dwonderz
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Hi Everyone 
!
My name is Dutch and this is my first time writing a trip report! I’ve been lurking on the Dis Boards since I was a teen and have loved reading everyone’s reports over the years … and finally thought maybe it was time to try myself! It will most likely filled with a lot of photos and quite a few GIFs ... and hopefully it's enjoyable!
Introductions:
I'm Dutch (well not actually Dutch ... like the people ... just the name ... you'd be surprised how often I have to clarify
) and I was born and raised in New York City. After going to college upstate, I moved back to the city, and I am currently a professional dancer with a modern dance company here in NY. A job I am super lucky to have! When I am not dancing - I work evenings as an office manager at a private practice and on a very part-time basis at a local elementary school.
Favorite Character: Miss Piggy (also Edna Mode)
Favorite Ride: Flight of Passage & Haunted Mansion
Favorite Disney Treat (because Food is always relevant): Cheshire Cat Tail or Night Blossom
Matt & I (Matt's wearing the light blue and I'm in gray)
Joining me on this trip was my BF, Matt. We met in college when he came to one of my indoor cycling classes (I taught spin classes in college) and then he started working at the library where I also worked (working lots of jobs seems to be a trend in my life
). Matt currently lives in Central New York (which is also where he is originally from) and now works at a University Library as a Circulation Manager.
Favorite Character: Anything Muppets
Favorite Ride: Expedition Everest/Slinky Dog Dash
Favorite Disney Treat: Totcho Bowl from Woody's Lunch Box
How Matt envisions himself at work (accuracy could be disputed)....
The Trip:
So ... technically this was neither of our first times at Disney - we both had visited way back in 2011 (#paperFPera) long before we knew each other. However, it was our first time in forever visiting together (bad pun?) and our first time in a long time visiting WDW. Soooo ... we are counting it as our "first trip" with some terms and conditions attached
.
We had talked about visiting back when we were both still in school - but it was too challenging to coordinate schedules/classes/etc. - so we decided once Matt graduated in May 2019 we would start looking at dates/times. We originally were going to head down in January - but I had a performance conflict - so we changed to the end of February (Feb 23 to Feb 29). After some research - we landed on a split stay at Caribbean Beach and Yacht Club (spoiler alert: YC has my heart for the rest of my entire existence) with a small discount.
We then started checking out flights for our dates - and managed to score round trip tickets on Delta from NYC for 22,000 miles total - which we thought was a great deal. The only thing was we had to stay an extra night in Disney .... which we didn't think was necessarily a bad idea...
With our hotel/flights booked - all that was left was planning, checking the planning, changing the planning, color coding the planning (did I mention the planning?), grabbing our fast passes, booking dining, and waiting … so …. much … waiting.
Anyway - I think that wraps up our introductions/overview - I’m planning on doing the rest of this TR in “chapters” - so if you've got this far - thank you
and be on the lookout for Chapter 1 soon!
!My name is Dutch and this is my first time writing a trip report! I’ve been lurking on the Dis Boards since I was a teen and have loved reading everyone’s reports over the years … and finally thought maybe it was time to try myself! It will most likely filled with a lot of photos and quite a few GIFs ... and hopefully it's enjoyable!
Introductions:
I'm Dutch (well not actually Dutch ... like the people ... just the name ... you'd be surprised how often I have to clarify
) and I was born and raised in New York City. After going to college upstate, I moved back to the city, and I am currently a professional dancer with a modern dance company here in NY. A job I am super lucky to have! When I am not dancing - I work evenings as an office manager at a private practice and on a very part-time basis at a local elementary school.Favorite Character: Miss Piggy (also Edna Mode)
Favorite Ride: Flight of Passage & Haunted Mansion
Favorite Disney Treat (because Food is always relevant): Cheshire Cat Tail or Night Blossom
Matt & I (Matt's wearing the light blue and I'm in gray)
Joining me on this trip was my BF, Matt. We met in college when he came to one of my indoor cycling classes (I taught spin classes in college) and then he started working at the library where I also worked (working lots of jobs seems to be a trend in my life
). Matt currently lives in Central New York (which is also where he is originally from) and now works at a University Library as a Circulation Manager.Favorite Character: Anything Muppets
Favorite Ride: Expedition Everest/Slinky Dog Dash
Favorite Disney Treat: Totcho Bowl from Woody's Lunch Box
How Matt envisions himself at work (accuracy could be disputed)....
The Trip:
So ... technically this was neither of our first times at Disney - we both had visited way back in 2011 (#paperFPera) long before we knew each other. However, it was our first time in forever visiting together (bad pun?) and our first time in a long time visiting WDW. Soooo ... we are counting it as our "first trip" with some terms and conditions attached
.We had talked about visiting back when we were both still in school - but it was too challenging to coordinate schedules/classes/etc. - so we decided once Matt graduated in May 2019 we would start looking at dates/times. We originally were going to head down in January - but I had a performance conflict - so we changed to the end of February (Feb 23 to Feb 29). After some research - we landed on a split stay at Caribbean Beach and Yacht Club (spoiler alert: YC has my heart for the rest of my entire existence) with a small discount.
We then started checking out flights for our dates - and managed to score round trip tickets on Delta from NYC for 22,000 miles total - which we thought was a great deal. The only thing was we had to stay an extra night in Disney .... which we didn't think was necessarily a bad idea...
With our hotel/flights booked - all that was left was planning, checking the planning, changing the planning, color coding the planning (did I mention the planning?), grabbing our fast passes, booking dining, and waiting … so …. much … waiting.
Anyway - I think that wraps up our introductions/overview - I’m planning on doing the rest of this TR in “chapters” - so if you've got this far - thank you
and be on the lookout for Chapter 1 soon!
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Thanks for joining in!!
... but you know it just had to get done
- I decided to go ahead and pay for the upgrade. I also really wanted to surprise Matt because we had never flown First Class - and I thought it would be a really special way to start off the trip.
. With all of our pre-trip crazy out of the way - we tried to get some sleep before waking up at 5:00a.m. the next morning to head to LGA!
) got off the plane - we had to stop by the baggage carousel to pick up my suitcase (we only had 2 Magical Express Tags and we had 3 suitcases total ... light packing is something we struggle with 
). After grabbing my suitcase - we headed to ME - scanned our magic bands for the first time ever and got in line for CBR.
. Kyle said we were currently in Martinique on the Ground Floor. 
Talk about some pixie dust!! And the best part was our room was ready - so we headed on over to Aruba (the whole process took about 20 minutes … and the woman who cut all of us in line was still there).
