disneylarks
Earning My Ears
- Joined
- Apr 18, 2016
Hi everyone! My name is Molly and this is my very first post here! I'm not quite sure where to start, but here goes.
My (now) husband and I began our Disneyland planning when we were star crossed high school sweethearts and couldn't wait for the day when we would go there together. He had visited twice as a child, but I had never been. We love Disney and spent our dating years collecting all the movies, keeping a running checklist and hunting down ones that were in the vault. Fast forward a few years, to late March 2014, when we took our first trip with our (then) 19 month old, Minnie obsessed daughter. And we were all hooked!
We had a great time but made a few key mistakes in planning and taking that first trip and immediately started saving again upon coming home. (We saved our change for years to fund our first trip!) We ended up going back only 11 months later in early February 2015 with our daughter, my father in law and sister in law. This was absolutely the best trip ever! We stayed in the Disneyland Hotel, which was such a fun improvement from our first trip, and the group just made for a really fun time. We also were there during spring break and a dance competition at the convention center during our first trip and when we went in February the parks were empty! (Which was totally worth the ride closures and shorter hours in our opinion.)
This brings us to the planning of our next trip, which is tentatively planned for January 29/30th - February 3rd/4th, depending on how many days we decide to spend in the park. We are obviously a long way out still (although less than 300 days!) so I'm hoping to use this place to fill the void until then and document our plans, projects and preparations until then!
We are hopeful to stay on property again and our travel group will (hopefully) consist of the same people as our last trip: myself, my husband, our daughter, my father in law, and sister in law, with the addition of our son, who has been born since our last trip. The kids will be 4 and 1 at the time of our trip.
My first project is going to be to devise a first draft of our packing lists and start using the things we need for the trip for gifts - we have been doing Disney gift cards for Easter baskets, etc. and still have both the kids' and my husband's birthdays, Father's Day and Christmas! So those lists will be coming soon.
This is going to be fun! Happy planning!
My (now) husband and I began our Disneyland planning when we were star crossed high school sweethearts and couldn't wait for the day when we would go there together. He had visited twice as a child, but I had never been. We love Disney and spent our dating years collecting all the movies, keeping a running checklist and hunting down ones that were in the vault. Fast forward a few years, to late March 2014, when we took our first trip with our (then) 19 month old, Minnie obsessed daughter. And we were all hooked!
We had a great time but made a few key mistakes in planning and taking that first trip and immediately started saving again upon coming home. (We saved our change for years to fund our first trip!) We ended up going back only 11 months later in early February 2015 with our daughter, my father in law and sister in law. This was absolutely the best trip ever! We stayed in the Disneyland Hotel, which was such a fun improvement from our first trip, and the group just made for a really fun time. We also were there during spring break and a dance competition at the convention center during our first trip and when we went in February the parks were empty! (Which was totally worth the ride closures and shorter hours in our opinion.)
This brings us to the planning of our next trip, which is tentatively planned for January 29/30th - February 3rd/4th, depending on how many days we decide to spend in the park. We are obviously a long way out still (although less than 300 days!) so I'm hoping to use this place to fill the void until then and document our plans, projects and preparations until then!
We are hopeful to stay on property again and our travel group will (hopefully) consist of the same people as our last trip: myself, my husband, our daughter, my father in law, and sister in law, with the addition of our son, who has been born since our last trip. The kids will be 4 and 1 at the time of our trip.
My first project is going to be to devise a first draft of our packing lists and start using the things we need for the trip for gifts - we have been doing Disney gift cards for Easter baskets, etc. and still have both the kids' and my husband's birthdays, Father's Day and Christmas! So those lists will be coming soon.
This is going to be fun! Happy planning!
