Jackiemarie21
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Hello and to my first ever Disney Cruise Line PTR!
I will start with a little background as to how this trip came about. Last July my DH and I took our then 2 year old on her first trip ever to WDW and it was amazing! You can check out the TR in my signature if you want to hear all about it. That was the trip that turned my DH from someone who tolerates hsi wife's obsession, to a Disney lover! That wonderful and amazing trip prompted my DH to give me the biggest surprise of my life! He started saving extra money in secret and gave me a trip to WDW in May 2014 for Christmas Everything seemed great until we had a nasty snowy winter with tons of snow days (DH is a teacher). As the week between the end of school and the start of trip was taken away with each snow day I was confident the trip would still be a go until the 6th snow day which was officially the first day of our trip, then the 7th and with that the trip was off! DH told me not to worry we would make it up. We decided on a Sept. 2014 trip. My DH would take a few personal days and we would couple that with a weekend and the trip would be on. As we get closer and closer to Sept. my DH felt less comfortable with taking days off school and then the spring weather hit our house and hit it hard! You can read all about it in the PTR for the trip that never happened here So, a trip in Sept was not happening. I was devastated and so was DH He had worked very hard to give me that gift and mother nature and life just kept getting in the way. We did not want to totally cancel our trip so we started looking at other options. We basically had the choice of Christmas break or spring break, both super crowded! Christmas break did not really seem like the best time to take a trip. Both DH and I have large families so there are always tons of gatherings we have to attend. So, we started to think about Spring break. I was a little apprehensive about that time in the parks since it is so crowded, but a cruise would not be so bad, the crowd is controlled by the capacity of the boat. I proposed the idea to DH and he said lets do it! We went on a DCL for our honeymoon and he said it was the best trip of his life. He has been begging me to do another one every since! He also loves taking a trip over spring break (I used to be a teacher also and our Spring breaks never matched up), so this would be perfect!
So the March 2015 trip plans were set into motion!
What can you expect from this PTR? Well, I will go into tons of detail of our plans, tons of customs outfits for my DD, our movie nights we have to get us in the Disney spirit for our trip and I am sure other fun randomness I decide to include!
Up next, the cast or crew if you will!