DLRP Trip Nov. 14 to Nov. 18 - Pretrip!

Kristina

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Nov. 14th Wednesday
A little introduction…

I’m Kristina, an American Swede who was born in Hollywood, CA where I lived until I hit 30, when my Mom and I up and moved to Sweden. It wasn’t a spur of the moment thing. We had visited my relatives all through my life for nice long summers on my grandparent’s farm and I always thought one day I’d like to live here for a bit, so now I do! I love Disney, and I’m beginning to be known for it. Which is cool by me! I’m always planning the next trip to WDW, and now that I’ve discovered DLRP I’ve got plans for a return trip going in my head too!

I live with my boyfriend Kevin :love: . We have been together for 6 years now. Kevin is from Chester in the UK and has lived with me here in Sweden for about 4 years! Time does fly when you are having fun! He loves Disney as much as I do but he lets me do all the planning. Until the very last minute usually, then he tries his best to change things about :headache: . I give in if it doesn’t totally mess up our plans. Well, yeah..my plans :rolleyes1 !

Here we are in Disneyland! We were so excited, we practically ran to the park after we checked in to the Cheyenne!
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This will be my very first trip report ::yes:: ! I’ve been on 3 trips so far to WDW and have always thought of writing a report but never managed to keep up with the note taking. I did try each trip at the beginning…but it always petered out after a few days. The exhaustion at the end of a long park day always got to me and it was all I could do to stretch out on the bed in our room at my beloved Pop Century Resort and watch a bit of good old American television. Or at least Stacy going through her motions, again! Kevin loved the fact that DLRP had in effect 4 Stacys on the resort tv. He was forever comparing the girls and wondering if I thought one was perkier than the other for example. His favorite was the french one. Mine too actually :) !

Sorry, right, back to our trip..Now this trip to Disneyland Paris would be shorter than our usual 15 nights in WDW, so I’m hoping I can manage to remember everything this time. Except that we were so excited to get to experience DLRP that it kind of feels now afterwards that we just ran all over the place! Like, it’s all a nice blur sort of but thankfully I’ve got our photos to help me remember. Then there is Kev who will no doubt tell me what’s what and try to change things about as usual. I’ll let him this time though…maybe.

Needing a trip to Disney badly I started looking at the official DLRP site. A lot. We had decided to wait until 2008 before our next trip to Orlando and the wait was beginning to get me down! Kevin had had a nice break in Chester during the summer but I had stayed back and worked through while everyone else went on vacation. A decision I made just in case we managed to win the lottery and would actually be able to go to WDW come November! That last bit is true, well not the lottery part although you do never know but I thought perhaps somehow...! A girl can dream right? Well then I thought, there is a Disney park in Paris. Closer, cheaper, and oh my what if it's just as nice?!! Doh! Ya think?!! :idea:

So I started to go online and check it out, price it up as you do. It is so much fun when you’re a newbie! Everything was new to me :dogdance: . I had looked at the park online before, and I had started reading the Disney and More blog which is just shock full of gorgeous pictures and info on the parks. Then one night I went on Google Earth. Disneyland was just amazing looking, so I booked a trip for us right there and then. 4 nights 5 days with the 4th night free at the Cheyenne. I had chosen the Cheyenne as it looked like a fun place. We love the Pop Century in WDW and the Cheyenne looked to me like it was in the same fun spirit, so I booked it along with the half board standard vouchers.
After that we needed flights and at first I looked at Sterling because I wanted it to be a cheap trip :rotfl: but I found out that we would have to pay extra if we wanted to take a normal amount of luggage and in that case the price was the same as Air France, plus AF had better flying times so I booked us that.

Now we had about a month and a half to wait...and plan :goodvibes ! Yay!!

Here is the link to Day One Part One
http://www.disboards.com/showthread.php?p=21886555#post21886555
 
Nice to learn a little more about you Kristina :)

I'm really looking forward to reading your trip report, it's evident that you're quite smitten with DLRP :love:
 
Excellent pre-trippy :)

Looking forward to the next installment :goodvibes
 
Thats a lovely pre trippie.:thumbsup2

Can't wait to read more and see your pics.:goodvibes

We are big Pop Century fans too and you made me smile about Stacy!!:lmao:
 

nice pre-trippie, I'm looking forward to hear more.
We are going to fly with SAS, Sterling's new luggage rules are awful...
 
Thanks guys :goodvibes . Jill you only have one day left, you must be so excited by now :woohoo:!! Good for you!
Leanne the Pop is a lot of fun isn't it! Next December with any luck we will be able to visit there again!
 
Thank you for your introduction. It is nice getting to know you. You two look like a very happy couple on that picture. I can't wait to see more pictures of "my" DLRP and to read everything about your trip.
I would also like to know how the crowds were as you were during the week and on weekend.
 
Wow - you're really on the ball to get your pre-trip done so quickly. :thumbsup2
Nice to hear the background to your trip.
 
Marcus the crowds were not bad at all until Saturday when it became what seemed like wall to wall people and we realized how lucky we had been the few days before. There were proper long lines to get fast passes to Big Thunder and I've never seen that before! But we still had a blast :thumbsup2!
 












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