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Hello Everyone!
My name is Ariella. I am the vacation planner for our house! And this is my fam!
Photopass with Walt
Andy (DH) is on the far left. Morgan (our oldest) is next to Andy, Me on the other side of Walt, and Gwen on the far right is our youngest.
We are seasoned Walt Disney World goers. We took our first trip when the girls were just 3 and 5. And now they are 14 and 16!
2025 will be our 20th Wedding Anniversary, and Andy and I have been bouncing all kinds of ideas around for what to do. We have floated a trip to Hawaii, an Alaskan Cruise, a trip to California among other less serious options.
Originally we wanted to go to Hawaii, that was going to be Andy's 50th Birthday trip, but covid happened and that didn't happen. So that was the top contender at first.... till I started to look at prices of things.... and well, 4 people and the things we wanted to do just started to sound like A LOT of $$$$$
So, then we talked about an Alaskan Cruise. This is a buck list item for me! BUT none of us have EVER done ANY cruises before. Would we like it? Would we bored? Would we get sea sick? Alaskan Cruise are not cheap, so we said we needed to try a short one first. (I will admit I am still thinking about this as a family option, depending on how things go)
So, that turned into a short Cruise just for me and Andy. We are also worried about whether the girls would like a cruise or not. No internet to them sounds like a nightmare! ha. Morgan is worried she will get sea sick, as she does get car sick.
But really a cruise by ourselves opened up times to go since we wouldn't have to work around school calendar. And well, I'll be honest, it will be cheaper! And Andy and I haven't been away by ourselves in a VERY LONG time!
The other part of the this trip report? I told Andy I still wanted to do something WITH the girls. So, for now we landed on a trip to California. We should have enough airmiles to fly us all out to California. And we had a trip to San Diego and Disneyland planned 2 years ago that we had to cancel for a family emergency. So, we talked about basically doing that trip. More on that all to come!
Trips:
Cruise in February just Andy and I
San Diego / Disneyland in July the whole family
My focus for now will be mostly about the Cruise but I will have to figure out the California trip at some point as well. So, follow along as I fumble my way through figuring out what I need to know for our first Cruise!!!!
My name is Ariella. I am the vacation planner for our house! And this is my fam!
Photopass with Walt
Andy (DH) is on the far left. Morgan (our oldest) is next to Andy, Me on the other side of Walt, and Gwen on the far right is our youngest.
We are seasoned Walt Disney World goers. We took our first trip when the girls were just 3 and 5. And now they are 14 and 16!
2025 will be our 20th Wedding Anniversary, and Andy and I have been bouncing all kinds of ideas around for what to do. We have floated a trip to Hawaii, an Alaskan Cruise, a trip to California among other less serious options.
Originally we wanted to go to Hawaii, that was going to be Andy's 50th Birthday trip, but covid happened and that didn't happen. So that was the top contender at first.... till I started to look at prices of things.... and well, 4 people and the things we wanted to do just started to sound like A LOT of $$$$$
So, then we talked about an Alaskan Cruise. This is a buck list item for me! BUT none of us have EVER done ANY cruises before. Would we like it? Would we bored? Would we get sea sick? Alaskan Cruise are not cheap, so we said we needed to try a short one first. (I will admit I am still thinking about this as a family option, depending on how things go)
So, that turned into a short Cruise just for me and Andy. We are also worried about whether the girls would like a cruise or not. No internet to them sounds like a nightmare! ha. Morgan is worried she will get sea sick, as she does get car sick.
But really a cruise by ourselves opened up times to go since we wouldn't have to work around school calendar. And well, I'll be honest, it will be cheaper! And Andy and I haven't been away by ourselves in a VERY LONG time!
The other part of the this trip report? I told Andy I still wanted to do something WITH the girls. So, for now we landed on a trip to California. We should have enough airmiles to fly us all out to California. And we had a trip to San Diego and Disneyland planned 2 years ago that we had to cancel for a family emergency. So, we talked about basically doing that trip. More on that all to come!
Trips:
Cruise in February just Andy and I
San Diego / Disneyland in July the whole family
My focus for now will be mostly about the Cruise but I will have to figure out the California trip at some point as well. So, follow along as I fumble my way through figuring out what I need to know for our first Cruise!!!!