VandVsmama
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It's only taking me 40 years, but I'm finally headed back home to WDW! Departure day is tomorrow: Saturday, June 9, 2018! As of right now, it's ~ 7:00 pm local time and aside from 1 load of laundry left to do and cleaning the cats' litter box, we are almost packed and almost ready to go.
Ok, we still need to get a bit of cash out of the ATM, but we're almost there, people! Here's who's on this excursion:
Sssshhhh....don't tell anybody, but she wasn't bothered by the crowds because I followed everybody's advice here on DIS Boards on the Disneyland forum!
I will, of course, post tons of pictures throughout this TR, including departure day pics!
So why are we going?
DH is attending a big Cisco conference in Orlando next week, so his employer is paying for most of his travel expenses (well, except for our rental car because of the employer's funky rental car policy...they want everybody to share 1 rental car even though everyone is at different hotels). So when DH proposed the idea that the rest of us go with him, of course we said yes!
Here's what's in store for us tomorrow:
Ok, we still need to get a bit of cash out of the ATM, but we're almost there, people! Here's who's on this excursion:
- me (mom) - 45. Discovered my love of Disney parks when we took our kids to Disneyland for the first time 6 years ago when the kids were just turning 4 and 6.
- DH (dad) - 45, soon to be 46. He puts up with my love of all things Disney, but thanks to my uber trip planning, he is starting to come around. Yeah, that's because I now know to steer him away from Theme Park Fatigue!
- ODD - 11, turning 12 a few days after we get home. She's entering 7th grade this fall. Well, the new school year starts August 2! Not exactly "fall." She likes all sorts of characters.
- YDD - just turned 10! She loves Rapunzel and Stitch.
Sssshhhh....don't tell anybody, but she wasn't bothered by the crowds because I followed everybody's advice here on DIS Boards on the Disneyland forum!
I will, of course, post tons of pictures throughout this TR, including departure day pics!
So why are we going?
DH is attending a big Cisco conference in Orlando next week, so his employer is paying for most of his travel expenses (well, except for our rental car because of the employer's funky rental car policy...they want everybody to share 1 rental car even though everyone is at different hotels). So when DH proposed the idea that the rest of us go with him, of course we said yes!
Here's what's in store for us tomorrow:
- 8:30 am - get an Uber or Lyft to the airport. Should take ~30 min to get there.
- 9:00 am - check in our luggage. Go through security. Find our gate. Get something to eat since we're on Southwest Airlines and they don't serve meals.
- 11:10 am - the plane takes off! Hooray!
- somewhere in between - plane has 1 stop in Raleigh.
- 9:00 pm - land in Orlando. Get our luggage, get our rental car, head to ASMusic!