Mr & Mrs "practically perfect" Disney-moon!

[megcellent]

Hey ya’ll!

I don’t know why I have decided to post a trip report, but I have. Maybe it’s that I’d like to document our sweet vacation and HONEYMOON in the Happiest Place on Earth … yep, that’s pretty much the reason. That is reason enough, right? I’m gonna insert a picture here, because I know people love pictures … THE Happiest Place on Earth. Just in case you wondered where that was.

I actually have a few fears about doing it --- I know it’s crazy, but I fear that no one will like or enjoy “MY little story.” What if I’m boring? I have been reading trip reports for years now. I love them. I love hearing the stories. I love to read about those special moments that people choose to share with the disboard world. It warms my heart. I love to reminisce about Disney when I’m not there – and, generally, a trip report can certainly do that! But, is it really fair for me to post a trip report when I have always been a lurker. Not a creepy lurker … lol. But, a lurker nonetheless. There was a time that I posted a little, but I’ve never posted a lot. I don’t really know why. I don't even have a good excuse.

I also have a fear that I’ll start … but, not finish. No offense to all you great story-tellers and trip-reporters if you fall in this category. But, to be honest, after I follow your story of your trip and then you drop of the face of the planet (well, not the planet, but of the disboard world) I am saddened. I recognize life happens, and I would never, never advocate you relentlessly sticking to writing your trip report for all your disboard friends and some weird disboard lurkers, when “real life” beckons. Really, you should be flattered. Because, when I am saddened it is because I’m somewhat hooked to hearing about your trip … I wanna know how it ends! So, to all of you have started with me. I sincerely hope I finish ... and in a timely fashion. For me and for you … b/c I’d never want to sadden you.

So, about me … Hi! My name is Meg. I just got married to the most wonderful man in the world named Jeremy. Our life, even with its bumps, hills, and valleys, is still perfect. No children, so if you like reading reports with cute pictures of “young” children enjoying Disney World, this isn’t the place for you. However, if you’re willing to read a report with cute pictures of “old” children – i.e. children at heart – then you’re in the right place. Grab a chair and a cup of coffee … or soda, or milk, or whatever your fancy is. Now, more about us:

Place of residence: Cleveland, Mississippi
Reason for visiting the Mouse’s House: Honeymoon!

MEG. Age 29. Child at heart. Loves God, french vanilla coffee, cooking, singing, painting, being crafty, a star filled sky, my brother playing guitar(and singing with him), scrapbooking, pictures with pretty smiles on people I love, lunch dates with friends, sand between my toes, a new haircut, praying with/for/about a friend or family, Delta sunsets, and my new hubby and our life together.

JEREMY, aka JER. Age 34. Baby, oh I mean child, at heart. Loves God, camouflage, hunting, eating, his momma, his family, sleeping, weekends with the wife, good movies, friends, playing games, football!, baseball!, any other sport!, golf, visiting the mountains, and his new wife and our life together.

And here is a picture so you can put a face with the names. This was an engagement picture. Go ahead … you can say it … we’ll all say it together … ready? … 1 … 2 … 3 … Awwwwee! Hehe.

Ok. That's not really the picture of us. It is our hands though. It's cute, huh? I loved it. I loved it so much that I had stamps printed with that picture ... in case you wanted to know. Here's the real picture of us:

There. That’s a good start, right???

 

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Introduction
Our Story and Background
Our Story and Background: The Rest of the Story
Pre-Trip

DAY 1: October 3
...we're headed to DISNEY today!!!
A roll of TP and a bottle of bubbly
OH my gosh, we're really here!
Our First Night at Disney Part 1
Our First Night at Disney Part 2

DAY 2: October 4
THE day, Part 1
THE day, Part 2
my "happy place"
Photopass Picture Catch-up
We "took the plunge"

 

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Reserved.

 

[mariacj]

Posting pictures is an almost three step process....


but here is a video

or a better how to

Looking forward to pictures!

 

[IheartDDuck]

I'm joining. I can't wait to hear more. A Disneymoon is my absolute dream! Posting pictures is easy once you figure it out. Just follow the instructions by mariacj and you'll be posting in not time.

 

[megcellent]

Thank you very much, mariacj! And, happy to have ya, Danielle!

 

[jc040404]

Great start! I'm in!! I love reading TRs with no kids. Maybe that sounds awful coming from a mother who couldn't imagine doing the World without my little men now, but there's something so magical about exploring it all with just that special someone you love. Can't wait to hear all about it!

 

[Nermel9]

Hi, great start! I just went on a Disneymoon in May, can't wait to read about yours!

 

[mariacj]

Great pictures!!! Look forward to your trip!

 

[michel007more]

Great pictures....I think the trip was amazing!!!

 

[MEK]

I loved reading about Disneymoons.

So, here's a tip to a successful trip report - You must respond to each and every comment. Then your readers will know you are interested in what they have to say and they will come back for more.

Make friends with the people who visit your TR. Read their TR's. And keep up to date with your replies. Its a commitment, but you can meet a lot of fun and entertaining people that way.

Most of all - have fun telling your story.

 

[EeyoreEma]

Great start! I'm looking forward to reading more about your trip!

 

[megcellent]

Great start! I'm in!! I love reading TRs with no kids. Maybe that sounds awful coming from a mother who couldn't imagine doing the World without my little men now, but there's something so magical about exploring it all with just that special someone you love. Can't wait to hear all about it!

Thats so funny, b/c I can't wait to take a little one! Thanks for reading!

Hi, great start! I just went on a Disneymoon in May, can't wait to read about yours!

Oh, I will have to check out your report! I was looking for Disneymoon reports last week.

Great pictures!!! Look forward to your trip!

Thanks! I had a good teacher.

Great pictures....I think the trip was amazing!!!

Glad you stopped by!

I loved reading about Disneymoons.

So, here's a tip to a successful trip report - You must respond to each and every comment. Then your readers will know you are interested in what they have to say and they will come back for more.

Make friends with the people who visit your TR. Read their TR's. And keep up to date with your replies. Its a commitment, but you can meet a lot of fun and entertaining people that way.

Most of all - have fun telling your story.

Thanks so much for your tips!

Great start! I'm looking forward to reading more about your trip!

Thank you. I hope you enjoy it!

 

[Shannon84]

Great start...and dont worry I had the same fear when I started my TR that no one would read along...but of course people want to hear your story Beautiful pictures too

 

[megcellent]

So, I figure if you’re gonna read all about our trip to Disney, it might be helpful to know a little more about us … to learn about “Our Story.” Our story is what brough us to Disney. I’ll try to make it short and to the point, but I must warn you, sometimes I get carried away …

First of all, let me just say – What a difference a year makes! Sometimes you blink and a year goes by faster than you can say “Disney World.” Other times it lags on and on and you wonder when it will end. The last year for me was a blended mixture of the two. How can that be? Let me tell you.

In May 2009 my husband left me. We were to celebrate our 5 year anniversary in June. He had been having an affair with a friend of mine. I was told, “I just don’t love you anymore.” I’ll leave that part of the story at that. I don’t want to get too off topic and I’d rather stick to the happy things anyway. Needless to say, I started a new adventure the moment I stepped back in my home after figuring this out … a big, ugly, scary adventure. For these reasons, I wondered when the year would end. I was ready to shed the hurt, the heartache, the sadness, the feeling of being lost, the feeling of failure, the feeling of having no control, and I thought in my mind if time passed quickly, it would take with it all those things.

After settling in to my new skin – you know, the one that you get after joining the club of women who are divorced because their husbands leave them. Yeah … after settling into that “new” skin, I decided I needed and wanted someone to talk to. I contacted an acquaintance(who happened to be a minister) I had worked a camp with. He was God sent to me! I believe, literally! He provided exactly the support I needed - kind words of hope, scripture, prayer(and lots of it) and accountability. I also took up running- this I laugh about. I would dare say that I just might be one of the most un-athletic people you would ever meet. This is also a story for another day, but for the purpose of this trip report I will just say that how I started running was as simple as – I had control of my feet and my body. All the world about me was crashing and I felt I had lost control of my life, but my feet --- I controlled them. So, I ran.

With the spiritual counseling, my new peace found in running, and a lot of ‘me’ time, I fell back in love … back in love with myself and back in love with my first true love – Jesus. It ended – that time of feeling broken, and lost, and sad – it ended! Looking back, it actually ended quickly. But it certainly did NOT feel that way while going through it. And, this was the time that I felt like if I blinked, I might miss something.

I will admit, though I was on up side of this rocky time in my life, I was left feeling very bitter about love. I had loved once and look where that got me. I had loved once, why should I love again? You see, If I am committed to something – I am committed deeply. I loved with all my heart. My heart that had just been broken … but then, I was blessed to be introduced to Jeremy – however, at the time I didn’t even know that it was going to be a blessing. My minister friend invited me to dinner. After dinner we had plans to go to a service at the camp. When I arrived to dinner Jeremy was there. Months later he actually face-booked me and asked me to dinner.

And, the rest is history … history that I will have to share in the next post. Sorry! But, I did warn you sometimes I get carried away.

 

[megcellent]

Great start...and dont worry I had the same fear when I started my TR that no one would read along...but of course people want to hear your story Beautiful pictures too

Aww, thanks for the inspiration!

 

[MEK]

wow! That is some background story. I love how you turned something so negative into something so positive. I run. I started when I was almost 30. I swore to myself I will never stop unless forced to. There is something very powerful about having control over your body and making it do something that requires effort and deligence.

Oh, and congrats on finding Mr Right after getting dumped by Mr Wrong.

 

[megcellent]

wow! That is some background story. I love how you turned something so negative into something so positive. I run. I started when I was almost 30. I swore to myself I will never stop unless forced to. There is something very powerful about having control over your body and making it do something that requires effort and deligence.

Oh, and congrats on finding Mr Right after getting dumped by Mr Wrong.

Thanks, MEK. There definitely is something very powerful about running! My body did things in the last year I never could have even imagined. I can vividly remember finishing my first 5K in tears because I was so happy. I'm not great at it. I'm not going to break any records or even place. But, I finish! And, that's what counts for me. Thanks for stopping by!

 

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Yay, if you’re reading this, you came back … for … “the rest of the story” (Just for fun, does anyone know where that quote comes from?)

Thanks for coming back. I am flattered! :0)

I had just told you that I met Jeremy for the first time. To be honest, there is nothing about that night that was extremely memorable or special to me. However, I apparently made quite the impression on him. I did not know until after we became an official dating couple but afterwards he talked to my friend who told him he needed to give me some time before talking to me. So, he did – 6 months! Yes, 6 MONTHS later he face-booked (my how times have changed) me to invite me to dinner. But, honestly, it was perfect timing.

Let me pause a minute … do you see the time flying yet??? A few paragraphs ago I was telling you about my husband having an affair. Now, I’m telling you about a dude asking me out on a D.A.T.E.!!!! Whoa! Ok, back to the story. Just wanted to point that out …

After a little struggle over whether to jump back into the dating world, I decided to go. I’m thankful I did because we had a lovely time! He called again. Once more, I said yes, and we enjoyed another lovely dinner together … and so on and so forth. He made me feel like a queen. He told me I am beautiful. He made me feel like the world around him disappeared when we got to spend time together. He was a gentleman and he treated me like a lady. And, he prayed … over every meal we ate. Oh, we have lots of happy and sweet stories about our dating ... stories that slowly whittled away my built up bitterness to love --- obviously, huh, since we are married?! I am blessed. I am thankful. What a gift!

July 4th weekend, 2010, he proposed. We set the wedding date for October 2. Then, we started discussing a honeymoon. We had already discovered that we both loved DISNEY! He learned that the first time he visited me in my home and saw my DVD collection of Disney movies. That spurred the conversation about our previous trips to Disney and ended in hours of discussion about Disney…on multiple occasions. Lol. I think this was his 5th time to visit the world. It was my 4th(but the absolute BEST one to date!) In our minds, who doesn’t love DISNEY? How could you not LOVE Disney!? We did hee-haw back and forth for a couple days – honeymoon, or no honeymoon? Disney or no Disney?

I found out that we would be going during FREE dining AND the Food and Wine Festival, and I was sold! I quickly got a price quote and made him sit down with me to sift through our budgets and … what’s that? Yes, I think we can afford it. We might have to be a little more frugal than usual, but we can do it. <insert Hallelujah chorus here> We had plenty time to budget and pay cash for our Disney-moon, and then save for the remainder of cash needs for the trip. Oh glory, Disney it is!! :0) I don’t think either of us could believe that we were going to Disney for our honeymoon!

Over the course of the next couple weeks, I booked our trip, our plane tickets (got a fairly good deal!), our hotel accommodations for the night before our flight (FREE!), and started planning … well, a little bit. I’ll elaborate more on that in the next report installment.

 

[mariacj]

He made me feel like a queen. He told me I am beautiful. He made me feel like the world around him disappeared when we got to spend time together. He was a gentleman and he treated me like a lady. And, he prayed … over every meal we ate.

Mine too .... definitely a sign of a man to keep forever. sweet story and can't wait for more!