lovenerds81112
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Hey-Howdy-Hey all you DISers! After creeping and stalking all of you on this site, reading other peoples trip reports for quite sometime, I have finally decided to create an ID and do a PTR myself.
SOOO, on August 11 we have our huge, wonderful, crazy wedding, and then we will be off to Orlando for a 10-day combined Disneymoon at WDW and on the Disney Dream!
Lets give a background first. We are Lauren and Chris, a couple of thirtysomethings who love all things Disney. We got the nickname lovenerds as sort of mashup of a couple of nerdy lovebirds, affectionately adapted by my mom. Yeah, were cute. (AWWWWWWW.)
So before the juicy details of our epic adventure, a little about us and our mutual love for Disney.
I (Lauren) will be doing the narrating.
When I was 9 years old, my parents had my brother and I come into our kitchen one evening, and asked us If you could go anywhere in the WHOLE WORLD, where would it be? The answer, of course, for a 9 year old and a 6 year old, simultaneously was Disney World!!! My mother grinned and said Well lets go then!!! My brother and I were speechless for a moment, but realized that she was serious, that we were to leave the following week to stay with our grandmother at Daytona Beach, and we would visit Disney World while we were down there. I remember jumping up and down screaming, I was so excited! We then ended up going to Florida for three subsequent years: 89, 90, and 91. Each year we stayed with my grandmother in Daytona, and visited Disney World and Universal Studios. These are some of the best memories of my life. The very last year, 1991, my other grandma came along. This is a most sacred memory for me, because she passed away a year and a half later. I remember she actually teared up when she saw Cinderella Castle for the first time, saying All children should see this. Her favorite ride was the Haunted Mansion, I remember riding a Doom Buggy with her, and how hard she laughed at the hitchhiking ghosts.
SO, fast forward many years. In between 1991 and 2011 (the next time I visited WDW) I managed to go to both Tokyo Disneyland when I was studying in Japan for summer 2002, and EuroDisney (Now Paris Disneyland) in 2006 while on a Teachers Study program (Im a French Teacher). While both parks were wonderful, neither can compare to WDW, as all of you know I am sure.
Chris, however, has been going to WDW nearly every year since his birth. At first it was just he, his parents, and his older brother and sister, but then his niece and nephew were born. All of them started going together as a family, and his brother felt it necessary to make their trips easier and more affordable, since they had every intention of continuing their trips every year. Chriss brother bought into the Disney Vacation Club, and now Chris and his family have stayed at nearly every Disney resort at WDW.
Fast forward again. In 2011, Chris and I decided to take a trip alone together to WDW. We had a wonderful time, and I knew then that I would want to spend our honeymoon there. Chris and I had only been dating for about 8 months at that point, but we both knew that we would be getting engaged, it was only a matter of time.
Fast forward to August 2011. Chris's family and I went on vacation to London and to Paris together. I had never been to London, but being a French teacher, I have been to Paris many, many times, so I enjoyed being tour guide. On our first night in Paris, Chris proposed to me on the lawn beneath the Eiffel tower. SIGH.
So now we are only 16 days until the wedding and 18 until the DISNEYMOON!! We will be going to my parents' house the day after the wedding to open our presents, and that evening we will be off to stay at the Hyatt hotel inside the airport. The next morning, our flight is at 7:30 AM from Pittsburgh. We get into Orlando around 9:30, and we will go and check in at the Boardwalk Villas.
(My DF's brother is in DVC so DF is used to staying in Villa accomodations, so we decided to rent points through David's Vacation Club rentals-it actually turned out to be close to the same price as staying in a moderate resort!)
We're pretty sure our rooms won't be ready so we plan to drop off our stuff and go hit Downtown Disney, then come back for swimming and a nap whenever our rooms are ready. We are really excited to go activate the Annual Passes we bought at our Disney Store...we will be hitting up DHS for our ADR's at Sci-Fi Drive In. We will probably stick around for Fantasmic and stay late if we are up to it, since there are EMH until 1 AM.
On day two, we will probably go to MK in the morning, because I just need to see the castle and hear the silly rope drop jingle with my bride ears on! Then we will go to Epcot because we have ADR's at Rose and Crown to watch IllumiNations!
Day 3 we will board the Disney Cruise Line porthole buses, because we are off on our 4-night Bahamian Cruise on the Disney Dream!!! We will stop in Nassau on the second day, where we have booked a snorkeling excursion on the Caribbean Queen. The following day is a day at sea, then the last full day is Castaway Cay!!! Neither one of us has ever been on a cruise, nor even been anywhere tropical. SO EXCITED!
We return after the cruise to WDW for 4 more nights, and this time we will be staying in Wilderness Lodge Villas! Some of the highlights of that part of our trip will be going to Animal Kingdom (I've actually never been!), ADR's at California Grill, ADR's for breakfast at Cinderella's Royal Table, seeing the Electrical Water Pageant (which we missed on our last trip), and maybe even horseback riding!
We will return from our 10 day adventure to rest and get working on all those thank-you notes!!!
SOOO, on August 11 we have our huge, wonderful, crazy wedding, and then we will be off to Orlando for a 10-day combined Disneymoon at WDW and on the Disney Dream!
Lets give a background first. We are Lauren and Chris, a couple of thirtysomethings who love all things Disney. We got the nickname lovenerds as sort of mashup of a couple of nerdy lovebirds, affectionately adapted by my mom. Yeah, were cute. (AWWWWWWW.)
So before the juicy details of our epic adventure, a little about us and our mutual love for Disney.
I (Lauren) will be doing the narrating.
When I was 9 years old, my parents had my brother and I come into our kitchen one evening, and asked us If you could go anywhere in the WHOLE WORLD, where would it be? The answer, of course, for a 9 year old and a 6 year old, simultaneously was Disney World!!! My mother grinned and said Well lets go then!!! My brother and I were speechless for a moment, but realized that she was serious, that we were to leave the following week to stay with our grandmother at Daytona Beach, and we would visit Disney World while we were down there. I remember jumping up and down screaming, I was so excited! We then ended up going to Florida for three subsequent years: 89, 90, and 91. Each year we stayed with my grandmother in Daytona, and visited Disney World and Universal Studios. These are some of the best memories of my life. The very last year, 1991, my other grandma came along. This is a most sacred memory for me, because she passed away a year and a half later. I remember she actually teared up when she saw Cinderella Castle for the first time, saying All children should see this. Her favorite ride was the Haunted Mansion, I remember riding a Doom Buggy with her, and how hard she laughed at the hitchhiking ghosts.
SO, fast forward many years. In between 1991 and 2011 (the next time I visited WDW) I managed to go to both Tokyo Disneyland when I was studying in Japan for summer 2002, and EuroDisney (Now Paris Disneyland) in 2006 while on a Teachers Study program (Im a French Teacher). While both parks were wonderful, neither can compare to WDW, as all of you know I am sure.
Chris, however, has been going to WDW nearly every year since his birth. At first it was just he, his parents, and his older brother and sister, but then his niece and nephew were born. All of them started going together as a family, and his brother felt it necessary to make their trips easier and more affordable, since they had every intention of continuing their trips every year. Chriss brother bought into the Disney Vacation Club, and now Chris and his family have stayed at nearly every Disney resort at WDW.
Fast forward again. In 2011, Chris and I decided to take a trip alone together to WDW. We had a wonderful time, and I knew then that I would want to spend our honeymoon there. Chris and I had only been dating for about 8 months at that point, but we both knew that we would be getting engaged, it was only a matter of time.
Fast forward to August 2011. Chris's family and I went on vacation to London and to Paris together. I had never been to London, but being a French teacher, I have been to Paris many, many times, so I enjoyed being tour guide. On our first night in Paris, Chris proposed to me on the lawn beneath the Eiffel tower. SIGH.
So now we are only 16 days until the wedding and 18 until the DISNEYMOON!! We will be going to my parents' house the day after the wedding to open our presents, and that evening we will be off to stay at the Hyatt hotel inside the airport. The next morning, our flight is at 7:30 AM from Pittsburgh. We get into Orlando around 9:30, and we will go and check in at the Boardwalk Villas.
(My DF's brother is in DVC so DF is used to staying in Villa accomodations, so we decided to rent points through David's Vacation Club rentals-it actually turned out to be close to the same price as staying in a moderate resort!)
We're pretty sure our rooms won't be ready so we plan to drop off our stuff and go hit Downtown Disney, then come back for swimming and a nap whenever our rooms are ready. We are really excited to go activate the Annual Passes we bought at our Disney Store...we will be hitting up DHS for our ADR's at Sci-Fi Drive In. We will probably stick around for Fantasmic and stay late if we are up to it, since there are EMH until 1 AM.
On day two, we will probably go to MK in the morning, because I just need to see the castle and hear the silly rope drop jingle with my bride ears on! Then we will go to Epcot because we have ADR's at Rose and Crown to watch IllumiNations!
Day 3 we will board the Disney Cruise Line porthole buses, because we are off on our 4-night Bahamian Cruise on the Disney Dream!!! We will stop in Nassau on the second day, where we have booked a snorkeling excursion on the Caribbean Queen. The following day is a day at sea, then the last full day is Castaway Cay!!! Neither one of us has ever been on a cruise, nor even been anywhere tropical. SO EXCITED!
We return after the cruise to WDW for 4 more nights, and this time we will be staying in Wilderness Lodge Villas! Some of the highlights of that part of our trip will be going to Animal Kingdom (I've actually never been!), ADR's at California Grill, ADR's for breakfast at Cinderella's Royal Table, seeing the Electrical Water Pageant (which we missed on our last trip), and maybe even horseback riding!
We will return from our 10 day adventure to rest and get working on all those thank-you notes!!!
