Every time we have been to Disney World, Jamie and I have eyed the different tours offered enviously. We knew the kids (especially the five year old) would never be interested. We figured that this would be something we might experience when they were significantly older. Like, married with their own children.

But suddenly, the world of tours had been opened to us!
Now, we are cost conscious here, so I didn't want to go overboard and spend too much money on the tours themselves. We knew that the Behind the Seeds tour was a MUST do, since Jamie has been interested in this for years. Gardening is one of his hobbies, and Living with the Land is one of his favorite attractions, so this tour was obvious. Plus, the price is awesome, so yay there! My bucket list item has always been the Keys to the Kingdom tour. But...hello...the $80.00 price tag was just too much to ask Jamie about after already taking a trip that was more expensive than our original New Orleans plans. So, I put that thought out of my head and decided to book the Behind the Seeds and was perfectly happy.
Until...
I woke up this morning, and with my DISboards/coffee time, noticed a post reviewing some of the tours at WDW. One of them was the Marceline to Magic Kingdom tour. I had never heard of this tour, but the poster seemed to love it. So, I looked up some reviews and prices. With a $30.00 per person price tag, it was MUCH more in budget than the KTTK tour. And the reviews were outstanding. I was so excited! The texts flew again. And once again, I wished I could just CALL Jamie at work. After much waiting around for him to respond and look up the tour himself, he excitedly told me to go ahead and book that as well.
I called this morning and booked both with my Disney Visa. The total price with the Disney Visa discount was:
Behind the Seeds-34.00 for both of us
MtMK-51.12 for both of us
I thought those were great prices, and perfectly in budget. And they made me even MORE excited about this trip.
For this quick get away, we have three park days and numerous things we want to accomplish in each park that we have never seen.
For our Epcot day-Obviously, we want to repeat our favorites (Soarin' and TT). We are also taking the Behind the Seeds tour and will actually get to watch some of the movies in World Showcase that we have always wanted to see. Jamie also plans to drink a lot of beer.
For our DHS day-I plan to FINALLY ride ToT. My older kids have hated this ride since the first time they rode it. Jamie rode it with them during our first trip and we used a rider switch pass, thinking I would ride with one of the kids when we switched. Only the kids HATED it. Lol! And since I didn't want to ride by myself, I missed my opportunity. And would you believe that two more trips after that (and numerous years) my adventure loving kids (who LOVE R&R coaster) will STILL not ride that ride?? So I have never ridden. And even though the idea of the drops TERRIFY me, I would LOVE to experience this ride...so I will suck it up.

We also are planning to watch Fantasmic for the first time. We have done this park three times (once was during Star Wars weekends...it was awesome!) and we have never made this show. The five year old (who has been 3 and barely 2 during previous trips) is never able to hang quite long enough to see this show. This park always falls in the middle of our trips and everyone is so exhausted by the time the afternoon rolls around that we always leave early. I am very much looking forward to seeing it. That way I will know if it is worth dragging my tired people to next time.
For our MK day-Obviously we are doing the MtMK tour that starts at 8:15 and runs about three hours. This cuts down into a lot of morning touring time, but since we JUST got back, I don't feel like I have to have a commando touring plan to hit every ride. We will probably use FP+ to HOPEFULLY ride the new Seven Dwarves Mine Train (pretty please??) and will fastpass something else of interest (haven't decided yet). We don't mind waiting in line for POC since this is a favorite. Mostly, I just want to enjoy MK in a relaxing way, without dragging the kids from ride to ride. We don't mind standing in lines a bit since we won't have the kids. The only other thing that I really want to Fastpass is Wishes. We used a fastpass for this in January and it was AMAZING. I would do it again in a heartbeat.
And so, our park plans are fairly well set and I am just waiting for my time to pick fastpasses. Our Magic Bands are customized (I went with green this time and Jamie went with blue). I had such fun painting my yellow magic band and fixing it with rhinestones for our January trip. I am making plans for my new magic band now. I think I am going to go with a Monsters Inc temporary tattoo, fixed with clear nail polish and decorated with some blue rhinestone Mickey heads. This plan is subject to change at a moment's notice.
