I have started reading your TR, PIO. Looking for inspiration for our planned trip to WDW in 2015. It seems very daunting, upon initial looks into it. All the Disney resort accom (with so many abbreviations and talk about pin codes and other discount codes which you apparently hope for but don't know when and if they will arrive!), dining plans, fast pass+ talk has me totally bamboozled!
We arrived home last week. Everything was great! Cars Land is simply amazing, so true to every detail of Radiator Springs. The Grand Californian was worth every penny, just for the proximity...so nice just to walk out of the lobby door and straight into the park. And nice and close to Downtown Disney (Sephora!) too. Also, I highly recommend the photo pass+ - so good to get photos of all 3 of us, plus ride photos and character breakfast photos (which I hear are about $35, alone).
We lucked out with our trip to Denver, as due to me tweeting a reply to the Denver Broncos media manager, we were given on-field passes to watch the team warm-up prior to their game against the Eagles. Amazing! I was so close to my not-so-secret crush Peyton Manning, I was in heaven! And DH was on cloud 9 for about a week - it was his trip highlight (he has been a Broncos fan since the early 90s when he lived there).
Definitely feeling the post holiday blues though, which is why I am planning our next Disney trip (but we may do some sort of cruise in between time - never been on a cruise though, so don't know where to start with that one either!)