aidensmom31
Obsessed Disney Fan
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Background
I have always wanted to do a trip report but never seemed to have the time during my past trips. We started planning this trip earlier than any others and to help pass the time I have done a lot of crafty projects for the trip, but now I am running out of those and need something to pass the next 5 and a half months. So here I am starting a pre trip report and plan to do a trip report upon our return. There will be a lot to write about
J
I have always wanted to do a trip report but never seemed to have the time during my past trips. We started planning this trip earlier than any others and to help pass the time I have done a lot of crafty projects for the trip, but now I am running out of those and need something to pass the next 5 and a half months. So here I am starting a pre trip report and plan to do a trip report upon our return. There will be a lot to write about
J
I have a lot to add already but photobucket was being evil last night so I had to wait till today to upload my pics 
I wish I know of another site to use for my photos.
(including our one trip to WDW in 2009). So in order to help myself remember all of our plans I have made a basic schedule. I am a pretty organized person and am definitely a planner but in the past I have forgotten or almost forgotten special dining we have had planned 
So here is the tentative schedule (things may change when it comes time to make reservations):
. Then we will grab some lunch to take on the plane. We depart at 1119am and arrive at Long Beach Airport at 134pm. Once we land we will grab out checked bags and take a luxury towncar (I decided since this was a special trip to go all out as much as I can and while I love using the shuttle wanted something a little more special and just us
and let me rest for a little while. Then it is off to the parks 
We have to activate our AP's, get our photopass plus card and just soak in the fact that we are in 
We will have dinner at Cafe Orleans which has become a tradition for us, ride some rides and enjoy it all but probably not stay up too late. 
Fanatasmic Dessert Package, most likely the first showing.
. I know some people like them and some dont but for me it really is ideal. This way I can have one day where I dont have to run for FP's with my son, since it is only me and him we have no runner any other day, we always have to do it together. I would totally do a VIP tour through Disney but I just dont have that kind of money at this time. They will also be holding my spot for the fireworks which is something my son and I have never got to see from a good vantage point 
Surf's Up with Mickey at the Paradise Pier Hotel @ 700am. Holiday Tour Day 
Minnie & Friends at the Plaza Inn @ 710am. Based on how busy it was when we were at Disneyland in 2011 I am figuring that by 600pm my son and I will have done what we want to and will most likely head out of the park for our fourth Character Meal Goofy's Kitchen dinner. We will take our time and enjoy what characters we can, then hit DTD and then most likely call it an early night. We would just rather be in the parks the next morning then sleeping because we were up so late.
So far I know for sure that we will eat lunch at Cafe Orleans (this is also a tradition). The towncar picks us up @ 330pm. We will check our bags, grab our dinner and then wait for boarding. We take off @ 605pm and should be home by 828pm.
. So it is now approx 5 and 1/2 months away and I need things to do to help pass the time 
. I did a lot of reading on the disboards, strolling Pinterest, reading blogs, looking on esty for special things, and digging around the interent 
. I found so much. Some of it I was willing to do myself and some I just decided to save myself from 
or 
and buy them made by somebody else. I found so much it was hard to choose and I dont think I am done yet 
The next several post will be of the crafts I made or purchased for the trip 
before and knew we would be seeing lots of crowds so we decided that we wanted to find something that we could do in the park but that would not require us to stand in long lines. I searched the internet for ideas and found these instructions to a scavenger hunt. I am not a super crafty person but it seemed simple enough, so I started doing research for questions and quests. Read several books, looked online, went through past trip stuff then created all the pages and took it to Office Depot to have them laminate the cover and bind it. All together it cost me maybe $10 
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. We started it when he when he was little on our beach trips and museum trips and other local trips. Then we started to look for them everywhere we went 
. On our first visit to WDW our family friend who works there told us how many you could find in the parks and well an obsession was formed 
. So this time I decided to make something to store all my stuff in and it is something I will be able to reuse in the future 
. Its still in the process of being put together but I will get a picture up soon. 
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my son and I decided to make up Disney questions and then each answer them. We had a lot of fun so I think we will continue to do them every couple of weeks till we leave. 
