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There is 34 days before this trip and I literally found out about it three days ago. 
The Disney Nut in me was doing the banana dance when I found but the planning freak in me was freaking out!! What do you mean I only have over a month to plan? We need dining reservations! what parks are we going to go to? We didn't even have flight nor room reservations! Well, if anybody could do this, I could.
My name is Shardai, and I am a 23 year old nursing student. I am known as the Disney consultant by my family. I love everything about Disney and even used to work there, (we shall revisit that later). I enjoy finding out as much little secrets and tips that I can find to make my family's trip easier. My family usually looks to me for all their plans. They let me loose and seriously just show up on departure day.
The person travelling with me is my Mom, Renena. She has been on three of my six trips to Disney. Now, I love my mom very much but she is not the easiest to get along with and we have had some real big blowups at Disney. I know, your probably thinking why do I still travel with her? Well, there are two reasons. Reason # 1, I am not yet at the place where I am willing to take a solo trip and reason # 2, she is the only one in my extended family who puts up with my Disney obsession, so here she is, the one and only.....
Mom
That's it, just me and my mom. To give you a better understanding of how we got to this insane point, I am going to have to take you back a month. I had just come bachk home from spending 6 wonderful months as part of the Disney's College Program. i got to work for them and have the luxury of Disney as my backyard playground. Needless to say that I loved it. Being back home, I was going through withdrawal and missing all my friends that I had made. More importantly, I missed Disney!!! Right there and then I vowed to visit Disney at the beginning of 2012. Unfortunately plans kept falling through, prices too high, and people kept jumping ship. Finally I narrowed it down to just my mom and I but had to move the trip to May. That was more than a year away and I was a little upset but figured it was better than no trip at all.
Now my obsession to Disney is as my mother's obsession to Tupperware. Tupperware in my opinion is the root of all things evil,but that is neither here nor there.It just so happens that Tupperware holds a convention every year in Disney. They offer their consultants special rates on the resort and tickets. My Mom happened to be telling me about the convention and how she wasn't sure where she would stay since the special they got on the rooms were all booked. I said wait a minute, your going to Disney aren't you? She confirmed so I threw on those puppy dog eyes and Viola, we now have a trip in the making.
BTW: Our dates are August 19th-25th.
The Disney Nut in me was doing the banana dance when I found but the planning freak in me was freaking out!! What do you mean I only have over a month to plan? We need dining reservations! what parks are we going to go to? We didn't even have flight nor room reservations! Well, if anybody could do this, I could.My name is Shardai, and I am a 23 year old nursing student. I am known as the Disney consultant by my family. I love everything about Disney and even used to work there, (we shall revisit that later). I enjoy finding out as much little secrets and tips that I can find to make my family's trip easier. My family usually looks to me for all their plans. They let me loose and seriously just show up on departure day.
The person travelling with me is my Mom, Renena. She has been on three of my six trips to Disney. Now, I love my mom very much but she is not the easiest to get along with and we have had some real big blowups at Disney. I know, your probably thinking why do I still travel with her? Well, there are two reasons. Reason # 1, I am not yet at the place where I am willing to take a solo trip and reason # 2, she is the only one in my extended family who puts up with my Disney obsession, so here she is, the one and only.....
Mom
That's it, just me and my mom. To give you a better understanding of how we got to this insane point, I am going to have to take you back a month. I had just come bachk home from spending 6 wonderful months as part of the Disney's College Program. i got to work for them and have the luxury of Disney as my backyard playground. Needless to say that I loved it. Being back home, I was going through withdrawal and missing all my friends that I had made. More importantly, I missed Disney!!! Right there and then I vowed to visit Disney at the beginning of 2012. Unfortunately plans kept falling through, prices too high, and people kept jumping ship. Finally I narrowed it down to just my mom and I but had to move the trip to May. That was more than a year away and I was a little upset but figured it was better than no trip at all.
Now my obsession to Disney is as my mother's obsession to Tupperware. Tupperware in my opinion is the root of all things evil,but that is neither here nor there.It just so happens that Tupperware holds a convention every year in Disney. They offer their consultants special rates on the resort and tickets. My Mom happened to be telling me about the convention and how she wasn't sure where she would stay since the special they got on the rooms were all booked. I said wait a minute, your going to Disney aren't you? She confirmed so I threw on those puppy dog eyes and Viola, we now have a trip in the making.
BTW: Our dates are August 19th-25th.
forgot to put the tags on the bags. Good news is my hubby asked me while we were waiting to take off in DTW. That is when I realized we would need to go to baggage claim....
Not to worry though, this is typical from my mom and it would not be a trip to Disney without her drama. I still love her dearly though, but sometimes her bipolar disorder causes her to overreact. I mean I have all the reservation numbers, boarding info, and dining reservations soooo no big deal.
I am soooo happpy!!! The white flags are out and truces have been called. Seriously though there are only eleven days until we leave and there is so much to do!!!!!! I am still just so happy. We are going to talk over the peace treaty on Wed. over the ceremonial bonfire.. I mean over dinner. I offered to take my Mom out to dinner because yes I will do almost anything to go back to Disney. I will catch up more on Wednesday after we discuss everything.
