ksinniger
Mouseketeer
- Joined
- Jul 28, 2013
So, you know how the planning for these things go, right? First you realize you want to go to WDW (or, if you’re like me, you wake up, because every day is a day spent wanting to go to WDW). So you pick a date and settle on a place to stay. Then you switch it up maybe one or two times to get a better airfare or a different resort for a better price. Then you stalk the Disney website for them to release the operating times for your trip, while scouring the crowd calendars to see which parks you want to hit on which days. Then it’s on to deciding meals and FP+s. Until finally, your trip is planned, and all you’re left to do is wait impatiently for that countdown ticker to get to zero. So close now – just 4 days away!
Yea, that’s where I am these days, so I decided to try and distract myself from the S-L-O-W passage of time by starting this here TR, even though the trip isn't quite yet started. Feel free to drop me suggestions or insight – while our plans are pretty set, there is definitely still room (and time) to move things around!
To start: some introductions. I’m Kathy, mom to 3 girls who are inheriting my Disney obsession. My DH isn’t nearly as obsessed, but he definitely has fun on the trips, so long as I do all the planning. We had a momentous 2014, with 3 trips in 11 months. I’ve got a Trip Report from our last trip up here. (http://www.disboards.com/threads/8-nights-at-the-contemporary-with-memere.3386984/).
This trip is just me and my oldest Daughter, Rachel. We’re going to celebrate her “graduation” from elementary school to secondary school (combined middle and high school). That’s in quotes because they didn’t have a graduation ceremony, but had a promotion ceremony where awards were handed out and they played pomp and circumstance, so I’m counting it as graduating!
I started planning the trip only a few weeks after we got back from our trip last November. At Thanksgiving, my sister-in-law mentioned that she and her family were planning on heading down over the summer. Her 3 kids are all much older than mine, with one working full-time college graduate, one U.S. Marine, and one college junior. She asked if we were interested in joining, and my gears started turning. I knew my DH wouldn’t be up for another trip so soon, especially after we had gone 3 times in 2014. But we bought DVC points, so we had 100 points for 2014 already banked for use in 2015 that needed to be used before the end of 2015. Rachel and I had a lot of fun on our last night of the November trip, when she and I did some late night exploring of the Osborne lights and last minute shopping on MK Main Street. She’s certainly old enough to stay out late, but when we travel all together, her younger sisters get tired if they are up late and don’t have a chance to make up for it the next day. I thought it might be fun for her to tour with others who could stay up past 9 pm and then still get up for rope drop the next day. So DH and I talked it over, and we decided I would use all of the 2014 points, plus some 2015 points, and take Rachel to Disney at the same time that her cousins would be there.
And this would all be a surprise that she wouldn’t know about until the last day of school. At the end of June. I didn’t know if I could hold it in that long.
Yea, that’s where I am these days, so I decided to try and distract myself from the S-L-O-W passage of time by starting this here TR, even though the trip isn't quite yet started. Feel free to drop me suggestions or insight – while our plans are pretty set, there is definitely still room (and time) to move things around!
To start: some introductions. I’m Kathy, mom to 3 girls who are inheriting my Disney obsession. My DH isn’t nearly as obsessed, but he definitely has fun on the trips, so long as I do all the planning. We had a momentous 2014, with 3 trips in 11 months. I’ve got a Trip Report from our last trip up here. (http://www.disboards.com/threads/8-nights-at-the-contemporary-with-memere.3386984/).
This trip is just me and my oldest Daughter, Rachel. We’re going to celebrate her “graduation” from elementary school to secondary school (combined middle and high school). That’s in quotes because they didn’t have a graduation ceremony, but had a promotion ceremony where awards were handed out and they played pomp and circumstance, so I’m counting it as graduating!
I started planning the trip only a few weeks after we got back from our trip last November. At Thanksgiving, my sister-in-law mentioned that she and her family were planning on heading down over the summer. Her 3 kids are all much older than mine, with one working full-time college graduate, one U.S. Marine, and one college junior. She asked if we were interested in joining, and my gears started turning. I knew my DH wouldn’t be up for another trip so soon, especially after we had gone 3 times in 2014. But we bought DVC points, so we had 100 points for 2014 already banked for use in 2015 that needed to be used before the end of 2015. Rachel and I had a lot of fun on our last night of the November trip, when she and I did some late night exploring of the Osborne lights and last minute shopping on MK Main Street. She’s certainly old enough to stay out late, but when we travel all together, her younger sisters get tired if they are up late and don’t have a chance to make up for it the next day. I thought it might be fun for her to tour with others who could stay up past 9 pm and then still get up for rope drop the next day. So DH and I talked it over, and we decided I would use all of the 2014 points, plus some 2015 points, and take Rachel to Disney at the same time that her cousins would be there.
And this would all be a surprise that she wouldn’t know about until the last day of school. At the end of June. I didn’t know if I could hold it in that long.