I'm right there with you on a couple of fronts, UPbeekeeper!! I absolutely LOVE planning our WDW vacations too! It's funny, but just booking everything and thinking about it and planning all the little details is almost as exciting to me as the actual trip! :hammer: Crazy, I know, but the trip seems to go by SO fast once you get down there (10 days usually) whereas the planning seems to keep me busy MUCH longer. I was usually thinking about/planning the next vacation a month or two after returning from the previous one and would head in to our local CAA office 1 year out to actually book the next one and put money down on it.
We have been every 2 years since 2005, but right now, it looks like it is going to be a few years before we are able to head back down again. The funny thing is my wife and I were just supposed to go by ourselves last trip to celebrate our 20 year wedding anniversary, but I (like yourself) figured it might be our last big family vaca since our kids were 14 and 19 and figured they were at that perfect age to enjoy all the bigger rides and that now. Well, guess what??? Even though I SWORE last year would be our last big family vacation (couple of minor incidents and one love struck teen boy the whole trip) and that everything from here on out was just going to be my wife and I for a while, we are already talking about bringing them with us on the next one in a few years. :hammer: So never say never I guess! :lol:
Anyways....to actually ANSWER your question now:
-I usually spend a lot of time on here in between trips. I read up on all the future changes coming to the parks to see what we can expect or look forward to when we get down there. I also like to read a lot of the trip reports posted by others on here and look at all the picture threads.
-I will look at our own vacation pictures and videos on the computer every now and again. The family will all share a few laughs at how we've changed through the years or at a certain memory a picture might bring back.
-I talk about WDW with my one buddy (the one who got me hooked on going actually) or my wife and kids. Besides my immediate family, my buddy is the only other person that I talk to that has been. So we'll sit there sometimes and talk about past trips or what we miss the most about being down there. And I don't think there is a day go by in our household that someone doesn't mention something about WDW.
-Lastly, I pop on Disney music every now and again to remind me of being in the parks. I found this one CD at a garage sale last summer from Epcot's Millennium Celebration and have been listening to it like nuts lately, usually while on the forums here late at night. Just reminds me SO much of being in my favourite park!
Sorry I made that so long, just hard to stop typing sometimes when you get going! :ROFLOL: Anyways, happy planning and don't worry...that next trip will be here before you know it! :wave:
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