Hello everyone!
My name is Zac (contrary to what my user name says
) and I am a 20 year old who has been lurking on these boards for a long time. I made an account not to long about so I could see all the pictures blown up but I have been around for longer than it may seem! Anyway, I decided to do a pre-trip report because I am just super excited for my next trip for multiple reasons.
Background:
As I said I am 20 years old and I have gone to Disney about 12 times in my life starting back in 1999. So you could say I am an addict like most people around here! Early this year (January to be exact) I finally came around to accepting myself of my sexuality and starting dating a guy I met back in December. Both of us didn't want people to know and still haven't people. Well we got to know each other and I shared my love for Disney with him. He told me he had never been. I couldn't believe it! My birthday happened to land over spring break this year. My significant other and I were going to Gulf Shores with a lot of people but deep down I wanted to be in Disney on my birthday since I have never gotten to experience that. So one night him and I were talking and we decided to leave Alabama a day early and drive to Disney for 3 nights so I could get my wish. To not make things seem obvious, we asked everyone going to Alabama if they wanted to come with us but no one wanted to or had the money (story of a college kid right?!) So all the planning went great! We stayed at Pop Century, had all the ADR's I wanted (I know what that acronym is!) and everything was great. Gulf Shores was a ton of fun but I was ready to be in my home. So early Friday morning we woke up and drove to the happiest place on earth. This was his first time so he did not know what to expect and boy did he under estimate it. We got there around 6, checked in, and headed to DTD. He fell in love instantly! We had ADR's at Rainforest (one of my favorite places to eat) and we had a great dinner. We were super excited when we got back to the room and were ready for the next day at DHS and Epcot! We woke up the next morning and thats when disaster hit. He was throwing up constantly. We think he got food poisoning.
Well long story short that trip we ended up spending all of it (and my birthday) in the room trying to make him feel better. Disney did refund some of my dining and canceled my ADR's (one at BOG) for no charge.
So ever since then we have been talking about going back and we finally had something planned in May! September 17th - 21st would be free dining with the deluxe upgrade at Coronado Springs. We decided to make it a little more special since we had a fail of a trip last time. Once everything was paid off we were ready to go! Then disaster struck again. Some things came up and put me into a financial situation to where I had to cancel the trip
But now, after things have settled down, we are deciding to try this once again!
Planning:
We are going November 5th - 9th and as of now we are staying at All Star Sports with deluxe dining. BUT my grandma is a part of the vacation club and text me the other night saying she has 50 points she can't use in time and is giving them to me. How sweet! So now I am in the process of scrambling to find open Studio rooms for that weekend. I have OKW resort booked for Thursday right now but I really want to have the whole weekend at the Boardwalk. I know that is going to be super hard to get but staying positive and a little pixie dust may just help me out a bit! I already have my ADR's booked but my hands hurt from typing so much LOL! So I will let you know the full plan of action next time!
I am just excited to finally go to the place where no one really will judge us for being us and we can finally just be ourselves down there since we constantly are living in fear of people finding out up here.
PS - Sorry if this is all over the place or isn't a good report. I am just excited and have always wanted to do one of these!
Signing out.
My name is Zac (contrary to what my user name says
) and I am a 20 year old who has been lurking on these boards for a long time. I made an account not to long about so I could see all the pictures blown up but I have been around for longer than it may seem! Anyway, I decided to do a pre-trip report because I am just super excited for my next trip for multiple reasons.Background:
As I said I am 20 years old and I have gone to Disney about 12 times in my life starting back in 1999. So you could say I am an addict like most people around here! Early this year (January to be exact) I finally came around to accepting myself of my sexuality and starting dating a guy I met back in December. Both of us didn't want people to know and still haven't people. Well we got to know each other and I shared my love for Disney with him. He told me he had never been. I couldn't believe it! My birthday happened to land over spring break this year. My significant other and I were going to Gulf Shores with a lot of people but deep down I wanted to be in Disney on my birthday since I have never gotten to experience that. So one night him and I were talking and we decided to leave Alabama a day early and drive to Disney for 3 nights so I could get my wish. To not make things seem obvious, we asked everyone going to Alabama if they wanted to come with us but no one wanted to or had the money (story of a college kid right?!) So all the planning went great! We stayed at Pop Century, had all the ADR's I wanted (I know what that acronym is!) and everything was great. Gulf Shores was a ton of fun but I was ready to be in my home. So early Friday morning we woke up and drove to the happiest place on earth. This was his first time so he did not know what to expect and boy did he under estimate it. We got there around 6, checked in, and headed to DTD. He fell in love instantly! We had ADR's at Rainforest (one of my favorite places to eat) and we had a great dinner. We were super excited when we got back to the room and were ready for the next day at DHS and Epcot! We woke up the next morning and thats when disaster hit. He was throwing up constantly. We think he got food poisoning.
Well long story short that trip we ended up spending all of it (and my birthday) in the room trying to make him feel better. Disney did refund some of my dining and canceled my ADR's (one at BOG) for no charge. So ever since then we have been talking about going back and we finally had something planned in May! September 17th - 21st would be free dining with the deluxe upgrade at Coronado Springs. We decided to make it a little more special since we had a fail of a trip last time. Once everything was paid off we were ready to go! Then disaster struck again. Some things came up and put me into a financial situation to where I had to cancel the trip
But now, after things have settled down, we are deciding to try this once again!
Planning:
We are going November 5th - 9th and as of now we are staying at All Star Sports with deluxe dining. BUT my grandma is a part of the vacation club and text me the other night saying she has 50 points she can't use in time and is giving them to me. How sweet! So now I am in the process of scrambling to find open Studio rooms for that weekend. I have OKW resort booked for Thursday right now but I really want to have the whole weekend at the Boardwalk. I know that is going to be super hard to get but staying positive and a little pixie dust may just help me out a bit! I already have my ADR's booked but my hands hurt from typing so much LOL! So I will let you know the full plan of action next time!
I am just excited to finally go to the place where no one really will judge us for being us and we can finally just be ourselves down there since we constantly are living in fear of people finding out up here.
PS - Sorry if this is all over the place or isn't a good report. I am just excited and have always wanted to do one of these!
Signing out.
These plans are still up in the air as I am waiting on some ADR's to open up for me.