DannyDisneyFreak
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Well hello Trip Reports Board! I really have never spent much time here, every trip I determine I'm going to do one of these but I'm not sure if it's me not really wanting to admit the trip is over or if just because I jump right back into planning my next trip, (which may be several years away but I need to know NOW if I'm gonna eat the cobb salad at the Brown Derby three and a half years from now!)
The planning is the big thrill for me so I don't think I ever thought reporting would quite fill that void in my soul that planning does... okay time out, I just need to let you know I am listening as I speak... uh... type, to the Spectromagic music on mouseinfo.com radio, there is something about music, Disney music particularly that does something to me so the first thing you will learn about me in this trip report is yes, yes I do have ADHD and I am not ashamed, I am medicated but not ashamed. My learning disability which effects (or is it affects?) my focusing and attention I think greatly contributes to the massive amounts of time I spend on the DIS. Disney is one of my great passions so when other more important things in life like cleaning the house, paying bills, or going to bed come up I find myself defaulting to the DIS, which Im sure many of you can relate to.
Well I have decided that slightly over one week has passed since my 8th trip (or possibly 9th, Ill discuss that quandary later) and if I dont start this report now it may never get started OMG! The Gummi Bears Theme song!!!... Okay sorry, Ill try to not do that so much
So let me introduce you to the characters of the TR,
Leading Cast Members: Danny (me), my DW Jamie, and our DD4 Hannah
Oh, yeah, and that bump under Jamies shirt is our unborn DS, Noah. Jamie was roughly 7 months pregnant this trip and yes she was tired, but this trip was all her idea! Ill get to that later to.
A Little About Me
My first trip to The World was when I was 7 years old in September of 1990, to save you from trying to do the math that makes me 26 years old. The first time I went to Disney with my parents we stayed at the Comfort Inn Select on Palm Parkway for $27 per night! It was my parents and I (the only child) and my cousin David who was (and still is) the same age as me. I remember being in line for the backstage tour at MGM and my Dad talking to the family behind us saying that our trip cost $1600 and the other father asked if that was for our hotel and my day said No, that was for everything for the entire week! Air fare, hotel, tickets, food. I dont remember the fathers reaction but my Dad recalls him being dumbfounded because they were staying on property at either the Grand Floridian or the Polynesian. I remember I thought that $1600 was real lot of money but for some reason that other family didnt think so
It was my Dad that got me into this Disney addiction, he didnt have the DISboards, he didnt even have the internet but I remember the cord from our phone being stretched from the kitchen, through the living room and into his office and him being on the phone with hotels, and AAA and Disney, working out the details. He didnt have WDWinfo and AllEars but almost daily brochures from the Orlando, Kissimmee, Lake Buna Vista, and Walt Disney World would come in the mail.
Our next trip we stayed at a Condo with family friends in Kissimmee in November of 1991, we stayed at some Motel called the Gala Vista in Kissimmee our 3rd trip in 94, and finally we stayed on site when the values opened in August of 1996. We stayed in the All-Star Sports, I remember they we still building the All-Star Music when we were there. So in 97 we stayed at the Music (check out this thread to hear more about that trip: http://disboards.com/showthread.php?t=774856). Oh and why this may of been my 9th trip is because my Dad swears that we went another time between 91 and 96 but can't remember excatly when or where we stayed... see what drugs do to you, thank God he never did any!
Jamie and I went on our first trip together married, just the two of us as adults in 2006 and stayed at the Pop Century. Yes, did you do the math? We did leave our almost 2 year old home with the grand parents for that trip but dont worry last May my parents decided to pay for us all to go because they wanted to see Hannah in WDW. Do you know much fun it is planning a trip to Disney with someone elses money? We stayed at the Pop again and I vowed to my wife by the end of the trip that I was done with the Values, our next trip we would stay in a Moderate Resort! Well lets just say that she didnt share the same sense of urgency to stay in a moderate that I had. She really likes the Pop, as do I, if your gonna go value I recommend Pop over the All Stars but I just wanted to move up the social ladder in Walt Disney World.
Any of the Mods would do, the Caribbean Beach, Port Orleans, or the Coronado Springs, and that was my next mission in planning to determine which moderate to stay at. Well come just this past May we hear about free dining again, which we keep saying we want to take advantage of and my wife says to me one morning before she goes out the door for work Lets go to Disney.
Okay so I ran and got a Q-tip and cleaned my ears out and asked her to repeat what she just said, so she says Well we got a big income tax return and they got free dining going on so why dont we go back with Hannah, it will be nice just the three of us without your parents.
So after I came to I got up off the floor and said Are you serious? Because if you are serious Im gonna call Disney up like right now and book this thing! And she said yes and I wasnt gonna give her time to change her mind. Later I talked to her about quotes I got and that they were holding a reservation for 6 nights at the Coronado Springs from September 13-19.
The Coronado Springs? Oh, I like the Pop Century and its cheaper.
Chapter 2: The Negotiation
Teaser for Chapter 3: Disney Suprise Morning
The planning is the big thrill for me so I don't think I ever thought reporting would quite fill that void in my soul that planning does... okay time out, I just need to let you know I am listening as I speak... uh... type, to the Spectromagic music on mouseinfo.com radio, there is something about music, Disney music particularly that does something to me so the first thing you will learn about me in this trip report is yes, yes I do have ADHD and I am not ashamed, I am medicated but not ashamed. My learning disability which effects (or is it affects?) my focusing and attention I think greatly contributes to the massive amounts of time I spend on the DIS. Disney is one of my great passions so when other more important things in life like cleaning the house, paying bills, or going to bed come up I find myself defaulting to the DIS, which Im sure many of you can relate to.
Well I have decided that slightly over one week has passed since my 8th trip (or possibly 9th, Ill discuss that quandary later) and if I dont start this report now it may never get started OMG! The Gummi Bears Theme song!!!... Okay sorry, Ill try to not do that so much
So let me introduce you to the characters of the TR,
Leading Cast Members: Danny (me), my DW Jamie, and our DD4 Hannah
Oh, yeah, and that bump under Jamies shirt is our unborn DS, Noah. Jamie was roughly 7 months pregnant this trip and yes she was tired, but this trip was all her idea! Ill get to that later to.
A Little About Me
My first trip to The World was when I was 7 years old in September of 1990, to save you from trying to do the math that makes me 26 years old. The first time I went to Disney with my parents we stayed at the Comfort Inn Select on Palm Parkway for $27 per night! It was my parents and I (the only child) and my cousin David who was (and still is) the same age as me. I remember being in line for the backstage tour at MGM and my Dad talking to the family behind us saying that our trip cost $1600 and the other father asked if that was for our hotel and my day said No, that was for everything for the entire week! Air fare, hotel, tickets, food. I dont remember the fathers reaction but my Dad recalls him being dumbfounded because they were staying on property at either the Grand Floridian or the Polynesian. I remember I thought that $1600 was real lot of money but for some reason that other family didnt think so
It was my Dad that got me into this Disney addiction, he didnt have the DISboards, he didnt even have the internet but I remember the cord from our phone being stretched from the kitchen, through the living room and into his office and him being on the phone with hotels, and AAA and Disney, working out the details. He didnt have WDWinfo and AllEars but almost daily brochures from the Orlando, Kissimmee, Lake Buna Vista, and Walt Disney World would come in the mail.
Our next trip we stayed at a Condo with family friends in Kissimmee in November of 1991, we stayed at some Motel called the Gala Vista in Kissimmee our 3rd trip in 94, and finally we stayed on site when the values opened in August of 1996. We stayed in the All-Star Sports, I remember they we still building the All-Star Music when we were there. So in 97 we stayed at the Music (check out this thread to hear more about that trip: http://disboards.com/showthread.php?t=774856). Oh and why this may of been my 9th trip is because my Dad swears that we went another time between 91 and 96 but can't remember excatly when or where we stayed... see what drugs do to you, thank God he never did any!
Jamie and I went on our first trip together married, just the two of us as adults in 2006 and stayed at the Pop Century. Yes, did you do the math? We did leave our almost 2 year old home with the grand parents for that trip but dont worry last May my parents decided to pay for us all to go because they wanted to see Hannah in WDW. Do you know much fun it is planning a trip to Disney with someone elses money? We stayed at the Pop again and I vowed to my wife by the end of the trip that I was done with the Values, our next trip we would stay in a Moderate Resort! Well lets just say that she didnt share the same sense of urgency to stay in a moderate that I had. She really likes the Pop, as do I, if your gonna go value I recommend Pop over the All Stars but I just wanted to move up the social ladder in Walt Disney World.
Any of the Mods would do, the Caribbean Beach, Port Orleans, or the Coronado Springs, and that was my next mission in planning to determine which moderate to stay at. Well come just this past May we hear about free dining again, which we keep saying we want to take advantage of and my wife says to me one morning before she goes out the door for work Lets go to Disney.
Okay so I ran and got a Q-tip and cleaned my ears out and asked her to repeat what she just said, so she says Well we got a big income tax return and they got free dining going on so why dont we go back with Hannah, it will be nice just the three of us without your parents.
So after I came to I got up off the floor and said Are you serious? Because if you are serious Im gonna call Disney up like right now and book this thing! And she said yes and I wasnt gonna give her time to change her mind. Later I talked to her about quotes I got and that they were holding a reservation for 6 nights at the Coronado Springs from September 13-19.
The Coronado Springs? Oh, I like the Pop Century and its cheaper.
Chapter 2: The Negotiation
Teaser for Chapter 3: Disney Suprise Morning
I am soooo glad this was not my DD's reaction, I'll be posting about that real soon....
This time will be better . He loves his DS and that can help with the lines !!
