...this is sad 
I'm sure something will come up to talk about, but for now here are the two scenarios I've come up with.
Let me know what you think and what things you've done that are amazing.
) but hey, at least we have one more thing to look forward to! Macy and Emily picked blue; Devin and I got green; my mom and Austin got yellow; Carter picked orange and Ethan and Tony picked red. I am definitely decking mine out with Tinkerbell stuff and Macy wants hers to be Stitch themed, so I think when we finally get them we will get either the temporary tattoos or stickers to make them awesome 
Austin may also decorate his Mickey-themed. I hate how we have to wait so long to get them 
