sbprincess
DIS Veteran
- Joined
- Feb 19, 2010
Hello everyone! As you can tell from my info to the right, I'm more of a "lurker" to the boards but I love to read Trip Reports so I thought I'd try my hand at a PTR. So be kind to me please! I hope to make this entertaining...both for myself and anyone who decides to join me! Alright, ready, set, here we GO!!
Let me first introduce you all to the cast:
My wonderful husband and me.
We have been married for 2 wonderful years. Actually March 8th is our anniversary, right around the corner! We went to Disney on our Honeymoon for one week, March 9-15, 2008. It was perfect for us! We stayed at All Star Movies because we were very poor back then. Not much has changed since then but we were able to afford this trip without going into debt (and we're staying Deluxe, woo hoo!). More on that later!
Me, Shelley (26), I am an Administrative Assistant at a large physician group in our city. I really love my job and most of the people I work with. I love to make plans, but I'm actually a pretty laid back person. Even though I have done TONS of research, I'm not the type to plan our days out by the hour or anything. There is a spreadsheet, it may have some colors to draw attention to certain things, but all that is planned is our ADRs, which park we plan to go to for most of the day, park hours, etc. Okay, maybe I'm a little more into planning that I choose to admit to. But I really am pretty laid back.
My husband Brian (27), on the other hand, is the life of every party He is just about the friendliest person you'd ever meet. He works at FedEx Kinko's Distribution Center. He is okay with his job but mainly likes the people he works with. He's been there a total of almost 5 years so he must be at least okay with what he does. He doesn't complain so that makes me happy!
We've both been to Disney many times, but only together the one time for our HM. My grandparents have a second home in Daytona Beach so my family would go there usually a few times every year and my parents would take all of us (my two sisters and me, and any friends we might have along) to Disney for one day of the vacation. Because we never stayed on property and Daytona is about 90 minutes away, the Magic Kingdom was where we went every year except one. I begged and begged and finally got them to try EPCOT. My mom and I loved it (my older sister I think was married by this time and not with us) but I'm not sure about my dad and little sister. Brian's family went to WDW several times when he was growing up (his sister is 10 years older so he's practically an only child). They always stayed off-property (time share, I think). But he had been to all 4 parks each trip.
Actually, now that I think about this, I have to share a story of my childhood about MGM (this was pre-DHS). One year my mom and grandmother took my sisters and all of our cousins to the house in Daytona. We all convinced them to take us to Disney one day. Again, MK was the only real option for which park to visit. My mother, bless her heart, as much as I love her, she is sort of an air-head when it comes to some things. I think I was only 8 or 9 for this. So we all go (all 8 grandkids, ages 4 thru 14, with only two adults). We buy our tickets, make our way into the park and our first stop is a show. I'm not sure what it was but I remember we laughed a lot. So we come out and they start looking at the map. My mom's like "Where's the castle?...Where's Space Mountain?" She proceeds to ask a CM and he politely explains that Cinderella's Castle is in the Magic Kingdom...we were in MGM Studios...they aren't the same thing! My mom was so embarrassed but almost died of laughter. We went to guest relations and they were very nice about it. Lord, I wonder what kind of idiots they thought we were though! All of my family lives in Georgia (except me now) so I'm sure the hick accent didn't help at all. They switched our tickets and we went to MK for the rest of the day. This would have never happened with my dad but leave it to my mom!
Okay, I think I've written enough for now. Hopefully I haven't put anyone to sleep. Didn't quite think I'd write this much. Oh well, stay tuned for more of our plans!
Next up: Where are we staying? (like you can't see from my signature ) And more juicy details!
Let me first introduce you all to the cast:
My wonderful husband and me.
We have been married for 2 wonderful years. Actually March 8th is our anniversary, right around the corner! We went to Disney on our Honeymoon for one week, March 9-15, 2008. It was perfect for us! We stayed at All Star Movies because we were very poor back then. Not much has changed since then but we were able to afford this trip without going into debt (and we're staying Deluxe, woo hoo!). More on that later!
Me, Shelley (26), I am an Administrative Assistant at a large physician group in our city. I really love my job and most of the people I work with. I love to make plans, but I'm actually a pretty laid back person. Even though I have done TONS of research, I'm not the type to plan our days out by the hour or anything. There is a spreadsheet, it may have some colors to draw attention to certain things, but all that is planned is our ADRs, which park we plan to go to for most of the day, park hours, etc. Okay, maybe I'm a little more into planning that I choose to admit to. But I really am pretty laid back.
My husband Brian (27), on the other hand, is the life of every party He is just about the friendliest person you'd ever meet. He works at FedEx Kinko's Distribution Center. He is okay with his job but mainly likes the people he works with. He's been there a total of almost 5 years so he must be at least okay with what he does. He doesn't complain so that makes me happy!
We've both been to Disney many times, but only together the one time for our HM. My grandparents have a second home in Daytona Beach so my family would go there usually a few times every year and my parents would take all of us (my two sisters and me, and any friends we might have along) to Disney for one day of the vacation. Because we never stayed on property and Daytona is about 90 minutes away, the Magic Kingdom was where we went every year except one. I begged and begged and finally got them to try EPCOT. My mom and I loved it (my older sister I think was married by this time and not with us) but I'm not sure about my dad and little sister. Brian's family went to WDW several times when he was growing up (his sister is 10 years older so he's practically an only child). They always stayed off-property (time share, I think). But he had been to all 4 parks each trip.
Actually, now that I think about this, I have to share a story of my childhood about MGM (this was pre-DHS). One year my mom and grandmother took my sisters and all of our cousins to the house in Daytona. We all convinced them to take us to Disney one day. Again, MK was the only real option for which park to visit. My mother, bless her heart, as much as I love her, she is sort of an air-head when it comes to some things. I think I was only 8 or 9 for this. So we all go (all 8 grandkids, ages 4 thru 14, with only two adults). We buy our tickets, make our way into the park and our first stop is a show. I'm not sure what it was but I remember we laughed a lot. So we come out and they start looking at the map. My mom's like "Where's the castle?...Where's Space Mountain?" She proceeds to ask a CM and he politely explains that Cinderella's Castle is in the Magic Kingdom...we were in MGM Studios...they aren't the same thing! My mom was so embarrassed but almost died of laughter. We went to guest relations and they were very nice about it. Lord, I wonder what kind of idiots they thought we were though! All of my family lives in Georgia (except me now) so I'm sure the hick accent didn't help at all. They switched our tickets and we went to MK for the rest of the day. This would have never happened with my dad but leave it to my mom!
Okay, I think I've written enough for now. Hopefully I haven't put anyone to sleep. Didn't quite think I'd write this much. Oh well, stay tuned for more of our plans!
Next up: Where are we staying? (like you can't see from my signature ) And more juicy details!