bumbershoot
DIS Veteran
- Joined
- Mar 5, 2007
My son is getting older, and I felt he was sort of irritated with me last time...even though he never said anything.
If you're changing it up, despite being scared to death, because of a perceived irritation on the part of your son, perhaps you could talk to your son before going forward?
Maybe he was thinking about school, or his shorts were chafing. Could be all sorts of things going on inside his head. Might as well find out.
Or include him (and any other family members) in the discussions.
My family thought that going with a plan was a pain until I gave them a day withOUT a plan. Then they asked for the plan again. But I don't make a plan that's planned out to the minute, except when I want to be amusing. And you can't do that with FP+ anyway, because you only get a set amount of pre-planned FPs. As for ADRs, I make them because I want to eat. Eating is a good thing. Sitting down to eat is a better thing. So ADRs get made because food is good. Between the ADRs and the ideas of where else we might want to eat b/c we like the food at those places, and the few FP+s, that's a framework for the day.
There's a big gap between scheduling bathroom breaks vs walking in with NO idea of what you'll do. That middle-ground is nice.
You aren't "winging" it as much as you think if you've been there 30 times. Your experience and knowledge of parks and times to realistically do things will help immensely.
You'll be doing so many veteran tricks without even knowing it .. so you'll be sorta planning anyway on the fly.
Exactly.