FormerLumberjill
Earning My Ears
- Joined
- Jul 27, 2010
Hi there!
This is not only my first try at a pre-trip report, but also my first post on this website! I read soo many trip reports here leading up to a Disney vacation, I figured I would try my hand at one of my own!
The trip in question is only 3 weeks away this Sunday! We'll be going to Disney World from August 23-31. We're going to be staying at the Beach Club, an old family favourite!
So, now a moment to go over who'll be going on this trip!
This is me, Kyla, on my first trip to Disneyland this past May.
(Really hoping the pictures work!)
Anyways, I'm 24 and a big Disney nerd. I've been going to Disney World for the past 20 years, including a year on the Cultural Representative Program working in the Canada pavillion in Epcot (June 08-June09)!
Also going on this trip is my brother (17). He doesn't really enjoy sitting around and talking about/planning Disney trips, but he loves it there as much as the rest of us. He's also hilarious and a great sport... here he is dancing in the High School Musical 3 pep rally last August.
The youngest member of the family is my sister (12). She is the pin and vinylmation collector of the group. Each year she has a certain type of pin in mind that we search for throughout the vacation. Last year, as seen in the photo, was the alphabet pins (we left with all of them! She had more than half going into the trip though). This year it's any Vinylmation pin.. which will be more of a challenge to find on cast lanyards, I'm sure. I'm also sure we'll spend a pretty penny on some in the pin stores too.
Finally our parents, the ones who essentially created some Disney-obsessed siblings. Here they are on Splash Mountain last year.. and also my brother.
So, that's everyone!
We're DVC members, but we save our points and go for ten days every other year. The idea being we spend the summers in between trips doing other things. This year the big plan was to go to New York City. I went with a friend of mine a few years ago, but no one else in the family has been.
Then the Disney commercials started for the $750 gift card with room stay... that's when our minds started changing. We knew that wasn't an offer for August, but it got us thinking about a Disney trip. We also knew that August was usually when free dining was offered. So it slowly became a case of "if free dining is offered, we'll go to Disney World instead". Sure enough, some days after the rumoured starting date, it was announced! So here we are, almost three weeks out from another trip. Crazy!
I'll post about our plans for the trip in a little while.. possibly tomorrow!
This is not only my first try at a pre-trip report, but also my first post on this website! I read soo many trip reports here leading up to a Disney vacation, I figured I would try my hand at one of my own!
The trip in question is only 3 weeks away this Sunday! We'll be going to Disney World from August 23-31. We're going to be staying at the Beach Club, an old family favourite!
So, now a moment to go over who'll be going on this trip!
This is me, Kyla, on my first trip to Disneyland this past May.
(Really hoping the pictures work!)
Anyways, I'm 24 and a big Disney nerd. I've been going to Disney World for the past 20 years, including a year on the Cultural Representative Program working in the Canada pavillion in Epcot (June 08-June09)!
Also going on this trip is my brother (17). He doesn't really enjoy sitting around and talking about/planning Disney trips, but he loves it there as much as the rest of us. He's also hilarious and a great sport... here he is dancing in the High School Musical 3 pep rally last August.
The youngest member of the family is my sister (12). She is the pin and vinylmation collector of the group. Each year she has a certain type of pin in mind that we search for throughout the vacation. Last year, as seen in the photo, was the alphabet pins (we left with all of them! She had more than half going into the trip though). This year it's any Vinylmation pin.. which will be more of a challenge to find on cast lanyards, I'm sure. I'm also sure we'll spend a pretty penny on some in the pin stores too.
Finally our parents, the ones who essentially created some Disney-obsessed siblings. Here they are on Splash Mountain last year.. and also my brother.
So, that's everyone!
We're DVC members, but we save our points and go for ten days every other year. The idea being we spend the summers in between trips doing other things. This year the big plan was to go to New York City. I went with a friend of mine a few years ago, but no one else in the family has been.
Then the Disney commercials started for the $750 gift card with room stay... that's when our minds started changing. We knew that wasn't an offer for August, but it got us thinking about a Disney trip. We also knew that August was usually when free dining was offered. So it slowly became a case of "if free dining is offered, we'll go to Disney World instead". Sure enough, some days after the rumoured starting date, it was announced! So here we are, almost three weeks out from another trip. Crazy!
I'll post about our plans for the trip in a little while.. possibly tomorrow!