chanti
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6 weeks
. 6 weeks!!! Somewhere, inside me, an insane person lurks who would like to shout this off the roof tops: 6 WEEKS!! I want to grab random strangers by the shoulders and happily shout, with a mad glint in my eye: Six weeks miss/mister/child/person of indefinable gender
Only six weeks left, 42 days our vacation is finally getting near. We started planning this holiday somewhere in the 1920s, at least it feels that way. Oh who am I kidding when I say we, I truly mean I whilst the rest of my fellow travellers have been backing away slowly and avoiding eye-contact. And who can blame them. This early planning thing has really not been good for what little mental sanity I possess.
So I am about as excited as a two year old who had six times the allowed sugar intake, and I have been in this state of hyper happiness for months now. Feel free to pity all those who surround me.
Let me introduce our travelling cast (love how you people call the travellers the cast, so I feel I must be a heard animal and follow by example)
Well there is DH, who is observing my Disney madness with mild amusement and equal amounts of fear. He is not a great Disney lover (not a hater either) but I am working on him and slowly but surely he is getting there. My cunning plan is to have him skipping around and counting the days for our next trip (which, of course, is inevitable)
Then there is the star of our show DD, Elora, who will be slightly over 2 ½ when we take off to Disney World. She is as excited as I am, though she has never been to Disney.
Little miss nosey has been following my every move with her little hawk eyes and she actually recognises Disney world now from pictures (and when she does, shell shout in a voice a few octaves higher than her regular voice: Thats Disney World
And then she will go into a lengthy monologue what Disney characters she will meet and/ or hug)
Then we have a late character in our wonderful and wacky show: DM. My mom will be joining us after 8 days into our trip.
And last, theres me, your tourguide. Now I am a bit rusty at this because my last trip was in January 2000 and seeing that we are going in December 2009 now, I think I can legally count it as 10 year since my last trip. Things were very different then.
So, mom and I have been to Disney World a few times since our first trip in 1980. Which is pretty cool considering its not exactly around the corner for us. It takes us at least 9 ½ hours by plane to even get to Orlando (and thats if we are lucky and get a direct flight) Not to mention the 6 hour time difference that really does comical things to my mind.
This trip will be special though, really special. Its my daughters first trip to Disney and also my husband (though he has been to Disneyland Paris before) and it is our (yup OUR, also mine!!) first time staying on site. We are staying in the Animal Kingdom Lodge for three glorious weeks. The sheer thought of that makes me giddy inside and makes me want to practice my nature calls. I said makes me want I wont, dont want to risk people locking me up I heard it only takes 7 signatures, I am sure those are not hard to find.
So now I am counting the days (thanks to this ticker I found on the internet, I am secretly counting the hours too but if you repeat that, I shall deny EVERYTHING) until I get to skip along the Disney parks, singing Zippedeedoodah on the top of my voice.
Now there is one more thing that instantly turns me into a four year old when I think of it were going from November 30th until December 21st, when the Christmas decorations are up!! There is something about Christmas that I really love. When I was eight, my mom and I went to Disney World during Christmas and I remember seeing the biggest Christmas tree I had ever seen. I cant wait to show my daughter that same (or similar) tree.
Life is good!! We got some nice ADRs this time too. (Last time we lived of burgers for nine days lunch, dinner, and I think even for breakfast once. Now I dont mind a good burger and they were good but after nine days I actually gagged for some sort of vegetable that didnt come attached to a burger) This will be our first time doing character dining as well. I hope we like it, because I booked almost every character meal I could find (almost.. not quite all)
And so my DH is going to have to put up with the 6 Weeks rant for another week . For then I shall be singing a different tune (called: five weeks) And I shall be counting days and hours and what not until our fabbity fab vacation.
Meanwhile I am going to have to live vicariously through all the Dissers who have had their holidays and were kind enough to jot them down in the trip report sections (keep em coming folks, I can almost imagine myself with you on your trips in a non creepy or stalkery way, thank you very much!!)
Only six weeks left, 42 days our vacation is finally getting near. We started planning this holiday somewhere in the 1920s, at least it feels that way. Oh who am I kidding when I say we, I truly mean I whilst the rest of my fellow travellers have been backing away slowly and avoiding eye-contact. And who can blame them. This early planning thing has really not been good for what little mental sanity I possess.
So I am about as excited as a two year old who had six times the allowed sugar intake, and I have been in this state of hyper happiness for months now. Feel free to pity all those who surround me.
Let me introduce our travelling cast (love how you people call the travellers the cast, so I feel I must be a heard animal and follow by example)
Well there is DH, who is observing my Disney madness with mild amusement and equal amounts of fear. He is not a great Disney lover (not a hater either) but I am working on him and slowly but surely he is getting there. My cunning plan is to have him skipping around and counting the days for our next trip (which, of course, is inevitable)
Then there is the star of our show DD, Elora, who will be slightly over 2 ½ when we take off to Disney World. She is as excited as I am, though she has never been to Disney.
Then we have a late character in our wonderful and wacky show: DM. My mom will be joining us after 8 days into our trip.
And last, theres me, your tourguide. Now I am a bit rusty at this because my last trip was in January 2000 and seeing that we are going in December 2009 now, I think I can legally count it as 10 year since my last trip. Things were very different then.
So, mom and I have been to Disney World a few times since our first trip in 1980. Which is pretty cool considering its not exactly around the corner for us. It takes us at least 9 ½ hours by plane to even get to Orlando (and thats if we are lucky and get a direct flight) Not to mention the 6 hour time difference that really does comical things to my mind.
This trip will be special though, really special. Its my daughters first trip to Disney and also my husband (though he has been to Disneyland Paris before) and it is our (yup OUR, also mine!!) first time staying on site. We are staying in the Animal Kingdom Lodge for three glorious weeks. The sheer thought of that makes me giddy inside and makes me want to practice my nature calls. I said makes me want I wont, dont want to risk people locking me up I heard it only takes 7 signatures, I am sure those are not hard to find.
So now I am counting the days (thanks to this ticker I found on the internet, I am secretly counting the hours too but if you repeat that, I shall deny EVERYTHING) until I get to skip along the Disney parks, singing Zippedeedoodah on the top of my voice.
Now there is one more thing that instantly turns me into a four year old when I think of it were going from November 30th until December 21st, when the Christmas decorations are up!! There is something about Christmas that I really love. When I was eight, my mom and I went to Disney World during Christmas and I remember seeing the biggest Christmas tree I had ever seen. I cant wait to show my daughter that same (or similar) tree.
Life is good!! We got some nice ADRs this time too. (Last time we lived of burgers for nine days lunch, dinner, and I think even for breakfast once. Now I dont mind a good burger and they were good but after nine days I actually gagged for some sort of vegetable that didnt come attached to a burger) This will be our first time doing character dining as well. I hope we like it, because I booked almost every character meal I could find (almost.. not quite all)
And so my DH is going to have to put up with the 6 Weeks rant for another week . For then I shall be singing a different tune (called: five weeks) And I shall be counting days and hours and what not until our fabbity fab vacation.
Meanwhile I am going to have to live vicariously through all the Dissers who have had their holidays and were kind enough to jot them down in the trip report sections (keep em coming folks, I can almost imagine myself with you on your trips in a non creepy or stalkery way, thank you very much!!)
She will find all sorts of ways to get you involved in her games. She just yaks and yaks and fysically she is really hyper active as well. We keep down her sugar intake not only for health reasons, but also for OUR sanity. 
) morning: breakfast at Ohana's
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