Who: Me: Karla (38) certified Disney-aholic. I have been to Disney at least 15 times. Disney is just the place where I can go and be totally relaxed. I hate to have to come back home to reality.
DH: Sonny (40) has been to Disney 7 times. I have to add here, we went to Disney on our honeymoon and it nearly caused a divorce. As a child I had been to Disney several times. My family believed in spending the "whole" day at the park. My husband on the other hand had only been once and that was his senior trip,he thought it would be nice to get up, have breakfast and get to the park "whenever", he then wanted to come back to the room to swim or rest and then have dinner.
hello, when were we going to spend any time in the parks. (Now that I have children, I feel differently about afternoon breaks!
)I must say that I have slowly converted him to a true Disney fan and he has agreed we can go to Disney at least once a year. Now that he has taken up golf he is extremely excited to go try out the Disney Golf Courses.
D(twin)S's (6)
Eli and Luke: they have been to Disney 8 times. They have inherited their mothers love for Disney. The first time that they were 40 inches when we went I think we spent the entire trip riding Test Track
. The same was true when they were 44 inches, we rode Space Mountain an obscene amount of times.
(this would also be the trip I was at Disney and pregnant, but did not yet know it
. They are little daredevils. I think
Luke will be tall enough for Rock and Rollercoaster, but the
Eli is going to be just shy
. Fortunately he is very easy going and will be content to go find something else to do, like Tower of Terror.
I will mention here that in December 2005, I had what I thought was a great idea, a surprise trip to Disney for Eli and Luke. I kept it a secret, my Mom and I got everything loaded and we went to preschool to pick them up. Eli was thrilled, Luke however said oh good, then he said, but I am not going. What, not going
. He said he did not have the things he needed. I explained I had packed everything he would need. After much debate, he decided he would go. Note to self, Luke does not like surprises
. He does much better with a count down. (This is just an example in the difference in their personalities.)
(DM and DD(9months) are staying at home so we can go have some quality time with DS's. My DM and DF cannot wait to spoil my DD rotten. DF, DM and DD will go when we go in September. A special thanks to all of you who gave me great advice on deciding whether to let DM stay home and keep DD)
When:
We leave home on Saturday May 26 and come home on June 2.
Where we will stay:
Our first night we will stay at the Pop Century, then move to POR for the rest of our trip. We have not been to POR since it was Dixie Landings, we can't wait to go back. We have requested building #14, I sure hope we get it. We stayed in either 14 or 15 on our honeymoon.
What we plan to do:
Saturday arrival day, we will go to Downtown Disney to eat at the Rainforest Cafe (we usually have a hard time fitting this in since we are always on the dining plan) then we will explore DTD and head back to POP for swimming. Hopefully, we will get to bed at a decent so we will be ready to hit it early Sunday morning.
Sunday: Check into POR. Animal Kingdom morning, then dinner at Ohana. MGM if time if not back to POR for swimming.
Monday: Epcot, dinner at GG, then more Epcot.
Tuesday: Blizzard Beach in the morning, early dinner at LeCellier(new for us), then to MGM for Fantasmic.
Wednesday: Magic Kingdom, dinner at Chef Mickey(first time for dinner we have only done breakfast here), then more Magic Kingdom (Spectro and Wishes)
Thursday: Animal Kingdom morning, dinner at 50's PTC, evening MGM.
Friday: Open, whatever we want to do again. Dinner at Concourse Steakhouse(new for us).
We have the Hopper, Water Parks and more option on our tickets, so I am sure we will vary from this schedule somewhat. We will upgrade our tickets to AP's, we are going back in September(and any other chance I get).
****We plan to go back for an afternoon break daily
!
Why:
Although, I never really need a reason to go to Disney, I am so excited about this trip. It has been a very hectic year. Our DD was born on Monday August 14, our twin boys started K-5 on that Thursday. It seems like we have not caught our breath since. We are going to celebrate the end of school and to have some special time with DTS's. They are wonderful big brothers and we are going to take some time to show them just how special they are!
That's it for the pre- trip report. Hopefully, I will be back soon with a trip report with all the details.