Pikester
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Well, I never thought that I would even attempt to write a trip report. But, I met someone on here that is going to be at the Wonderful World of Disney the same time I am and thought it would be kind of cool to compare notes on our trips. Then I thought, “Hey, why not share my notes with the DIS” so here I am.
As mentioned above, I’ve never done this sort of thing before so you’ll have to bare with me if I royally mess up! From reading other trip reports this is were I am suppose to give you the “cast of characters” and our background information. So, here it goes……
Me 36(Stefanee): (the totally inadequate writer of this here trip report) Married mother of two boys.
DH 39(Brian): The most wonderful man who works very hard to take care of me, the children and our home. The very same man who was asked by my very own father if he knew what he was “getting into” when he asked my dad for my hand in marriage. (Thanks Dad!)
DS 12(Tyler): My first born and very serious child who alternately makes me laugh and makes me cranky. He is definitely becoming a “teenager” sooner then I would like. Loves all things Lego, Star Wars, Indian Jones and Harry Potter (sorry Disney).
DS8(Nathan): Second born but has made his own place in the family. This kid is quite often told how cute he is by perfect strangers. Loves all things Lego, Star Wars, Indian Jones and Pokeman (It use to be Bakugan but not anymore. Anyone need some Bakugans? We’ve got plenty.).
Well, that is the cast of this NEVER going to happen trip report for our Nov/Dec 2009 WDW trip. Now, on to the background info.
We have been to WDW twice. Once in December 2006 and the second time in December 2008 (Can you tell we liked December?
) I never in my life thought I would ever go to Walt Disney World. My parents had me and my sister at a very young age and we grew up without a lot of money. I always thought WDW was for “rich people” and that was something I never thought I would be. Well, I was right! I’m not rich by any means but as a grown up it’s easier to see that going to WDW is something that I could do someday and to do that with my family would be even better. Writing all that makes it seem like it was my idea but in reality a co-worker of my DH was going to see Mickey which got my DH thinking that this was something that we could do. So, he came home and brought up the idea of going to WDW. Now, you’d think I would be jumping up and down and I’ll be honest I was on the inside but right beside that excitement, deep down in the pit of my stomach was this queasy feeling because I knew this would mean that we had to fly. I was going to have to get on this huge chunk of metal that by rights should not even be able to stay up in the sky. I sooo do not like to fly. I’ve done it twice in my life. Once when I was a little kid and barely remember it and the other time was when DH took me on a cruise. I still remember some buzzer going off and thinking we were going down but it was just letting the Flight Attendant know they had reached a certain altitude. Phew!
Anyways, back to the excitement! DH booked our December 2006 trip, I bought myself a Passporter and I started to plan. And plan. And, plan. (Oh, by the way, I’m a planner.) As I was planning and talking about this trip my Mom was doing some thinking of her own. She was thinking, Hmmmm, how cool would it be if she could go to WDW with us and take my DN10. So she very carefully broached the subject of going with us. I asked DH and he was like “I don’t care. As long as I get to do the stuff that I want us to do”. So, my Mom and DN10 were going with us to WDW! We chose to stay at Pop Century, we got a Magic Your Way Park Hopper with the Basic Dining Plan package. Unfortunately, I did not discover the
DIS until a few months before our trip and I didn’t really do much research on the DIS until a couple of weeks before we left. Thank goodness I talked my DH into making ADRs after reading how hard it would be to eat at a TS restaurant without them or we would have been S.O.L; So- Out-of-Luck. We had a wonderful time on that December 2006 trip!
Due to that wonderful trip DH and I decided to start saving for another trip to be taken in December 2008. Not long after we started to make our plans and not long after I started doing my “talking and planning” guess what happened…….You got it! Mom asked if her and my Dad could go with us. Once again I asked DH and he was like “I don’t care. As long as I get to do the stuff that I want us to do”. So, here we go again. Only this time we, and when I say we I mean my family of 4, decided to drive from NH to WDW. My parents, they’re going to fly. We once again did the stay at Pop Century with the Magic Your Way Park Hopper and the Basic Dining Plan Package. But, this time I was making my ADRs at 180 days, I got all the restaurants that I wanted and we made touring plans. We all had an even better time!
So, on the drive back from WDW, I think it was about 2AM and we were driving through some state (Hey, they all look the same when it's dark!), I was trying to help keep my DH awake and he started talking about “the next time we go to WDW”. We weren’t even home yet and he is talking about the next time we go to Disney! Well, we talked and planned about a trip that we might take two years from now, in 2010. We get home, go through the holidays, kids go back to school and about Feb/March we start talking about what we are going to do this summer for a trip. So I start researching some ideas. Maybe we could go to the Maine coast or maybe we could go to Lake George, NY. How about the White Mountains of NH? Just a small, inexpensive trip that allows us to get away for 5 days or so. DH comes home from work one day in April and asks me what I’ve come up with for our Summer plans. I give him the NY and ME ideas as the ones I like the best but I would prefer to go to ME. He says that he’s been doing some thinking and how would I like to skip the summer trip, take the money we would spend on it and put it towards going to WDW the end of November into early December. I think my jaw must have hit the floor! After I scooped it up I was like “Heck yah!”. The only thing DH asked was that we go with just our family of four since we’ve never experienced WDW that way before. “Whatever you say honey!”
So we are driving (again) to Walt Disney World and we will be there from November 29th -December 5th, 2009!
We are staying at our favorite resort Pop Century and we are doing the Magic Your Way with NO park hopper (we can always add it if we need it). We decided to shake things up a bit and try the Quick Service Dining Plan which means less time eating and more time playing. I couldn’t allow myself to not make any ADRs so I asked my family out of all the restaurants we have eaten at during both of our other trips which one would you like to go back to the most. Hoop-Dee-Doo! So we are going to do the Hoop-Dee-Doo and of course we just have to do a character meal so I’m hoping to get a ressie for Donald’s Safari Breakfast at the Tusker House. So now I’m just waiting for my 90 day ADR window to get here so I can make my two ADRs. During all this waiting something AWESOME happens…..FREE DINING! So now we get to enjoy Disney and get FREE FOOD!
*Edited to add names as I seem to have gone back and forth between using our names or using DH, DS12, DS8.
As mentioned above, I’ve never done this sort of thing before so you’ll have to bare with me if I royally mess up! From reading other trip reports this is were I am suppose to give you the “cast of characters” and our background information. So, here it goes……
Me 36(Stefanee): (the totally inadequate writer of this here trip report) Married mother of two boys.
DH 39(Brian): The most wonderful man who works very hard to take care of me, the children and our home. The very same man who was asked by my very own father if he knew what he was “getting into” when he asked my dad for my hand in marriage. (Thanks Dad!)
DS 12(Tyler): My first born and very serious child who alternately makes me laugh and makes me cranky. He is definitely becoming a “teenager” sooner then I would like. Loves all things Lego, Star Wars, Indian Jones and Harry Potter (sorry Disney).
DS8(Nathan): Second born but has made his own place in the family. This kid is quite often told how cute he is by perfect strangers. Loves all things Lego, Star Wars, Indian Jones and Pokeman (It use to be Bakugan but not anymore. Anyone need some Bakugans? We’ve got plenty.).
Well, that is the cast of this NEVER going to happen trip report for our Nov/Dec 2009 WDW trip. Now, on to the background info.
We have been to WDW twice. Once in December 2006 and the second time in December 2008 (Can you tell we liked December?
) I never in my life thought I would ever go to Walt Disney World. My parents had me and my sister at a very young age and we grew up without a lot of money. I always thought WDW was for “rich people” and that was something I never thought I would be. Well, I was right! I’m not rich by any means but as a grown up it’s easier to see that going to WDW is something that I could do someday and to do that with my family would be even better. Writing all that makes it seem like it was my idea but in reality a co-worker of my DH was going to see Mickey which got my DH thinking that this was something that we could do. So, he came home and brought up the idea of going to WDW. Now, you’d think I would be jumping up and down and I’ll be honest I was on the inside but right beside that excitement, deep down in the pit of my stomach was this queasy feeling because I knew this would mean that we had to fly. I was going to have to get on this huge chunk of metal that by rights should not even be able to stay up in the sky. I sooo do not like to fly. I’ve done it twice in my life. Once when I was a little kid and barely remember it and the other time was when DH took me on a cruise. I still remember some buzzer going off and thinking we were going down but it was just letting the Flight Attendant know they had reached a certain altitude. Phew! Anyways, back to the excitement! DH booked our December 2006 trip, I bought myself a Passporter and I started to plan. And plan. And, plan. (Oh, by the way, I’m a planner.) As I was planning and talking about this trip my Mom was doing some thinking of her own. She was thinking, Hmmmm, how cool would it be if she could go to WDW with us and take my DN10. So she very carefully broached the subject of going with us. I asked DH and he was like “I don’t care. As long as I get to do the stuff that I want us to do”. So, my Mom and DN10 were going with us to WDW! We chose to stay at Pop Century, we got a Magic Your Way Park Hopper with the Basic Dining Plan package. Unfortunately, I did not discover the
DIS until a few months before our trip and I didn’t really do much research on the DIS until a couple of weeks before we left. Thank goodness I talked my DH into making ADRs after reading how hard it would be to eat at a TS restaurant without them or we would have been S.O.L; So- Out-of-Luck. We had a wonderful time on that December 2006 trip! Due to that wonderful trip DH and I decided to start saving for another trip to be taken in December 2008. Not long after we started to make our plans and not long after I started doing my “talking and planning” guess what happened…….You got it! Mom asked if her and my Dad could go with us. Once again I asked DH and he was like “I don’t care. As long as I get to do the stuff that I want us to do”. So, here we go again. Only this time we, and when I say we I mean my family of 4, decided to drive from NH to WDW. My parents, they’re going to fly. We once again did the stay at Pop Century with the Magic Your Way Park Hopper and the Basic Dining Plan Package. But, this time I was making my ADRs at 180 days, I got all the restaurants that I wanted and we made touring plans. We all had an even better time!
So, on the drive back from WDW, I think it was about 2AM and we were driving through some state (Hey, they all look the same when it's dark!), I was trying to help keep my DH awake and he started talking about “the next time we go to WDW”. We weren’t even home yet and he is talking about the next time we go to Disney! Well, we talked and planned about a trip that we might take two years from now, in 2010. We get home, go through the holidays, kids go back to school and about Feb/March we start talking about what we are going to do this summer for a trip. So I start researching some ideas. Maybe we could go to the Maine coast or maybe we could go to Lake George, NY. How about the White Mountains of NH? Just a small, inexpensive trip that allows us to get away for 5 days or so. DH comes home from work one day in April and asks me what I’ve come up with for our Summer plans. I give him the NY and ME ideas as the ones I like the best but I would prefer to go to ME. He says that he’s been doing some thinking and how would I like to skip the summer trip, take the money we would spend on it and put it towards going to WDW the end of November into early December. I think my jaw must have hit the floor! After I scooped it up I was like “Heck yah!”. The only thing DH asked was that we go with just our family of four since we’ve never experienced WDW that way before. “Whatever you say honey!”
So we are driving (again) to Walt Disney World and we will be there from November 29th -December 5th, 2009!
We are staying at our favorite resort Pop Century and we are doing the Magic Your Way with NO park hopper (we can always add it if we need it). We decided to shake things up a bit and try the Quick Service Dining Plan which means less time eating and more time playing. I couldn’t allow myself to not make any ADRs so I asked my family out of all the restaurants we have eaten at during both of our other trips which one would you like to go back to the most. Hoop-Dee-Doo! So we are going to do the Hoop-Dee-Doo and of course we just have to do a character meal so I’m hoping to get a ressie for Donald’s Safari Breakfast at the Tusker House. So now I’m just waiting for my 90 day ADR window to get here so I can make my two ADRs. During all this waiting something AWESOME happens…..FREE DINING! So now we get to enjoy Disney and get FREE FOOD!*Edited to add names as I seem to have gone back and forth between using our names or using DH, DS12, DS8.
Anyway, you are off to a great start for someone who was never going to do a TR! Can't wait to hear more.
I had also decided that I could NOT go to WDW and NOT do a character meal. DH likes to eat a big breakfast at least once while we are there so what better way to enjoy breakfast then to have it with Disney characters. I looked through my Passporter and checked out menus at AllEars and finally decided that Donalds Safari Breakfast at the Tusker House in Animal Kingdom would fit the bill. What would be even cooler is if I could get a breakfast ressie early enough that we would be in the park before it actually opens! 
I emailed my DH at work to tell him what is going on and then I start Googling for 10-10 #s that I can use. As I am doing this the phone rings and its DH telling me to use 10-10-XXX and also telling me to relax, that it was going to be fine. (Gotta love DH because he knows me so well!) 
Hoop dee doo is brilliant and the food is yummy! We havent tried Donald's breakfast but are going this trip 
) and off the roads as we head out for our very looooong drive to Orlando, FL. Last year we did the trip in two legs. The first leg was from NH (we left at 4AM) to Hardeeville, GA where we stayed at a Super 8. We got there around 10PM and that was way to late. I could barely keep my eyes open by the time we got there. Thank goodness DH was driving! 
