loribell
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Okay I am going to make an attempt at a trip report. I hope I don't bore you all to tears we our wild adventures.
This trip had been in the plans for years. DD's birthday is Dec 23rd and she had been waiting for her birthday trip. I had been prepping the extended family since Christmas of 04 and reminded them Christmas of 05 that we would not be home for this Christmas. Everyone was told they were more than welcome to come along but we definetly would not be home. I also made many addtional reminders throughout the year that this Christmas would be Ally's birthday trip to her favorite place.
Now I love to plan our trips. Dh even says that I enjoy it more than the trip itself. I don't think so, but I do really enjoy it. I made our day by day reservations in January, made the dining reservations at the 180 day mark. We were all set.
The kids loved SSR when we visited the pool in the summer of 05 so they wanted to at least spend a few days there. I on the other hand insisted on being at my beloved VWL for the actual holiday. DH said we didn't need a big room for the whole time so I booked a lock-off studio for the 19th - 23rd and a 2 bed lock-off for the Christmas Eve & Christmas Night, then added on a studio at SSR for the 26th - 29th. We were also booked for the 16th - 19th at the Royal Pacific resort so we could enjoy a few days at the Universal parks as well.
Then low & behold, I had a conference come up in Orlando in September. There was no way I was going without the kids. I booked rooms at SSR, airfare & took the kids out of school for 3 days. We had a fabulous time and now the kids had there SSR fix but there was no switching the rest of the reservation to VWL, it was too late. And wow, the parks in September were absolutely empty, except for those lovebugs!
November comes around & I still have no airfare. I could never find anything decent for our time frame. All of a sudden it was Thanksgiving & we had decided we were driving, then I checked one more time. Not only decent fares, but great ones (only $178 each) but they wre out of Dallas. Okay, we will drive to Dallas for our non-stop flight to Orlando. We were all set.
Also in November DS 21 breaks things off with his fiance. Now he is going to be home without us or her for Christmas. He wanted to come but was only going to have the 25th off & didn't want to fly down for just 2 days. 10 days before time to leave and he finds out he is going to be off on the 26th too. Now he wants to come. Last minute flights are very expensive, but what is a mother to do? Oh yeah, and all those ADR's are for 4. Nope none of them can be changed, we'll have to take our chances. One other thing he's flying in late on the 22nd and we are in a studio. I'm sure I will make a few people mad, but I couldn't do anything else. He squeezed in until we moved to the 2 bed. If it makes anyone feel better we only had 5 people in the 2 bed so it all evened out in the end!
Thats probably enough for this post. I will continue on in a bit and get down to the trip itself!
Lori
This trip had been in the plans for years. DD's birthday is Dec 23rd and she had been waiting for her birthday trip. I had been prepping the extended family since Christmas of 04 and reminded them Christmas of 05 that we would not be home for this Christmas. Everyone was told they were more than welcome to come along but we definetly would not be home. I also made many addtional reminders throughout the year that this Christmas would be Ally's birthday trip to her favorite place.
Now I love to plan our trips. Dh even says that I enjoy it more than the trip itself. I don't think so, but I do really enjoy it. I made our day by day reservations in January, made the dining reservations at the 180 day mark. We were all set.
The kids loved SSR when we visited the pool in the summer of 05 so they wanted to at least spend a few days there. I on the other hand insisted on being at my beloved VWL for the actual holiday. DH said we didn't need a big room for the whole time so I booked a lock-off studio for the 19th - 23rd and a 2 bed lock-off for the Christmas Eve & Christmas Night, then added on a studio at SSR for the 26th - 29th. We were also booked for the 16th - 19th at the Royal Pacific resort so we could enjoy a few days at the Universal parks as well.
Then low & behold, I had a conference come up in Orlando in September. There was no way I was going without the kids. I booked rooms at SSR, airfare & took the kids out of school for 3 days. We had a fabulous time and now the kids had there SSR fix but there was no switching the rest of the reservation to VWL, it was too late. And wow, the parks in September were absolutely empty, except for those lovebugs!
November comes around & I still have no airfare. I could never find anything decent for our time frame. All of a sudden it was Thanksgiving & we had decided we were driving, then I checked one more time. Not only decent fares, but great ones (only $178 each) but they wre out of Dallas. Okay, we will drive to Dallas for our non-stop flight to Orlando. We were all set.
Also in November DS 21 breaks things off with his fiance. Now he is going to be home without us or her for Christmas. He wanted to come but was only going to have the 25th off & didn't want to fly down for just 2 days. 10 days before time to leave and he finds out he is going to be off on the 26th too. Now he wants to come. Last minute flights are very expensive, but what is a mother to do? Oh yeah, and all those ADR's are for 4. Nope none of them can be changed, we'll have to take our chances. One other thing he's flying in late on the 22nd and we are in a studio. I'm sure I will make a few people mad, but I couldn't do anything else. He squeezed in until we moved to the 2 bed. If it makes anyone feel better we only had 5 people in the 2 bed so it all evened out in the end!
Thats probably enough for this post. I will continue on in a bit and get down to the trip itself!
Lori