Well, the "excuse" for our trip is that our son and his new bride now live about 30 minutes from DL. We are flying in on Friday night and spending two nights with them and then on Sunday we are checking into GVC and will be there until the following Friday morning. We will then go back and spend Fri and Sat with them before catching a red-eye home on Sunday night. Since we are purchasing an AP, we plan to spend that week at DL, enjoy Food and Wine and really take our time in experiencing DL, CA and the resort. No outside trips this time as we feel we will have lots of opportunities to do those things in the future. I eventually want to do all of the touristy things that one must do.
We have a one-bedroom for Sun and Mon and are waitlist for the rest of the week, but I am not expecting anything to come thru at this point. I am thinking that I am going to have to break down and buy some GVC points before they are all gone in my Use Year. Isn't that such a shame.
And yes, we are serious WDW vets, which makes it very disconcerting to walk into DL, have it look very familiar, but yet, there is no Caseys at the end of main street and no Philharmagic after you go thru the castle, etc. And the worst thing was having to look at a map to figure out where I was going. and I thought I was prepared for the castle to be small, but I have to tell you that Cinderella definitely got the better end of the deal there, although Sleeping Beauty's castle is very, very pretty.