July 4th 2012 PTR

Hey all. This is my first pre-trip report and hopefully it will turn into my first trip report.

Let's start with a little background. We went last July for two weeks where we visited US and IOA for two days to see Harry Potter along with WDW for 12 days and upgraded our MYW tickets to annual passes for WDW. This trip is only a week since we didn’t really budget for another trip but wanted to go again. The last trip was my fiancé’s and my first Disney trip together. And I'm hoping we can go many more times together.

When-July 1-July 7

Where-POP Century-We stayed here last time and loved it as a value.

Who-Our Lovely Cast
Me: I’m Rita, 23 and love all things Disney and this will be my 7th trip but hoping to get many more! I am the one in our group that can walk around the park to get us where we need to go without a map. I ate around the “world” in one day on one trip and might try to drink around the “world” sometime. I will be participating in the Fall College Program this year. It’s going to be difficult being away from my fiancé for that time but I am going to love living in Florida and being able to go to the parks whenever I want. Maybe we can move to Florida and then I can work for Disney. I want a Disney wedding. We actually visited the wedding chapel when we were down there last year and I could see us getting married in Disney.
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Chris: My fiancé is 24 and I think I can get him to love Disney as much as I do. Chris has only been to Disney 2 times. The first time was when he was 5 and the second was with my family and it was lovely to watch him remember what he could from his first trip. We wanted to go to Disney for SWW this year but decided against it to go with my family again. On the last trip Chris was the main photographer and took over 4000 pictures, no editing. This trip we now have our new fancy camera so we will probably have about that many or more.
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Amber: My younger sister, 18. This will be her 6th trip to the World. She loves Disney and has a fascination with Paris so we spent a lot of time in EPCOT taking pictures for her in France last year. This trip hopefully is better for her than the last one. We went for her high school graduation present and we all wore the celebrating pins except for me and Chris who wore just engaged pins. Amber was upset because everyone was commenting on Chris and me getting engaged instead of her graduation.
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Mom and Dad: I am pretty sure they love Disney as much as I do. I know my Dad does. I was trying to get him to do the college program with me-he lost his job a couple years ago and has been going to school to get all the computer certifications that he didn’t need for his old job. This would be their 9th trip to Disney. They are the mediators of all the fights between Amber, Chris and I.
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radev104

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Good luck with the paper. I agree its always stressful but once you are done, and down there just imagine its smooth enjoyable sailing from there on out.....almost there

I like your countdown chain idea. I am trying to find something for my son to get him excited. Or rather even more excited than he already is...and believe me you would think it was Christmas time...but still I want to do this.

Because of all the work, which I am trying to get done ASAP, I will not be making the countdown chain-maybe next time. The chain was just going to be colored paper with quotes on each link and hook them all together and hang them somewhere. Then every night one link comes down. I wish I could do it but too look up quotes and all that is too much right now.

I just realized... your going for Dan and my anniversary. My jealousy has increased ten-fold.
When is your anniversary? Maybe I can ride the Tower of Terror for you that day.
 

radev104

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Update-I do not like this new layout.
My sister finally took a picture of the shirts and window clings. No autograph books.
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This one is for my dad and Chris.
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This one is for my mom, Amber and me. It's amazing that all three of us can fit in the boys sized shirts from the Disney store. They have to be making their shirts bigger. Also why do they have to make all the girls shirts with glitter or sparkles? I went to the Disney store at the mall while Chris got his battery replaced at the Apple store and all the girls shirts has glitter. I know I do not want glitter on my shirt and I like to buy a girls size instead of womens.
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Amber and I got this one from Wal-Mart.
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Now its off to do some homework and go to AAA to order our trip tik even though we know where we are going its just a tradition.
 

LeCellier.Lover

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First of all CONGRATULATIONS on your engagement! That's so exciting! :D
Secondly, this trip sounds like it is going to be so much fun! I love how you added pictures and updates along the way! My friends and I are taking a trip to the World next week as a graduation celebration from high school and we're staying at POP too, but we won't be there at the same time.. :( Haha!
Thank you for reminding me that I need to make envelopes for MouseKeeping!
I want to do the College Program too once I am in college (officially) and can sign up for it! :D Just curious.. where in PA do you live?!
P.S.- I'm not a fan of the update either....
 

radev104

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First of all CONGRATULATIONS on your engagement! That's so exciting! :D
Secondly, this trip sounds like it is going to be so much fun! I love how you added pictures and updates along the way! My friends and I are taking a trip to the World next week as a graduation celebration from high school and we're staying at POP too, but we won't be there at the same time.. :( Haha!
Thank you for reminding me that I need to make envelopes for MouseKeeping!
I want to do the College Program too once I am in college (officially) and can sign up for it! :D Just curious.. where in PA do you live?!
P.S.- I'm not a fan of the update either....

Thank you!! I am putting a lot of effort into this and hopefully the final trip report. Its my first one so I want it to be awesome. :D POP is great. I would love to stay at a deluxe once (and planning on surprising Chris with a one night stay at one when he visits me when I'm on the College Program). I passed on the duty of making the envelopes to my mom and sister since they are going to use the Cricket to make them with some characters on them. I will finish them up when I get to my parents house.
I'm excited for the program but not looking forward to being away from Chris for 5 months-going to be hard but I get to spend my birthday at Disney!
I'm from Limerick about 40 minutes from Philly but moved to CT to live with Chris :D
 

LeCellier.Lover

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Thank you!! I am putting a lot of effort into this and hopefully the final trip report. Its my first one so I want it to be awesome. :D POP is great. I would love to stay at a deluxe once (and planning on surprising Chris with a one night stay at one when he visits me when I'm on the College Program). I passed on the duty of making the envelopes to my mom and sister since they are going to use the Cricket to make them with some characters on them. I will finish them up when I get to my parents house.
I'm excited for the program but not looking forward to being away from Chris for 5 months-going to be hard but I get to spend my birthday at Disney!
I'm from Limerick about 40 minutes from Philly but moved to CT to live with Chris :D

I'm sure you guys are going to have a FABULOUS and FANTASTIC time! :D
Yes I do love POP and all of it's ginormous stuff, but my dream is to spend at least a night at the Polynesian someday.... Haha!
That's awesome I wish I had a Cricket machine! My mom and I usually just print them out onto envelopes. Yeah that is probably tough being away from your fiance, but it's Disney and I know you're going to love it and like you said Chris'll be down to visit! :)
Oo ok I was just wondering because I currently live near Chicago, IL but I'm going to be going to college about 10 minutes away from Philly in the fall! :)
 

radev104

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Oo ok I was just wondering because I currently live near Chicago, IL but I'm going to be going to college about 10 minutes away from Philly in the fall! :)
Where are you going? My sister's college is close to Philly too.

lol, ON July 4th! :) And if you manage that, I would love you forever.
I know that we are definitely doing DHS or AK on the 4th. So it is possible!
 

radev104

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ONE WEEK!!! In one week we will be arriving in Disney!!!

I am not as excited as I used to be in the past. If anyone would ask Chris how excited I was for our trip last year compared to the trip this year he would tell you that I was 1000 times more excited last year. I think that's cause I am stressing about all this grad school work.

I just checked the weather for the beginning of next week and it doesn't look like it's going to get as hot as it did last year when we were down there. Its going to be about the same temperature as it is up here in CT but with a high humidity. Usually in CT its cooler than Disney but this past week it has been hotter. It got up to 100 here. Crazy.

So to finally get to what I got on here for the trip update. We preordered the photopass+ for $170. We were on the fence of getting it. But once I saw that we could get it for that price we had to. My parents ordered the trip tik from AAA. I find it funny we always get one and Chris asked why we don't just print out MapQuest directions. Um honey its a tradition and it shows all the rest stops for when I need to potty. Haha. My parents bought backpacks with water things in them for me, Chris and one for them (not sure about my sister). My mom made the mousekeeping envelopes and showed them to me over Skype-cute. I just have to write Mousekeeping on them when we get to our parents house. My mom asked me if I was packed-nope. I have nothing packed which is bad cause I'm usually packed this early.

Sorry for the rambling, it's just me slacking on the homework and laundry.
 

LeCellier.Lover

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ONE WEEK!!! In one week we will be arriving in Disney!!!

I am not as excited as I used to be in the past. If anyone would ask Chris how excited I was for our trip last year compared to the trip this year he would tell you that I was 1000 times more excited last year. I think that's cause I am stressing about all this grad school work.

YAY YAY ONLY 1 WEEK LEFT!! :D Don't worry once you get there you'll feel more excited!! I was SOO busy the weeks before my trip so I felt like I couldn't even get excited because I had so much other stuff to worry about, but once I saw the WHOLE Disney World Resort from the air outside of my plane window I squealed like a little girl!! ;)
 

radev104

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OK. So we've been back for a couple days and I still haven't edited any pictures and need to do all the photopass pictures. But right now I am relaxing-it has been awhile since I was able to just sit and read a book so I'm enjoying that right now. The TR is coming just stick around. :)
 

enchanted_belle

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OK. So we've been back for a couple days and I still haven't edited any pictures and need to do all the photopass pictures. But right now I am relaxing-it has been awhile since I was able to just sit and read a book so I'm enjoying that right now. The TR is coming just stick around. :)
SO looking forward to it Rita (and seeing you in roughly 77ish days).
 

fractal

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OK. So we've been back for a couple days and I still haven't edited any pictures and need to do all the photopass pictures. But right now I am relaxing-it has been awhile since I was able to just sit and read a book so I'm enjoying that right now. The TR is coming just stick around. :)


Ditto. Looking forward to the report!
 

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