PrincessKTBugg85
Earning My Ears
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Hi Everyone! My name is Katie and here's a story how my vacation plans got all switched around.... for the BETTER!!!
I've been a lurker on the DIS Boards for a while now and finally decided to become an active member of the community. Since deciding to go to Disney World this coming Fall 2014, I became inspired by all of the pre-trip and completed trip reports and decided to write one of my own. So here goes! I hope you'll join me on this wild ride of WDW trip planning!
A little about the characters in this story.....
There's little ol' me
I'm the planner around here with a little input from my husband. He let's me take the reigns and go crazy and puts his two cents in when I need to make a quick decision.
by katherinewurdinger, on Flickr
When I'm not planning my next Disney trip I work as a registered nurse in the San Francisco Bay Area. I definitely work hard and play harder. I love taking mini trips on my off days and try to make it to Disneyland as often as possible. My favorite Disney character is Minnie and my favorite Princess is Ariel. My husband and I have a fur-baby named Minnie. She's a miniature schnauzer and the absolute sweetest. It's just the three of us right now but we can't wait to add to our family and share the Disney Magic with human children
Here's Minnie!
Untitled by katherinewurdinger, on Flickr
The next character in this story is Marc. He's my sweetheart. I can't begin to express how amazing he is. We have been together for four years. We were married in Sausalito, CA and honeymooned at Disneyland. This August we will be celebrating out 2 year wedding anniversary. We can't wait to go to WDW and wear our anniversary buttons
108 by katherinewurdinger, on Flickr
When he's not helping me plan our next vacation, he spends his days at the San Francisco Airport. His favorite Disney character is Donald Duck and his favorite Disney Princess is Elsa.
Untitled by katherinewurdinger, on Flickr
So you may be wondering how our last minute change of plans are taking us to WDW. It all started months ago when I gave my DH the opportunity to decided where we would vacation this year. We have annual passes to Disneyland so we are frequent visitors. I wanted a real vacation this year. Somewhere we had never been. His choices were Great Britain, Italy, Alaskan cruise, Pacific NW, or WDW. Originally he chose Italy. We were starting to book things when we saw an ad for a cruise around Itay, Greece and Turkey. It had ports in the majority of cities and regions that we wanted to visit. The cruise sounded amazing and so much easier than booking hotels, rental car, etc. We started looking at the cruise dates but just couldn't make it work with my DH's work scheduled. We started feeling discouraged until one Sunday I asked my DH if he wanted to go WDW... before I could get the words out he said yes and within two hours we had booked our trip. We will be traveling October 3-October 14, 2014.
Since booking our trip I have made so many changes. Follow along to find out how we went from a 6 night, 5 day trip to a 7 night, 6 day trip to a now 9 night, 10 day trip and booking 180 days out for restaurants has me booking and changing reservations on an almost daily basis.
I've been a lurker on the DIS Boards for a while now and finally decided to become an active member of the community. Since deciding to go to Disney World this coming Fall 2014, I became inspired by all of the pre-trip and completed trip reports and decided to write one of my own. So here goes! I hope you'll join me on this wild ride of WDW trip planning!
A little about the characters in this story.....
There's little ol' me
I'm the planner around here with a little input from my husband. He let's me take the reigns and go crazy and puts his two cents in when I need to make a quick decision. by katherinewurdinger, on FlickrWhen I'm not planning my next Disney trip I work as a registered nurse in the San Francisco Bay Area. I definitely work hard and play harder. I love taking mini trips on my off days and try to make it to Disneyland as often as possible. My favorite Disney character is Minnie and my favorite Princess is Ariel. My husband and I have a fur-baby named Minnie. She's a miniature schnauzer and the absolute sweetest. It's just the three of us right now but we can't wait to add to our family and share the Disney Magic with human children
Here's Minnie!
Untitled by katherinewurdinger, on FlickrThe next character in this story is Marc. He's my sweetheart. I can't begin to express how amazing he is. We have been together for four years. We were married in Sausalito, CA and honeymooned at Disneyland. This August we will be celebrating out 2 year wedding anniversary. We can't wait to go to WDW and wear our anniversary buttons
108 by katherinewurdinger, on FlickrWhen he's not helping me plan our next vacation, he spends his days at the San Francisco Airport. His favorite Disney character is Donald Duck and his favorite Disney Princess is Elsa.
Untitled by katherinewurdinger, on FlickrSo you may be wondering how our last minute change of plans are taking us to WDW. It all started months ago when I gave my DH the opportunity to decided where we would vacation this year. We have annual passes to Disneyland so we are frequent visitors. I wanted a real vacation this year. Somewhere we had never been. His choices were Great Britain, Italy, Alaskan cruise, Pacific NW, or WDW. Originally he chose Italy. We were starting to book things when we saw an ad for a cruise around Itay, Greece and Turkey. It had ports in the majority of cities and regions that we wanted to visit. The cruise sounded amazing and so much easier than booking hotels, rental car, etc. We started looking at the cruise dates but just couldn't make it work with my DH's work scheduled. We started feeling discouraged until one Sunday I asked my DH if he wanted to go WDW... before I could get the words out he said yes and within two hours we had booked our trip. We will be traveling October 3-October 14, 2014.
Since booking our trip I have made so many changes. Follow along to find out how we went from a 6 night, 5 day trip to a 7 night, 6 day trip to a now 9 night, 10 day trip and booking 180 days out for restaurants has me booking and changing reservations on an almost daily basis.
I can't wait to start my pre-trip report but am going to wait until I pay my deposits. lol I'm also hoping to split stay but with All Star Music and Port Orleans-Riverside. 
