steviethegreat
Mouseketeer
- Joined
- May 2, 2014
Heeeey. I'm new to THIS section of the Disboards, though I'm an avid lurker. My name is Stevie. I'm 27 (28 in March). I'm from Pittsburgh, PA. And I'm a Universal/Disney fan. I would say that for the past, oh, IDK, four to five years or so, I've been obsessed with Disney and Universal.
I have a lot of history that I won't get into, but I imagine you all trust me when I say that my love for Universal and Disney runs deep. Very, very deep. (Can't get my work done, spend all day on the Disboards, my trip isn't even for 100 some days deep...)
But briefly! In 2012/2013, my mom and I were hypothesizing about whether or not we could make a Disney trip work, since we had been going to a Christian conference in Atlanta for about $2k each year between my mom, sister, and myself. She figured it was easy enough to put that money toward Disney. I was excited because I was really hoping to talk her into a Universal trip, too, to see Hogsmeade. Unfortunately, our plans fell through and we couldn't pull it off.
Then one of my best friends invited me to her wedding in Disney in June of 2014. Since I was graduating college, I figured I'd have money (and I did), so I was planning on flying down, seeing Hogsmeade, attending the wedding, and heading home. Well, it ended up turning into an epic vacation (those are the best kinds, right?) We did one day at Universal and the rest at Disney, thanks to my cousin sharing her DVC points with us. (Otherwise, we definitely couldn't have stayed that long.)
After we got back home, Diagon Alley opened to the public, basically, which prompted a full year of my wailing and moaning about having missed it when we were there. My mom and I made plans in June 2015 to go to Universal and Disney in September of 2016. (Spoiler alert! We did!) We went to Universal for three nights, two full days in the park, and then spent six days at Disney.
Unfortunately, my mom got really sick the first day at the park. And her sickness carried into the second day at the park. So basically, my mom didn't enjoy Universal at all. (And since I 100% funded that trip, I felt SO BAD that we wasted our tickets on crashing in the hotel room and that we didn't get to see EVERYTHING.)
When we came home from our trip, my mom's ankles were so swollen it took a good week for her to lose all of the water. And when the swelling went down, her ankles were black and blue from all of the walking and running around I put her through.
But I wasn't satisfied with my trip. There was a lot left that I still wanted to do. And I asked my best friend if she would consider going with me in February 2017 for a weekend trip to Universal.
At the time, she was uncertain. She was planning a wedding. She wasn't sure if she wanted to spend the money on the trip. And at that time, I was willing to put the whole trip on my credit card. Because I REALLY wanted to go. She told me she would get back to me. And she didn't. So I talked my mom into going with me again. And then I talked us both out of it.
Flash forward to the end of November. Sadly, the wedding is off for reasons I won't get into. But my bff asked me if I would take her to Universal. At this point, I had spent a lot of money I was going to save for the trip. So I told her yes, but I asked if we could post-pone until May.
We ended up deciding to set our trip dates for April 27th to April 30th at Universal. And then April 30th to May 5th at Disney. (So we could be there for May the Fourth be with You, cause..you know, Star Wars nerds.)
And that's how our trip started! (I guess I did end up long-winded. Sorry guys!)
I have a lot of history that I won't get into, but I imagine you all trust me when I say that my love for Universal and Disney runs deep. Very, very deep. (Can't get my work done, spend all day on the Disboards, my trip isn't even for 100 some days deep...)
But briefly! In 2012/2013, my mom and I were hypothesizing about whether or not we could make a Disney trip work, since we had been going to a Christian conference in Atlanta for about $2k each year between my mom, sister, and myself. She figured it was easy enough to put that money toward Disney. I was excited because I was really hoping to talk her into a Universal trip, too, to see Hogsmeade. Unfortunately, our plans fell through and we couldn't pull it off.
Then one of my best friends invited me to her wedding in Disney in June of 2014. Since I was graduating college, I figured I'd have money (and I did), so I was planning on flying down, seeing Hogsmeade, attending the wedding, and heading home. Well, it ended up turning into an epic vacation (those are the best kinds, right?) We did one day at Universal and the rest at Disney, thanks to my cousin sharing her DVC points with us. (Otherwise, we definitely couldn't have stayed that long.)
After we got back home, Diagon Alley opened to the public, basically, which prompted a full year of my wailing and moaning about having missed it when we were there. My mom and I made plans in June 2015 to go to Universal and Disney in September of 2016. (Spoiler alert! We did!) We went to Universal for three nights, two full days in the park, and then spent six days at Disney.
Unfortunately, my mom got really sick the first day at the park. And her sickness carried into the second day at the park. So basically, my mom didn't enjoy Universal at all. (And since I 100% funded that trip, I felt SO BAD that we wasted our tickets on crashing in the hotel room and that we didn't get to see EVERYTHING.)
When we came home from our trip, my mom's ankles were so swollen it took a good week for her to lose all of the water. And when the swelling went down, her ankles were black and blue from all of the walking and running around I put her through.
But I wasn't satisfied with my trip. There was a lot left that I still wanted to do. And I asked my best friend if she would consider going with me in February 2017 for a weekend trip to Universal.
At the time, she was uncertain. She was planning a wedding. She wasn't sure if she wanted to spend the money on the trip. And at that time, I was willing to put the whole trip on my credit card. Because I REALLY wanted to go. She told me she would get back to me. And she didn't. So I talked my mom into going with me again. And then I talked us both out of it.
Flash forward to the end of November. Sadly, the wedding is off for reasons I won't get into. But my bff asked me if I would take her to Universal. At this point, I had spent a lot of money I was going to save for the trip. So I told her yes, but I asked if we could post-pone until May.
We ended up deciding to set our trip dates for April 27th to April 30th at Universal. And then April 30th to May 5th at Disney. (So we could be there for May the Fourth be with You, cause..you know, Star Wars nerds.)
And that's how our trip started! (I guess I did end up long-winded. Sorry guys!)