MouseketeerKelsey
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Well guys, it's official, this is the trip that almost wasn't. It wasn't looking good. My health hasn't been great which has meant that I haven't been working which means that I can not pay for the entire trip on my own. I was devastated, but I was ready to cancel.
Enter the best mom in the world.
About a week ago I told her with tears in my eyes that I was going to cancel Disney. For this to make sense totally, let me give you some background on the family dynamic of Disney in my house. My parents started collecting Disney movies before I was born, when they had no kids. I grew up watching Disney movies. As I got older, my obsession with Disney grew and grew. When I got sick 5 years ago, I used Disney as a happy escape from the real world. I would watch the behind the scenes shows on Disney Parks that were on Netflix any time pain got bad as a way to distract my brain. I sat in the hospital watching Disney movies and the one week I got so bad that my mom put an extra bed in my room and essentially "moved in," she sat with me and watched ride throughs of my favorite rides. Disney is something that always makes me happy, except when I am too sick to go and have to cancel a trip. That's not so happy. My mom, however, loves Disney, but goes to Disney because it makes me so happy. It's not that she doesn't enjoy it, it's just that she enjoys how much I love it. She would pick somewhere more relaxed for her vacation, haha.
As soon as I told my mom that I thought we should cancel, she jumped into mom mode. She knows what Disney means to me and what it would do to me emotionally to cancel this trip so close to when we were going. As she said, things are hard enough right now with how I am feeling, let's not take away something positive. We will make it work.
At first I didn't want to talk about it. I didn't see any way I could go and thinking about it was too upsetting. I took a day and went back to talk to my mom. I said that maybe I could handle one day, in a wheelchair. She suggested one night, because having the hotel to go back to eliminates an over 2 hour car ride home after a long day and something that may seem weird is that sitting is very painful for me. I thought it was a good idea.
I looked at my fastpasses and thought about what parks I wanted to go to the most. Thursday was Magic Kingdom and Friday was Epcot, my two favorites. I told this to my mom and she said that she thought we should do those two days, and stay both nights in the hotel so we didn't have to drive home.
This morning I changed the reservation to that plan. I was so excited that Disney was still happening.
Then my mom and I talked tonight. It started by her saying, "Wouldn't it be better to stay the night before (Wednesday night) so that we could go to the parks if we wanted to? Since we will already be there?" We have weekday passes. Staying Friday night meant no parks on Saturday. It made sense to me so I went online to change the reservation for the second time today.
That's when I saw it.
$75 pass holder rooms at All Star Movies. Now, I obviously have wanted to stay at AoA since it was announced, but this was so significantly less that I brought the idea to my mom.
She pointed out that all value rooms are essentially the same and that since we have a car, we can still go check out AoA. Plus, we have never stayed at All Star Movies and I have always wanted to.
Then my mom suggested that since it was so much less, we stay Friday night as well.
So now here is the plan...
Wednesday, September 2 - Saturday , September 5 at All Star Movies!
To put the price difference in perspective, it was going to be $285 for 2 nights at Aoa. It is $271 for 3 nights at All Star Movies. Changing just to a different value resort meant that we could stay another night and day!
I am feeling really good about the change. I am more excited than ever to be heading to my favorite place in the world and to be completely honest, with everything that has been going on with my health the last few months, both my mom and I could use this time together somewhere fun.
I think I will share my specific plans in my next post, but I wanted to fill you guys in on the changes that we have made so far.
I am really happy. What was going to be a canceled trip turned into my longest stay on Disney property ever.
Enter the best mom in the world.
About a week ago I told her with tears in my eyes that I was going to cancel Disney. For this to make sense totally, let me give you some background on the family dynamic of Disney in my house. My parents started collecting Disney movies before I was born, when they had no kids. I grew up watching Disney movies. As I got older, my obsession with Disney grew and grew. When I got sick 5 years ago, I used Disney as a happy escape from the real world. I would watch the behind the scenes shows on Disney Parks that were on Netflix any time pain got bad as a way to distract my brain. I sat in the hospital watching Disney movies and the one week I got so bad that my mom put an extra bed in my room and essentially "moved in," she sat with me and watched ride throughs of my favorite rides. Disney is something that always makes me happy, except when I am too sick to go and have to cancel a trip. That's not so happy. My mom, however, loves Disney, but goes to Disney because it makes me so happy. It's not that she doesn't enjoy it, it's just that she enjoys how much I love it. She would pick somewhere more relaxed for her vacation, haha.
As soon as I told my mom that I thought we should cancel, she jumped into mom mode. She knows what Disney means to me and what it would do to me emotionally to cancel this trip so close to when we were going. As she said, things are hard enough right now with how I am feeling, let's not take away something positive. We will make it work.
At first I didn't want to talk about it. I didn't see any way I could go and thinking about it was too upsetting. I took a day and went back to talk to my mom. I said that maybe I could handle one day, in a wheelchair. She suggested one night, because having the hotel to go back to eliminates an over 2 hour car ride home after a long day and something that may seem weird is that sitting is very painful for me. I thought it was a good idea.
I looked at my fastpasses and thought about what parks I wanted to go to the most. Thursday was Magic Kingdom and Friday was Epcot, my two favorites. I told this to my mom and she said that she thought we should do those two days, and stay both nights in the hotel so we didn't have to drive home.
This morning I changed the reservation to that plan. I was so excited that Disney was still happening.
Then my mom and I talked tonight. It started by her saying, "Wouldn't it be better to stay the night before (Wednesday night) so that we could go to the parks if we wanted to? Since we will already be there?" We have weekday passes. Staying Friday night meant no parks on Saturday. It made sense to me so I went online to change the reservation for the second time today.
That's when I saw it.
$75 pass holder rooms at All Star Movies. Now, I obviously have wanted to stay at AoA since it was announced, but this was so significantly less that I brought the idea to my mom.
She pointed out that all value rooms are essentially the same and that since we have a car, we can still go check out AoA. Plus, we have never stayed at All Star Movies and I have always wanted to.
Then my mom suggested that since it was so much less, we stay Friday night as well.
So now here is the plan...
Wednesday, September 2 - Saturday , September 5 at All Star Movies!
To put the price difference in perspective, it was going to be $285 for 2 nights at Aoa. It is $271 for 3 nights at All Star Movies. Changing just to a different value resort meant that we could stay another night and day!
I am feeling really good about the change. I am more excited than ever to be heading to my favorite place in the world and to be completely honest, with everything that has been going on with my health the last few months, both my mom and I could use this time together somewhere fun.
I think I will share my specific plans in my next post, but I wanted to fill you guys in on the changes that we have made so far.
I am really happy. What was going to be a canceled trip turned into my longest stay on Disney property ever.