Our First Disney Vacation! A journal on the journey to September 7, 2011!

[TheDisneyGirl]

I am in for your PTR! I cannot wait to read it and get some great ideas!

TTYS!

 

[amazingact21]

Subscribing! Congrats on planning your first trip to Disney! I love hearing about people's excitement and experiences for their first WDW trip. The anticipation for September must be killing you and your family, though!

 

[L-Harper]

I am in for your PTR! I cannot wait to read it and get some great ideas!

TTYS!

Subscribing! Congrats on planning your first trip to Disney! I love hearing about people's excitement and experiences for their first WDW trip. The anticipation for September must be killing you and your family, though!

to my pre-trip report! I'm excited to have you over here and I hope you enjoy!

 

[L-Harper]

I made, what we're calling, a Disney Countdown Dream Board! I will update it and move stuff around when we have anything else to add like our itinerary or whatever. My boys absolutely LOVE it!

 

[TheDisneyGirl]

I made, what we're calling, a Disney Countdown Dream Board! I will update it and move stuff around when we have anything else to add like our itinerary or whatever. My boys absolutely LOVE it!

This is the best countdown board!! You did a fantastic job!

 

[goofy2008]

You are going to LOVE AKV!!!
We stayed in a Grand Villie for 9 days..
You are lucky you are staying at the end, cause you would have been down to the front desk doing everything in your power to stay there for the rest of your stay...

 

[annmarieda]

I made, what we're calling, a Disney Countdown Dream Board! I will update it and move stuff around when we have anything else to add like our itinerary or whatever. My boys absolutely LOVE it!

I love your countdown board! Very cool. I like how you have the numbers... and the large "Disney" is that a die cut? Sticker?

Very cool

 

[L-Harper]

Thank you for your sweet comments!!! The big Disney is a diecut. I have a Cricut machine. I also used the Cricut machine for the mickey head cutouts, numbers and letters of the countdown.

 

[annmarieda]

Thank you for your sweet comments!!! The big Disney is a diecut. I have a Cricut machine. I also used the Cricut machine for the mickey head cutouts, numbers and letters of the countdown.

I am so jealous! I am a scrapbooker... I worked at a store for years.. but I have a single closest everything goes in and since I have to drag it all out (which takes forever) to do anything I haven't been scrapin lately...or buying any neat toys. A cricut does all that? I am so out of the loop. HMMMMMM I think I may need to get me one before I make my own countdown. Last trip I made a countdown calendar and it was a LONG process... Looks like the cricket would make it a lot easier.

 

[L-Harper]

I am so jealous! I am a scrapbooker... I worked at a store for years.. but I have a single closest everything goes in and since I have to drag it all out (which takes forever) to do anything I haven't been scrapin lately...or buying any neat toys. A cricut does all that? I am so out of the loop. HMMMMMM I think I may need to get me one before I make my own countdown. Last trip I made a countdown calendar and it was a LONG process... Looks like the cricket would make it a lot easier.

The Cricut really does make things like this easier! I'm an event planner and I make a lot of party decorations and invitations using it.

 

[TheDisneyGirl]

The Cricut really does make things like this easier! I'm an event planner and I make a lot of party decorations and invitations using it.

Now I know what I need to ask for next Christmas.

 

[Momof2Disneyboys]

Love the Dream Board!

 

[L-Harper]

Now I know what I need to ask for next Christmas.

I got mine for Christmas 3 years ago and got a great deal on it on Black Friday.

Love the Dream Board!

Thank you!

 

[WDWfanatic2]

Thank you for joining me on my journey! Thank you for your sweet comments about my family. It's exciting that we'll be in WDW at the same time! I would love any information on the restaurants that your DD liked the most. It's hard to plan since I've never been to WDW before. The planning really has been fun so far, but actually kind of stressful too. I'm glad that I have 8 months to plan.

Hi Harper!
Sorry I have not been on. We have gotten a ton of snow up here and been sick and then my daughter broke my nose so I ended up having surgery! It's been crazy. I know what you mean about the planning getting a little stressful. I had an excel spreadsheet last time I went with all of our reservations and what was going on in each park every day lol. My dd loved the rides like pirates of the Caribbean, the safari at AK. We didn't get a chance to do it but AK also has a kiddie area. We did a lot of character meet and greets. She loved that. We bought her an autograph book when we got there and she quickly learned to give it to the characters. In fact a couple she was afraid of but when we handed dd the book she lit right up and brought it over to the characters. (she was afraid of Belle non of the big characters just her lol)

How are your plans coming along?

 

[L-Harper]

Hi Harper!
Sorry I have not been on. We have gotten a ton of snow up here and been sick and then my daughter broke my nose so I ended up having surgery! It's been crazy. I know what you mean about the planning getting a little stressful. I had an excel spreadsheet last time I went with all of our reservations and what was going on in each park every day lol. My dd loved the rides like pirates of the Caribbean, the safari at AK. We didn't get a chance to do it but AK also has a kiddie area. We did a lot of character meet and greets. She loved that. We bought her an autograph book when we got there and she quickly learned to give it to the characters. In fact a couple she was afraid of but when we handed dd the book she lit right up and brought it over to the characters. (she was afraid of Belle non of the big characters just her lol)

How are your plans coming along?

I am so sorry that you had your nose broken and that it needed surgery! That is awful. I'm glad you are back here though! Thank you for all of your tips. I plan on making an autograph book for my boys to share. I think 1 will be good, yeah?

You know, I don't really think I'm going to plan rides too much. I know we'll obviously do some, but I'm just excited to see the boys wander around and soak it all up. We will for sure do the safari in AK. That is on the must-do list.

As far as planning goes, that has been put on the back burner for now. I want to wait until the September hours come out before I really make any set plans. Plus, I've been SO busy with work that I haven't been able to think about it as much as I really want to.

209 more days!!!

 

[WDWfanatic2]

I know what you mean about being crazy with work and stuff. I wish that they would release the times and everything so I could start planning things. When we went last time we focused a lot on the character meals. DD loved those so much! You might want to think about the autograph books with the photos. We did that and put the pictures in next to the autographs and she loves it. I think I am more excited than everyone else lol

 

[WDWfanatic2]

This is awesome! I'm going to do something like that for our house. We have a cricut and the disney cartridge. That looks fantastic.

 

[Jessfromjersey]

I'm in! Excited to follow your PTR....planning a trip for my fam for Fall of '12...our kids will be the same ages so hoping to find some good tips through your ptr and trip reort! Love your countdown board!

 

[L-Harper]

Arrival and Magic Kingdom for Wishes

lunch- Everything Pop
dinner- Chef Mickey's at 6:35p

Daily Plans

-flight lands at MCO at 9:40a
-hoping to get to Pop Century by 11:00a

-check in
-lunch at Everything Pop
-unpack (hopefully if there is a room available for us early)
-nap
-dinner at Chef Mickey's at 6:35p
-head over to Magic Kingdom to at least see Cinderella's Castle
-Wishes at 9:00 {hopefully} (next morning we'll be sleeping in)

 

[L-Harper]

Epcot World Showcase

breakfast- Everything Pop
lunch - Le Cellier at 1:20p
dinner- Tangierine Café

Daily Plans

-sleep in
-breakfast either at Everything Pop or in Epcot (?)
-get to World Showcase for 11:00a rope drop
-tour Canada and United Kingdom until lunch
-lunch at Le Cellier at 1:20p (I'm trying to get an earlier ADR)
-possible nap back at Pop
-tour World Showcase more: if we go back to Pop we will start from Mexico and go backwards to make it easier to do Tangierine Café for dinner, if we don't nap we will just continue on toward France
-hopefully get back to Pop by 9:00