Hi! This I my first attempt at trip reporting, so please bear with me. I thought I’d start with a Pre-Trip Report and, depending on how it all goes, follow up with a Trip Report after our return home.
The 7 Dwarfs reference goes back to 2015 when the same cast of characters hit WDW for my son’s first ever trip at age 2 and my parents’ first trip back since 1989. We all had t-shirts with a different Dwarf that pretty much fit our personality (although, in my mother-in-law’s case, it was more of a funny than an accurate fit) and wore them on the day we attended MNSSHP.
Here’s everyone you need to know:
Me (the over-stressed trip planner who will try to not focus on making every detail perfect and actually enjoy every minute)
My husband = B (his first visit was our Disneymoon and he’s been hooked ever since)
My son = G (amazingly he recounts his first trip at age-2 with vivid detail…WEIRD!)
My in-laws = C&P (we are blessed that they very generously let us in on their Vacation Club stays)
My parents = A&T (not huge WDW fans, but always jumping at the opportunity to vacation with G)
The original plan was for the first five (B, G, me and C&P) to fly in on a Friday and fly out the next Saturday, while A&T (staying at PORiverside) would fly in on Saturday and out the next Saturday. DVC home resort is Saratoga, but we really wanted a 2-bedroom villa at AKLodge or Wilderness Lodge for the five of us. B and I have always done the Park Hopper passes, but I missed seeing the advance warning on the price changes (mainly because we weren’t looking to buy our passes that early in the year) so B, G and I will be sticking to a one-park-per-day plan while everyone else has the Park Hopper option (C&P actually have APs going back to their December 2016 trip).
Well, given that Southwest seems to have increased their rates since our 2015 trip, we had to make some adjustments. The first five will be flying in on Friday as planned, but flying out late the next Friday…any we’re flying JetBlue for the first time. Not the end of the world, given that if we flew out on Saturday it was going to be an earlier flight so we wouldn’t have had any park time that day anyway.
Next up will be a quick summary of the itinerary…
The 7 Dwarfs reference goes back to 2015 when the same cast of characters hit WDW for my son’s first ever trip at age 2 and my parents’ first trip back since 1989. We all had t-shirts with a different Dwarf that pretty much fit our personality (although, in my mother-in-law’s case, it was more of a funny than an accurate fit) and wore them on the day we attended MNSSHP.
Here’s everyone you need to know:
Me (the over-stressed trip planner who will try to not focus on making every detail perfect and actually enjoy every minute)
My husband = B (his first visit was our Disneymoon and he’s been hooked ever since)
My son = G (amazingly he recounts his first trip at age-2 with vivid detail…WEIRD!)
My in-laws = C&P (we are blessed that they very generously let us in on their Vacation Club stays)
My parents = A&T (not huge WDW fans, but always jumping at the opportunity to vacation with G)
The original plan was for the first five (B, G, me and C&P) to fly in on a Friday and fly out the next Saturday, while A&T (staying at PORiverside) would fly in on Saturday and out the next Saturday. DVC home resort is Saratoga, but we really wanted a 2-bedroom villa at AKLodge or Wilderness Lodge for the five of us. B and I have always done the Park Hopper passes, but I missed seeing the advance warning on the price changes (mainly because we weren’t looking to buy our passes that early in the year) so B, G and I will be sticking to a one-park-per-day plan while everyone else has the Park Hopper option (C&P actually have APs going back to their December 2016 trip).
Well, given that Southwest seems to have increased their rates since our 2015 trip, we had to make some adjustments. The first five will be flying in on Friday as planned, but flying out late the next Friday…any we’re flying JetBlue for the first time. Not the end of the world, given that if we flew out on Saturday it was going to be an earlier flight so we wouldn’t have had any park time that day anyway.
Next up will be a quick summary of the itinerary…
for work, he can't seem to sleep past 5 when he's not working 
. I think I will have to lobby hard for some downtime!
