Disneyhanna
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- Nov 29, 2017
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Hi all, and welcome to my very first trip report! My name’s Hanna and I’m a fairly recent college grad with a newfound love for all things Disney! I was never particularly interested in Disney when growing up (all I did was read books, LOL ), so now I think I’m just making up for lost time.
I started reading WDW and DLR trip reports about a month ago and it has been such a fun way to beat the Disney blues between trips. I’m pretty new to DISboards, so please excuse any mistakes I make as I learn how to post on here.
A little bit (or a lot) about me:
I’m 23 and hail from Minneapolis, Minnesota ❄. I'm celebrating my one year anniversary at my first big girl job and am embracing my independent adult life! (And by embracing, I mean giving way too much $ to the Mouse!)
This trip report will feature me, in the Bertie Bott’s box, and my college friend Shannon, holding the cute Tangled painting I made her.
I took my first trip to Disney World in October ‘04 with my mom and a bunch of family friends. (More like one family, we have just been adopted into said family.) I didn’t know how lucky I was at the time, but we stayed in a huge house(?) in Old Key West since our friends are DVC members. The entire trip is a blur to me now since I was so young, but I distinctly remember keeping my eyes closed on the entirety of the Haunted Mansion . Luckily it didn’t scar me permanently, as that is now one of my favorite rides. My mom will never let me live it down that I missed my first hitchhiking ghost.
My first trip to Disneyland was next, in the summer of ‘08. My mom and I were visiting my cousin and were total Disney n00bs still, so we just spent one day in the parks. My memories are still pretty fuzzy, but I did ride ToT eight times in a row because there was no line . I’m lucky to have such a patient mom, who doesn’t ride any big rides due to motion sickness and dizziness. It’s a Small World was down during our first trip to WDW and it was also down for this first trip to Disneyland, so this was a priority when we went back to WDW for our first *real* trip in January ‘17.
I almost didn't post this picture because LOL. But it's pretty much the only picture my mom managed to wrangle me into taking that picture. Now, I chase down the PP photographers!
Flash forward to 2017, when my mom and I spent three days (with park hoppers, always) at WDW and two days at Universal Orlando. This was my first time going as an adult, with a plan. One of my best friends is a huge Disney fan and now thanks to her, so am I! We were so much more prepared and ended up getting hooked. Since then, we’ve taken two more trips to the World and one day together at DLR. We tend to be budget conscious and limit our table service to a few times a trip, and share quick service or order kids meals. We seem to have an upward trend in resorts though, since we started at POP and will be at AKL for part of our next trip. I guess that's what happens when I am paying for half!
Back to the present! I went to Disneyland in July for five days with my friend Shannon, who had never been to DLR and had only been to WDW as a kid. We stayed just across the entrance at the Best Western Park Place Inn and spent months watching vlogs and ordering lots of fun Disney shirts. I reserved our hotel in mid-April with a nice corporate discount, and I’m glad I did because they were fully occupied soon after.
I arrived on Disneyland’s birthday on an early flight and was able to hit the parks solo by 1pm. My friend, Shannon, was arriving around 10pm that night.
Phew! Thank you if you’re still here! I think that’s enough introduction, and so on with the TR. I never intended to make a TR so this will be mostly me stringing together what I can from memory and based on pictures . This is also “practice” for me as I hope to better document my next trip to WDW for my second TR. Any tips are welcome as I figure out how this works.
Here we go!
Edited AGAIN: I'm not sure why I'm having so much trouble getting the photos to show up. Hopefully it works now!
Hi all, and welcome to my very first trip report! My name’s Hanna and I’m a fairly recent college grad with a newfound love for all things Disney! I was never particularly interested in Disney when growing up (all I did was read books, LOL ), so now I think I’m just making up for lost time.
I started reading WDW and DLR trip reports about a month ago and it has been such a fun way to beat the Disney blues between trips. I’m pretty new to DISboards, so please excuse any mistakes I make as I learn how to post on here.
A little bit (or a lot) about me:
I’m 23 and hail from Minneapolis, Minnesota ❄. I'm celebrating my one year anniversary at my first big girl job and am embracing my independent adult life! (And by embracing, I mean giving way too much $ to the Mouse!)
This trip report will feature me, in the Bertie Bott’s box, and my college friend Shannon, holding the cute Tangled painting I made her.
I took my first trip to Disney World in October ‘04 with my mom and a bunch of family friends. (More like one family, we have just been adopted into said family.) I didn’t know how lucky I was at the time, but we stayed in a huge house(?) in Old Key West since our friends are DVC members. The entire trip is a blur to me now since I was so young, but I distinctly remember keeping my eyes closed on the entirety of the Haunted Mansion . Luckily it didn’t scar me permanently, as that is now one of my favorite rides. My mom will never let me live it down that I missed my first hitchhiking ghost.
My first trip to Disneyland was next, in the summer of ‘08. My mom and I were visiting my cousin and were total Disney n00bs still, so we just spent one day in the parks. My memories are still pretty fuzzy, but I did ride ToT eight times in a row because there was no line . I’m lucky to have such a patient mom, who doesn’t ride any big rides due to motion sickness and dizziness. It’s a Small World was down during our first trip to WDW and it was also down for this first trip to Disneyland, so this was a priority when we went back to WDW for our first *real* trip in January ‘17.
I almost didn't post this picture because LOL. But it's pretty much the only picture my mom managed to wrangle me into taking that picture. Now, I chase down the PP photographers!
Flash forward to 2017, when my mom and I spent three days (with park hoppers, always) at WDW and two days at Universal Orlando. This was my first time going as an adult, with a plan. One of my best friends is a huge Disney fan and now thanks to her, so am I! We were so much more prepared and ended up getting hooked. Since then, we’ve taken two more trips to the World and one day together at DLR. We tend to be budget conscious and limit our table service to a few times a trip, and share quick service or order kids meals. We seem to have an upward trend in resorts though, since we started at POP and will be at AKL for part of our next trip. I guess that's what happens when I am paying for half!
Back to the present! I went to Disneyland in July for five days with my friend Shannon, who had never been to DLR and had only been to WDW as a kid. We stayed just across the entrance at the Best Western Park Place Inn and spent months watching vlogs and ordering lots of fun Disney shirts. I reserved our hotel in mid-April with a nice corporate discount, and I’m glad I did because they were fully occupied soon after.
I arrived on Disneyland’s birthday on an early flight and was able to hit the parks solo by 1pm. My friend, Shannon, was arriving around 10pm that night.
Phew! Thank you if you’re still here! I think that’s enough introduction, and so on with the TR. I never intended to make a TR so this will be mostly me stringing together what I can from memory and based on pictures . This is also “practice” for me as I hope to better document my next trip to WDW for my second TR. Any tips are welcome as I figure out how this works.
Here we go!
Edited AGAIN: I'm not sure why I'm having so much trouble getting the photos to show up. Hopefully it works now!
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