Only just seen this but will still reply!
My first trip was in the early summer of 2000.
I'd been made redundant and decided to use a bit of my pay off to take myself and my younger DD who was 14 at the time. We stayed at the Newport Bay Club hotel. We had a wonderful time - the weather was lovely, and it was a really relaxed visit. Favourite memories include the walks to Park past the lake in the early morning sunshine, and trying the Blue Lagoon for the first time. One day we had a Good Morning Fantasyland breakfast, and after admiring a deserted FL and riding PPF four times in a row we wandered through the Castle - and from that elevated postion we had an un-nerving view of what looked like a million people heading towards us down Main Street - the gates had just opened!
I got home after the trip to find a letter on the doormat offering me a new job - Disney Magic or what!