A Trip Less Ordinary Our Half Business/ Half Pleasure Trip 
So as many of you know my name is Maria. I am 26 and married to Benjamin my loving husband. We both love Disney and have taken 3 trips together since we started dating in 2003. We have also both went on many trips to the world before meeting each other.
this is Ben and I at the Wilderness Lodge for our honeymoon
Ben and I were at a turning point of our lives about a year and a half ago and he decided that he wanted to go to Law School. Well he took the LSAT and did pretty good but before he could start the application process his mom got really sick…she was diagnosed with Leukemia and our world was turned upside down Ben took a leave of absence from work and we pretty much lived the hospital for 6 months.
We received really good news in August…Bens mom was in remission and starting to feel better everyday. After she was back home Ben returned to work and life got pretty much back to normal. We took a decompress Walt Disney World trip in October with my little sister Mallory and my niece Kaia.
Ben began to think about Law School again and decided to take the LSAT again to try to improve his score. He did improve by a couple of points and he was ready to start the application process.
He applied to 15 different schools across the United States. From Seattle to Rhode Island…From New Orleans to New Mexico….well when the letters started rolling in he was admitted to three schools and wait listed on three. Well one of the school he was admitted to was in Orlando (I tried to stay calm b/c I wanted him to look at all of his options…but I was almost jumping up and down). In the end the school in Orlando was the best fit because the offered him a nice size scholarship and he liked the small campus.
So we had decided on Orlando for law school and I was going to attend the Community College there. We packed all of our things and put it in storage in Louisiana and headed to Asheville were we are living for the summer . I am being the nanny for my nephew Max (he made an apperance on my last TR)
We decided that we would go to Orlando May 18-22 to look for apartments, tour our schools and I had an orientation to attend. My little sister Mallory decided to fly to Orlando on the 21 so she could ride back with us to Asheville and spend the week at my brother’s house.
OK so enough back story…
So of course when we knew we were heading to Orlando we wanted to fit in some Disney time. But we had time and budget restraints. So in the end we decided to spend 2 days at a non-Disney hotel near the school and where we would need to be apartment hunting.
The last two nights we would spend at the Pop Century. We bought tickets to the P&P party for May 21 the day my little sister would be in town. We decided to forgo getting park tickets and enjoy touring the Disney hotels, DTD, and other things.
We had a wonderful half business/ half pleasure trip
With many firsts…including one of our favorite meals of all time at WDW.
More to come soon.