Chelley00
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- Aug 21, 2005
Welcome, fellow Disney friends. I'm starting a trip report so you all can help me overthink, overplan, overstress and overcelebrate our first ever kid-free Disney trip!
This is actually a replan as we were supposed to go this past April and had to cancel 5 days before our departure date. It was heartbreaking. I'm so not a crier and I bawled for days. But more on that in a minute
Who we are:
Me: I'm Shel, a 40 something accountant, mom of 4, wife to 1. With 2 of the kids in adulthood, my days of playing taxi for basketball, soccer, Scouts, gymnastics, swimming, cheerleading, karate and other miscellaneous things are slowly dwindling, but they still keep me crazy busy. When I'm not playing mom or wife, you can find me reading, obsessively planning our next trip or scrapbooking our last one.
DH is Dave, my much older (not really but it's fun to tease him) husband of many years. He works in a warehouse but would be much happier if he could be outside fishing, riding motorcycles or hiking all day long.
This is us our "consolation" trip in May to an adult only resort near home after the horse and carriage ride to our cabin.
Shout out to Disney Hilton Head for Dave's shirt.
Why April/May: 99.9% of our trip have been in October (thank you, Fall Break) Only one trip has been outside of that, and that was when DD and I took a mother/daughter trip for her 9th birthday in November to see the Christmas stuff. I've ALWAYS wanted to see Flower and Garden and the fact that my birthday falls on April 30th is just a bonus! So we are scheduled April 28 - May 6
Where: I go back and forth so much on the resort it's just not even funny. With the kids we've always stayed offsite. I've stayed at the Poly (love the atmosphere and rooms, hate the crowds) and AKL (love it love it) without DH. We know we want to be close to Epcot so for now we are booked at
Shout out to google for the picture
On all of our trips we've never made it to the Boardwalk so I'm excited to cross it off our Disney bucket list. Not a huge fan of the clown pool but was afraid Beach Club would be too much "kid" for a kid free trip and Yacht Club would be too noisy with the renovations. I change my mind about once a week but for now I'm leaving the reservations as is
Next up: Those we are leaving behind, how I survived canceling a trip 5 days out, a ruined trip to Disney Hilton Head and our plans so far
This is actually a replan as we were supposed to go this past April and had to cancel 5 days before our departure date. It was heartbreaking. I'm so not a crier and I bawled for days. But more on that in a minute
Who we are:
Me: I'm Shel, a 40 something accountant, mom of 4, wife to 1. With 2 of the kids in adulthood, my days of playing taxi for basketball, soccer, Scouts, gymnastics, swimming, cheerleading, karate and other miscellaneous things are slowly dwindling, but they still keep me crazy busy. When I'm not playing mom or wife, you can find me reading, obsessively planning our next trip or scrapbooking our last one.
DH is Dave, my much older (not really but it's fun to tease him) husband of many years. He works in a warehouse but would be much happier if he could be outside fishing, riding motorcycles or hiking all day long.
This is us our "consolation" trip in May to an adult only resort near home after the horse and carriage ride to our cabin.
Shout out to Disney Hilton Head for Dave's shirt.
Why April/May: 99.9% of our trip have been in October (thank you, Fall Break) Only one trip has been outside of that, and that was when DD and I took a mother/daughter trip for her 9th birthday in November to see the Christmas stuff. I've ALWAYS wanted to see Flower and Garden and the fact that my birthday falls on April 30th is just a bonus! So we are scheduled April 28 - May 6
Where: I go back and forth so much on the resort it's just not even funny. With the kids we've always stayed offsite. I've stayed at the Poly (love the atmosphere and rooms, hate the crowds) and AKL (love it love it) without DH. We know we want to be close to Epcot so for now we are booked at
Shout out to google for the picture
On all of our trips we've never made it to the Boardwalk so I'm excited to cross it off our Disney bucket list. Not a huge fan of the clown pool but was afraid Beach Club would be too much "kid" for a kid free trip and Yacht Club would be too noisy with the renovations. I change my mind about once a week but for now I'm leaving the reservations as is
Next up: Those we are leaving behind, how I survived canceling a trip 5 days out, a ruined trip to Disney Hilton Head and our plans so far
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