And YOU! and YOU! and YOU! And YOU! (But let's be real, mostly @Tuvalu 
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Hello friends and welcome to my trip report inspired by YOU!
I have read what feels like hundreds of trip reports in the last year or so. I have taken inspiration from them and I am ready to do some new things this trip!
Who am I: I am Teresa from Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. I am currently on maternity leave (which is 1 year in Canada) which gives me ample time to read this forum and plan my own trip. This will be my 8th trip to the World, 2nd time staying onsite. I am cynical and sarcastic and you’re gonna love me.
When and Where: February 1-8 at Port Orleans Riverside. Me and Lukas (DH) stayed on-site for the first time last year at CBR and fell in love with it. The convenience is worth every extra penny. We booked on the PSD deal and after spending 2 hours on hold and then being disconnected the only package left online for a standard room in a Moderate was POR (we were originally going to book Coronado Springs). I considered booking POP instead for a few hundred dollars less but I have seen SO many reports here of you guys staying at POR and loving it so I booked it (and it better be good! 
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Who: Me, Teresa, and my DH Lukas. We have 2 kids - Kinley who will be 2.5 years old and Malcolm who will be 5 months old. Kinley has also gone at 1.5 years old and 9 months old and both kids had in-utero Disney trips so they are pros already.
You love them already, right?
Last year when we went we decided we wouldn’t do it alone with small kids again as it is EXHAUSTING, so my sister Emily (@AKemily) is also coming with us!
Here's me and Kinley and Emily in May 2016 meeting our faves
And of course, when my parents heard that we were going (and paying for ourselves), they decided to tag along as well!
This is us on a past trip. I lovingly cropped out my other sister and brother-in-law as they won't be coming on this trip.
Why:
Well first off, this is my view right now.
Dismal right? And it will only get worse over the next... let's see.. 88 days and 3 hours.
But really, whenever I try to branch out and look for other winter holidays, I am just fooling myself because WHY would we go anywhere other than Disney? We never thought we would be *those* people who bring small children and *gasp* double strollers to WDW but can we really wait 5+ years to return to WDW?? No, we can’t. So we have become the people we always despised and I apologize in advance. I promise to park my stroller in my room and not in the hallway - but watch your ankles, I may have had 2 children but the “park commando” never dies!
Up next: Our plans so far!
)Hello friends and welcome to my trip report inspired by YOU!
I have read what feels like hundreds of trip reports in the last year or so. I have taken inspiration from them and I am ready to do some new things this trip!
Who am I: I am Teresa from Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. I am currently on maternity leave (which is 1 year in Canada) which gives me ample time to read this forum and plan my own trip. This will be my 8th trip to the World, 2nd time staying onsite. I am cynical and sarcastic and you’re gonna love me.
When and Where: February 1-8 at Port Orleans Riverside. Me and Lukas (DH) stayed on-site for the first time last year at CBR and fell in love with it. The convenience is worth every extra penny. We booked on the PSD deal and after spending 2 hours on hold and then being disconnected
the only package left online for a standard room in a Moderate was POR (we were originally going to book Coronado Springs). I considered booking POP instead for a few hundred dollars less but I have seen SO many reports here of you guys staying at POR and loving it so I booked it (and it better be good! )Who: Me, Teresa, and my DH Lukas. We have 2 kids - Kinley who will be 2.5 years old and Malcolm who will be 5 months old. Kinley has also gone at 1.5 years old and 9 months old and both kids had in-utero Disney trips so they are pros already.
You love them already, right?
Last year when we went we decided we wouldn’t do it alone with small kids again as it is EXHAUSTING, so my sister Emily (@AKemily) is also coming with us!
Here's me and Kinley and Emily in May 2016 meeting our faves
And of course, when my parents heard that we were going (and paying for ourselves
), they decided to tag along as well!This is us on a past trip. I lovingly cropped out my other sister and brother-in-law as they won't be coming on this trip.
Why:
Well first off, this is my view right now.
Dismal right? And it will only get worse over the next... let's see.. 88 days and 3 hours.
But really, whenever I try to branch out and look for other winter holidays, I am just fooling myself because WHY would we go anywhere other than Disney? We never thought we would be *those* people who bring small children and *gasp* double strollers to WDW
but can we really wait 5+ years to return to WDW?? No, we can’t. So we have become the people we always despised and I apologize in advance. I promise to park my stroller in my room and not in the hallway - but watch your ankles, I may have had 2 children but the “park commando” never dies!Up next: Our plans so far!
. I have never been to WL before but we saw it from the water on a fireworks cruise and it looked gorgeous. And then after reading so many trip reports on here I knew I had to go there so Whispering Canyon was on my “‘must do” list for this trip!
As you can imagine, we are definitely ready for those Florida temperatures! *Sigh* only 37 days to go...
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. This is just the cover, let me know if you want to see it in more detail!
So hopefully she is actually happy with the plan now as she claims to be 
) Okay, so not really a real problem 
and thinking about us maybe needing some more "non-park" time, I grabbed an ADR for Chef Art Smith's Homecoming at 12:00. We will either hit AK in am, bus to DS, boat back to POR for afternoon, or relax at resort in am, boat to DS, and then take the bus to AK. By this time we should have a better idea of how the kids are handling the parks and naps and such and will make a "last minute" decision 
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around 7:30am
