Hello everyone! :wave:
Welcome to my first Trip Report! Normally I am not such a procrastinator…quite the opposite really. I am one of those hyper-organized types, and I had every intention of writing a Trip Report soon after we returned from the honeymoon since I really enjoy reading all the other TRs on this site, but it got put off until now. The big reason why I didn’t do it right away is because part way through the trip I decided I didn’t want to do one at all because we’d been rained on all week, and I thought the whole report would just be “and then it was raining again” or “and then it started pouring” or “so we had to put on those #$%& ponchos again,” etc. Not that we didn’t have a great time, because we did (how could we not? We were on our honeymoon in DISNEY WORLD, of all places), but we’d been looking at the forecast before we went and I definitely had the (stupid) attitude of “it can’t possibly rain all week, it’s our honeymoon!” and like I said, we got rained on, and at times, it sucked. So now that I am over the slight bitterness and am planning the next trip (more on that later) I can look back on our trip in May and remember only the great times we had, and not the rain…well, for the most part
So who are “we”?
That would be me – Shannon (25) and my husband, Will (24):
We started dating in February 2005, got engaged in March 2008, and married on May 16, 2009. (Weirdly enough, it rained on our wedding day too and through the ceremony, but cleared up in time for the reception. Maybe we just bring the rain wherever we go.) Being the crazy planner that I am, right after we got engaged (the day of, in fact) I started thinking about planning the wedding and the honeymoon. I wanted to lie on a beach all week, but Will wanted to go to Disney. I’d only been one time - August of 1995 - so obviously a lot has changed since then, and I sort of viewed it as a little kid’s place, like so many that just “don’t know” do. Will had been a few times, most recently in high school I think, and said he wanted us to have a fun honeymoon, more than just lying on the beach. I didn’t want to ruffle any feathers, so I said sure, and off we went. I’ll admit, I was sort of embarrassed to tell people where we were going on our honeymoon because of the “little kid” thing, but despite that, my crazy planner instincts kicked in and I bought the Unofficial Guide, joined this site, and we booked our trip through AAA (thank you B4/G3 deal!). In almost no time at all, despite not having been to WDW for almost 15 years, I realized that I was already hooked and Will was right to insist that this is where we’d spend our honeymoon. Eventually I was more excited for the honeymoon than I was for the wedding.
Welcome to my first Trip Report! Normally I am not such a procrastinator…quite the opposite really. I am one of those hyper-organized types, and I had every intention of writing a Trip Report soon after we returned from the honeymoon since I really enjoy reading all the other TRs on this site, but it got put off until now. The big reason why I didn’t do it right away is because part way through the trip I decided I didn’t want to do one at all because we’d been rained on all week, and I thought the whole report would just be “and then it was raining again” or “and then it started pouring” or “so we had to put on those #$%& ponchos again,” etc. Not that we didn’t have a great time, because we did (how could we not? We were on our honeymoon in DISNEY WORLD, of all places), but we’d been looking at the forecast before we went and I definitely had the (stupid) attitude of “it can’t possibly rain all week, it’s our honeymoon!” and like I said, we got rained on, and at times, it sucked. So now that I am over the slight bitterness and am planning the next trip (more on that later) I can look back on our trip in May and remember only the great times we had, and not the rain…well, for the most part
So who are “we”?
That would be me – Shannon (25) and my husband, Will (24):
We started dating in February 2005, got engaged in March 2008, and married on May 16, 2009. (Weirdly enough, it rained on our wedding day too and through the ceremony, but cleared up in time for the reception. Maybe we just bring the rain wherever we go.) Being the crazy planner that I am, right after we got engaged (the day of, in fact) I started thinking about planning the wedding and the honeymoon. I wanted to lie on a beach all week, but Will wanted to go to Disney. I’d only been one time - August of 1995 - so obviously a lot has changed since then, and I sort of viewed it as a little kid’s place, like so many that just “don’t know” do. Will had been a few times, most recently in high school I think, and said he wanted us to have a fun honeymoon, more than just lying on the beach. I didn’t want to ruffle any feathers, so I said sure, and off we went. I’ll admit, I was sort of embarrassed to tell people where we were going on our honeymoon because of the “little kid” thing, but despite that, my crazy planner instincts kicked in and I bought the Unofficial Guide, joined this site, and we booked our trip through AAA (thank you B4/G3 deal!). In almost no time at all, despite not having been to WDW for almost 15 years, I realized that I was already hooked and Will was right to insist that this is where we’d spend our honeymoon. Eventually I was more excited for the honeymoon than I was for the wedding.
. I was really upset about this. We set up camp in our room and ventured out into the rain for some comfort food – Boardwalk pizza for Will, strawberry cheesecake ice cream for me. And that’s how day 6 ended…bummer!
