lonegungal17
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When ever I tell the people I'm going back to Disney World they always ask me, why?
I just went there last summer, surely I got that out of my system and can start acting like a mature adult
. They also double check I didn't have children since the last time they saw me and that's the reason I keep going. After all why would two adults want to go to Disney on their own. 
They also remind me I went to Disneyland Paris in December (and October 
) and by now the amount of trips I take I must have seen everything. I tell them it's my happy place 
and it lets me let go of all my worries when I'm there. They then roll their eyes and walk away from me as soon as possible. They wouldn't want any of that Disney magic to rub off on them. 
I'm Mel btw, I'm a 24 year old library assistant. I'm originally from Michigan but have been living in England with my English hubby for the last six years. My favorite characters are Donald, Stitch, Mulan, Meg and Tinkerbell. Along with Disney, my obessions include the X-files (part of my summer trip will involve seeing the 2nd X-files movie), Lost, video games, movies and writing novels that will probably never be published.
My hubby Malc will be joining me. He's a 47 year old teaching assistant at a special education school. Malc's favorite characters are Sully, Boo, Stitch and Grumpy. His obessions include gardening, computers, Bill Bryson books, and chocolate.
He is complete chocoholic and will sometimes eat up to 5 portions of chocolate a day. I on the other hand am not a fan of chocolate unless it's ice cream. 
Malc is also a vegetarian so this will sometimes influence our dining choices for the trip. 
The third member of our party is named Stitch. Here he is dressed as pirate.
Not the real Stitch
but a bag I got in Disneyland Paris which I enjoy dressing in Disney costumes and carrying around the parks (mostly for the attention it gets me). Unfortunately for Stitch most of his costumes end up being princess dresses so he ends up being refered to as Stitcherella when he is having one of his more feminine days.
The last member of our party is Faolan O' Focker.
For those of you that don't know I am running the Lime Lovin' Croc exchange, of which Faolan is one of the crocs. We had Faolan a total of 3 days last year and couldn't stop myself from showing him the world for our whole trip this time.
Those of you paying attention will have noticed Malc is a lot older than me. This means sometimes people get confused and call me his daughter and him my father. Which I still don't understand since he is English and I'm American. Oh well.
Funny story, last time we were at Disney World the waitress at the 50s Prime Time Cafe tried to set me up with the teenage boys at the next table. Only to be told by me, that I'm married. She then asked where my husband was? I then pointed across the table. Her face turned so red I thought she was a tomato. This happens all the time to us and we just shrug it off now. This also means I also get mistaken for teenager or younger a lot of the time. I have been given the children's menu more than once in the last year.
As I said eariler, this is our 2nd summer trip to Disney in a row. We will be going 13 days and staying at Port Orleans Riverside with free dining during our trip.
Before Disney we will also be visiting my best friend in Michigan and staying with her for 2 days and than heading down to Cedar Point in Ohio for another two days.
Mel
I just went there last summer, surely I got that out of my system and can start acting like a mature adult . They also double check I didn't have children since the last time they saw me and that's the reason I keep going. After all why would two adults want to go to Disney on their own. They also remind me I went to Disneyland Paris in December (and October ) and by now the amount of trips I take I must have seen everything. I tell them it's my happy place and it lets me let go of all my worries when I'm there. They then roll their eyes and walk away from me as soon as possible. They wouldn't want any of that Disney magic to rub off on them. I'm Mel btw, I'm a 24 year old library assistant. I'm originally from Michigan but have been living in England with my English hubby for the last six years. My favorite characters are Donald, Stitch, Mulan, Meg and Tinkerbell. Along with Disney, my obessions include the X-files (part of my summer trip will involve seeing the 2nd X-files movie), Lost, video games, movies and writing novels that will probably never be published.
My hubby Malc will be joining me. He's a 47 year old teaching assistant at a special education school. Malc's favorite characters are Sully, Boo, Stitch and Grumpy. His obessions include gardening, computers, Bill Bryson books, and chocolate.
He is complete chocoholic and will sometimes eat up to 5 portions of chocolate a day. I on the other hand am not a fan of chocolate unless it's ice cream. Malc is also a vegetarian so this will sometimes influence our dining choices for the trip.
The third member of our party is named Stitch. Here he is dressed as pirate.
Not the real Stitch
but a bag I got in Disneyland Paris which I enjoy dressing in Disney costumes and carrying around the parks (mostly for the attention it gets me). Unfortunately for Stitch most of his costumes end up being princess dresses so he ends up being refered to as Stitcherella when he is having one of his more feminine days. The last member of our party is Faolan O' Focker.
For those of you that don't know I am running the Lime Lovin' Croc exchange, of which Faolan is one of the crocs. We had Faolan a total of 3 days last year and couldn't stop myself from showing him the world for our whole trip this time.
Those of you paying attention will have noticed Malc is a lot older than me. This means sometimes people get confused and call me his daughter and him my father. Which I still don't understand since he is English and I'm American.
Oh well. Funny story, last time we were at Disney World the waitress at the 50s Prime Time Cafe tried to set me up with the teenage boys at the next table. Only to be told by me, that I'm married. She then asked where my husband was? I then pointed across the table. Her face turned so red I thought she was a tomato.
This happens all the time to us and we just shrug it off now. This also means I also get mistaken for teenager or younger a lot of the time. I have been given the children's menu more than once in the last year. As I said eariler, this is our 2nd summer trip to Disney in a row. We will be going 13 days and staying at Port Orleans Riverside with free dining during our trip.
Before Disney we will also be visiting my best friend in Michigan and staying with her for 2 days and than heading down to Cedar Point in Ohio for another two days. Mel
Why I even had the Adrs I wanted planned 2 months out before I could even make them. And probably why I had this trip booked less than a month after we returned from Disney World the first time. Yes, I lied to myself and told myself it was so I would have free dining but really I just needed to know that we would be going back. 
I had planned to make the rope drop more than once at Disney World and we were never once there in time, normally 5 or 10 minutes late. We were also normally a couple minutes late for our Adrs. 
I know, I know. I need to get myself sorted for this new trip. Anyway these are the plans that I probably won't follow for our August 2008 trip. I wasn't sure whether or not to include our plans for the part of the trip before Disney but I have for now anyway. Anyway, onto the plans...
Have a late breakfast at Ohana. Dinner at 1900 Park Fare. 
Magic Kingdom. Breakfast at Cinderella's Royal Table. Dinner at Liberty Tree Tavern.
It was his first trip to the world and I wanted it to be as special as possible. I decided not to tell him which dates we would be celebrating things until the day of so I could plan some surprises for him. I ended up having special menus made up for our Lunch at Coral Reef and had a diver sign saying Happy Anniversary for him. He also had a birthday cupcake at Liberty Tree Tavern last year for his fake birthday and a card from Grumpy. So when making plans for our 2008 trip I thought it was best to celebrate those events on the same dates again. 
Did you make the outfits, or were they sold with it, like the Pal Mickey outfits?
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I went to build a bear today and picked up a little something for Stitch. 
