Hello and Hey-Howdy-Hey! (I posted this in the "Introduce yourself" part, so if you read it, skip this part)
After creeping and stalking all of you on this site, reading other people’s trip reports for quite sometime, I have finally decided to create an ID and do a TR myself.
Let’s give a background first. We are Lauren and Chris, a couple of thirtysomethings who love all things Disney. We got the nickname “lovenerds” as sort of mashup of a couple of nerdy lovebirds, affectionately adapted by my mom. Yeah, we’re cute. (AWWWWWWW.)
I (Lauren) will be doing most of the narrating.
When I was 9 years old, my parents had my brother and I come into our kitchen one evening, and asked us “If you could go anywhere in the WHOLE WORLD, where would it be?” The answer, of course, for a 9 year old and a 6 year old, simultaneously was “Disney World!!!” My mother grinned and said “Well let’s go then!!!” My brother and I were speechless for a moment, but realized that she was serious, that we were to leave the following week to stay with our grandmother at Daytona Beach, and we would visit Disney World while we were down there. I remember jumping up and down screaming, I was so excited! We then ended up going to Florida for three subsequent years: ’89, ’90, and ’91. Each year we stayed with my grandmother in Daytona, and visited Disney World and Universal Studios. These are some of the best memories of my life. The very last year, 1991, my other grandma came along. This is a most sacred memory for me, because she passed away a year and a half later. I remember she actually teared up when she saw Cinderella Castle for the first time, saying “All children should see this.” Her favorite ride was the Haunted Mansion, I remember riding a Doom Buggy with her, and how hard she laughed at the hitchhiking ghosts.
SO, fast forward many years. In between 1991 and 2011 (the next time I visited WDW) I managed to go to both Tokyo Disneyland when I was studying in Japan for summer 2002, and EuroDisney (Now Paris Disneyland) in 2006 while on a Teachers Study program (I’m a French Teacher). While both parks were wonderful, neither can compare to WDW, as all of you know I am sure.
Chris, however, has been going to WDW nearly every year since his birth. At first it was just he, his parents, and his older brother and sister, but then his niece and nephew were born. All of them started going together as a family, and his brother felt it necessary to make their trips easier and more affordable, since they had every intention of continuing their trips every year. Chris’s brother bought into the Disney Vacation Club, and now Chris and his family have stayed at nearly every Disney resort at WDW.
Fast forward again. In 2011, Chris and I decided to take a trip alone together to WDW. Thus here we have arrived to our (very delayed) trip report. But before I start, I wanted to tell all my readers that in August 2011 Chris’s family and I decided to take a trip together to London and Paris. I had never been to London, but being a French teacher, I have been to Paris many, many times, so I enjoyed being “tour guide.” On our first night in Paris, Chris proposed to me on the lawn beneath the Eiffel tower, and our wedding is in only two short months, on August 11, 2012. Two days after our wedding we are taking off for a combined 10-day honeymoon at WDW and on the Disney Dream!!!! We will be staying at the Boardwalk Villas for 2 mights, spending 4 nights on the Dream, then 4 more nights at Wilderness Lodge. THAT will be one HECK of a trip report!!!
OK, on with the show...hope the picture posting works.....
After creeping and stalking all of you on this site, reading other people’s trip reports for quite sometime, I have finally decided to create an ID and do a TR myself.
Let’s give a background first. We are Lauren and Chris, a couple of thirtysomethings who love all things Disney. We got the nickname “lovenerds” as sort of mashup of a couple of nerdy lovebirds, affectionately adapted by my mom. Yeah, we’re cute. (AWWWWWWW.)
I (Lauren) will be doing most of the narrating.
When I was 9 years old, my parents had my brother and I come into our kitchen one evening, and asked us “If you could go anywhere in the WHOLE WORLD, where would it be?” The answer, of course, for a 9 year old and a 6 year old, simultaneously was “Disney World!!!” My mother grinned and said “Well let’s go then!!!” My brother and I were speechless for a moment, but realized that she was serious, that we were to leave the following week to stay with our grandmother at Daytona Beach, and we would visit Disney World while we were down there. I remember jumping up and down screaming, I was so excited! We then ended up going to Florida for three subsequent years: ’89, ’90, and ’91. Each year we stayed with my grandmother in Daytona, and visited Disney World and Universal Studios. These are some of the best memories of my life. The very last year, 1991, my other grandma came along. This is a most sacred memory for me, because she passed away a year and a half later. I remember she actually teared up when she saw Cinderella Castle for the first time, saying “All children should see this.” Her favorite ride was the Haunted Mansion, I remember riding a Doom Buggy with her, and how hard she laughed at the hitchhiking ghosts.
SO, fast forward many years. In between 1991 and 2011 (the next time I visited WDW) I managed to go to both Tokyo Disneyland when I was studying in Japan for summer 2002, and EuroDisney (Now Paris Disneyland) in 2006 while on a Teachers Study program (I’m a French Teacher). While both parks were wonderful, neither can compare to WDW, as all of you know I am sure.
Chris, however, has been going to WDW nearly every year since his birth. At first it was just he, his parents, and his older brother and sister, but then his niece and nephew were born. All of them started going together as a family, and his brother felt it necessary to make their trips easier and more affordable, since they had every intention of continuing their trips every year. Chris’s brother bought into the Disney Vacation Club, and now Chris and his family have stayed at nearly every Disney resort at WDW.
Fast forward again. In 2011, Chris and I decided to take a trip alone together to WDW. Thus here we have arrived to our (very delayed) trip report. But before I start, I wanted to tell all my readers that in August 2011 Chris’s family and I decided to take a trip together to London and Paris. I had never been to London, but being a French teacher, I have been to Paris many, many times, so I enjoyed being “tour guide.” On our first night in Paris, Chris proposed to me on the lawn beneath the Eiffel tower, and our wedding is in only two short months, on August 11, 2012. Two days after our wedding we are taking off for a combined 10-day honeymoon at WDW and on the Disney Dream!!!! We will be staying at the Boardwalk Villas for 2 mights, spending 4 nights on the Dream, then 4 more nights at Wilderness Lodge. THAT will be one HECK of a trip report!!!
OK, on with the show...hope the picture posting works.....
