MarieLightning
DIS Veteran
- Joined
- May 23, 2012
It has been literal years since I last worked on a trip report, and boy have things changed since!
Seeing as I’ve been AWOL for a good while now, it seems proper to start back at the beginning with reintroductions.
Hello everyone! My name is Marie, I’m a 33 (almost 34) year old Disney lover who lives in Quebec, Canada, and is in serious need of a Disney fix. My wife, 30, is a Michigander transplant to Canada and has been my travel partner to Disney since the start.
Our last proper trip dates back to December 2019. Between then and our very first trip in 2012, we visited WDW a total of 14 times, with trip durations ranging from 2 days to 2 weeks, some planned over a year in advance and others the day of, courtesy of my previous line of work which came with handy dandy flight passes on a certain major airline.
Those were the years.
Our 15th trip should have been in March of 2020. I don’t need to tell you what happened.
For a variety of reasons, we stayed mostly on our side of the border for the few following years, except for a family visit.
And then finally, last September, we returned home. With a little additional guest in tow.
Our DS was born in August 2021, and we’ve been looking forward to the day we’d be able to take him to Disney pretty much since before he was born. And in just a few months, that will finally be happening!
But wait - you may be thinking, Marie, whose leg do you think you’re pulling? That baby is very clearly wearing Mickey ears after getting a haircut at the Magic Kingdom!
Okay, you got me there. We have taken him to Disney already. Do I still consider this upcoming summer will mark our first actual family trip down to the house of the mouse? Yes. Almost. Hence the title!
So here’s the thing. I was set to go to Miami this past July, but a few days before my anticipated departure, a certain someone brought home a stomach bug, and that did a number on the household, so the travel plans were canceled and I wound up with a flight credit. We had also accumulated a rather large amount of gift cards for our 2020 trip which still lay untouched, and Labor Day weekend was fast approaching. And what do you know - DS was getting to the point where his hair was covering his eyes a bit. We couldn’t possibly have that, could we?
So long story short, we booked us a three night stay to go get this kid a haircut. The gift card covered the one day park tickets and the hotel, plus some of our food, and my flight credit covered half of our new flight cost. We flew down late on the Friday evening right after work, did some swimming and Disney Springs exploration on Saturday, and visited Magic Kingdom on Sunday before flying home on labor day.
And thus, our upcoming 2023 trip was no longer going to be DS’s first Disney trip.
But, it will be his first time visiting Epcot, Hollywood Studios and Animal Kingdom. So it counts. Almost.
So stick around if you wish to as we get cracking on planning our next Disney adventure!
Seeing as I’ve been AWOL for a good while now, it seems proper to start back at the beginning with reintroductions.
Hello everyone! My name is Marie, I’m a 33 (almost 34) year old Disney lover who lives in Quebec, Canada, and is in serious need of a Disney fix. My wife, 30, is a Michigander transplant to Canada and has been my travel partner to Disney since the start.
Our last proper trip dates back to December 2019. Between then and our very first trip in 2012, we visited WDW a total of 14 times, with trip durations ranging from 2 days to 2 weeks, some planned over a year in advance and others the day of, courtesy of my previous line of work which came with handy dandy flight passes on a certain major airline.
Those were the years.
Our 15th trip should have been in March of 2020. I don’t need to tell you what happened.
For a variety of reasons, we stayed mostly on our side of the border for the few following years, except for a family visit.
And then finally, last September, we returned home. With a little additional guest in tow.
Our DS was born in August 2021, and we’ve been looking forward to the day we’d be able to take him to Disney pretty much since before he was born. And in just a few months, that will finally be happening!
But wait - you may be thinking, Marie, whose leg do you think you’re pulling? That baby is very clearly wearing Mickey ears after getting a haircut at the Magic Kingdom!
Okay, you got me there. We have taken him to Disney already. Do I still consider this upcoming summer will mark our first actual family trip down to the house of the mouse? Yes. Almost. Hence the title!
So here’s the thing. I was set to go to Miami this past July, but a few days before my anticipated departure, a certain someone brought home a stomach bug, and that did a number on the household, so the travel plans were canceled and I wound up with a flight credit. We had also accumulated a rather large amount of gift cards for our 2020 trip which still lay untouched, and Labor Day weekend was fast approaching. And what do you know - DS was getting to the point where his hair was covering his eyes a bit. We couldn’t possibly have that, could we?
So long story short, we booked us a three night stay to go get this kid a haircut. The gift card covered the one day park tickets and the hotel, plus some of our food, and my flight credit covered half of our new flight cost. We flew down late on the Friday evening right after work, did some swimming and Disney Springs exploration on Saturday, and visited Magic Kingdom on Sunday before flying home on labor day.
And thus, our upcoming 2023 trip was no longer going to be DS’s first Disney trip.
But, it will be his first time visiting Epcot, Hollywood Studios and Animal Kingdom. So it counts. Almost.
So stick around if you wish to as we get cracking on planning our next Disney adventure!