what do you do to remember your trip

[apcall]

To remember our trip we make a 'scrapbook picture'....during the trip we collect everything; empty peanut bag from the flight, coasters, airplane ticket/boarding passes, postcard, napkins, hotel stationary, menus, maps, passes, drink umbrellas, check-in sheet, room keys, postcards, basically anything that will help you remember.....we also take the front page of the Orlando Sentinel (with the date), a pin from all the parks we visited, and one pin with the year on it......when we get home we buy a 24"x36" picture frame and some earth tone cloth to become the background of the picture......then I take a dozen or so of the best pictures we took on the trip and size them to about 2.5x4 (digital camera and a photo editing program makes this easy)...we then use double sided tape and 'arrange' the 'artifacts' on the picture as if they were dumped out of a drawer and spread over a table (some overlapping others, some diagonal, etc)...then we stick the pins in around the sides, with the dated one at the bottom.....we now have several of these 'collarges' (?) on the wall....and with a quick galance all the memories come flowing back....
Another keepsake we do is to buy a bunch of disney postcards and each day I have my children sum up the days events in 3 or 4 sentences and have then put them the postcard that is the most appropiate for the day. We then mail them home....Within a week of returning home all the postcards have arrived and we put them in a small three ring binder (each girl has one) in which each page is only 3x5 or 4x6 and allows you to be able to view both sides of the 'picture'....The postcards are then placed in the binder (remember each girl has one) in the order of the days....each trip is then added to the end of the last trip.....both binders are then used as my 'coffee table books'...its amazing seeing the progression of the kids handwriting and thought processes over the years.
One last keep sake for the girls is that instead of getting each an autograph book, we buy a bunch of disney postcards that show a single character. Then we have of the characters sign 'their' postcard with a felt marker just like an autographed picture (the characters seem to be alittle more creative with their writing when doing this)

What little things do you do to remember your trips (besides the ever-present photo album)?

 

[cowtownmom]

Wow! What creative ideas you all do! I may have to borrow some of your ideas. Thanks for telling us about them!

 

[DAWGPOUNDAJ]

Wowzers! You've given us lots of great WDW scrapbook ideas! DH got me one as a part of my birthday present this year (a WDW themed one!!!) so I can put some of those to use! Thanks for sharing!

And we remember our trips by taking a veerrrrryyyy large memory card and our digital camera. Then whenever the urge strikes we start video taping with it since our camera functions as both. We also snap pictures constantly. Can't help ourselves, were photo-hogs!

Then after each trip we hang up a new picture frame (you know one of those ones that hold multiple pictures, our preference is 6, but I digress...) and put photographs from just that trip up. Probably explains why our walls are covered completely with pictures now! I love it!!!!

 

[Star Wars Guy]

I guess the 448 digital pictures and the 4+ hours of videotaping I did helped capture our last trip.

 

[LadyLuc361]

To remember our trip we make a 'scrapbook picture'....during the trip we collect everything; empty peanut bag from the flight, coasters, airplane ticket/boarding passes, postcard, napkins, hotel stationary, menus, maps, passes, drink umbrellas, check-in sheet, room keys, postcards, basically anything that will help you remember.....

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I do this also, but instead of making a collage I make a big scrap book with many pages using some of the items on each page.

Rachel

 

[arizonacolbys]

I complete a scrapbook of every Disney trip (a little behind right now - still working on Jan 2005, haven't done 2001 yet & we leave in a month for another trip!) I also love to include different items from our trips in them - our room keys, plane tickets, character autographs, etc. We love looking back thru the scrapbooks & remembering our trips. Of course, we take hundreds of digital photos each trip to go into our scrapbook.

We also purchase one of the 4x6 frames with the year & characters on it each trip. We have a photo frame with a pic of us from each trip going up the wall along the stairs in our living room. We currently have one for every year from 2000 - 2005 - We love it!

I really like the idea of the characters signing postcards - those would look cute in a scrapbook.

 

[ChrisNif]

My favorite way is a walk down "memory card lane"

I never deleted my pictures from the memory cards, with the price of the memory and the fact they store data much better then cd's (no scratching and the like) i just buy new memory cards for each trip, kinda like buying a few rolls of film for a trip (new memory + printing on my printer cost me less then film + developing)

I have 2 1024mb, 3 512mb & 2 256mb memory cards packed to the gills with disney photos (well the 256s and a 512 have lancaster PA and williamsburg VA). One of these days ill have to post them up somewhere, i typically take approx 150-200 pics a day on average. My favorite pic ill have to post sometime is "going down" the falls on splash mountain, i thought it was ok to risk my camera for the pic

I bought 2 1024mb cards in addition to what i've got for my honeymoon too , Oh just so you dont think im TOO crazy, i store my pictures as 5 mega pixel TIFF images so each picture is like 2-3 MB

Chris

 

[muguet27]

Wow, those are great ideas! I especially love the wall-hanging idea...it makes me think of the memorabilia "boxes" hanging in the lobby of Pop Century.

I just make a normal scrapbook with all of our pictures and little bits & bobs we pick up along the way. I really enjoy doing it too, because I get to live the vacation all over again when I'm making it and writing what we did. I've done our 2 most recent trips already...now I just need to start working my way backward through the trips I made before I met my soon-to-be husband (including one with a previous boyfriend's family...not sure what I'm going to do with those pictures).

I bought 2 new 128MB cards for my digital camera to take with us on our honeymoon (25 days!!!) to supplement the one I already have, so I'm prepared to take as many pictures as possible so I have the scrapbooking to keep me busy until our next trip (at some undetermined point in the future).

 

[Zippa D Doodah]

My wife has done some amazing scrap book pages thru the years. I could not begin to elaborate on the technical details. One thing I notice is that the scrapbooking really brings the images to life in a personal way.

Also, we did lots of video on our last trip, including great full-length videos of SADCT parade and Cinderella's Surprise Celebration (boy, am I gonna miss that one on our next trip)

 

[2BOYMOM]

I start planning another as soon as I get home.......




Kim

 

[MiJo]

We also do a scrapbook. It includes photos, park brochures, receipts, napkins, and pretty much anything else that will fit in a photo album type book.

 

[lindsey]

I pick several of our favorite pictures, tickets, etc. and add to my Disney scrapbook. It's getting so big, I'm going to have to start a 2nd book. It's fun to look at the book and see the changes in us and Disney.

 

[WillCAD]

I keep lots of stuff from my trips and store it in boxes or file folders.

I also take lots of pictures and keep them all on my computers.

And as I go along during the trip, I make lots of notes of where I go, what I do, what I see and hear, and use the notes when I get home to write trip reports. I read my own reports later and the whole trip comes back much fresher.

 

[2DIZNY]

We buy a different Disney figurine for each trip. We write the year on the bottom and keep them all on a shelf unit in a spare bedroom. 16 and counting!

 

[wdwfan_1]

apcall,

I like that idea with the idea of using postcards for autographs. Where do you find a supply of the character postcards?

 

[BamaTigger]

what do you do to remember your trip ????


I LOOK AT MY CREDIT CARD BILLS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[apcall]

apcall,

I like that idea with the idea of using postcards for autographs. Where do you find a supply of the character postcards?

Well thats the hard part...most are purcahsed on the first or second day....it's quite hard to find individual characters (except Mickey) but they are there...we also got a few online...some we just couldn't find individual we would get the mutlitple character postcards (trying to limit them to 2 characters) and get them to sign that (like meg and hercules, or lilo and stitch)

Hope this helped

 

[minmate]

what do you do to remember your trip ????


I LOOK AT MY CREDIT CARD BILLS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I journal every night while at Disney. I ask the kids their fave thing that day and include it. I'm a fellow scrapbooker too. I just took 18 rolls of film (well equal to that as some were on the digital and some were on the regular) -- that I got developed today from our recent trip! I love your ideas of the shadowbox type collages for the wall and will probably borrow your postcard journaling by your kids for our next trip. My kids are 6 and under and that would (hopefully) work well next time... if they aren't too tired by the time we get back to the hotel to do it!

 

[lynetteSC]

what do you do to remember your trip ????


I LOOK AT MY CREDIT CARD BILLS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

good answer ... lol!