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Friends! It’s time!
Welcome aboard as we sketch out our plans for our next Disney trip.
[/B]Yes! Come along as we plan for another repeat June visit to WDW, staying once again at Copper Creek for 6 nights. For those who are new to our trip reports, be sure to check out our past ones including last year when we did a very similar stay and had a great time. You can also go all the way back to our first family visit, when our daughter was 3 years old. She'll be 15 for this year's trip, and has become quite the Disney Fan.
Yeah she’s getting old.
So let's get through the introductions. I'm Paul, a now 45 year old Dad, Elevator Mechanic, car guy, and fixer of things.
My favorite Disney movie is Cars, my favorite ride is Test Track (which will be a bit of a bummer this June, oh well), and my favorite place on earth is the Wilderness Lodge. I write my portions of the report in Blue.
I’m Melissa, I love cows and going to Disney.
I do office things for the Elevator Company and am currently the #1 shuttle for our kids and their activities.
My favorite rides are the People Mover and Living with the Land. My favorite Epcot festival is Festival of the Arts. I make my comments in Orange.
I do miss going in January for Festival of the Arts. For our longer time followers, our friends Jon and Brandy will be going to Disney in January and we are definitely slightly jealous. This also means we will miss having them with us this time, since they are not on board for a hot June trip. Our trip will be June 3 through 9th, conveniently ending on our 18th anniversary.
Yes, this year we fly home on our anniversary but I think it’ll be ok (subtle foreshadowing). We miss having our friends with us on our trip but we get that it’s hot. We’d for sure go a different time of year if we could but Allie is lots of smarts and taking tough classes so it just makes it harder for her to miss. This year she’s even trying out for the track team so that also throws a wrench into future trip planning if she continues to do that for the next three years.
That brings us to Allie, she is our daughter and the "she" in our trip reports.
She is now 15 and a freshman in High School. She loves DIsney as much as any of us and would love to do September trips again, but missing school is not in the plan for the next few years. She loves getting to go any time of year though, but prefers hot weather at Disney to going in the winter.
Marshall is our son and he’s 9 now. He went on his first Disneyworld trip at 9 months old!
He is homeschooled and we probably won’t be done with 3rd grade before we take our trip but we can take the week off. He says he doesn’t know what his favorite ride is but Slinky Dog is the best.
Yes he has grown up at Disney World, making a trip every year. He enjoys pin trading and figuring out how things actually work. He does not however believe that Space 220's elevator is real.
We’re staying in a one bedroom villa at Copper Creek again.
It works out so nice to have a full kitchen and laundry in the room. Not to mention the king size bed. That’s pretty nice too.
Oh yes. We have been DVC owners at Copper Creek since 2017, which works out great with our love of the Lodge. We have yet to stay in a studio, and don't anticipate doing so soon, even if it means shorter trips or more time between them. The 6 day length works well for us with work, so we don't miss a single entire week. Someday we would like to get back up to longer trips, but that means more points and more time off work, thus inhibiting the ability to fund those points so here we are, settled in for 6 days in a one bedroom. We loved it last year and can't wait to do it again.
Having a full size fridge helps with breakfasts, snacks, and drinks in the room and having easy laundry keeps us from overpacking (which doesn’t much matter this year, more subtle foreshadowing) and we come home with clean clothes.
We really do love those rooms. We have had some great views, and request high floors near the lobby, which leads to the best views of Bay Lake and the inner courtyard.
Side note, I undertook a project to figure out the room layout of each room at Copper Creek, so I know where the potential room locations are and somewhat obsessively think about our room options. Here is the link to the floorplan layout I compiled before it was released by Disney. https://www.disboards.com/threads/•...ns-owners-lovers-group•.3631019/post-62713494
While the only real differences are the view and the walk to transportation, it is interesting to have a different room each time to make each trip unique. Not that I would turn down the "bear face" room from two years ago though, that was amazing.
Obsessive is an understatement. When he gets the text with the room number he knows instantly what room we are going to have.
It is fun to know, although the other people on the airplane kind of look at me funny as we are taxiing to the gate. Yep it has happened.
While you’re doing your celebration dance.
Oh yes, that is the most important part... Anyway, welcome along as we figure out what we will do to make this trip fun and unique. We're glad that you're here and hope you all join in with us.
Welcome aboard as we sketch out our plans for our next Disney trip.
[/B]Yes! Come along as we plan for another repeat June visit to WDW, staying once again at Copper Creek for 6 nights. For those who are new to our trip reports, be sure to check out our past ones including last year when we did a very similar stay and had a great time. You can also go all the way back to our first family visit, when our daughter was 3 years old. She'll be 15 for this year's trip, and has become quite the Disney Fan.
Yeah she’s getting old.
So let's get through the introductions. I'm Paul, a now 45 year old Dad, Elevator Mechanic, car guy, and fixer of things.
My favorite Disney movie is Cars, my favorite ride is Test Track (which will be a bit of a bummer this June, oh well), and my favorite place on earth is the Wilderness Lodge. I write my portions of the report in Blue.
I’m Melissa, I love cows and going to Disney.
I do office things for the Elevator Company and am currently the #1 shuttle for our kids and their activities.
My favorite rides are the People Mover and Living with the Land. My favorite Epcot festival is Festival of the Arts. I make my comments in Orange.
I do miss going in January for Festival of the Arts. For our longer time followers, our friends Jon and Brandy will be going to Disney in January and we are definitely slightly jealous. This also means we will miss having them with us this time, since they are not on board for a hot June trip. Our trip will be June 3 through 9th, conveniently ending on our 18th anniversary.
Yes, this year we fly home on our anniversary but I think it’ll be ok (subtle foreshadowing). We miss having our friends with us on our trip but we get that it’s hot. We’d for sure go a different time of year if we could but Allie is lots of smarts and taking tough classes so it just makes it harder for her to miss. This year she’s even trying out for the track team so that also throws a wrench into future trip planning if she continues to do that for the next three years.
That brings us to Allie, she is our daughter and the "she" in our trip reports.
She is now 15 and a freshman in High School. She loves DIsney as much as any of us and would love to do September trips again, but missing school is not in the plan for the next few years. She loves getting to go any time of year though, but prefers hot weather at Disney to going in the winter.
Marshall is our son and he’s 9 now. He went on his first Disneyworld trip at 9 months old!
He is homeschooled and we probably won’t be done with 3rd grade before we take our trip but we can take the week off. He says he doesn’t know what his favorite ride is but Slinky Dog is the best.
Yes he has grown up at Disney World, making a trip every year. He enjoys pin trading and figuring out how things actually work. He does not however believe that Space 220's elevator is real.
We’re staying in a one bedroom villa at Copper Creek again.
It works out so nice to have a full kitchen and laundry in the room. Not to mention the king size bed. That’s pretty nice too.
Oh yes. We have been DVC owners at Copper Creek since 2017, which works out great with our love of the Lodge. We have yet to stay in a studio, and don't anticipate doing so soon, even if it means shorter trips or more time between them. The 6 day length works well for us with work, so we don't miss a single entire week. Someday we would like to get back up to longer trips, but that means more points and more time off work, thus inhibiting the ability to fund those points so here we are, settled in for 6 days in a one bedroom. We loved it last year and can't wait to do it again.
Having a full size fridge helps with breakfasts, snacks, and drinks in the room and having easy laundry keeps us from overpacking (which doesn’t much matter this year, more subtle foreshadowing) and we come home with clean clothes.
We really do love those rooms. We have had some great views, and request high floors near the lobby, which leads to the best views of Bay Lake and the inner courtyard.
Side note, I undertook a project to figure out the room layout of each room at Copper Creek, so I know where the potential room locations are and somewhat obsessively think about our room options. Here is the link to the floorplan layout I compiled before it was released by Disney. https://www.disboards.com/threads/•...ns-owners-lovers-group•.3631019/post-62713494
While the only real differences are the view and the walk to transportation, it is interesting to have a different room each time to make each trip unique. Not that I would turn down the "bear face" room from two years ago though, that was amazing.
Obsessive is an understatement. When he gets the text with the room number he knows instantly what room we are going to have.
It is fun to know, although the other people on the airplane kind of look at me funny as we are taxiing to the gate. Yep it has happened.
While you’re doing your celebration dance.
Oh yes, that is the most important part... Anyway, welcome along as we figure out what we will do to make this trip fun and unique. We're glad that you're here and hope you all join in with us.
