In mourning- just back from WDW

[Dallas_Lady]

I do get to start scrapbooking the trip which is very theraputic for me...I take my time and work on it all year...that seems to help alot.

This is what I do as well. Get all the pictures developed and start putting together the photo album. Write down all your memories while they are fresh. It will totally help with the "Disney Let-Down" feeling I think we all experience.

 

[Robin4]

I got back last Sunday and am feeling very depressed. We had the best trip ever! At first when I came home I was ok because I was getting pictures developed and unpacking all my souveniers but now it's starting to sink in that I'm not going back for another year So as part of my therapy I'm eating Mickeyroni, using my WDW napkins, working on my scrapbook, and using Disney soap from the resort!

 

[ShannonN]

I got back last Sunday and am feeling very depressed. We had the best trip ever! At first when I came home I was ok because I was getting pictures developed and unpacking all my souveniers but now it's starting to sink in that I'm not going back for another year So as part of my therapy I'm eating Mickeyroni, using my WDW napkins, working on my scrapbook, and using Disney soap from the resort!

Oh, that is too funny!! Don't forget the Disney shampoo!

 

[Gizmo1951]

I found the best way for me to avoid the problem is to start planning for the next trip to Disney on the way home from the last trip.

 

[WDWLinda]

We just returned on May 8th, and it seems like the trip was so long ago. I'm such a wuss that about halfway through our trip I start feeling sad because it will be over soon.

As soon as I returned, before I unpacked the bags, started the laundry or even fished the dead fish out of the tank, I uploaded our pics, checked out our photopass pics, and splurged on the photomovie. That occupied me for a night or two - it was fun making the movie. Then I went into post-trip denial...crabby and I didn't even visit these boards for a few days. I envied those who were counting down. I've been composing a trip report in my head, but haven't had the time or desire to type it in - there are such better writers out there, mine would be boring. But now I'm half-heartedly back on the boards, and I try to answer questions where I can so that at least those with upcoming trips can have a good time.

There's just never enough time or money to do Disney completely or properly. Maybe that's what keeps us coming back - there's always something more to try.

Good luck to all of you getting over post-trip depression - may there be a new trip to plan for right around the corner! (not for us, but at least I can dream about it!).

~Linda

 

[TerBear4]

I'm depressed and I haven't even left yet!!

I do know that feeling and it does start at the beginning of the Disney vacation, I'm already sad about it coming to an end!!!! You spend soooooooooooo much time planning and it is over way too fast!!!

 

[Barak's Disney]

I feel your pain. Our last trip (after a 5 year hiatus) was in January '06. After I got back, I kept playing "It's a Small World" in the car to give myself a little boost.

 

[Goofygirls4God]

I got back last Sunday and am feeling very depressed. We had the best trip ever! At first when I came home I was ok because I was getting pictures developed and unpacking all my souveniers but now it's starting to sink in that I'm not going back for another year So as part of my therapy I'm eating Mickeyroni, using my WDW napkins, working on my scrapbook, and using Disney soap from the resort!

I am crying at your comment- I too did the same thing!!!Mickeyroni(mac-n-cheese kind) Had a WDW resort napkin found in my hubby's jean pocket from the last morning at WL-we took our Mickey head Rice Crispy Treats and "rationed" them so we can feel like we are there...ya know the kind that are choc. dipped with a stick! Urgh-i love them!

Thank you for sharing that- I so understand!!!
And I have our soaps, shampoos,lotions and shower caps from our trip too!

And I mentioned earlier in a post -we play our Happiest Celebration CD and it has songs from the rides...we re-live Splash Mountain EVERY day in the van!!!

Ya want to laugh harder at my kids-they have set up WDW rides outback in our yard...they made "magic Carpet" out of my porch swing, and created a BRER RABBIT/SM ride with stuffed animals and bucket of water at the bottom of the slide and they made me get the music out!!! How sick are we?

 

[Goofygirls4God]

ya know, I use to buy them just for fun, but now souveniers are theraputic and help me heal from the post trip depression!

This year I bought cups...the plastic kind that move when you move...every gift shop, I would look for them...
Space MOuntain, Splash MOuntain, Princess, Living Seas, 2006,
Castaway Cay, fireworks with the castle cup...brought them home, threw away old blue ones from walmart from 11 yrs ago and now drink from them everyday.

I did also get a couple of beach towels and a nightgown.

I tried to get things that I would see and use daily! ANd so far, it is helping!

But then again, sometimes it makes me more sad!!!
Catch 22 I guess! Boo!

 

[Lizzydoll73]

We just got back on 5/26. I was so sad while I was unpacking. I know we wont be back for a long time. DH originally wanted to go back in 2010 for our 10th Anniversary but I've talked him down to 2009. The kids will be 9 and 7 which I hope should be a good age for them. They were 5 and 3 this trip which was great but a little hard. I've started planning already so I am not so sad anymore.

 

[my3kidsmom]

I'm so happy to hear this is normal!!! We just returned from our trip on April 30th. I've had a little time to get back to normal, but the first month was soooooooo hard!!!!! I seriously went through a period of depression. I even cried when dh said we really needed to wait until Feb 2008 to go back. We have a new baby due in Sept, so you would think I have plenty to keep my mind occupied. The only thing that kept me a slightly normal was that we were/are considering DVC so that we can go back once a year. I poured all of my heart and sould into researching DVC for the first month after we got back.

It's just so funny that I feel this way.....this was going to be a "maybe once every 5 yrs" kind of vacation. Now, I can't even be happy without having another trip on deck. Not only that, but we were so exhausted after our first day that we even said "why would anyone want to come here once a year?" I told dh I think it's a little like childbirth. It can be kind of stressful and very hard/exhausting and even painful for us (with 3 young kids and me being pg) when you're going through it, but once it's over it all seems so worth it and you only remember all the good moments!!

So, I'm definitely looking forward to our next trip--even if it is 1.5 yrs away!!

 

[kellyf2626]

Ok...just got back yesterday....and it STINKS going back to work!! All day I keep thinking "well, yesterday at this time I was on Splash Mtn" ...What is wrong with me?!?!

I am trying to convince my DH that we should really go for Labor Day weekend to take advantage of the free dining! I keep making deals with him....no souvenirs....no extras....let's just go!!!

 

[tacomaranch]

I thought it was just me! I couldn't wait to return. Planning is half the fun and going is the best. So we have renovated Dad's old trailer and it looks great on the inside. Outside not so good. But after the girls leave we are going to rent it out on a 6 month basis to pay for our WDW trips. It is just money given to us, as it is paid for and the ranch also.

April
Tacoma Ranch

 

[Kahana-ri]

I have been back for just a little over a week. I have already been planning our next family trip in September. Granted, I have no money for this trip, but the whole planning factor puts me at ease. I get flutters in stomach every time I open the WDW homepage and they play their theme song. Its my own therapy.

 

[DizneyNutz]

It happens without warning. One day you are planning an extraordinary vacation trip for you and your family. As unexpecting vacationers you are thinking it will be somewhat like your favorite (nearby amusement park) only hoping it will be better. Then you arrive and are sprinkled with PIXIE DUST from head to toe without even realizing it! Now you are destined to return as much and as soon as possible, because the mouse CALLS TO YOU!!! You are now an OFFICIAL DIZNEYNUT!!! You can't wash it off and no matter how hard you try, you can't resist the draw to come HOME to where you now belong. You might as well join the rest of us and not fight the urge, but rather embrace it with all your fellow ZOMBIES and make the best of it, because you will return as often as possible to receive your FIX just like the rest of us! When others say" You're going Again?" you can just tell them that it is where your heart lies! See you there sometime fellow ZOMBIE

 

[EPCOT_VA]

The worst thing for us is the drive home. We try to come back down slowly. After leaving WDW, we drive to DVC Hilton Head for one last night of Disney. Then it's the long 10 hour drive back to Virginia. We start planning our next trip on the way home.