How are we going to tell the kids?

[cour10ee]

Sorry, it took me a while to find the Mickey phone call info again -- someone just posted it again on another thread, so I thought I'd answer you finally --

https://secure.uvoxnetworks.com/disney/affhome.html?affno=66

I think "upcoming trip" is under "encouragement"

 

[scrapperjill]

I just checked the site out with the Mickey calls...do you know what the comming trip one says?

 

[Raquelvp]

I'm glad I found this info. The suggestions have been very helpful.

I have been trying to find a way to tell my daughters, age 7 and 4.

My husband and I have planned this trip for over a year, and we will be going to WDW for the last 2 weeks in Sept. This will be our vacation for the year and we will also celebrate my youngest daughter's birthday which will be in Oct. She will be turning 5.

Since that time I have been collecting Disney items along the way.

Last year I even had t-shirts made with our names and family vacation 2005 personalized.

At work a few months ago we have a travel package tour show and on the following Monday when I returned to work I saw that many of the travel companies had left behind a lot of their promotional flyers and other information. I looked around to see if there was any info on Disney, and lo and behold there was. I was able to get several booklets with photos of Mickey, a few plastic carrying gift bags. I even found a giant travel poster. I think I will use the booklet with the photos of Mickey and cut and paste my children's photos next to his. For the giant poster, I'm going to printout Happy Birthday, and have the girls unroll it together.

My girls have been watching the wonderful world of Disney on tv and they have been very excited about the commercials that show the 50th anniversary celebration. They keep asking can we go? I tell them I will have to think about it. And ask them questions about what they would want to do if they go, and what they would want to see. Their answers help me in planning my trip.

We have a family countdown calender, and right now it is couting down to my birthday in July. In my family it helps to count down to all major ( and not to major, but memorablr events).

I have decided that after my birthday the countdown will begin to our trip. I have made up a calender to post on the refrigerator, and I am plannig to purchase disney dollars and give them one a day starting at day 45 to 30 (undecided at this point) .

I have also purchased several itmes form the disneydirect -sale and will pack these in the suitcase and give them out once we have arrived. I will tell them that we have already been shopping for the disney items, and they will need to use their dollars they have to purchase any additional items.

P.S.--I have also been able to find many diney items at out local ((cents only stores--they have the spring-bobble head earsin blue, black, purple, and hot pink, character memo pads(Mickey, Disney Princess, Winne the Pooh) and pencil boxes.

Just counting the days until we go

 

[tn_disney_addict]

We will be going for the first time in July. Kids are 6 & 4. I made a Disney style letterhead with clipart of Mickey and the Disney font. Then I wrote them a letter from Mickey Mouse saying that he had some exciting news... and it ends with a suggestion for helping out around the house to earn extra money to spend there...etc. We are actually going with my hubby's brother and family so I made similar letters for their kids, 7 and 4. The letters were a big hit, the kids were jumping up & down as we read it to them, then we put on the planning DVD and it blew their minds!

I did the same thing last year! There were 4 kids going and they each received a Mickey Font decorated letter...postmarked from ORLANDO...not one of them paid any attention to the fact that AUNT MICHELLE lives in Orlando!! I sent her an envelope full of letters and she mailed them out!

 

[DsnyDrmr]

We are going in August. I've hardly been able to contain myself but wanted to wait until the boys finished school before we told them. I've collected many Disney-related items to put in their new luggage bags (Ebags--great site!, thanks Mousesavers!). We are going to surprise them on July 4th by telling them that they will be able to see fireworks again this year when we go to WDW!!

 

[cour10ee]

I just checked the site out with the Mickey calls...do you know what the comming trip one says?

Sorry, I wasn't able to hear a sample of the actual call. I think the sample on the site is the same for any of the ones you choose. It would be nice if they played a bit of the real one you are going to do, or at least let you read what the character says. Anyway, for $2.50 it seems like a fun thing to try.

BTW, you can do this with Dora and Spongebob, too. My daughter's friend is a HUGE Dora fan and has gotten a call for her birthday for 2 years running now. She ran around all day telling everyone (even strangers) that she talked to Dora. I think the kids really get into this stuff. I keep thinking how lucky our kids are to be growing up today -- we didn't have anything like this when I was little!

 

[StephaBabe50]

My parents gave us little hints. They were all wrapped up and we had to unwrap them. THese were some of the things: sun, toy castle, a small toy plane, and a flamingo

 

[Maleficents_Revenge]

My brother was in Iraq and was scheduled to come home a couple of weeks before our trip with DD. It was her second time going, but the first time for my brother.

We did not tell her while he was over just in case something were to happen to him. As the time for him to come home got closer, he would call and ask if he could tell her and I always told him no he would have to wait until he got home.

The day they arrived back to Camp Lejune my brother really wanted to tell her, but I asked him to wait until later that afternoon. When we went to dinner that night, he got to tell her then. I remember the look on her face like it was yesterday. She was so excited and just hugged him over and over again. It was a great trip for all of us and she really had a great time with him.

 

[CindyBella]

How about getting a BIG box and filling it with helium balloons? Disney balloons of course! Wrap it like a present. Tell them that you have a huge surprise. Once they pull the top off of the box yell, "We're going to Disney World!" just as the balloons fill the room. Fill the bottom of the box with guidebook, stickers and other disney items. For younger kids make a paper chain for the exact number of days until your trip. Every morning tear one off. It is a good visual for younger kids!

 

[firemouse]

Here is what I am going to do. I have a secrete decoder key and of course a few codes. We geocache sometimes (a game where people leave items in parks and such and you find the treasures with your GPS www.goecaching.com) and the kids love the teasure hunts, DD 9 and DS 5. Any way we will go to different sites and find the codes and they will have to use the decoder list to solve the code, well the last GPS site will be the Disney Store and I have already talked to the manager and she said they will help. So I guess there will be a note there for the kids to solve and say WE ARE GOING TO DISNEY!!!!! BTW I will mail the decoder list prior to us going out or at least put it in the mailbox.
Eric