All of my past trips have been a rehearsal for this one

[tink76]

DD's first trip!


Hi! I have never done a PTR/TR report before and I am so excited to be doing one! Our trips are usually planned only a couple months in advance but this one has been 2.5 years in the making.. . .
I wasn’t going to start the PTR until a little closer to my trip but then I realized now is when I am making all my decisions, now is when I am going to need help and I am already beyond excited and need people to share the day to day thrills with!
I guess I should start off with the cast. . .

DH (Nick) and I (Amber) on our trip in 2005

DD (2) We have been waiting (okay I have been waiting) since the day I found out I was pregnant to take DD to WDW. DD is a HUGE Mickey and Minnie fan, she also loves Tink and Ariel. These are from her 2nd birthday.

My Parents will also be joining us on this trip, my Mom is a Disney lover and never thought she would get my Dad back there after all the trips we took when we were younger. But he couldn’t/wouldn’t miss his granddaughter’s first trip so they are coming with!

The first picture is my Mom and I in 2006 when I was pregnant with DD. (not the best pic of either of us, I will look for a better one later)
The next is my Dad and DD
Sorry I can't get these to resize

There may also be 3 more people in our cast but nothing is booked so I am not going to add them right now. They would be my Godmother and her cousin as well as Nick's cousin. They wouldn’t be staying with us but would be included in a lot of our plans.

 

[tink76]

On to those plans. . .
The dates: Sept. 22nd- 30th
First you should know I have issues with changing our resort. It drives Nick crazy but he goes along with what I do. We started out as 6 nights @ WL I then played around on the website and asked Nick why don’t we add 2 nights before our package @ POP and just explore the resorts go DTD etc. He was for it, so we added 2 nights @ POP.
Next thing you know we get the Pin for Free Dining, hooray! So I said it would be silly to miss out on free dining for those first 2 nights so we changed it to 8 nights @ WL.
In the meantime my parents were booked at the POLY for 5 nights. Well. . . I was feeding my addiction known as the disboards and found out they were taking ressies for BLT. This was right around Valentine’s Day and we went out of town for the weekend with DD. After dealing with being in the room with her while she went to sleep at night we decided that we would REALLY like a suite or villa for at least part of our trip. So I got on the phone to my mom and asked if she would be interested in getting a 2 bedroom Villa @ BLT. She said she would do what we wanted, I knew it was hard for her because she LOVES the POLY and always stays there. My Dad on the other hand was all for it. He was going because of DD and loved the idea of staying with us too. Plus with the 2 bedroom villa we wouldn’t be on top of each other, we would still have our own space. So I got on the phone and changed it again. Sept. 22-27 BLT 2 bedroom villa MK view!
Now Nick and I still wanted to stay a couple more days just the 3 of us but with the upgrade to BLT we really needed to look at a moderate for those last 3 nights. We decided on CSR. We stayed at POR before and really liked it but thought we would try something new.
This is all still set but. . . I came across something else. My birthday falls during those last 3 nights. I was looking around and found that the Swan/Dolphin has a promotion to stay free on your birthday plus they had a discount rate at that time. . . so I booked the Dolphin
So here is where we stand
Sept 22- 27 BLT
Sept 27- 30 CSR or Dolphin

I will make my decision soon, the only way we will stay at CSR is if Free Dining comes out with some other additional promotion, gift card etc.


I will leave it at that for tonight. Sorry if I rambled, I just have so much to say! I hope you will join me on my journey to the World!

 

[disneydad861]

Hey im the first to reply!!! Congratulations, I took all three of my kids on their first trip in October 2007 and it was awesome just to see the looks on their faces for the first time they saw the Castle. We are going back in October this year. I have done as much as I can for now in my planning stages since Disney world has not put out the park schedule for October yet and they changed he dining resevations to three months in advance instead of six months. I am subscribing to your thread.

 

[tink76]

Thanks! I can't wait I am so excited! I hope she reacts to the castle, I don't want to get my hopes up but I have already been showing it to her on the planning DVD

I also noticed I put this in the wrong place ugh!

CAN SOMEONE MOVE THIS TO PRE TRIP REPORTS, THANKS!

 

[tink76]

Okay I reposted this in pre trip reports, so this can be deleted. Thanks

 

[Scot-n-Michelle]

AHHH - she is too cute (lots of pictures of cute kids in the threads tonigt)!! I am along for the ride - we are going a month before you so the countdown in on!!

 

[tink76]

Thanks! I actually restarted this up in pre trip reports, come and join me there!
http://www.disboards.com/showthread.php?t=2120291