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Drinking The Kool-aid, DISney-washing the DH (the Pre-trip)
If you care to read it, there is also a post HERE that you can read that tells the story of the birth of all of this mayhem, aka what possessed me to give Disney thousands of our dollars. For those that went to read that, my apologies for the gross-out and you will see that the characters have changed a bit, but you will soon see why.
For the rest of you, grab your mouse and lets go
Characters:
Me - Steph - aka, Mom, Mommy, Pretty Lady (that's what DH calls me).
38 years old, way in to pirates. 
POTC was my favorite ride growing up in So. California, going to DL. Went to WDW for a couple of whirlwind days tagging along with friends in 91.
DH - Crashdad - aka Dad, Daddy, Crash and Brickhead (to his coworkers there is a whole story about that, but perhaps another time?), and Sweetie (that's what I call him). 38 years old, loves his family, works too hard, and loves the fact that I bring out the Tigger in him. Likes to pretend that I talked him into this Disney stuff, but we really know the truth. He has always wanted to see "the Big Ball" (SE to you and me).
Present in Spirit, or making cameos - Kids: 16, 7, 6 and my Mom, Step-dad, MIL, and crazy band of Vikings many of us have come to know (and wub) as the Maelstrommers of NorVAY!
Foreword:
It all started easily enough (ok maybe not so easily, if you read my first pre-trip, or shall we call that the Pre-pretrippy?), a decision to book a "once-in-a-lifetime" Christmas trip for the whole family with all the trimmings. Easy! Just www.disneyworld.com and click a few buttons and viola, you have yourself a trip. However, as you will see it turned out a bit differently
Part One: The Kool-Aid is Prepared!
Just because I am me, it just can't be that easy. Click, click, click, trip????? No way!? So I found myself on the DIS searching and researching... hmmmm what's this TGM I keep seeing, and what's with all these acronyms.. CRT, CBR, DVC, POR, ToT, RnR.... great googly moogly, it's like alphabet soup! Have I mentioned that I love alphabet soup? Yep, I wonder if that cheese soup in Canada is as good?? Cant wait to try it in December
Oh where was I? Oh yes, I remember. So, I am a punch-every-button-try-every-knob kinda gal, and the DIS fed my info frenzy to a fever pitch! Of course then it happened, I found the Trip Report boards and started reading them to DH...
I regaled him with tales of other peoples trips (you know who you ALL are) and the unending antics of the Maelstrommers of NorVAY. ;-)
Eventually, he started calling me from work saying things like: "How many more months until our December trip?" and Can you call Texas Roadhouse and try to get us an ADR for tonight?
The Kool-Aid Ferments (a little):
I found the food pics threads and showed them to DH. The Kool-aid became merlot, baby! He started saying things like So hows that DVC thing work again? and Are we going to eat there? Not this trip, huh? Did you catch that: THIS TRIP. We havent even been there yet and hes starting to drink the Kool-Aid!!
Some back story and a side note: This is my second marriage, hence the large gap between my oldest child and my youngest. My DH had never been married. As we were dating I discovered all sorts of things about him. He had never eaten lobster, or salmon (now one of his favorites), and a host of other things. So, many of our dates were full of new dining experiences, for him. So fast forward more than a year later, we are at a dinner party thrown by one of our friends from church where we broke the happy news that we were expecting our first child together! Over coffee and dessert we all start reminiscing about the day we all met etc Have you ever said something that was the worst possible thing to say for the setting, taken out of context???? Well I did. Here we were, surrounded by all our church friends reminiscing about the time that had passed, when I make the following nonchalant statement: Yes, Crashdad and I have had a lot of firsts together.
The room immediately bursts into fits of hysterical laughter. To which, I
and gushed I didnt mean THAT! Get your minds out of the gutter! I then try to explain myself, which only adds fuel to the fire. NEVER, I repeat never try to explain your way out of an innocent comment gone wrong. Dont do it, learn from my mistake. It is a moment that we still snicker over to this day
All of this to explain that my hubby and I have a dining history
Because what happens next in our story is this, the really magic words: Free Dining!
BAM... SHAZAM!!! A few phone calls to Mom to see if she can watch the kids, a couple of conversations at work for the time off, and trip number 2 is BOOKED! This one with no kids!!! Sept 30-Oct2 Pop Century, here we come!
So, now we have 2. Count them 2, trips booked to the Happiest Place on Earth. Yipppeee!!! Wait, that means 2 reports no wait one really long one I dunno well just have to play that by the mouseears???
We have never taken a trip alone, ever. We so often refer to each other as Mommy and Daddy to our kids that we often find ourselves re-introducing ourselves to one another on those rare occasions that we are alone. "Hi, I'm Eeyore. What's your name?" I fully expect this to be the first thing that he says to me when we get seated on our plane to MCO (only with his real name, which is not DH or Eeyore... I think...).
We can scarce imagine what 4 days without them will be like, but here's a shot at it:
Liberty Tree Tavern
Wishes
Spectromagic
Mama Melrose's Fantasmic Dinner Package
Flying Fish (hmm maybe we'll eat some more lobster here??? Actually it isn't even on the menu)
Illuminations
Oh yes, a certain Viking Trek in NorVAY with my crazed DIS friends ;-) Maelstrom is a fastpasss??!! Baby!!
And let's not forget the F&WF in Epcot, shall we? More firsts for us!!! Heh, heh
Up next: Someone Almost Spilled the Koolaid...
If you care to read it, there is also a post HERE that you can read that tells the story of the birth of all of this mayhem, aka what possessed me to give Disney thousands of our dollars. For those that went to read that, my apologies for the gross-out and you will see that the characters have changed a bit, but you will soon see why.
For the rest of you, grab your mouse and lets go
Characters:
Me - Steph - aka, Mom, Mommy, Pretty Lady (that's what DH calls me).
38 years old, way in to pirates. POTC was my favorite ride growing up in So. California, going to DL. Went to WDW for a couple of whirlwind days tagging along with friends in 91.DH - Crashdad - aka Dad, Daddy, Crash and Brickhead (to his coworkers there is a whole story about that, but perhaps another time?), and Sweetie (that's what I call him). 38 years old, loves his family, works too hard, and loves the fact that I bring out the Tigger in him. Likes to pretend that I talked him into this Disney stuff, but we really know the truth. He has always wanted to see "the Big Ball" (SE to you and me).
Present in Spirit, or making cameos - Kids: 16, 7, 6 and my Mom, Step-dad, MIL, and crazy band of Vikings many of us have come to know (and wub) as the Maelstrommers of NorVAY!
Foreword:
It all started easily enough (ok maybe not so easily, if you read my first pre-trip, or shall we call that the Pre-pretrippy?), a decision to book a "once-in-a-lifetime" Christmas trip for the whole family with all the trimmings. Easy! Just www.disneyworld.com and click a few buttons and viola, you have yourself a trip. However, as you will see it turned out a bit differently
Part One: The Kool-Aid is Prepared!
Just because I am me, it just can't be that easy. Click, click, click, trip????? No way!? So I found myself on the DIS searching and researching... hmmmm what's this TGM I keep seeing, and what's with all these acronyms.. CRT, CBR, DVC, POR, ToT, RnR.... great googly moogly, it's like alphabet soup! Have I mentioned that I love alphabet soup? Yep, I wonder if that cheese soup in Canada is as good?? Cant wait to try it in December
Oh where was I? Oh yes, I remember. So, I am a punch-every-button-try-every-knob kinda gal, and the DIS fed my info frenzy to a fever pitch! Of course then it happened, I found the Trip Report boards and started reading them to DH...
I regaled him with tales of other peoples trips (you know who you ALL are) and the unending antics of the Maelstrommers of NorVAY. ;-)
Eventually, he started calling me from work saying things like: "How many more months until our December trip?" and Can you call Texas Roadhouse and try to get us an ADR for tonight?
The Kool-Aid Ferments (a little):
I found the food pics threads and showed them to DH. The Kool-aid became merlot, baby! He started saying things like So hows that DVC thing work again? and Are we going to eat there? Not this trip, huh? Did you catch that: THIS TRIP. We havent even been there yet and hes starting to drink the Kool-Aid!!
Some back story and a side note: This is my second marriage, hence the large gap between my oldest child and my youngest. My DH had never been married. As we were dating I discovered all sorts of things about him. He had never eaten lobster, or salmon (now one of his favorites), and a host of other things. So, many of our dates were full of new dining experiences, for him. So fast forward more than a year later, we are at a dinner party thrown by one of our friends from church where we broke the happy news that we were expecting our first child together! Over coffee and dessert we all start reminiscing about the day we all met etc Have you ever said something that was the worst possible thing to say for the setting, taken out of context???? Well I did. Here we were, surrounded by all our church friends reminiscing about the time that had passed, when I make the following nonchalant statement: Yes, Crashdad and I have had a lot of firsts together.
The room immediately bursts into fits of hysterical laughter. To which, I
and gushed I didnt mean THAT! Get your minds out of the gutter! I then try to explain myself, which only adds fuel to the fire. NEVER, I repeat never try to explain your way out of an innocent comment gone wrong. Dont do it, learn from my mistake. It is a moment that we still snicker over to this day
All of this to explain that my hubby and I have a dining history
Because what happens next in our story is this, the really magic words: Free Dining!
BAM... SHAZAM!!! A few phone calls to Mom to see if she can watch the kids, a couple of conversations at work for the time off, and trip number 2 is BOOKED! This one with no kids!!! Sept 30-Oct2 Pop Century, here we come!
So, now we have 2. Count them 2, trips booked to the Happiest Place on Earth. Yipppeee!!! Wait, that means 2 reports no wait one really long one I dunno well just have to play that by the mouseears???
We have never taken a trip alone, ever. We so often refer to each other as Mommy and Daddy to our kids that we often find ourselves re-introducing ourselves to one another on those rare occasions that we are alone. "Hi, I'm Eeyore. What's your name?" I fully expect this to be the first thing that he says to me when we get seated on our plane to MCO (only with his real name, which is not DH or Eeyore... I think...).
We can scarce imagine what 4 days without them will be like, but here's a shot at it:
Liberty Tree Tavern
Wishes
Spectromagic
Mama Melrose's Fantasmic Dinner Package
Flying Fish (hmm maybe we'll eat some more lobster here??? Actually it isn't even on the menu)
Illuminations
Oh yes, a certain Viking Trek in NorVAY with my crazed DIS friends ;-) Maelstrom is a fastpasss??!! Baby!!
And let's not forget the F&WF in Epcot, shall we? More firsts for us!!! Heh, heh
Up next: Someone Almost Spilled the Koolaid...
It's just a lot more fun to pull GACat into the whole thing 
I guess that I should mention that he is an only-child as well. No one to fight with, but no one to help either. Not an easy task, even if he wanted to do it. He is sooooo ready for this trip and he hasnt even started this arduous task. Many thanks to my 
