Kristi391
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I have never done a PTR but I am so excited about my upcoming trip and nobody in my family or circle of friends really wants to talk to me about it, so I figured this would be the perfect place to share my excitement!
Hope it isn't too long or boring!
Participants:
Kristi (37)
Jessica (15)
I am a single special ed teacher who loves to travel. I usually go away for a few weeks each summer with my mom, but this summer I have a new nephew (the first in our family), so I am providing day care for my brother and SIL. It has been so much fun, I don't mind giving up my several week jaunts. I did however feel I would like to go away for a long weekend. I was thinking I would go to Toronto because I love that city, but couldn't really find anyone to go with. Disneyland wasn't even really on my radar because I spent 2 days their back in April before going on a cruise up the pacific coast. Then last week Jessica, (my cousin's daughter) texted me asking her to take her to the midnight showing of Eclipse. While we were together that night we were talking about stuff going on in her life, she had recently gone on a trip to NYC with her theatre class to see some plays and had a great time, then we somehow morphed into a conversation about Disney. I asked her if she had seen the Aladin show at DL and she said she had never been to DL, which surprised me. She absolutely loves WDW! Earlier this year when her mom and dad were planning their 20th anniversary trip without kids, Jess found some Disney planning books and she hid them because she didn't think it was fair that they go without her!
So the more I thought about going away for a weekend, I kept going back to the fact that Jess had never been to DL and at that time I thought the Aladin show was leaving in August, so I thought "I need to take her to see that!" I emailed her mom and asked her if it was ok that I take her clear across the country as her birthday gift (Her b-day isn't until October, but that would be a very tough time for either of us to go away for a long weekend...she's got volleyball and I have state testing in school!). Mom was thrilled and I got the ok to take her and started planning!
The Plan
We are flying out on July 29th at at about 10 am...I am a little concerned about out connection in Newark as it is only 50 minutes...I so hope we don't have to take some kind of shuttle to different terminal.
We get to Orange County at 2:49 pm Thursday afternoon. I am not sure if we are going to have 3 day park hopper passes or the 2 bonus day ones. If we have the bonus days, we will head to a park, if not I have conflicting ideas about what to do that night. I was thinking of taking her to Goofy's kitchen for dinner as a fun start to our weekend, but don't know if I can justify spending the extra money. If we don't do that we will head over to Garden Walk and hang out there for the evening and then turn in early, as I am sure we will both be kind of tired with the flying all day and the time change. We are staying at the Red Lion, which I stayed at back in April and thought it was great!
Friday July 30
California Adventure: We will be here all day. We have Ariel's Grotto WOC for dinner and I am a bit skeptical about that whole thing, but we will give it a go! I have a Ridemax itinerary, but I did it myself and I really want Jess to do what she wants.
Saturday July 31 Disneyland all day.
Sunday August 1: I thought today would be a good day to revisit things that Jess loved in both parks or things that we may have missed.
Monday Fly home
I am trying to think of things to put together in a small goodie bag for Jess to give her either when we get to the airport or at the hotel...just some fun Disney items that would be age appropriate to get her just a little more excited...I got some good ideas on the regular DL thread, but I am always open to more.
Thats all for now!
Thanks for reading!
Kristi
Hope it isn't too long or boring!
Participants:
Kristi (37)
Jessica (15)
I am a single special ed teacher who loves to travel. I usually go away for a few weeks each summer with my mom, but this summer I have a new nephew (the first in our family), so I am providing day care for my brother and SIL. It has been so much fun, I don't mind giving up my several week jaunts. I did however feel I would like to go away for a long weekend. I was thinking I would go to Toronto because I love that city, but couldn't really find anyone to go with. Disneyland wasn't even really on my radar because I spent 2 days their back in April before going on a cruise up the pacific coast. Then last week Jessica, (my cousin's daughter) texted me asking her to take her to the midnight showing of Eclipse. While we were together that night we were talking about stuff going on in her life, she had recently gone on a trip to NYC with her theatre class to see some plays and had a great time, then we somehow morphed into a conversation about Disney. I asked her if she had seen the Aladin show at DL and she said she had never been to DL, which surprised me. She absolutely loves WDW! Earlier this year when her mom and dad were planning their 20th anniversary trip without kids, Jess found some Disney planning books and she hid them because she didn't think it was fair that they go without her!
So the more I thought about going away for a weekend, I kept going back to the fact that Jess had never been to DL and at that time I thought the Aladin show was leaving in August, so I thought "I need to take her to see that!" I emailed her mom and asked her if it was ok that I take her clear across the country as her birthday gift (Her b-day isn't until October, but that would be a very tough time for either of us to go away for a long weekend...she's got volleyball and I have state testing in school!). Mom was thrilled and I got the ok to take her and started planning!
The Plan
We are flying out on July 29th at at about 10 am...I am a little concerned about out connection in Newark as it is only 50 minutes...I so hope we don't have to take some kind of shuttle to different terminal.
We get to Orange County at 2:49 pm Thursday afternoon. I am not sure if we are going to have 3 day park hopper passes or the 2 bonus day ones. If we have the bonus days, we will head to a park, if not I have conflicting ideas about what to do that night. I was thinking of taking her to Goofy's kitchen for dinner as a fun start to our weekend, but don't know if I can justify spending the extra money. If we don't do that we will head over to Garden Walk and hang out there for the evening and then turn in early, as I am sure we will both be kind of tired with the flying all day and the time change. We are staying at the Red Lion, which I stayed at back in April and thought it was great!
Friday July 30
California Adventure: We will be here all day. We have Ariel's Grotto WOC for dinner and I am a bit skeptical about that whole thing, but we will give it a go! I have a Ridemax itinerary, but I did it myself and I really want Jess to do what she wants.
Saturday July 31 Disneyland all day.
Sunday August 1: I thought today would be a good day to revisit things that Jess loved in both parks or things that we may have missed.
Monday Fly home
I am trying to think of things to put together in a small goodie bag for Jess to give her either when we get to the airport or at the hotel...just some fun Disney items that would be age appropriate to get her just a little more excited...I got some good ideas on the regular DL thread, but I am always open to more.
Thats all for now!
Thanks for reading!
Kristi
) sunblock, advil, and dramamine, so I was pretty happy about that! I was able to start putting some clothes that I want to take...normally I wouldn't be able to do this because I would be wearing them in the next 2 weeks for work or whatever...but now that I am taking care of a 5 month old (who spits up a TON!) during the week, I have been wearing the same shorts and t-shirts while watching him, since by the time his mom or dad get home, I am pretty gross, so I wear t-shirts I usually only wear to the gym! 
Shouldn't still be a long list of stuff to get done!! 
Woo Hoo!!!
