nimbuscat
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Hi! Although I've been a lurker around here for awhile, I am pretty new to the DISboards, so here goes my first PTR...
The Who:
I am Jimmie, and I am 31 years old and live in North Dakota with my husband, Aaron, and our 2-year-old daughter, Zoey. This will be Zoey's first Disney trip, though she is already a pretty seasoned traveler in her two short years on this planet.
Jimmie and Aaron, on our cruise earlier this year.
Zoey, at her Sofia the First-themed second birthday party.
The What:
We are planning on 6-day, non-hopper tickets, with the Deluxe Dining Plan. (Too many TS establishments to try on the standard DDP!)
The When:
We'll be escaping the frigid cold of North Dakota in January, traveling from January 3-10, 2014.
The Where:
We are currently booked in a Little Mermaid room at Art of Animation...though, I'm one of those people who likes to change her mind a hundred times before the vacation is all said and done, so we'll see how things end up.
The Why:
Bear with me, this might get a little long
...
In June 2014, we will be celebrating our 10-year wedding anniversary. I've been telling DH that I want to take a big vacation to celebrate, and we (I) hatched a grand plan of combining a few days at Disney along with a Royal Caribbean cruise (DCL prices just make me want to cry!). We even thought about talking some family members into joining us so that we'd have childcare for Zoey and could have a couple of "date nights" to celebrate our anniversary. Well, as it turns out, Aaron will most likely be spending a considerable amount of time in the Azores in June 2015 for some research his work is involved with. With that being the case, we decided it would be a far more romantic anniversary celebration if we postponed the "big" vacay for a year and I joined him in the Azores and then hit up Portugal/Spain together before coming home. Heck yeah!
So, the big Disney/cruise plans were scrapped. However, the lure of Disney was still calling to us. I'd been to WDW twice before - in 1992 and 1997, and DH had also been a couple of times in his childhood. I snuck in a post-cruise day at Disneyland in 2005, but that has been it. No real Disney to speak of in many years! In other words, we were LONG overdue for a return trip, not to mention, Zoey would be free until her 3rd birthday next March. So, after looking at prices (not the best, as our dates overlap with Marathon Weekend), we decided we could do it if we stayed at a Value Resort. (This was not supposed to be a "big" vacation for us, after all!)
And thus begins my planning mania for the next 6 1/2 months!
Hi, my name is Jimmie, and I'm obsessed with planning my Disney vacation.
Next post will be tentative ADRs/park plans. I am rapidly approaching the 180-day mark!
The Who:
I am Jimmie, and I am 31 years old and live in North Dakota with my husband, Aaron, and our 2-year-old daughter, Zoey. This will be Zoey's first Disney trip, though she is already a pretty seasoned traveler in her two short years on this planet.
Jimmie and Aaron, on our cruise earlier this year.
Zoey, at her Sofia the First-themed second birthday party.
The What:
We are planning on 6-day, non-hopper tickets, with the Deluxe Dining Plan. (Too many TS establishments to try on the standard DDP!)
The When:
We'll be escaping the frigid cold of North Dakota in January, traveling from January 3-10, 2014.
The Where:
We are currently booked in a Little Mermaid room at Art of Animation...though, I'm one of those people who likes to change her mind a hundred times before the vacation is all said and done, so we'll see how things end up.
The Why:
Bear with me, this might get a little long
...In June 2014, we will be celebrating our 10-year wedding anniversary. I've been telling DH that I want to take a big vacation to celebrate, and we (I) hatched a grand plan of combining a few days at Disney along with a Royal Caribbean cruise (DCL prices just make me want to cry!). We even thought about talking some family members into joining us so that we'd have childcare for Zoey and could have a couple of "date nights" to celebrate our anniversary. Well, as it turns out, Aaron will most likely be spending a considerable amount of time in the Azores in June 2015 for some research his work is involved with. With that being the case, we decided it would be a far more romantic anniversary celebration if we postponed the "big" vacay for a year and I joined him in the Azores and then hit up Portugal/Spain together before coming home. Heck yeah!
So, the big Disney/cruise plans were scrapped. However, the lure of Disney was still calling to us. I'd been to WDW twice before - in 1992 and 1997, and DH had also been a couple of times in his childhood. I snuck in a post-cruise day at Disneyland in 2005, but that has been it. No real Disney to speak of in many years! In other words, we were LONG overdue for a return trip, not to mention, Zoey would be free until her 3rd birthday next March. So, after looking at prices (not the best, as our dates overlap with Marathon Weekend), we decided we could do it if we stayed at a Value Resort. (This was not supposed to be a "big" vacation for us, after all!)
And thus begins my planning mania for the next 6 1/2 months! Hi, my name is Jimmie, and I'm obsessed with planning my Disney vacation.Next post will be tentative ADRs/park plans. I am rapidly approaching the 180-day mark!
Return flight is at 6:30 pm.
