When is it real?

[AustinTink]

When my husband got his vacations days approved at work.... then it was real!

 

[disneymomofmyca]

It all seems like a dream until I am on the plane and they announce that we will be arriving in Orlando in 3 hours. Then I get CrAzY excited because I know that my next meal will be in WDW!!!!!!!! Woo-Hoo! Food just tastes better in Disney! Oh, why does it take soooooooo long for time to pass when you are waiting for your WDW vacation...

 

[Mrs.Reese]

When I actually get to start packing Getting the suitcases down, watching the cats sulk. When will it be June?

 

[hannah_03]

When I have paid off the hotel and purchased the tickets and airfare

 

[freepixie]

When we board Magical Express - that's when its really real!

Dang I can't wait til JUNE!!!!!!!!!

 

[d1gitman]

when the limo driver shuts the door on the limo to bring us to the airport. at that point, it feels like vacation.

 

[sjrolaids]

It has always been Spectromagic for me!! I get all misty-eyed and then my kids look at me funny ...Dh just laughs!

 

[HopeCatherine]

Everything is surreal until the first morning I wake up in the hotel beds. Then I look around and just think I'm finally here! Then I get all emotional... but in a really good way!

 

[webprinter]

When I go under the Welcome sign and see Mickey and Minnie! That is when my heart starts beating really fast and I get so excited. DH and DD just laugh .

 

[jerseygirl81]

Unfortunetly we've had to cancel a few trips, so it does'nt feel real until we step out of the airport into the Florida sunshine and then drive under the Walt Disney World sign. Linda

 

[Melora]

For me it's when we drag the suitcases in from the garage and I actually start putting things into them about 2 days before the trip.

AUGUST HURRY UP AND GET HERE!!!!

 

[MNWDWMANIAC]

We drive, so it hits as we start hitting those normal stopping points along the way.

 

[Tinkerbell58]

When I check in at the DVC resort, I have officially arrived.

 

[creativeamanda]

When I pay it off. . .so about 45-50 days before my trip.

 

[kaffinito]

The first time I went, it didn't hit me until I was standing on Main Street. Stopped dead in my tracks and just stared at the castle.

For me, it was my first trip and it was when I seen Tinkerbell fly across for Wishes and seen the fireworks!! I literally just started crying!! Getting misty eyed just thinking about it

I'm crying now remembering it! Seeing the Castle, watching Tink fly, and Spectromagic - until then it's like I'm not really there. Even after that long drive down it still won't sink in!

 

[Kblue]

For the last two times that I have gone, it was when my DFi came to my house and packed all my stuff in his mom's car. But I think that this trip will be different because it is our disneymoon and we won't be leaving until like a week after the wedding. I already know that I am going to be so impatient that week. Lol.

 

[seadd67]

Its every time I log In here at Dis,It transports me to WDW everytime. The fact I can here from my Dis friend of the on goings Is special to me. Its when I am out and about and I can smell flame broiled bugers(i know its weird but it does) It takes me back to walking through the parks. Its on those warm summer nights just as the sun Is going down and can smell the salty water from the sound(we live here In seattle so we have In let that leads to the oceaan called the puget sound) It remiands me a little of the sulpher smell,you smell down In orlando/WDW area.

 

[dobtia]

I get a bit of a double whammy. The last two years, three with this one, we leave day after school. So I have the excitment of school letting out and hitting the road.

For me it is Thursday. I get home, wash the car, mow the lawn. Feeling good the whole time. Take the back seats out of the van. Load everything in. Shower, and one more time check the DISboard.

Secondly....when we turn down I 75 in Florida. The billboards pop up.

WE BARE ALL. Then you know your heading in the right direction.

 

[Tinkerbell2B]

We drive to WDW, and it is around a 15 hour drive, so it's real for me when we get into the car for that drive. Every minute is well worth it. It's not so bad if you drive at night!!

 

[kpadalik]

For me, it's when I walk under the train station at MK. As soon as I walk under it and onto Main Street, I get this wonderful feeling. I can't describe it, but I'm sure there are others that know what I am talking about!