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Mouseketeer
- Joined
- Jan 7, 2010
Hi, I have been very fortunate to benefit from everyones great tips and trip reports since I discovered Disboards in 2010 when I was planning our first WDW family vacation. Now, I figured is my turn to give back by sharing my planning experiences and hopefully after my own trip report.
I suppose I should start with our cast of characters; there is me, Tara, a.k.a Drill Sergeant (I will explain that a bit later), my fun loving hubby Chris and our sweet girl Lexie who will be turning 8 in June.
Lexie has been vying to go back to Disney since the day after we returned in 2010. We told her we would try to plan a visit in 2013 once all the Fantasyland changes have been completed. Then she saw the awesome commercials for Dream and Fantasy and that became her new wish, the ultimate Fantasy to go on a Disney cruise. Now my smart little one knows it takes a lots of money to pay for anything Disney so she started saving right away saying that she was going to pay for the cruise for all of us herself. We didnt have the heart to tell her that even if she saved until she was 15 she would not be able to pay for all of us to go. This past October DH and I started talking about going back to WDW, we knew a cruise was not going to be in the cards as bonuses were not going to be great and we had put in a new boiler in September which was a nice chunk of change. Then the end of October I was told that my position was being eliminated which meant that I would be out of work right after Thanksgiving. Happy Holidays not! Luckily I was there for 7 years so I got a decent severance package but still we knew there was no way we would be going on vacation in 2013 . Or would we?
The end of November we got news that my DHs uncle who had passed away in August had left him some money. It was an unexpected windfall and I knew that money needed to be banked especially given my current job status. DH on the other hand convinced me that we could use just a bit of it for a dream vacation. There is a reason I call him the fun loving one. He asked if we could go on my dream vacation where would I choose to go? For a split second I had visions of being in Hawaiis warm waters again but then I thought of Lexie and realized that my dream vacation would be to make her Fantasy vacation come true. So that is how I came to be here writing for all of you. We decided that we were going to surprise Lexie with a Fantasy cruise for her birthday. My hubby knows me very well and knew planning a vacation would give me something to obsess about other than finding a job. It has been very comforting to escape to disboards after a morning of sending out resumes or having interviews that go nowhere.
Up next? Disney Cruise Line a Whole New World.
I suppose I should start with our cast of characters; there is me, Tara, a.k.a Drill Sergeant (I will explain that a bit later), my fun loving hubby Chris and our sweet girl Lexie who will be turning 8 in June.
Lexie has been vying to go back to Disney since the day after we returned in 2010. We told her we would try to plan a visit in 2013 once all the Fantasyland changes have been completed. Then she saw the awesome commercials for Dream and Fantasy and that became her new wish, the ultimate Fantasy to go on a Disney cruise. Now my smart little one knows it takes a lots of money to pay for anything Disney so she started saving right away saying that she was going to pay for the cruise for all of us herself. We didnt have the heart to tell her that even if she saved until she was 15 she would not be able to pay for all of us to go. This past October DH and I started talking about going back to WDW, we knew a cruise was not going to be in the cards as bonuses were not going to be great and we had put in a new boiler in September which was a nice chunk of change. Then the end of October I was told that my position was being eliminated which meant that I would be out of work right after Thanksgiving. Happy Holidays not! Luckily I was there for 7 years so I got a decent severance package but still we knew there was no way we would be going on vacation in 2013 . Or would we?
The end of November we got news that my DHs uncle who had passed away in August had left him some money. It was an unexpected windfall and I knew that money needed to be banked especially given my current job status. DH on the other hand convinced me that we could use just a bit of it for a dream vacation. There is a reason I call him the fun loving one. He asked if we could go on my dream vacation where would I choose to go? For a split second I had visions of being in Hawaiis warm waters again but then I thought of Lexie and realized that my dream vacation would be to make her Fantasy vacation come true. So that is how I came to be here writing for all of you. We decided that we were going to surprise Lexie with a Fantasy cruise for her birthday. My hubby knows me very well and knew planning a vacation would give me something to obsess about other than finding a job. It has been very comforting to escape to disboards after a morning of sending out resumes or having interviews that go nowhere.
Up next? Disney Cruise Line a Whole New World.