Araminta18
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- Mar 11, 2016
Hi all!
We just got back from our glorious trip to Walt Disney World and what better way to fight the Disney depression than reliving it through a trip report?
First off, introductions!
I'm Tiffany: I turned 31 on this trip. This was my third visit to WDW; I'm the big Disney fan and the instigator of this trip. My husband is Trevor: he's 32 (but only until November!) and this was his second visit. He's super easy-going so our travel styles mesh really well: I go crazy with the planning and he goes along with it.
This was our first trip that was a full vacation. My other trips have been extra days tacked onto work trips--first one was with Trevor staying at Port Orleans French Quarter for 4 days, and then last year was a 4 day trip with my good friend, staying at Pop Century. So we were both excited to get away for a vacation, with no real world intrusion on the Disney bubble!
It came about last May (2017), when Trevor and I were talking and I mentioned how "someday" I'd love to stay at Disney's Boardwalk, and explaining about how renting DVC points would be the cheapest way to do it. We kept talking and pretty soon had decided to try and rent DVC points for a Boardwalk studio for Sept 2018. We picked September so we'd go over my birthday, and 2018 to give us enough time to rent points 11 months out, and to give us enough time to save up money!
Since then I've been happily immersed in the disboards and vlogs, planning and planning some more, and just anxiously waiting. I also did a pre-trip report.
The other big part of my planning was changing my diet and exercising everyday, due to a combination of wanting to fit on Flight of Passage and wanting to make sure I'd be ok walking a crazy amount. I ended up dropping about 95 pounds (spoiler alert: *totally* paid off--fit on Flight of Passage with no problem and my feet didn't hurt at all!), though I gained 10 pounds back #worthit. Obligatory before and after photo:
Due to all my planning (yep, I'm totally taking credit for it all!) we had a fantastic trip.
The Boardwalk was lovely...
we did everything we wanted to do at Mickey's Not So Scary Halloween Party (including meeting Tarzan and Jane!),
ate ALL the food (and got introduced to mocktails )...
and lots of other fun things!
Anyways, I look forward to reliving the trip through this report. Hope you all enjoy it!
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Table of Contents
('cause I am dumb and forgot to reserve a post for it)
We just got back from our glorious trip to Walt Disney World and what better way to fight the Disney depression than reliving it through a trip report?
First off, introductions!
I'm Tiffany: I turned 31 on this trip. This was my third visit to WDW; I'm the big Disney fan and the instigator of this trip. My husband is Trevor: he's 32 (but only until November!) and this was his second visit. He's super easy-going so our travel styles mesh really well: I go crazy with the planning and he goes along with it.
This was our first trip that was a full vacation. My other trips have been extra days tacked onto work trips--first one was with Trevor staying at Port Orleans French Quarter for 4 days, and then last year was a 4 day trip with my good friend, staying at Pop Century. So we were both excited to get away for a vacation, with no real world intrusion on the Disney bubble!
It came about last May (2017), when Trevor and I were talking and I mentioned how "someday" I'd love to stay at Disney's Boardwalk, and explaining about how renting DVC points would be the cheapest way to do it. We kept talking and pretty soon had decided to try and rent DVC points for a Boardwalk studio for Sept 2018. We picked September so we'd go over my birthday, and 2018 to give us enough time to rent points 11 months out, and to give us enough time to save up money!
Since then I've been happily immersed in the disboards and vlogs, planning and planning some more, and just anxiously waiting. I also did a pre-trip report.
The other big part of my planning was changing my diet and exercising everyday, due to a combination of wanting to fit on Flight of Passage and wanting to make sure I'd be ok walking a crazy amount. I ended up dropping about 95 pounds (spoiler alert: *totally* paid off--fit on Flight of Passage with no problem and my feet didn't hurt at all!), though I gained 10 pounds back #worthit. Obligatory before and after photo:
Due to all my planning (yep, I'm totally taking credit for it all!) we had a fantastic trip.
The Boardwalk was lovely...
we did everything we wanted to do at Mickey's Not So Scary Halloween Party (including meeting Tarzan and Jane!),
ate ALL the food (and got introduced to mocktails )...
and lots of other fun things!
Anyways, I look forward to reliving the trip through this report. Hope you all enjoy it!
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Table of Contents
('cause I am dumb and forgot to reserve a post for it)
- Wednesday, September 12
- Thursday, September 13 Part 1
- Thursday, September 13 Part 2
- Thursday, September 13 Part 3
- Thursday, September 13 Part 4
- Friday, September 14 Part 1
- Friday, September 14 Part 2
- Saturday, September 15 (finally managed to get it in one post!)
- Sunday, September 16 part 1 (and back to multi-part updates...)
- Sunday, September 16 part 2 (MNSSHP)
- Sunday, September 16 part 3 (Boo to You Parade!)
- Monday, September 17 part 1 (Toy Story Land and Food and Wine!)
- Monday, September 17 part 2 (Coral Reef and Illumination)
- Tuesday, September 18 part 1 (Early Morning Magic)
- Tuesday, September 18 part 2 (Birthday at the Magic Kingdom)
- Tuesday, September 18 part 3 (Dinner at Victoria & Albert's!)
- Wednesday, September 19 part 1 (AK & Sanaa)
- Wednesday, September 19 part 2 (HS & Ohana)
- Thursday, September 20 part 1 (Marceline to the Magic Kingdom tour)
- Thursday, September 20 part 2 (Be Our Guest dinner and HEA Dessert Party)
- Thursday, September 20 part 3 (Disney After Hours!)
- Friday, September 21 part 1 (Bon Voyage breakfast and Food & Wine)
- Friday, September 21 part 2 (Food & Wine)
- Saturday, September 22 (Departure Day)
- Final Thoughts (and epic amounts of Fun with Metrics!)
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