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Mouseketeer
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- Sep 9, 2014
Hello everyone..... or no one if no one reads ....I have been on the disboards for a couple of years now. I love reading trip reports and getting tips and living through others vacations. As are most friends on these boards, I have a planning problem. I am a planner and a re-planner and an over planner. I have not sought help for my problem nor am I in denial of my problem. I just love planning and organizing my vacations....not my closets.....but my vacations for sure.
There are four of us in our immediate family: My DH who has been a DL pass holder almost as long as me, my DD 8 an aspiring gymnast that has breathed Disney since birth, my DS 6 who wants to be Indiana Jones when he grows up, and me closer to 40 than 35 and avid Disney fan. I have had a DLR pass since 1996....yes the year I graduated from high school....and never looked back! We live about an hour east of DLR so we go at least twice a month to the happiest place on earth. Both of my children had their first visits at 6 weeks old.
Here we are on the 7 Dwarfs Mine Train in May 2016. My husband had a conference in Orlando so of course we went!!!!! (the family in the last car is us)
So that is a little bit about us....now onto the juicy pre trip stuff!!! We cruised the Eastern Caribbean on the Fantasy in June 2015....wow!!!!! Best Vacation Ever!!! So relaxing and fun and amazing. This past summer we took on Aulani in July 2016.....WOW...amazing and awesome too! So it came time to decide how to spend summer vacation 2017.....something Disneyish possibly....of course. We all voted for another cruise! So I booked us on the Western Carribbean Disney Fantasy sail date 5/27/17.
However, waaaaayyyyyy before we decided to do that, DH and I decided to book a secret cruise with our friends. There are a few cruises out of San Diego each year as the Wonder positions and repositions itself for Alaska. It is about a 2 hour drive to the SAN Diego port. Our friends wanted to do a Disney cruise without the flight to Florida and being on ship for 7 nights (what is wrong with them??? Just kidding) so they asked if we would like to do a 2 night cruise to Ensenada on the Wonder? Don't have to ask us twice!!!! Of course!!!!! It sails Mother's Day Weekend 5/12/17. We decided to keep it a secret from the kids and surprise them when we get to the port!
So there it is in a nutshell...our secret cruise which leads up to the Fantasy. Oh and after our time on the Fantasy, the kids and I will stay in Florida for another week and take on The World. DH has to get back to work but the kids and I will be on summer break! My mom is going to fly out and spend the week at Disney World with us. We are staying Club level at the Contemporary.
With a little over 4 months to go, it is time for the planning to begin....well more planning!!!!
There are four of us in our immediate family: My DH who has been a DL pass holder almost as long as me, my DD 8 an aspiring gymnast that has breathed Disney since birth, my DS 6 who wants to be Indiana Jones when he grows up, and me closer to 40 than 35 and avid Disney fan. I have had a DLR pass since 1996....yes the year I graduated from high school....and never looked back! We live about an hour east of DLR so we go at least twice a month to the happiest place on earth. Both of my children had their first visits at 6 weeks old.
Here we are on the 7 Dwarfs Mine Train in May 2016. My husband had a conference in Orlando so of course we went!!!!! (the family in the last car is us)
So that is a little bit about us....now onto the juicy pre trip stuff!!! We cruised the Eastern Caribbean on the Fantasy in June 2015....wow!!!!! Best Vacation Ever!!! So relaxing and fun and amazing. This past summer we took on Aulani in July 2016.....WOW...amazing and awesome too! So it came time to decide how to spend summer vacation 2017.....something Disneyish possibly....of course. We all voted for another cruise! So I booked us on the Western Carribbean Disney Fantasy sail date 5/27/17.
However, waaaaayyyyyy before we decided to do that, DH and I decided to book a secret cruise with our friends. There are a few cruises out of San Diego each year as the Wonder positions and repositions itself for Alaska. It is about a 2 hour drive to the SAN Diego port. Our friends wanted to do a Disney cruise without the flight to Florida and being on ship for 7 nights (what is wrong with them??? Just kidding) so they asked if we would like to do a 2 night cruise to Ensenada on the Wonder? Don't have to ask us twice!!!! Of course!!!!! It sails Mother's Day Weekend 5/12/17. We decided to keep it a secret from the kids and surprise them when we get to the port!
So there it is in a nutshell...our secret cruise which leads up to the Fantasy. Oh and after our time on the Fantasy, the kids and I will stay in Florida for another week and take on The World. DH has to get back to work but the kids and I will be on summer break! My mom is going to fly out and spend the week at Disney World with us. We are staying Club level at the Contemporary.
With a little over 4 months to go, it is time for the planning to begin....well more planning!!!!
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