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That sounds nice, doesn't it?
WDW for a couple of days.
Welllll....no.
This was my reaction:
Followed by:
That was my response to my DH's suggestion.
But first, let me back up.
Hello, my name is Jenna. I am 35 years old, a chemist, Disney addict, control freak, and dinosaur lover.
From 2015, with my two loves: in my Disney(land) tee getting excited about the Jurassic World release that summer. Oh yeah, and I'm also with my third love, my DH.
Here he is this past Feb in New Orleans:
Haha. It looks like we eat ice cream a lot but we actually don't. Though I do love my sweets, I am a potato chip kind of girl.
And my fourth love, my cat, Sirius Black:
He's with his doppelganger, Toothless.
This trip is coming about because I have decided that if I can afford it, I'm going to take a WDW trip each year. I have traveled many times to WDW throughout my lifetime. I have mostly been in Sept. In fact, I just got back from fall in WDW with my parents. You can read my trip report here.
Now, I would like to do spring in WDW with Flower and Garden Festival. Of course, DH does not want to go. It's kind of my fault. I brought him in Sept in 2008 and I may have overdone it. I was worried about a hurricane that was maybe going to land while we were there. So, instead of just taking it easy on arrival day, we dropped our stuff and immediately headed over to the Magic Kingdom. Which was hot and CROWDED. Blair was not a fan.
Which kind of set the tone for the next few days. (The hurricane veered off and did not hit FL like predicted.) He was grumpy and withdrawn. I know so much more now and I know I can put together a trip that he would really like but he's been traumatized and refuses to go. But he does let me go, very cheerfully, I might add. And he has promised to go to WDW for my 40th birthday so I guess I can't complain.
But I will.
Because he's a party-pooper!
So my brilliant idea was to get his parents to go and then he'll have to go, right??
Ah, no.
He saw right through my plan and cut me off before I could unleash my persuasive powers on his parents. Anyone, after talking to me, is dying to go on a Disney trip.
So he suggested a compromise, how about I take his mom?
Okay.
That would be fine. She and I get along well. I've really lucked out with my in-laws. They're great. It was a little rough in the beginning because I think that she felt that he needed to look around more. We were high school sweethearts who went to different colleges, broke up, got back together, and got married two years out of college. So it's not like we exactly rushed in to things but I think she always felt he was settling.
I worked really hard in the beginning to show that I was awesome and adorable and a (family) team player.
So now we're good!
Blair's mom was at WDW at least 15 years ago. There is a lot more going on now! She is retiring at the end of this year so she would for sure have the time for a week in Disney, but would she want to go with just me?
I broached the subject with her this past summer just to feel her out. She seemed pretty willing.
Then I dropped it since I had my Sept trip and I thought that it was maybe too soon for a non-Disney fanatic to think about a spring 2017 trip in summer.
I brought it up again just recently through a text and she seemed a little lukewarm but I suggested that we get together and talk about it. We settled on tonight. So both his parents are coming down for dinner and we are going to talk about a potential trip!
But I was feeling a little funny about her text response. (I know, it's text, what can you expect??) I asked Blair what he thought, and that was his suggestion: "A week seems long. <pause> Or you could just go to WDW for a couple of days..."
<loooong pause from me, cue the ending of the world music - I cannot do less than a week at Disney. Not for my yearly trip. Maybe a side trip. Nope. Nope. Nope.>
Okay.
Okay.
Yes, WDW can be overwhelming. I need to be open minded about other people's limits and traveling style. If nothing else, I could go for a week and she could just join me for part of the week if it's too much.
After several deep breaths, I asked him why he made that suggestion. "Did your mom say something? Is that what you really think she would rather do? Is that all she can afford, do you think? Is it traveling with me that's a problem? Am I being too intense? Don't answer that."
DH said, "No. I don't know what she wants to do. I was just making a suggestion."
AHHH! Don't do that to me!
But I suppose it was good in the end. It made me step back and think. And maybe not come on too strong.
So we'll see tonight what she thinks and what days work and what resort she would like. I'm leaning towards Coronado Springs because Blair's parents often travel to the Southwest in the winter.
Maybe I should put together a PowerPoint presentation....
Too much?
WDW for a couple of days.
Welllll....no.
This was my reaction:
Followed by:
That was my response to my DH's suggestion.
But first, let me back up.
Hello, my name is Jenna. I am 35 years old, a chemist, Disney addict, control freak, and dinosaur lover.
From 2015, with my two loves: in my Disney(land) tee getting excited about the Jurassic World release that summer. Oh yeah, and I'm also with my third love, my DH.
Here he is this past Feb in New Orleans:
Haha. It looks like we eat ice cream a lot but we actually don't. Though I do love my sweets, I am a potato chip kind of girl.
And my fourth love, my cat, Sirius Black:
He's with his doppelganger, Toothless.
This trip is coming about because I have decided that if I can afford it, I'm going to take a WDW trip each year. I have traveled many times to WDW throughout my lifetime. I have mostly been in Sept. In fact, I just got back from fall in WDW with my parents. You can read my trip report here.
Now, I would like to do spring in WDW with Flower and Garden Festival. Of course, DH does not want to go. It's kind of my fault. I brought him in Sept in 2008 and I may have overdone it. I was worried about a hurricane that was maybe going to land while we were there. So, instead of just taking it easy on arrival day, we dropped our stuff and immediately headed over to the Magic Kingdom. Which was hot and CROWDED. Blair was not a fan.
Which kind of set the tone for the next few days. (The hurricane veered off and did not hit FL like predicted.) He was grumpy and withdrawn. I know so much more now and I know I can put together a trip that he would really like but he's been traumatized and refuses to go. But he does let me go, very cheerfully, I might add. And he has promised to go to WDW for my 40th birthday so I guess I can't complain.
But I will.
Because he's a party-pooper!
So my brilliant idea was to get his parents to go and then he'll have to go, right??
Ah, no.
He saw right through my plan and cut me off before I could unleash my persuasive powers on his parents. Anyone, after talking to me, is dying to go on a Disney trip.
So he suggested a compromise, how about I take his mom?
Okay.
That would be fine. She and I get along well. I've really lucked out with my in-laws. They're great. It was a little rough in the beginning because I think that she felt that he needed to look around more. We were high school sweethearts who went to different colleges, broke up, got back together, and got married two years out of college. So it's not like we exactly rushed in to things but I think she always felt he was settling.
I worked really hard in the beginning to show that I was awesome and adorable and a (family) team player.
So now we're good!
Blair's mom was at WDW at least 15 years ago. There is a lot more going on now! She is retiring at the end of this year so she would for sure have the time for a week in Disney, but would she want to go with just me?
I broached the subject with her this past summer just to feel her out. She seemed pretty willing.
Then I dropped it since I had my Sept trip and I thought that it was maybe too soon for a non-Disney fanatic to think about a spring 2017 trip in summer.
I brought it up again just recently through a text and she seemed a little lukewarm but I suggested that we get together and talk about it. We settled on tonight. So both his parents are coming down for dinner and we are going to talk about a potential trip!
But I was feeling a little funny about her text response. (I know, it's text, what can you expect??) I asked Blair what he thought, and that was his suggestion: "A week seems long. <pause> Or you could just go to WDW for a couple of days..."
<loooong pause from me, cue the ending of the world music - I cannot do less than a week at Disney. Not for my yearly trip. Maybe a side trip. Nope. Nope. Nope.>
Okay.
Okay.
Yes, WDW can be overwhelming. I need to be open minded about other people's limits and traveling style. If nothing else, I could go for a week and she could just join me for part of the week if it's too much.
After several deep breaths, I asked him why he made that suggestion. "Did your mom say something? Is that what you really think she would rather do? Is that all she can afford, do you think? Is it traveling with me that's a problem? Am I being too intense? Don't answer that."
DH said, "No. I don't know what she wants to do. I was just making a suggestion."
AHHH! Don't do that to me!
But I suppose it was good in the end. It made me step back and think. And maybe not come on too strong.
So we'll see tonight what she thinks and what days work and what resort she would like. I'm leaning towards Coronado Springs because Blair's parents often travel to the Southwest in the winter.
Maybe I should put together a PowerPoint presentation....
Too much?
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He comes through eventually and we've been lucky as far as getting whatever resort we want. As for being concerned Sept./May trips are too close - Uh-uh!! We went Aug. 2015 and then Nov. 2015 - 
. Different resorts and different time of year so different things to do/see. And THEN, DH and I went back again Jan. 2016 so 2 months later and that trip was awesome! We were just there in August and I'm getting antsy waiting for our Nov. trip. I know for some that would be too often so it depends on you, but I think since you WANT to go back, May will work out fine.
Take a break?? Whaaaat? You can't take a break! I would totally be up for a trip together. I'm also running out of traveling partners. (I must wear them out...
) If you can do EE, then I can scrape myself together to do HHN. 
When I run things by Josh I always forget he doesn't know the rides/resorts/etc as well as I do. EE was much scarier than HHN 
But I think just drinking hard liquor is a good solution 
