So now that we've done the Introductions, the background, and past trips I can tell you all how this little May trip came to be.
Got your snacks? It's a long one!
After our sweet little jaunt to Disneyland last MAY---
And While we thought it was great- it just left us wanting more. It was sort of like having an appetizer and then being kicked out of the restaurant. In DL's defense-- being that it was tacked on to a work related trip for DH, he never really felt like he could decompress and enjoy the parks.
So after the summer trips had come and gone and sunburns had faded and the kids were back in school, I started looking ahead to the Spring and what I should plan.
DH and I usually go somewhere for a week in May, just us, to be together as a couple. We actually talked about vacationing for our Anniversary in March, but since my DH is known for deciding at the last minute he wants to go on vacation, I decided that keeping tradition alive and traveling in MAY would be the best option.
I KNEW pin codes were coming- I just wasn't sure when.
I decided to check out the website and just fiddle around for a few days.
Then I slowly began hearing that the pin code gods were leaking out pin codes for the Spring.
I got nothing.
I tried praying to the pin code gods- the chant went something like this-
"Oh great and Mighty pin code gods, I beesech thee to bestow upon thou the highest honor of pin code-ation and honor thou with your presence. ohmmmmmmmm."
(of course I logged onto the wdw website and saved trips to POFQ, WL, and the Poly also, just in case the pin code gods weren't listening.)
I got nothing.
I tried again...
"Oh great and mighty pin code gods, I beseech thee..."
Nothing.
Weeks passed.
The Holidays were on the horizon-- Halloween was a week away.
I started to get panicky-people were starting threads with cutesy titles like
"Pin code 40% off- I'm going back!!!" and "Got a code-- I'm off to see the MOUSE!" I was beyoind irritated.
I tried a Teeny tiny bit different approach--
"DAM&^% Pin code gods! Give me a %^*&%%$#@ pin code right &*%$%## NOW!!!"
and then I did the unthinkable--- I erased all of my saved offers.
That oughta do it, I thought.
Stilll......... nothing.
So I crawled back , head held low, tiptoed to the website and saved just one offer. The Poly.
My plea-- "PLEASE pin code gods...???"
Nothing.
It wasn't going to happen.
I resigned myself to the fact and actually began looking into going to different places. DH told me to pick anywhere, he'd take me. I was pitiful. I wanted to see the mouse. I wanted to dance on Main street. I wanted to lie in the hammock and watch Wishes over the castle.
I wanted to smell the monorail.... ewwwww, but yeah, okay- I confess- I like it.
I didn't go back to the WDW website. It was too painful. I couldn't bear to look.
And then on Monday, November 16 at 5:03 pm- It happened:
An email from Disney Destinations.
My heart thudded in my chest- could it be? I tried to calm my blood pressure as I logged on to see the title "Explore your resort picks, _______ family!"
I could barely click on it. And there it was --
"Alleluia!!! Allleluia!!!!!!"
Alleluia chorus was pounding in my head and, like any good Southern Baptist, I jumped out of my seat to stand for the processional!
It was for 40% off deluxes, 30% off of mods and 25% off values.
I'd been pixed dusted all over.
I could barely walk down the stairs to make supper and pretend nothing was going on.
DH came home from work, tired, exhausted, spent. I tried sharing with him our good fortune.
And he said "Hum, wow, that's good. What's for supper?"
THAT'S IT???????
No screaming with excitement????? No "Book it now, book it now, for the love of all that's holy, call now?!!!"
I was crushed.
I had prayed to the gods and my Baptist soul needed to repent. I moved my email over to one of my folders. And I didn't. do. anything.
I waited. Oh how I waited. Every day I waited for an opportunity for him to show signs of cracking. We had Turkey day at our house- decorated for Christmas.
And as we were having coffee one morning, he did it. He showed me a weakness and I pounced. All he had to do was say "I need a vacation"- that was it. It was all over.
I told him that I couldn't help him immediately but that I could go ahead and book our MAY trip. He said "Oh yeah, where are we going?" and I said "to Disney". He laughed and said "I told you I'd take you anywhere and you want to go back?" I nodded.
He said "Alright, book it." And as he was getting in the car for work, he walked back over and said "Wait, where are we staying there?" and I said "What about the Poly?" and he said "Book 'em Danno."
The Alleluia chorus was playing again.
I waved goodbye and grabbed the phone and dialed with unbridled passion.
A CM named Otis came to my rescue. I told him breathlessly-"MyhusbandsaidIcouldbbokourMAYtripandIhaveacodeandwe'recelebratingourlateAnniversarycanwegetpinsandjunk?"
Otis took my pin code and put me on hold. Not a good sign. He came back and said there was something wrong with the code. He asked me to read to him the dates it was good for-- hello? it was good for almost all of 2010! What is wrong? he put me on hold again.
Not good. Sooooo not good.
He comes back and says I have another Pincode that the computer keeps bumping me to but it ends in 2009.
2010!!!! I yell. 20- freaking-10 I say. I am a mess. I start to cry. he says hold on.
He comes back, saying that he's calling a manager, that he doesn't think that code will work. I sob.
I mutter things that are completely inaudible and consider lying in a fetal position on the floor, ala Jim Bakker.
Otis returns.
He says he's three way calling someone else, he'll be back but it isn't looking too good.
I waited another 2 tear stained minutes before he comes back--
"Good news, Ms! We got it to work and you're all set!!!!"
If he had've been there in front of me, I would've let Beau Gator lick him- 'cause i'm just not that into kissing guys I don't know.
Thank YOU, OTIS! You're my hero for the day!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Soooo- all of that to post what we got---
The Poly, garden view, 7 days, park hoppers no dining for $2646.
Not too bad.
And with that, I leave you.
Up next is... I don't know? We'll have to see!
Hope all is well in your corner of the world today!
Got your snacks? It's a long one!
After our sweet little jaunt to Disneyland last MAY---
And While we thought it was great- it just left us wanting more. It was sort of like having an appetizer and then being kicked out of the restaurant. In DL's defense-- being that it was tacked on to a work related trip for DH, he never really felt like he could decompress and enjoy the parks.
So after the summer trips had come and gone and sunburns had faded and the kids were back in school, I started looking ahead to the Spring and what I should plan.
DH and I usually go somewhere for a week in May, just us, to be together as a couple. We actually talked about vacationing for our Anniversary in March, but since my DH is known for deciding at the last minute he wants to go on vacation, I decided that keeping tradition alive and traveling in MAY would be the best option.
I KNEW pin codes were coming- I just wasn't sure when.
I decided to check out the website and just fiddle around for a few days.
Then I slowly began hearing that the pin code gods were leaking out pin codes for the Spring.
I got nothing.
I tried praying to the pin code gods- the chant went something like this-
"Oh great and Mighty pin code gods, I beesech thee to bestow upon thou the highest honor of pin code-ation and honor thou with your presence. ohmmmmmmmm."
(of course I logged onto the wdw website and saved trips to POFQ, WL, and the Poly also, just in case the pin code gods weren't listening.)
I got nothing.
I tried again...
"Oh great and mighty pin code gods, I beseech thee..."
Nothing.
Weeks passed.
The Holidays were on the horizon-- Halloween was a week away.
I started to get panicky-people were starting threads with cutesy titles like
"Pin code 40% off- I'm going back!!!" and "Got a code-- I'm off to see the MOUSE!" I was beyoind irritated.
I tried a Teeny tiny bit different approach--
"DAM&^% Pin code gods! Give me a %^*&%%$#@ pin code right &*%$%## NOW!!!"
and then I did the unthinkable--- I erased all of my saved offers.
That oughta do it, I thought.
Stilll......... nothing.
So I crawled back , head held low, tiptoed to the website and saved just one offer. The Poly.
My plea-- "PLEASE pin code gods...???"
Nothing.
It wasn't going to happen.
I resigned myself to the fact and actually began looking into going to different places. DH told me to pick anywhere, he'd take me. I was pitiful. I wanted to see the mouse. I wanted to dance on Main street. I wanted to lie in the hammock and watch Wishes over the castle.
I wanted to smell the monorail.... ewwwww, but yeah, okay- I confess- I like it.
I didn't go back to the WDW website. It was too painful. I couldn't bear to look.
And then on Monday, November 16 at 5:03 pm- It happened:
An email from Disney Destinations.
My heart thudded in my chest- could it be? I tried to calm my blood pressure as I logged on to see the title "Explore your resort picks, _______ family!"
I could barely click on it. And there it was --
"Alleluia!!! Allleluia!!!!!!"
Alleluia chorus was pounding in my head and, like any good Southern Baptist, I jumped out of my seat to stand for the processional!
It was for 40% off deluxes, 30% off of mods and 25% off values.
I'd been pixed dusted all over.I could barely walk down the stairs to make supper and pretend nothing was going on.
DH came home from work, tired, exhausted, spent. I tried sharing with him our good fortune.
And he said "Hum, wow, that's good. What's for supper?"
THAT'S IT???????
No screaming with excitement????? No "Book it now, book it now, for the love of all that's holy, call now?!!!"
I was crushed.
I had prayed to the gods and my Baptist soul needed to repent. I moved my email over to one of my folders. And I didn't. do. anything.
I waited. Oh how I waited. Every day I waited for an opportunity for him to show signs of cracking. We had Turkey day at our house- decorated for Christmas.
And as we were having coffee one morning, he did it. He showed me a weakness and I pounced. All he had to do was say "I need a vacation"- that was it. It was all over.
I told him that I couldn't help him immediately but that I could go ahead and book our MAY trip. He said "Oh yeah, where are we going?" and I said "to Disney". He laughed and said "I told you I'd take you anywhere and you want to go back?" I nodded.
He said "Alright, book it." And as he was getting in the car for work, he walked back over and said "Wait, where are we staying there?" and I said "What about the Poly?" and he said "Book 'em Danno."
The Alleluia chorus was playing again.
I waved goodbye and grabbed the phone and dialed with unbridled passion.
A CM named Otis came to my rescue. I told him breathlessly-"MyhusbandsaidIcouldbbokourMAYtripandIhaveacodeandwe'recelebratingourlateAnniversarycanwegetpinsandjunk?"
Otis took my pin code and put me on hold. Not a good sign. He came back and said there was something wrong with the code. He asked me to read to him the dates it was good for-- hello? it was good for almost all of 2010! What is wrong? he put me on hold again.
Not good. Sooooo not good.
He comes back and says I have another Pincode that the computer keeps bumping me to but it ends in 2009.
2010!!!! I yell. 20- freaking-10 I say. I am a mess. I start to cry. he says hold on.
He comes back, saying that he's calling a manager, that he doesn't think that code will work. I sob.
I mutter things that are completely inaudible and consider lying in a fetal position on the floor, ala Jim Bakker.
Otis returns.
He says he's three way calling someone else, he'll be back but it isn't looking too good.
I waited another 2 tear stained minutes before he comes back--
"Good news, Ms! We got it to work and you're all set!!!!"
If he had've been there in front of me, I would've let Beau Gator lick him- 'cause i'm just not that into kissing guys I don't know.
Thank YOU, OTIS! You're my hero for the day!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Soooo- all of that to post what we got---
The Poly, garden view, 7 days, park hoppers no dining for $2646.
Not too bad.
And with that, I leave you.
Up next is... I don't know? We'll have to see!
Hope all is well in your corner of the world today!
I'm also joining in from Shelly's TR.
Nab o o b - I love it!!! 
DH and i talk about it every morning.
Even the stuff I make at home, must be the 22% cream they use!
reports!!?!?!
Have you had much coffee today? 
Glad Otis got it all worked out for you and you didn't have to give him a little attitude adjustment!! 
. 
) So I called to see if I had any other pins and who did I talk to - none other then Otis and he found me a code that was 40% off for our trip 
<------ my coffee dance. Yes, too much coffee. I've been wondering why I've been so jacked every morning. One- b/c we switched to this Guatemalan coffee (Mari-- where are you??????????) that is strong but good, and two- I've been drinking it out of a PGH Starbucks mug. Well, the mug is wonderful- but big. I've been saying to DH- "I've only had two cups of coffee today and get I'm shaking like a leaf." So he gets a normal sized mug out and measures against my jumbo mug. THE THING HOLDS TWO AND A HALF CUPS OF COFFEE! So instead of my regualar two cups every morning- I'm gettting five.
