May 2014 May the force be with us!

[JDis1015]

To begin, a little about us:

I'm 25 and have been obsessed with Disney for many years. DH and I have been married since October 15, 2011 and spent a 2 week honeymoon at the Poly. It was absolutely amazing! I recently had foot surgery to remove a bunion and DH was absolutely amazing with it. He say with me and kept me company when I couldn't move, he waited on me hand and foot for 2 and a half weeks while I was on crutches and couldn't get things myself. Then he went back to nursing school to begin his career, following my footsteps as a nurse.

So, I booked yesterday through AAA a 10 night stay at PORFQ for a surprise Christmas gift for my DH. Were staying 5/16/14-5/26/14. He loves Star Wars and I had this idea for a few years, but this is the first year I could afford it. I am giving him the gift on Christmas morning but will have a super hard time keeping it a secret until then ::happy:: We have never been to PORFQ before but have been to Disney 3 times in the past 2 years. I cannot wait! I'm totally excited and can't wait to start all the planning. I have it all planned how I will tell him on Christmas morning and think he's going to be blown away! I really think he has no idea - now I just have to keep it that way .

Just needed to share with someone ::lol:: I will be sure to post as the planning continues because I know if I don't, it'll never be kept a secret!!

 

[MeeskaMomma]

Joining in

We will be there in May too!! What a fun surprise! I look forward to hearing how you reveal the surprise, that should be fun.

DIS is a great outlet for the excitement. I was really starting to drive my friends nuts with all my Disney chatter, they are great friends but they can only so often, people on Dis share the excitement. Hooray!

 

[JDis1015]

Ok so it's finally hit me - IM GOING TO WDW IN MAY!! Lol. So I'm starting some preliminary planning since I'll be doing this myself until after Christmas ::excited:: I am planning on getting ressies to some of my must do restaurants and saving some space for us to add some other ones together. I'm also going to plan some special tours.

Must do ressies include : BOG (have never been and want to try it at least once), Coral Reef (every trip we have a dinner here), CP (one of my favs!!), Ohanas (another trip tradition), and GG.

I am open to suggestions if there are any other we should do. We will have the DDP and 9 day park hoppers so we are pretty flexible.

I usually loosely follow undercover tourists crowd calendar but at this point, we've been to the World so many times (with a choir trip just a month later in June 2014), that I just hope to have some relaxing time together!

More to come as the planning continues ::good vibes::

 

[JDis1015]

So I have all the places picked out for ADRs. I'm getting so excited and it is so difficult to keep this a secret! I know it will be worth it Christmas morning though when my husband opens his gift. I got tshirts made for us to wear! I'm so excited

 

[MeeskaMomma]

What a great way to reveal the surprise!!!

I haven't been to BOG or Ohana! We will be trying Ohana this trip, but I am saving BOG. I love coral reef, but my son had a melt down there last trip, so we decided to skip it and try something else this next trip!

It just hit me, it is one month until we can make our ADRs! Hooray!!!

 

[JDis1015]

Under 200 days before we go!! And only 57 more days to keep the secret!!

 

[JDis1015]

180 days to go and all the ressies booked this morning! Got everything I wanted and am truly so excited! It's very difficult to not let the secret slip but with 38 days left I know I can do it!

 

[JDis1015]

Only 20 more days to keep this secret! It's been so difficult to not spill the beans about this surprise to my DH! Reservations for all 10 days booked, undiscovered future world and key to the kingdom tours booked (DHs favorite is Epcot, mine magic kingdom). I cannot wait until Christmas Day to video the reaction and then May to experience all that we've planned!! My DH is absolutely amazing and will be done his first year of nursing school on the deans list (hopefully lol). I cannot wait

 

[MeeskaMomma]

So exciting! Good luck with the surprise!

 

[JDis1015]

Yay the surprise went off great! My DH even started to cry!! I'm so so excited to finish the planning with him and to have a wonderful May vacation!

 

[Marsheliz]

What a wonderful Christmas surprise!!!

 

[yupikgal]

Yay the surprise went off great! My DH even started to cry!! I'm so so excited to finish the planning with him and to have a wonderful May vacation!

Did you video it then? I'm happy for you guys! My daughter would love Star Wars weekend! Have fun!!

 

[JDis1015]

I attempted to video it but he caught on so I couldn't :-/. But I has shirts made with boba fett (DHs favorite Star Wars character) and Star Wars weekends 2014 on the back. I wrapped both shirts from Santa under our tree and had the details wrapped into the shirt. I don't think it hit DH that I pulled off such a great surprise until today. He hasn't stopped asking questions now! We are staying at POFQ, a first for us both. I made special tours for us to enjoy and meals at favorite places as well as new places. We sat down and went through all the menus today.

 

[JDis1015]

91 days away and very snowy out here in PA! All I keep thinking about is how great SWW will be! ::: DH and I are eagerly awaiting the release of the celebrities that will be joining the two weekends we will be there so we can solidify our plans. Tours are planned, ADRs scheduled, I've practically already packed .

 

[JDis1015]

AAHHHHHH!!!!! Just found out about the Rock Your Disney Side 24 hour event and DH and I will be there! We actually already had that day planned as our third Magic Kingdom day so I'm so unbelievably excited!!! Seriously freaking out!!!!!!!

 

[JDis1015]

So here we are, 60 days out, and I just made FP+ for DH and I. I'm personally excited for the new system. To be honest, we've known what days were going to be spent in which parks since ADRs could be scheduled 180 days out. I feel a sense of ease knowing that, even if we get to the park late, we'll still be going to TSMM and TT etc at scheduled times. Maybe I'll feel differently once we get to WDW and are actually using the system. We've been to WDW so frequently that we know what rides are must do for us and we're staying for 10 glorious days so well have plenty of time to do everything!! I'm getting so so excited!

 

[JDis1015]

Magic bands came today! 25 days out from our frost SWW and our 4th time to the World in three years. I am sooooo unbelievably excited! All the FP+ booked, all ADRs scheduled. Also, DH and I received a special invitation to try BOG restaurant for a FP+ lunch. I cannot wait and need the next 24 days to fly by!!!

 

[JDis1015]

In just 4 days we will be traveling to WDW!!!! I cannot wait!!!!

 

[JDis1015]

Up early to catch our flight. Cannot believe its finally here! Disney world here we come!!

 

[MarbleBob]

Awesome! Hope you have a blast!