Araminta18
DIS Veteran
- Joined
- Mar 11, 2016
Hi everyone!
We did a Disney trip from May 23 - May 29th, and since I suffer from Disney withdrawal, I love to write trip reports as a way to re-live the magic! With COVID, I hadn't been reading the Disboards at all - just made me too sad with everything going on. So not sure if anyone will read this, but I write it mostly for myself anyways.
I'm gonna just jump right into it!
Who: Me and my husband Trevor
When: May 23rd-May 29th
Where: the Swan!
Introductions first, obviously.
I'm Tiffany. I'll be 34 (I think? anyone else have a hard time keeping track of their age?) in September, and while I'm a librarian by education, I currently do federal records management, since records management is where the pay is, and I gotta pay for Disney! Favorite princess is Sleeping Beauty, but I also love Mary Poppins and Beauty and the Beast and Rapunzel. Favorite ride: uh...how can I pick just one? Haunted Mansion, Slinky, Millenium Falcon, Flight of Passage (since this time we didn't have to do the pre-show and that preshow is the worst), Tower of Terror...so many! and I have to add Rise of the Resistance to the list now! I just love the theming at Disney--it makes me happy.
My husband, Trevor. He's 35. He loves Star Wars, but has grown to love Disney--his favorite characters are Boba Fett, Vader and Stormtroopers, and on the non-Star Wars side, Grumpy. His favorite rides used to be Haunted Mansion and Star Tours--he doesn't really like coasters or thrill rides, but I did get him to try Big Thunder Mountain and Space Mountain and I don't know that he'd call them favorites, but he definitely likes them. I think the only rides he won't ride at Disney are Everest and Rockin Roller Coaster and most of the time Tower of Terror. And I don't mind riding solo, and he doesn't have any problem entertaining himself, so it works out really well. After this trip though, gotta add Millenium Falcon and Rise of the Resistance to his list. Ooh, he's sitting next to me now so I asked him for his favorite rides and he threw in Jungle Cruise and Kilimanjaro Safaris. He's a man of depth!
We had planned a big trip to Disneyland in Sept 2020 (see sad aborted pre-trip report in my sig... ), but of course that didn't happen. But we were both able to get vaccinated in late February, and then since we were fully vaccinated, in April went out to see my parents and my one brother who still lives at home to help with some family issues (I assume most people can relate--all the things the pandemic made us put on hold!). It was so good to see them after not seeing them for over a year! But it was not really a relaxing vacation. And with the stresses of work and everything, I basically just said "screw it, we're going to Disney". After all, Trevor still hadn't seen Galaxy's Edge and he needed to, right?!
We booked a stay at the Swan hotel through Costco that came with tickets, and then I used points and cash to book our flights from the DC area on Southwest. And luckily I pulled the trigger right before 60 days so I was able to book a reservation at Savi's and Oga's, thankfully, and make reservations for whichever parks I wanted. (also anyone else TOTALLY OVER park reservations? and only hopping after 2 pm? lame sauce. I hope that bit goes back to normal, though sadly I feel like it probably won't).
I really felt like I wasn't able to plan a whole lot for this trip -- no fastpasses or anything and lots of the restaurants still closed, and then add in that we were dealing with family stuff for a lot of April and then work was super busy (I was in full-time language training for a few weeks, including a final test, so I was studying Portuguese for most of early May). And I usually way over-plan our trips so this was quite a new experience. I did find time to plan out our shirts and buttons and my ears though....
But FINALLY it was the day!
We did a Disney trip from May 23 - May 29th, and since I suffer from Disney withdrawal, I love to write trip reports as a way to re-live the magic! With COVID, I hadn't been reading the Disboards at all - just made me too sad with everything going on. So not sure if anyone will read this, but I write it mostly for myself anyways.
I'm gonna just jump right into it!
Who: Me and my husband Trevor
When: May 23rd-May 29th
Where: the Swan!
Introductions first, obviously.
I'm Tiffany. I'll be 34 (I think? anyone else have a hard time keeping track of their age?) in September, and while I'm a librarian by education, I currently do federal records management, since records management is where the pay is, and I gotta pay for Disney! Favorite princess is Sleeping Beauty, but I also love Mary Poppins and Beauty and the Beast and Rapunzel. Favorite ride: uh...how can I pick just one? Haunted Mansion, Slinky, Millenium Falcon, Flight of Passage (since this time we didn't have to do the pre-show and that preshow is the worst), Tower of Terror...so many! and I have to add Rise of the Resistance to the list now! I just love the theming at Disney--it makes me happy.
My husband, Trevor. He's 35. He loves Star Wars, but has grown to love Disney--his favorite characters are Boba Fett, Vader and Stormtroopers, and on the non-Star Wars side, Grumpy. His favorite rides used to be Haunted Mansion and Star Tours--he doesn't really like coasters or thrill rides, but I did get him to try Big Thunder Mountain and Space Mountain and I don't know that he'd call them favorites, but he definitely likes them. I think the only rides he won't ride at Disney are Everest and Rockin Roller Coaster and most of the time Tower of Terror. And I don't mind riding solo, and he doesn't have any problem entertaining himself, so it works out really well. After this trip though, gotta add Millenium Falcon and Rise of the Resistance to his list. Ooh, he's sitting next to me now so I asked him for his favorite rides and he threw in Jungle Cruise and Kilimanjaro Safaris. He's a man of depth!
We had planned a big trip to Disneyland in Sept 2020 (see sad aborted pre-trip report in my sig... ), but of course that didn't happen. But we were both able to get vaccinated in late February, and then since we were fully vaccinated, in April went out to see my parents and my one brother who still lives at home to help with some family issues (I assume most people can relate--all the things the pandemic made us put on hold!). It was so good to see them after not seeing them for over a year! But it was not really a relaxing vacation. And with the stresses of work and everything, I basically just said "screw it, we're going to Disney". After all, Trevor still hadn't seen Galaxy's Edge and he needed to, right?!
We booked a stay at the Swan hotel through Costco that came with tickets, and then I used points and cash to book our flights from the DC area on Southwest. And luckily I pulled the trigger right before 60 days so I was able to book a reservation at Savi's and Oga's, thankfully, and make reservations for whichever parks I wanted. (also anyone else TOTALLY OVER park reservations? and only hopping after 2 pm? lame sauce. I hope that bit goes back to normal, though sadly I feel like it probably won't).
I really felt like I wasn't able to plan a whole lot for this trip -- no fastpasses or anything and lots of the restaurants still closed, and then add in that we were dealing with family stuff for a lot of April and then work was super busy (I was in full-time language training for a few weeks, including a final test, so I was studying Portuguese for most of early May). And I usually way over-plan our trips so this was quite a new experience. I did find time to plan out our shirts and buttons and my ears though....
But FINALLY it was the day!