Finally!!! Some quality time with Mickey- no running shoes necessary!

[Axelrodb1]

Finally!!!

Our first ever trip to Disney for longer than a weekend!! We will officially be visiting the happiest place on earth from September 8 - September 16th!

Here is the dilemma....with all the information I do know- I have never planned a trip longer than 3 days and we have 9 full days including my DS6's birthday on the 15th!

I have never done a full PTR before but where else can I bounce ideas around and hear feedback of those much more experienced than I?

Let the planning begin!!!

 

[Axelrodb1]

I think we have a semi set plan finally! How exciting! I have a long way to go though! We are camping at Fort Wilderness, and started a few lists to try and stay organized- later on I am going to post our daily plans, I would LOVE the feedback!!

We started these lists to try and stay organized:

*To Do
*to Pack
*to Buy...

We are still a ways away... but it feels like theres a million things to do!

 

[JoJo1980]

Hi there! I'm so excited for you - you're going to have a great trip!! Fort Wilderness is lovely What have you got planned so far? Any nice Birthday Surprises?

 

[Axelrodb1]

I want to start by saying I tried to add some photos so you would be able to see who we are, but my computer has a mind of it's own at times and freezes up everytime I try!!!

This is my first time planning out a decent length trip, I can honestly admit my head is going in a million directions and I think I am learning something new that I want to do or have every day!!! I have made a very soft plan and gotten nearly all of our ADRs figured out- so here is what we have for our Arrival Day so far

We are hoping to leave to start driving up to Orlando as early as possible- it's about 3 hours (when I'm not the one driving ) Ideally we will get there around 9am or so, but when traveling with a 6 year old who is NOT a morning person, realistically I am hoping for sometime before noon

I am hoping we can get checked in early, we are tent camping and I would love to be set up before we head out for the day, we are also hoping we might get some and get a location closer to everything, as we have heard that some locations are FAR from all the excitment!

The only major things planned for the rest of the arrival day (Saturday 9/8) is that we managed dinner @ O'hana at 5pm and I would love to see Illuminations that night if at all possible!

I am very very excited and looking forward to posting our plans, we are making T- Shirts, and hoping to set up some surprises along the way so it should be an interested PTR!!

I should be posting daily if possible, I feel like I'm on here reading and trying to figure out what snacks and CS I want to eat at anyway, might as well post it! Besides my DBF is starting to get tired of hearing me plan!

 

[Riles_and_Gabe]

It sounds like you have a fantastic trip in the works. I am looking forward to hearing more details.

 

[Axelrodb1]

I can not believe it has been almost a month since my lasts post, I fully intended on a complete PTR and some fantastic feedback from the seasoned vets here on the DIS.. It's crazy how life gets in the way sometimes!!

Well DS is on his second day home from school thanks to the tropical storm that came through our area, we had a ton of flooding and are pretty much stuck home until the water level goes down a bit. Can't ruin the car with less than 2 weeks until we head to the world... did I mention we are camping at Fort Wilderness.. hope we don't get rained on!

I am going to hopefully type the rest of our plans today, everything looked concrete at this point, with the exception of one ADR I think I want to switch.. and a day with no ADR at all!