jvz82
DIS Veteran
- Joined
- Oct 28, 2013
Hello!!! Welcome to my Disney Trip Report.
I absolutely adore reading people's trip reports while I'm preparing for my own trips, so I hope you all enjoy reading this.
We started planning this trip immediately following our last one, in December of 2019. That was a short one, only 2 days at the parks, so we decided we were going to take our time and save up to do a long one in 2021. Well, life happened of course. A pandemic hit. My dad was diagnosed with cancer. Everything went crazy.
But, we were able to make this happen for 2021 and I am so grateful that we made it!
So let me introduce the key players!
Hi! I'm Vicky. Life-time Disney fan. We are a Minnesota family who drives 24 hours straight in a giant van to Florida every 1-2 years. I've been doing this since I was a baby, and I am fortunate that my husband has joined in the madness and we've been bringing our kids since they were all babies.
The Husband. He loves Goofy and has begrudgingly fallen in love with Disney as well. He is 7 feet tall and the parks are not made for tall people. He does not fit on Space Mountain (and he's bitter about it).
My oldest, my 12.5 year old son. He is 6'4 (following in dad's footsteps) and loves Disney too. He tolerates all of my enthusiasm, with lots of extra eye rolling and sarcasm.
My 2nd, my 10.5 year old daughter. Her first Disney trip was when she was 8 weeks old! She loves Disney World so much that every day when it was time to leave the parks, she cried. And honestly, who can blame her?
My 3rd child, my almost 9 year old son. This awesome kid wears leg braces and he trekked through the parks every day with his braces on in great spirits!
My 4th child, my almost 7 year old son. This kid LOVES Disney music and he didn't stop singing the entire trip. In fact, he sang "there's a great big beautiful tomorrow" for about an hour straight during our drive home.
My mom, life-long Disney fan. Her parents took her to Disney World the year it opened! She also took us to the 25th anniversary so she was pumped to be here for the 50th.
My dad, married into a Disney family but (mostly) loves it now too. He was diagnosed with colorectal cancer in March and has been undergoing chemo and radiation ever since. We thought this trip was going to be out of the question for him, but it ended up being a perfect time... right after radiation and chemo had ended, and surgery scheduled for December 1st. He was tired and grouchy at times, so he didn't finish every day at the parks with us but he was happy to be there.
Now that you have been introduced, thanks for sticking around and I can't wait to tell you all about our magical adventure!!
I absolutely adore reading people's trip reports while I'm preparing for my own trips, so I hope you all enjoy reading this.
We started planning this trip immediately following our last one, in December of 2019. That was a short one, only 2 days at the parks, so we decided we were going to take our time and save up to do a long one in 2021. Well, life happened of course. A pandemic hit. My dad was diagnosed with cancer. Everything went crazy.
But, we were able to make this happen for 2021 and I am so grateful that we made it!
So let me introduce the key players!
Hi! I'm Vicky. Life-time Disney fan. We are a Minnesota family who drives 24 hours straight in a giant van to Florida every 1-2 years. I've been doing this since I was a baby, and I am fortunate that my husband has joined in the madness and we've been bringing our kids since they were all babies.
The Husband. He loves Goofy and has begrudgingly fallen in love with Disney as well. He is 7 feet tall and the parks are not made for tall people. He does not fit on Space Mountain (and he's bitter about it).
My oldest, my 12.5 year old son. He is 6'4 (following in dad's footsteps) and loves Disney too. He tolerates all of my enthusiasm, with lots of extra eye rolling and sarcasm.
My 2nd, my 10.5 year old daughter. Her first Disney trip was when she was 8 weeks old! She loves Disney World so much that every day when it was time to leave the parks, she cried. And honestly, who can blame her?
My 3rd child, my almost 9 year old son. This awesome kid wears leg braces and he trekked through the parks every day with his braces on in great spirits!
My 4th child, my almost 7 year old son. This kid LOVES Disney music and he didn't stop singing the entire trip. In fact, he sang "there's a great big beautiful tomorrow" for about an hour straight during our drive home.
My mom, life-long Disney fan. Her parents took her to Disney World the year it opened! She also took us to the 25th anniversary so she was pumped to be here for the 50th.
My dad, married into a Disney family but (mostly) loves it now too. He was diagnosed with colorectal cancer in March and has been undergoing chemo and radiation ever since. We thought this trip was going to be out of the question for him, but it ended up being a perfect time... right after radiation and chemo had ended, and surgery scheduled for December 1st. He was tired and grouchy at times, so he didn't finish every day at the parks with us but he was happy to be there.
Now that you have been introduced, thanks for sticking around and I can't wait to tell you all about our magical adventure!!