disneyaddicted
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Hey there every one, I am completely rewriting this trip report. I didn't know anything the first time, I cut right to the chase last time, cause I thought who really wants a long drawn out story with personal thoughts and side notes. THen I read others, and wow, I knew then my trip report was not disboard worthy,
I didn't even have pictures, so I deleted everything I had and will start anew. I am not going to use the cutenicknames, although I do lovingly refer to the husband as the Ogre, but the names suites him.
so here we go, I will start with me,
My name is Ty, I am 30ish, a loving wife and mother of 2 teens, I am a small business owner, I love dogs ( I have 3) I enjoy long walks on the beach, fuzzy dice in the mirror and men who aren't afraid to cry... oh wait that is a completely different subject there, so back to Disney. I have always wanted to go to Disney world. My Dad is a retired 1st sgt from the army, I spent the majority of my teenage life over seas. I lived in Dexheim Germany, Worms Germany and Schwabach Germany. When we were living state side, our family vacations were always spent at our home of record. CooleyLake, Michigan I loved seeing my Grandma and Papa, but more than anything I wanted to go to Disney. My parents always said it cost too much, or we didn't have enough vacation time for everything, so I had to settle for the Paul Bunyan every July, a small fair, it had rides but no Mouse. I did visit Europa park while we lived in Germany, they had a mouse, he was no Mickey, there wasn't a castle, they even had their version of it's a small world but without the water. I also went to Phantasia land and Holiday Park, the rides are awesome, but without Mickey and the gang there is no magic
I am in no ways complaining here, I had a fun filled childhood, but there was always the dream of going to Disney at the back of my mind. Fast forward some years, I moved to Cocoa Beach Fl. to live with my aunt and my uncle, who worked mission control for Nasa, cool huh? Did I make it to Disney? No, I did not, I went to Busch Gardens, and Boardwalk and Baseball, the closest I made it to Disney world was Epcot, It didn't in any way feel Disneylike at all. Skip forward 2 more years, I am a gorgeous young Bride, really I'm not full of myself, who isn't gorgeous on their wedding day? The beast I married moved me to Riverside Ca.
"Bye Mom, Bye Dad, don't worry about me I'm going to Disneyland." or so I thought, we went to Knotts Berry Farm and Magic Mountain, when I asked for Disneyland the Beast said "That's for kids."
I was only 18, I still felt like a kid. So I figured I'd have to wait till I had kids of my own. So 6 years and 2 kids later I found myself divorced and living at home with mom and dad. That only lasted 6 months.
Enter DH, my knight in shining armor, Kent.
I love this pic of him, he wasn't speeding, he was bump drafting, or was he trying to get back on the lead lap I can't remember. But anyway he wisked me and the kids away to Pa. I talked about Disney again, but we figured like my own parents it would be too costly, and with attorney fees for a great
divorce lawyer and again for a custody lawer down the road we knew it wouldn't be possible. We did go to Hershey Park, and Cedar Point but again, no castle, no mouse no magic. Now years and years later, both Kent and I are self employed, we own a house, we have newer vehicles that work all the time, not just when they feel like it. I ask Kent, "can we go on a real vacation now?" Kent says "yes... Book a cruise." Yah, I know! A cruise?
But I figure it's his vacation too, so I book a 4 night 5 day cruise to Bermuda, months later it's all paid for but the beast of an ex won't allow the kids to leave the country, even though I let him take the kids to Mexico the year before, I could go on about him forever and a day, but that is for a different forum. Anywhooo we had to cancel the cruise and find somthing in this wonderful United States, I suggest Disney, Kent agrees. 
I love that man. So I call My agent at Boscovs, Ella. I tell her the beast is a big fat meany head (my daughters favorite name to call people when she was 3) Ella stepped up to the plate and delivered us a vacation to die for, 5 nights 6 days at Pop Century, Magic your way park hopper plus and the dining plan, and... and... it was 400$ less than the cruise, more bang for the buck. All of this was done while the kids were at school. I really thought they would be surprised, cause neither one of them seemed excited about the cruise, but this is Disney... DISNEY!
This is my DS he's 15, we call him Jim, he would want me to tell you that he will be famous one day. He plays guitar and has started a garage band "Hunters yet Hunted" with that being said I can move on. WHen we told Jim about Disney he said "cool". Jim is a typical boy, I never know what he's thinking, did he mean cool as in yeah, that is cool, or cool as in whatever you say. So I ask him, "just how cool is it?" He says cool as in I get to miss more school cool, I don't care where we go." I felt let down a little, I guess it was asking to much for him to jump up and down with excitement about it. But there's always my DD.
DD Reese, soon to be 13 a girl in every way, spender of her Dear Daddies money, she's all about having fun, she cheers for her school as well as a competition squad, and has now added track and field to her list of things that I will have to drive her to.
I knew Reese would not let me down. So I wait for her to come in, she hangs at the bus stop to talk to her friends like she hasn't seen enough of them through out the day. I finally yell for her to come home. she enters the house with attitude. "What is the panic, Mom?" I'm too excited to tell her to check the attitude at the door, beside once I tell her we're going to Disney she will forget all about her friends and anounce me her new best friend. "Guess what?" (blank stare coming from her) WE...ARE...GOING...TO...DISNEYWORLD! Can you believe it Reese? Disneyworld!! She still stares at me blankly, then the child asks me, "Is this before or after our cruise?" "It's instead of." I tell her. "Oh." that is all she said "Oh." What is wrong with these kids? I am freaking out with excitement, doing back flips off the wall. What is wrong with them? So I explain in the nicest way possible why we can't go on the cruise. That's when they got excited, but it was more of an excitement like "We will show "father" and his wicked new wife that they can't ruin our vacation, we will have even more fun then if we went on a cruise." So it was excitement in spite of... and I will gladly accept that.
I didn't even have pictures, so I deleted everything I had and will start anew. I am not going to use the cutenicknames, although I do lovingly refer to the husband as the Ogre, but the names suites him.so here we go, I will start with me,
My name is Ty, I am 30ish, a loving wife and mother of 2 teens, I am a small business owner, I love dogs ( I have 3) I enjoy long walks on the beach, fuzzy dice in the mirror and men who aren't afraid to cry... oh wait that is a completely different subject there, so back to Disney. I have always wanted to go to Disney world. My Dad is a retired 1st sgt from the army, I spent the majority of my teenage life over seas. I lived in Dexheim Germany, Worms Germany and Schwabach Germany. When we were living state side, our family vacations were always spent at our home of record. CooleyLake, Michigan I loved seeing my Grandma and Papa, but more than anything I wanted to go to Disney. My parents always said it cost too much, or we didn't have enough vacation time for everything, so I had to settle for the Paul Bunyan every July, a small fair, it had rides but no Mouse. I did visit Europa park while we lived in Germany, they had a mouse, he was no Mickey, there wasn't a castle, they even had their version of it's a small world but without the water. I also went to Phantasia land and Holiday Park, the rides are awesome, but without Mickey and the gang there is no magic
I am in no ways complaining here, I had a fun filled childhood, but there was always the dream of going to Disney at the back of my mind. Fast forward some years, I moved to Cocoa Beach Fl. to live with my aunt and my uncle, who worked mission control for Nasa, cool huh? Did I make it to Disney? No, I did not, I went to Busch Gardens, and Boardwalk and Baseball, the closest I made it to Disney world was Epcot, It didn't in any way feel Disneylike at all. Skip forward 2 more years, I am a gorgeous young Bride, really I'm not full of myself, who isn't gorgeous on their wedding day? The beast I married moved me to Riverside Ca.
"Bye Mom, Bye Dad, don't worry about me I'm going to Disneyland." or so I thought, we went to Knotts Berry Farm and Magic Mountain, when I asked for Disneyland the Beast said "That's for kids." I was only 18, I still felt like a kid. So I figured I'd have to wait till I had kids of my own. So 6 years and 2 kids later I found myself divorced and living at home with mom and dad. That only lasted 6 months.
Enter DH, my knight in shining armor, Kent.
I love this pic of him, he wasn't speeding, he was bump drafting, or was he trying to get back on the lead lap I can't remember. But anyway he wisked me and the kids away to Pa. I talked about Disney again, but we figured like my own parents it would be too costly, and with attorney fees for a great
divorce lawyer and again for a custody lawer down the road we knew it wouldn't be possible. We did go to Hershey Park, and Cedar Point but again, no castle, no mouse no magic. Now years and years later, both Kent and I are self employed, we own a house, we have newer vehicles that work all the time, not just when they feel like it. I ask Kent, "can we go on a real vacation now?" Kent says "yes... Book a cruise." Yah, I know! A cruise?
But I figure it's his vacation too, so I book a 4 night 5 day cruise to Bermuda, months later it's all paid for but the beast of an ex won't allow the kids to leave the country, even though I let him take the kids to Mexico the year before, I could go on about him forever and a day, but that is for a different forum. Anywhooo we had to cancel the cruise and find somthing in this wonderful United States, I suggest Disney, Kent agrees. I love that man. So I call My agent at Boscovs, Ella. I tell her the beast is a big fat meany head (my daughters favorite name to call people when she was 3) Ella stepped up to the plate and delivered us a vacation to die for, 5 nights 6 days at Pop Century, Magic your way park hopper plus and the dining plan, and... and... it was 400$ less than the cruise, more bang for the buck. All of this was done while the kids were at school. I really thought they would be surprised, cause neither one of them seemed excited about the cruise, but this is Disney... DISNEY!
This is my DS he's 15, we call him Jim, he would want me to tell you that he will be famous one day. He plays guitar and has started a garage band "Hunters yet Hunted" with that being said I can move on. WHen we told Jim about Disney he said "cool". Jim is a typical boy, I never know what he's thinking, did he mean cool as in yeah, that is cool, or cool as in whatever you say. So I ask him, "just how cool is it?" He says cool as in I get to miss more school cool, I don't care where we go." I felt let down a little, I guess it was asking to much for him to jump up and down with excitement about it. But there's always my DD.
DD Reese, soon to be 13 a girl in every way, spender of her Dear Daddies money, she's all about having fun, she cheers for her school as well as a competition squad, and has now added track and field to her list of things that I will have to drive her to.
I knew Reese would not let me down. So I wait for her to come in, she hangs at the bus stop to talk to her friends like she hasn't seen enough of them through out the day. I finally yell for her to come home. she enters the house with attitude. "What is the panic, Mom?" I'm too excited to tell her to check the attitude at the door, beside once I tell her we're going to Disney she will forget all about her friends and anounce me her new best friend. "Guess what?" (blank stare coming from her) WE...ARE...GOING...TO...DISNEYWORLD! Can you believe it Reese? Disneyworld!! She still stares at me blankly, then the child asks me, "Is this before or after our cruise?" "It's instead of." I tell her. "Oh." that is all she said "Oh." What is wrong with these kids? I am freaking out with excitement, doing back flips off the wall. What is wrong with them? So I explain in the nicest way possible why we can't go on the cruise. That's when they got excited, but it was more of an excitement like "We will show "father" and his wicked new wife that they can't ruin our vacation, we will have even more fun then if we went on a cruise." So it was excitement in spite of... and I will gladly accept that.
and thanks for sharing your TR 
