mystikgarden
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Ok so a little new to all of this. Never posted on a forum, until a few weeks ago.(I know 
) Let alone a Pre Trip report! Now Im going to try to have a go at it! I LOVE reading everyone elses 
trip reports and pre trip reports are my favorite! You all are so clever and witty. 
Well see how mine turns out
So a little background, we are planning our trip for May 28th - June 2nd. Oh and shhh its a surprise!
DH - age doesnt matter were young (at heart) has been two times as a child and is a HUGE Pixar fan! He is a computer know it all and now thanks to me is a DIS crazed Disney lovin addict! So we will call him Pixar or Pix for short.
ME (young at heart also) Stay at home mom and has ALWAYS been a Disney lovin freak! I have been once which was only for a few hours at the Magic Kingdom (long story maybe another time) so I dont even count it. I hardly remember any of it anyways. I love Nightmare before Christmas (long before the emo kids got wind of it!) So my screen name is mystikgarden you can call me that or MG.
(ok this will be the last time you'll see a picture of me)
DS - 12 have never been always wanted to though. He loves all things Disney and Pixar also LOVES Star Wars I think that all he watched last summer and for Christmas all he asked for was Star Wars Legos. At times I think he turns into Darth Vader so well call him Darth!
DD - 2 has never been and is a Disney lover through and through! She loves inderella ince Charmin and Aeel (Ariel) boy you cant tell shes from Kin tuk ee. Anyway we will call her Ariel.
Now that thats over well get back to the trippie!
So every year around tax time I try to get Pixar in on going to Disney and something always comes up and were not able to go. This year in January I started working the numbers and found out we would be getting a bigger return. So like every year I start working Pix. He says he doesnt know and well have to wait and see. In Pixar language that means NO! SO I start looking into prices online and for dates Darth is out of school. I run into the DIS site and Im HOOKED! I secretly look when Pix isnt around. I find out there is a special going on May for Preschoolers. I think to myself this is going to be the year I just know it. You all no the feeling right?! So I look at Darths school calendar and hes out of school at the end of May and thats the last days the special runs. I also found out MGM does a little something called Star Wars Weekends! (Thanks DIS!) Im sold! Now just have to convince Pixar! SO I tell him about that and I see a twinkle in his eye. Not yet though hes still not ready to say yes. So I get the prices and choose Pop Century. (Want the POLY but hey were on a budget) So days go bye as slow as months it seems like. So more arm twisting as Pix would put it. Finally I make a fake trip with the discount and show him the numbers. I say that we can eat in our room and get a fridge and you all now the rest Of course I sweetened it up so much he just couldnt say no! So the planning begins!
Next up plans change and how to tell the kids!
) Let alone a Pre Trip report! Now Im going to try to have a go at it! I LOVE reading everyone elses trip reports and pre trip reports are my favorite! You all are so clever and witty. Well see how mine turns out
So a little background, we are planning our trip for May 28th - June 2nd. Oh and shhh its a surprise!
DH - age doesnt matter were young (at heart) has been two times as a child and is a HUGE Pixar fan! He is a computer know it all and now thanks to me is a DIS crazed Disney lovin addict! So we will call him Pixar or Pix for short.
ME (young at heart also) Stay at home mom and has ALWAYS been a Disney lovin freak! I have been once which was only for a few hours at the Magic Kingdom (long story maybe another time) so I dont even count it. I hardly remember any of it anyways. I love Nightmare before Christmas (long before the emo kids got wind of it!) So my screen name is mystikgarden you can call me that or MG.
(ok this will be the last time you'll see a picture of me)
DS - 12 have never been always wanted to though. He loves all things Disney and Pixar also LOVES Star Wars I think that all he watched last summer and for Christmas all he asked for was Star Wars Legos. At times I think he turns into Darth Vader so well call him Darth!
DD - 2 has never been and is a Disney lover through and through! She loves inderella ince Charmin and Aeel (Ariel) boy you cant tell shes from Kin tuk ee. Anyway we will call her Ariel.
Now that thats over well get back to the trippie!
So every year around tax time I try to get Pixar in on going to Disney and something always comes up and were not able to go. This year in January I started working the numbers and found out we would be getting a bigger return. So like every year I start working Pix. He says he doesnt know and well have to wait and see. In Pixar language that means NO! SO I start looking into prices online and for dates Darth is out of school. I run into the DIS site and Im HOOKED! I secretly look when Pix isnt around. I find out there is a special going on May for Preschoolers. I think to myself this is going to be the year I just know it. You all no the feeling right?! So I look at Darths school calendar and hes out of school at the end of May and thats the last days the special runs. I also found out MGM does a little something called Star Wars Weekends! (Thanks DIS!) Im sold! Now just have to convince Pixar! SO I tell him about that and I see a twinkle in his eye. Not yet though hes still not ready to say yes. So I get the prices and choose Pop Century. (Want the POLY but hey were on a budget) So days go bye as slow as months it seems like. So more arm twisting as Pix would put it. Finally I make a fake trip with the discount and show him the numbers. I say that we can eat in our room and get a fridge and you all now the rest Of course I sweetened it up so much he just couldnt say no! So the planning begins!
Next up plans change and how to tell the kids!
Looking forward to the rest
for us!
But, as usual, you were right, and you know how excited I am now!
was around the corner, and guess what I get? Yes, the PassPorter! What a GREAT gift. Pix is the GREATEST!!! 
(It takes very little for me to get excited!) So we LOVE that book. We research the 
That is going to put us getting there tired and late and then leaving the last day really tired and we would end up having to get a hotel on the way out. So thats something to think about
I was so excited about finally booking our trip I tuned him out. I then tell him we want the dining plan again a big deal. I proceed to tell him we have a discount code he puts it in and tells me that for that code was only available for Pop Century!!!! What I have not planned this!! I havent researched this hotel!! 
What to do
Ok I calm down enough and say ok. Whheewww. Ok while he was reading everything back he says oh no. I say Whats wrong I was thinking the worst the code wasnt available or they where booked up thinking the worst possible scenario. He says the computers went down. 
!!!! An hour or so goes by (ok like 55 minutes) I decide to call back. I talk to someone else this time and she says that yes the computers are down and should be back up in 30 mins. or so. I tell her what happened and she said that if I didnt have my reservation number yet the nothing was saved on the computers. WHAT?!?! 
The phone rings. Its, its, its, Pix. Have they called? Me, No, they havent called and get off here in case they do! I forgot to tell him what was going on so I messaged him. Well that the least I could do after yelling at him for calling.
That felt so good. He went on and on saying there wouldnt be any paper work sent and what to do at check in. This whole time Im thinking, This is finally happening! 
