CDNPadawan
Earning My Ears
- Joined
- Nov 27, 2019
Hey there everyone;
I am rather new to the Boards here as this is my first post but I feel like I just need to put this out there because the build up of excitement is starting to drive me a little crazy. So where do I begin? Well the beginning is overrated but I will get there.
Here is where I am at now. It has been 7 months now since my friends surprised me by saying they wanted me to accompany them to WDW and that they are specifically planning on making the Road Trip from Toronto, Ontario, Canada. As of typing this out there will be four of us heading down and three of us can drive so their plan was to long haul the drive and stop only for food, and gas until we reached the resort. As soon as they mentioned this trip to me I removed my walls around 'planning a Disney Vacation' that I had put into place as a child. We simply could never afford to make a trip like that so rather than get my hopes up I simply just closed my eyes to Disney Parks. Now that those walls are down I began my research and planning. I have written pages upon pages of notes about this adventure I was preparing to undertake. There are some hurdles I am having to try and find my way over.
First we are a group of 4 Adults and two of us happen to be a engaged couple (not me) so the basic room while it could work for us I kind of want the couple to have a little more privacy. This option seemed easiest to solve by settling on a Family Suite at All-Star Music Resort for 6 nights. Not my resort of choice but this is the most affordable way for us to get the accommodations that we would need as getting two separate adjoining rooms seems like it would come out being more expensive. I am the major decider on the fact that I want to stay on Property. I am the one in the group who does not drive and if my friends wanted to stay at the resort and relax, if we stay on property it just makes it so easy for me to get around and visit the parks to my hearts content.
The other hurdle I am dealing with is that everyone seems content with not planning anything at all for the trip and leaving that in my hands. So great you are letting the guy who has never left the province he was born in let alone visited the WDW parks take care of the planning? Ha... Yeah that's probably not the best choice, especially when it comes to trying to figure out ADR's. Now I am not going crazy here, I am not planning things down to the minute. I do love the idea of a free-form Disney vacation with no real strict plans. The only thing I am trying to plan out is 1 meal every night of our stay. So yeah fighting with myself about "is that too much to expect for the vacation?". I have tried to talk to my friends about this and I get three different versions of "Dude we are not even going until November 2020, it's way too early to be thinking about any of that". They just don't know.
I love the planning and learning everything I can about the Vacation because I know one thing is guaranteed to happen. When I get there I'm going to be overwhelmed I know I will be. I have been a Disney fan since I was 5 years old and that love hasn't gone away. All the stories of people crying when they step foot onto main street and see that Castle for the first time... Yeah that's going to be me I know it.
Thanks for letting me get this out there. I needed to talk about it somehow because if my co-workers hear the words "Disney" out of my mouth again I am going to have things thrown at me.
I am rather new to the Boards here as this is my first post but I feel like I just need to put this out there because the build up of excitement is starting to drive me a little crazy. So where do I begin? Well the beginning is overrated but I will get there.
Here is where I am at now. It has been 7 months now since my friends surprised me by saying they wanted me to accompany them to WDW and that they are specifically planning on making the Road Trip from Toronto, Ontario, Canada. As of typing this out there will be four of us heading down and three of us can drive so their plan was to long haul the drive and stop only for food, and gas until we reached the resort. As soon as they mentioned this trip to me I removed my walls around 'planning a Disney Vacation' that I had put into place as a child. We simply could never afford to make a trip like that so rather than get my hopes up I simply just closed my eyes to Disney Parks. Now that those walls are down I began my research and planning. I have written pages upon pages of notes about this adventure I was preparing to undertake. There are some hurdles I am having to try and find my way over.
First we are a group of 4 Adults and two of us happen to be a engaged couple (not me) so the basic room while it could work for us I kind of want the couple to have a little more privacy. This option seemed easiest to solve by settling on a Family Suite at All-Star Music Resort for 6 nights. Not my resort of choice but this is the most affordable way for us to get the accommodations that we would need as getting two separate adjoining rooms seems like it would come out being more expensive. I am the major decider on the fact that I want to stay on Property. I am the one in the group who does not drive and if my friends wanted to stay at the resort and relax, if we stay on property it just makes it so easy for me to get around and visit the parks to my hearts content.
The other hurdle I am dealing with is that everyone seems content with not planning anything at all for the trip and leaving that in my hands. So great you are letting the guy who has never left the province he was born in let alone visited the WDW parks take care of the planning? Ha... Yeah that's probably not the best choice, especially when it comes to trying to figure out ADR's. Now I am not going crazy here, I am not planning things down to the minute. I do love the idea of a free-form Disney vacation with no real strict plans. The only thing I am trying to plan out is 1 meal every night of our stay. So yeah fighting with myself about "is that too much to expect for the vacation?". I have tried to talk to my friends about this and I get three different versions of "Dude we are not even going until November 2020, it's way too early to be thinking about any of that". They just don't know.
I love the planning and learning everything I can about the Vacation because I know one thing is guaranteed to happen. When I get there I'm going to be overwhelmed I know I will be. I have been a Disney fan since I was 5 years old and that love hasn't gone away. All the stories of people crying when they step foot onto main street and see that Castle for the first time... Yeah that's going to be me I know it.
Thanks for letting me get this out there. I needed to talk about it somehow because if my co-workers hear the words "Disney" out of my mouth again I am going to have things thrown at me.