abarriger
Mouseketeer
- Joined
- Jun 5, 2014
Welcome, dear reader(s)! Let's get something on the table before I begin-- my name is Amy, and I'm a chronic trip report abandoner. I think this will be my third attempt at a report so far, and they have all stalled terribly. But this time will be different, I promise!
So, first, of all, welcome to what I'm sure is going to be the most exciting, most stimulating, most complete trip report written by me yet. So I guess I will start with introductions.
Here's who will be joining you on this trip:
That's me (Amy), your fearless leader of this trip report.
I love just about everything about Disney, but a few of my most favorite parts of a Disney trip are: Frozen (in any and all forms), The Little Mermaid Ride, princesses, baked goods, and resort pool slides. I dislike scary rides and downtime. By day, I'm a preschool teacher at a private early childhood center. I'm the real Disney-fanatic in our household, and I spend pretty much all year planning out our next trips... or dreaming of the next one.
That's my loving wife, Marjorie. Don't let the mouse ears fool you... these Disney trips were never about her. But she is (usually) a pretty good sport. Some of her favorites include Tangled, Flight of Passage, Tiffins, and Animal Kingdom. She dislikes early morning rope drop and a fast spinning teacup. For the last 6 years of our life, Marjorie has been a full time graduate student... but this year brought a big change, and she took a "big girl job" as a real professor at a wonderful college in Indiana.
We've been lucky enough to have had a good number of Disney trips over the years. Here's our first trip ever, in 2014. Honestly, we have only been able to do this because of Marjorie's parents, who purchased a house 2 hours from Disney. So, our trips are short (because we squeeze them in on the end of a visit to her family) but we have been fortunate enough to return several times.
This was our first time, in 2014. The trip was one day long, with a night spent crashing at Pop before driving back the next morning. We got bitten pretty badly by that wonderful day at MK, and have returned (almost) every year since: here are some highlights.
The one exception was 2017, which we took off for a different magic kind of occasion.
Anyhow, all of those trips were very special to us. Even if Disney isn't Marjorie's favorite place in the universe, we have shared some wonderful moments together there. And it had become a kind of tradition in our house, that the very end of each summer was marked with a trip to Florida. But things are a little different now. Marjorie and I both started new jobs, and I am now working at a school without the whole summer off.
So this year marks a new kind of a Disney trip. We know it will be crowded, we know it will (probably) be too cold to swim in the swimming pool, we know it will be Christmas all over the place... but we will be ringing in the first day of 2020 at our happy place. Welcome along!
So, first, of all, welcome to what I'm sure is going to be the most exciting, most stimulating, most complete trip report written by me yet. So I guess I will start with introductions.
Here's who will be joining you on this trip:
That's me (Amy), your fearless leader of this trip report.
I love just about everything about Disney, but a few of my most favorite parts of a Disney trip are: Frozen (in any and all forms), The Little Mermaid Ride, princesses, baked goods, and resort pool slides. I dislike scary rides and downtime. By day, I'm a preschool teacher at a private early childhood center. I'm the real Disney-fanatic in our household, and I spend pretty much all year planning out our next trips... or dreaming of the next one.
That's my loving wife, Marjorie. Don't let the mouse ears fool you... these Disney trips were never about her. But she is (usually) a pretty good sport. Some of her favorites include Tangled, Flight of Passage, Tiffins, and Animal Kingdom. She dislikes early morning rope drop and a fast spinning teacup. For the last 6 years of our life, Marjorie has been a full time graduate student... but this year brought a big change, and she took a "big girl job" as a real professor at a wonderful college in Indiana.
We've been lucky enough to have had a good number of Disney trips over the years. Here's our first trip ever, in 2014. Honestly, we have only been able to do this because of Marjorie's parents, who purchased a house 2 hours from Disney. So, our trips are short (because we squeeze them in on the end of a visit to her family) but we have been fortunate enough to return several times.
This was our first time, in 2014. The trip was one day long, with a night spent crashing at Pop before driving back the next morning. We got bitten pretty badly by that wonderful day at MK, and have returned (almost) every year since: here are some highlights.
The one exception was 2017, which we took off for a different magic kind of occasion.
Anyhow, all of those trips were very special to us. Even if Disney isn't Marjorie's favorite place in the universe, we have shared some wonderful moments together there. And it had become a kind of tradition in our house, that the very end of each summer was marked with a trip to Florida. But things are a little different now. Marjorie and I both started new jobs, and I am now working at a school without the whole summer off.
So this year marks a new kind of a Disney trip. We know it will be crowded, we know it will (probably) be too cold to swim in the swimming pool, we know it will be Christmas all over the place... but we will be ringing in the first day of 2020 at our happy place. Welcome along!