snoopy5386
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Cast:
Me: Nicole, 27, Obsessed with Disney. A commando trying to let go of her commando ways. Will try something called a "midday break" this trip. This will be her 6th trip in 5 years, Wishes it was her 60th or 600th. Would move to florida in a second and get a job at Disney. Proud owner of her first annual pass. Enjoys going on "trips"
DH: Mike, 28, Not at all obsessed with Disney. Would enjoy a nice leisurely trip every 4 or 5 years or so. Very nice guy, fantastic husband, goes with the flow and only complains about it sometimes. Requires 8 hours of sleep a night. Puts up with going to disney at least once a year because deep down he knows it is all his fault. Enjoys going on "vacations"
SIL: Stacey, 26, Mike's sister. Lives in Tampa, former Disney CM, with ridiculous amounts of park knowledge and the ability to navigate the parks like I do my apartment. Knows the location of the nearest bathroom anywhere on property. Will be dropping in and out of the trip at various points. Wants us to move to florida. Up for anything.
First a clarification:
I like to go on "trips". I get this from my dad. A "trip" is when you go someplace far from home and you have spent a lot of money to get there and so you want to soak up as much of the place as possible so you must be doing something all the time. The following things are not permitted on trips:
sleeping in, laying around, watching tv or anything other thing you could do at home. On trips you are only allowed to do things that can only be found at your destination.
Mike likes to go on "vacations". A "vacation" is where you sleep in, lay around, relax, do whatever you want, stuff like go to the mall, spend hours in a bookstore, hang out in your hotel room and watch movies.
Sometimes we go on trips, sometimes we go on vacations, but most of the time we compromise (or fight) and do both. At disney my "trip" mentality pretty much takes over, I am something not easily reckoned with in these situations. I have been known to be a commando, and I have a really hard time not being in a park when I know a park is open. This trip I am trying to compromise. This is our longest trip to disney so far and so I can't run Mike too ragged or else he will never come back. I have planned for midday breaks every day. This is for me as well as him, as I would like to enjoy our resort and that is hard to do when you are only there between the hours of midnight and six am. He is insistent upon getting 8 hours of sleep a night but that doesn't really mesh with my Tour Guide Mike plan - the get there at opening, leave in the middle, go back at night plan. Our trip has the unfortunate luck of being over easter break (I am a teacher, so no other choice) and the parks open waaaayyyy early and close waaaayyy late. I am trying to sell him on the midday nap counting as part of his 8 hours, but he is not buying it. You will just have to stay tuned to see how it all plays out.
Where to start....How about explaining how my disney obsession is all Mike's fault. For this we must go back in time....It is fall of 2000 and my wonderful boyfriend (now husband) gets this great idea to surprise me with a trip to florida for my birthday present. You see his sister lives there, and she works for disney, which means FREE accomodations and FREE park admission. I am excited, but about the vacation part, not really about disney.
Oh sure I had been to Disney before, but my last trip was when I was a sullen teenager (and we all know how they can be), and it was a commando/open-close/offsite/august/pre-fastpass era trip that didn't leave the best disney taste in my mouth.
Back to fall of 2000.....So we go...and it is GREAT. I don't know if I will ever forget my first memory of that trip, walking into epcot through the international gateway right into the Tapestry of Dreams parade, it was heaven. Not to mention the fact that it was FREE and we had Stacey as our own personal tour guide. Fast forward 3 months, Christmas and New Year's Eve, we go back again, you know cause it is awesome and FREE, and we do the same thing the next Christmas.
Then, horror of horrors, Stacey has to quit Disney, because she can't get enough hours but she still needs to pay her rent. So now we have to pay for tickets(gasp), but that does not stop me because the seed has been planted, and the obsession is growing.
The obsession is at this point still under control. What is keeping it in check you might ask? Something called THE WEDDING. That's right by this time Mike has proposed and we are planning the biggest party that we will ever plan. The wedding happens, it is great, the honeymoon is great as well, and then....then it is all over. There is nothing left to plan. I have been planning an event for 2 years and now there is nothing left to plan. Then I get this idea in my head, hey how about we go to disney? I can plan a trip to disney. And that is it, it is all downhill from there. Without the wedding to keep my disney obsession in check, it just grows and grows, and I love it, and we go again and again.
So here we are, 2005 and we have come a long way since our first trip back in 2000. The trip that is the subject of this trip report is very special. It is my first week long trip since I was a kid. All of our other trips have been shorter, 4 or 5 days, which is never enough. And we are staying onsite the whole time. I get to go to the parks every single day. I get to bathe with Mickey soap and Mickey will call to wake me in the morning and it is all disney all the time. It is heaven, pure heaven.
Thanks for reading and stay tuned for the next installment......Will we make the plane??
Me: Nicole, 27, Obsessed with Disney. A commando trying to let go of her commando ways. Will try something called a "midday break" this trip. This will be her 6th trip in 5 years, Wishes it was her 60th or 600th. Would move to florida in a second and get a job at Disney. Proud owner of her first annual pass. Enjoys going on "trips"
DH: Mike, 28, Not at all obsessed with Disney. Would enjoy a nice leisurely trip every 4 or 5 years or so. Very nice guy, fantastic husband, goes with the flow and only complains about it sometimes. Requires 8 hours of sleep a night. Puts up with going to disney at least once a year because deep down he knows it is all his fault. Enjoys going on "vacations"
SIL: Stacey, 26, Mike's sister. Lives in Tampa, former Disney CM, with ridiculous amounts of park knowledge and the ability to navigate the parks like I do my apartment. Knows the location of the nearest bathroom anywhere on property. Will be dropping in and out of the trip at various points. Wants us to move to florida. Up for anything.
First a clarification:
I like to go on "trips". I get this from my dad. A "trip" is when you go someplace far from home and you have spent a lot of money to get there and so you want to soak up as much of the place as possible so you must be doing something all the time. The following things are not permitted on trips:
sleeping in, laying around, watching tv or anything other thing you could do at home. On trips you are only allowed to do things that can only be found at your destination.
Mike likes to go on "vacations". A "vacation" is where you sleep in, lay around, relax, do whatever you want, stuff like go to the mall, spend hours in a bookstore, hang out in your hotel room and watch movies.
Sometimes we go on trips, sometimes we go on vacations, but most of the time we compromise (or fight) and do both. At disney my "trip" mentality pretty much takes over, I am something not easily reckoned with in these situations. I have been known to be a commando, and I have a really hard time not being in a park when I know a park is open. This trip I am trying to compromise. This is our longest trip to disney so far and so I can't run Mike too ragged or else he will never come back. I have planned for midday breaks every day. This is for me as well as him, as I would like to enjoy our resort and that is hard to do when you are only there between the hours of midnight and six am. He is insistent upon getting 8 hours of sleep a night but that doesn't really mesh with my Tour Guide Mike plan - the get there at opening, leave in the middle, go back at night plan. Our trip has the unfortunate luck of being over easter break (I am a teacher, so no other choice) and the parks open waaaayyyy early and close waaaayyy late. I am trying to sell him on the midday nap counting as part of his 8 hours, but he is not buying it. You will just have to stay tuned to see how it all plays out.
Where to start....How about explaining how my disney obsession is all Mike's fault. For this we must go back in time....It is fall of 2000 and my wonderful boyfriend (now husband) gets this great idea to surprise me with a trip to florida for my birthday present. You see his sister lives there, and she works for disney, which means FREE accomodations and FREE park admission. I am excited, but about the vacation part, not really about disney.
Oh sure I had been to Disney before, but my last trip was when I was a sullen teenager (and we all know how they can be), and it was a commando/open-close/offsite/august/pre-fastpass era trip that didn't leave the best disney taste in my mouth.
Back to fall of 2000.....So we go...and it is GREAT. I don't know if I will ever forget my first memory of that trip, walking into epcot through the international gateway right into the Tapestry of Dreams parade, it was heaven. Not to mention the fact that it was FREE and we had Stacey as our own personal tour guide. Fast forward 3 months, Christmas and New Year's Eve, we go back again, you know cause it is awesome and FREE, and we do the same thing the next Christmas.
Then, horror of horrors, Stacey has to quit Disney, because she can't get enough hours but she still needs to pay her rent. So now we have to pay for tickets(gasp), but that does not stop me because the seed has been planted, and the obsession is growing.
The obsession is at this point still under control. What is keeping it in check you might ask? Something called THE WEDDING. That's right by this time Mike has proposed and we are planning the biggest party that we will ever plan. The wedding happens, it is great, the honeymoon is great as well, and then....then it is all over. There is nothing left to plan. I have been planning an event for 2 years and now there is nothing left to plan. Then I get this idea in my head, hey how about we go to disney? I can plan a trip to disney. And that is it, it is all downhill from there. Without the wedding to keep my disney obsession in check, it just grows and grows, and I love it, and we go again and again.
So here we are, 2005 and we have come a long way since our first trip back in 2000. The trip that is the subject of this trip report is very special. It is my first week long trip since I was a kid. All of our other trips have been shorter, 4 or 5 days, which is never enough. And we are staying onsite the whole time. I get to go to the parks every single day. I get to bathe with Mickey soap and Mickey will call to wake me in the morning and it is all disney all the time. It is heaven, pure heaven.
Thanks for reading and stay tuned for the next installment......Will we make the plane??
