lurkyloo
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This is the story my first solo trip to Walt Disney World, which came together unexpectedly about one month in advance and just two months after the amazing trip DH and I took to celebrate the anniversary of our marriage in Epcot!
And you are...?
Lurkyloo, wife of Mr. Lurkyloo and longtime Disneyland annual passholder who has somehow managed to visit Walt Disney World from the West Coast five times in the last two years (mostly so she can write trip reports about it!).
The Trip
Thanks to DISer WDWPolyPrincess’ trip reports, I had always secretly dreamed of taking a solo trip, even when I was planning our wedding and honeymoon! But then, on our anniversary trip, I had to spend half a day by myself when DH got food poisoning, and it felt very scary venturing out alone. So I wasn’t sure how I’d do on this trip…
The occasion was the 10th anniversary of PassPorter, publishers of fabulous Walt Disney World guidebooks (and the guidebook/bridal organizer I wrote, PassPorter’s Disney Weddings & Honeymoons!) PassPorter is celebrating all year with events around the country, and this was the Walt Disney World portion of their Decade of Dreams 10th anniversary tour, which included the actual anniversary of the day the first copy of PassPorter’s Walt Disney World reached the first customer, May 3rd.
It didn’t seem remotely possible for me and DH to return to Florida from L.A. just three months after our blowout anniversary trip, which used up all my vacation time and all our moolah. Plus, DH would be right in the thick of writing and building his company’s summer puppet shows. But on a whim, I put in for a solo-trip quote from the official tour travel agency and discovered that if I did a bare-bones banzai run, I could swing it using vacation hours that will accrue sufficiently by, like, the day I left for Florida.
The parts that sealed it for me were PassPorter’s birthday party in the Living Seas Salon, a Disney wedding reception venue I’ve always wanted to see in person, and the travel agency’s Fantasmic! dessert party that night. Now that we’ve had our own Disney wedding, my new dream is to get invited to somebody else’s Disney wedding, so this was to be about as close to that as I could get without being escorted off the property by security for stalking Disney brides.
Or so I thought! Read on to learn how I ended up crashing not one but TWO Disney weddings that weekend, thanks to the generosity of some amazing brides…
You can read all the trip plans in my Pre-Trip Report, but basically the idea was to do a three-night banzai run, taking a red-eye from LA Thursday night so I could hit the ground running (or possibly staggering) on Friday morning, then depart on Monday evening.
Some Light Reading: Past Reports
How to Get Married In Epcot... and Survive a 12-Day Honeymoon @ WDW!
You Just Got Married at WDW - What're You Gonna Do Next?: A pre-trip report for the 2 Haunted Mansions, 1 Day and Anniversary trips
2 Haunted Mansions, 1 Day (plus free dining!)
Return to the Scene of the Crime: The Lurkyloos' First Anniversary at WDW!
Lurkyloo Does WDW: A Solo Banzai Run for PassPorter’s Decade o’ Dreams: A pre-trip report for this trip (Warning: not for the cake-phobic!)
Assorted Other Ways To OD on Lurkyloo…
Disney Trip Blog: http://disneytravelbabble.com/
Twitter: http://twitter.com/lurkyloo
Facebook page for PassPorter’s Disney Weddings & Honeymoons: http://www.facebook.com/pages/PassPorters-Disney-Weddings-Honeymoons/127958845407?ref=s
And you are...?
Lurkyloo, wife of Mr. Lurkyloo and longtime Disneyland annual passholder who has somehow managed to visit Walt Disney World from the West Coast five times in the last two years (mostly so she can write trip reports about it!).
The Trip
Thanks to DISer WDWPolyPrincess’ trip reports, I had always secretly dreamed of taking a solo trip, even when I was planning our wedding and honeymoon! But then, on our anniversary trip, I had to spend half a day by myself when DH got food poisoning, and it felt very scary venturing out alone. So I wasn’t sure how I’d do on this trip…
The occasion was the 10th anniversary of PassPorter, publishers of fabulous Walt Disney World guidebooks (and the guidebook/bridal organizer I wrote, PassPorter’s Disney Weddings & Honeymoons!) PassPorter is celebrating all year with events around the country, and this was the Walt Disney World portion of their Decade of Dreams 10th anniversary tour, which included the actual anniversary of the day the first copy of PassPorter’s Walt Disney World reached the first customer, May 3rd.
It didn’t seem remotely possible for me and DH to return to Florida from L.A. just three months after our blowout anniversary trip, which used up all my vacation time and all our moolah. Plus, DH would be right in the thick of writing and building his company’s summer puppet shows. But on a whim, I put in for a solo-trip quote from the official tour travel agency and discovered that if I did a bare-bones banzai run, I could swing it using vacation hours that will accrue sufficiently by, like, the day I left for Florida.
The parts that sealed it for me were PassPorter’s birthday party in the Living Seas Salon, a Disney wedding reception venue I’ve always wanted to see in person, and the travel agency’s Fantasmic! dessert party that night. Now that we’ve had our own Disney wedding, my new dream is to get invited to somebody else’s Disney wedding, so this was to be about as close to that as I could get without being escorted off the property by security for stalking Disney brides.
Or so I thought! Read on to learn how I ended up crashing not one but TWO Disney weddings that weekend, thanks to the generosity of some amazing brides…
You can read all the trip plans in my Pre-Trip Report, but basically the idea was to do a three-night banzai run, taking a red-eye from LA Thursday night so I could hit the ground running (or possibly staggering) on Friday morning, then depart on Monday evening.
Some Light Reading: Past Reports
How to Get Married In Epcot... and Survive a 12-Day Honeymoon @ WDW!
You Just Got Married at WDW - What're You Gonna Do Next?: A pre-trip report for the 2 Haunted Mansions, 1 Day and Anniversary trips
2 Haunted Mansions, 1 Day (plus free dining!)
Return to the Scene of the Crime: The Lurkyloos' First Anniversary at WDW!
Lurkyloo Does WDW: A Solo Banzai Run for PassPorter’s Decade o’ Dreams: A pre-trip report for this trip (Warning: not for the cake-phobic!)
Assorted Other Ways To OD on Lurkyloo…
Disney Trip Blog: http://disneytravelbabble.com/
Twitter: http://twitter.com/lurkyloo
Facebook page for PassPorter’s Disney Weddings & Honeymoons: http://www.facebook.com/pages/PassPorters-Disney-Weddings-Honeymoons/127958845407?ref=s
