How to stay excited when the trip's so far away?

[Fintastic]

We have over a year left to go. How do we "keep the magic alive"?

 

[BamaTigger]

What I do, is I watch Disney movies quite a bit from my collection, I watch my planning vid alot, I look thru old park maps, old photo albums of previous trips, I take old maps, reciepts, pics, etc, that I have laying around and I make scrapbooks out of all those things,

I read disney planning books (Official Guide, Unofficial guide, Passporter, etc)

if you dont have any of that, then you can start a planning folder...I went and got a BIG disney 3 ring binder (with Tink on it), and I got online and started printing certain things like park times, menus from restaurants, my pressed penny list, packing list spreadsheet, disney tips, hidden mickey list, etc and I made "sections" in my binder with britely colored separators...(all dollar store school supplies) so, now I have this huge binder that I mess with every day, and it seems to help me!!

One other thing, I made a DISNEY CHAIN! out of construction paper, and I cut about 1 inchx6 in strips and every link I have like 10 days til PIRATES OF CARIBBEAN ride...and 11 days til DOLE WHIPS! etc...so every day me and my hubby (no kids) pull a link off and we ARE ONE DAY CLOSER!

Try that, it sure helps me!

 

[Livin'4Disney]

We make Mickey Mouse head pancakes every so often for dinner or breakfast as a special treat. My kids like to use chocolate chips for the face too.

Also, had fun making our own autograph books very inexpensively.

Ofcourse spend lots of mindless hours on the disboards

 

[Suejeffali]

We have a binder that I also made. I printed alot of things off the internet. I put dividers in it and divided into each park. I also printed the journal pages for my daughter. We are driving from Niagara Falls, NY area so we have things in there that will get my DD busy. We also made a paper chain and she cuts one chain off a night. We have 259 days to go!!

 

[2bearsmom]

We are going 1/6/07-1/13/07, not too far away, but I just found out tonight that our trip was supposed to be a Christmas surprise from my dh to me and our two boys ages 16mo and 5yrs. My SIL spilled the beans to me on the phone. Anyway, I am so excited to go and want so badly to tell my oldest! He is going to be so very excited now instead of it only being 2wks away (if we would have found out on Christmas) it's 3 mo.

How do you make an autograph book? How do you get the autographs? Can you tell I"ve never been to WDW? LOL I was at DL twice when I was 10 and 12 and so I do not remember. TIA for any help!

Kim