Fairy Godmother
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- Jun 26, 2005
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I have always enjoyed reading the fabulous trip reports posted here on the DIS and wished I could capture our magical trips in words the way so many of the poster here do. I have always felt it would be a wonderful souvenir to be able to go back and revisit memories of Disney vacations years later through trip reports. I started writing a trip report of our vacation in May 2006 but 10 months later I am only half way through. I never posted it on the DIS because my grand plan was to post it all at once. This year I thought I would try a different tactic and start with a pre trip report.
My traveling party consist of
Me fairy godmother (almost 38)
My dear best friend S
(41)
S DS #1 Pirate Guy or PG
(11)
S DS #2 Surfer Dude or SD
(9)
We will be arriving at WDW May 27th after staying 4 nights at the Hard Rock Hotel at Universal. We will be leaving June 3rd.
This will be are 3rd trip to WDW together and supposedly are last trip until the boys are both in high school. I say supposedly last trip because that is what we say every time we go. The boys in high school part was just added this month. Here is a little background to explain how we got to this point.
S & I met at a wedding 17 years ago and actually dated long distance for a few months before figuring out that long distance relationships don't really work when you are 3000 miles apart and neither person really wants to move. We remained friends but drifted apart after a year or two because life just kind of moves along and people go in different directions.
Fast forward to 2002 and my phone rings late one night. It was S he was going through a divorce and needed some one to talk. I myself had just been dumped. It was a horrible relationship but it still sucked to be dumped in the way I was. So we bonded over our sorrows and some how wound up as best friends.
In March 2003, S & I met up in Memphis for a week end and had a great time. The next year we started talking about meeting up again and somehow came up with the idea of taking the boys to WDW since they had never been. This was the spring of 2004 and Disney had a code out for the fall of buy a 5 night package and get 2 nights free. So after much discussion we decided on 2 connecting rooms at the Wilderness Lodge. I discovered the DIS and TGM and did an adequate planning job. We had a good time but it was a little awkward because it was the first time I had met the boys. Walking out of Epcot after Illuminations on our last night we were very sad and decided to return to WDW one more time. I wanted one more chance to plan the perfect vacation.
So we were back in WDW May 2006 for our " last time at Disney so lets do it up right" vacation. It was day 3 of the trip and we were lounging at the volcano pool at the Poly when S and PG out of no where decided we need to come back next year for one last time at Disney.
So this is how I came to start planning this vacation while still on our last vacation to WDW.
My traveling party consist of
Me fairy godmother (almost 38)
My dear best friend S
(41)S DS #1 Pirate Guy or PG
(11)S DS #2 Surfer Dude or SD
(9)We will be arriving at WDW May 27th after staying 4 nights at the Hard Rock Hotel at Universal. We will be leaving June 3rd.
This will be are 3rd trip to WDW together and supposedly are last trip until the boys are both in high school. I say supposedly last trip because that is what we say every time we go. The boys in high school part was just added this month. Here is a little background to explain how we got to this point.
S & I met at a wedding 17 years ago and actually dated long distance for a few months before figuring out that long distance relationships don't really work when you are 3000 miles apart and neither person really wants to move. We remained friends but drifted apart after a year or two because life just kind of moves along and people go in different directions.
Fast forward to 2002 and my phone rings late one night. It was S he was going through a divorce and needed some one to talk. I myself had just been dumped. It was a horrible relationship but it still sucked to be dumped in the way I was. So we bonded over our sorrows and some how wound up as best friends.
In March 2003, S & I met up in Memphis for a week end and had a great time. The next year we started talking about meeting up again and somehow came up with the idea of taking the boys to WDW since they had never been. This was the spring of 2004 and Disney had a code out for the fall of buy a 5 night package and get 2 nights free. So after much discussion we decided on 2 connecting rooms at the Wilderness Lodge. I discovered the DIS and TGM and did an adequate planning job. We had a good time but it was a little awkward because it was the first time I had met the boys. Walking out of Epcot after Illuminations on our last night we were very sad and decided to return to WDW one more time. I wanted one more chance to plan the perfect vacation.
So we were back in WDW May 2006 for our " last time at Disney so lets do it up right" vacation. It was day 3 of the trip and we were lounging at the volcano pool at the Poly when S and PG out of no where decided we need to come back next year for one last time at Disney.
So this is how I came to start planning this vacation while still on our last vacation to WDW.
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My first poster. My pretrip report is now offical 
calls me with the dreaded "we have a problem" phone call. Fortunately his problems are never very hard for me to solve. K was not going to be able to take time off mid week to come down and play golf with S. The only day K could play was Saturday. Unfortunately we were arriving on a Saturday and departing on a Saturday. S then says why don't we just leave on Sunday and play golf on Saturday. Just a little side note S loves to pretend he doesn't like Disney even though deep down he loves it as much as me. He often refers to me as the Disney Nazi as I herd our group off to the next ride or ADR. However he does appreciate that we never have to wait in long lines. So it kind of shocked me when he said to add another day on.
a bit. So it is all set! We are now going to Universal for 3 nights and WDW for 7 nights. Life is good! 
Unfortunately life is just not that simple in the fairy godmother's world. My conscious starts nagging me. S 
This means we won't get to Orlando until 9 or 10 that night. Then one of our days at HRH we are renting a cabana and hanging out by the pool 
. So that means they will only really have a day and a half to get their thrill ride fix. My guilt gets the better of me. I call S from work Wednesday afternoon and share my thoughts. He tells me he will call me back later after he asks PG and SD what they want to do. He calls me back on my way home from work and says to make the change. The best part about the last change is that it actually saves us some money. I checked online and Universal had a deal that if you stayed 4 nights you got 2 tickets free. Now we only have to buy 2 tickets instead of 4.
PG
