sophies*mom
A dream is a wish your heart makes.
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- Jun 17, 2011
Hello! I'm so excited to be going back to Disneyland in ONE month! And even better, just me and the hubby! This will be his 2nd time ever, and I've lost count as to how many times this will make for me 
Who:
I'm Elena, stay at home mom to two crazy kids, ages 2 and 5! This trip is a much needed get away, just the two of us, for a week. Of course, I'm having mom guilt because I want the kids to come, but then again I don't! lol.
And this is my DH of almost 6yrs (our anniversary is a couple days before our trip): Eli. He doesn't really share my love of Disney, he mostly puts up with it and rolls his eyes lol. Although he does like Pirates, and I told him if all he does is like the villains, I'll be happy with that.
Over a year ago, I decided we needed to take an adults only trip. We never got a honeymoon and had never been anywhere just the two of us since we had kids. My wonderful in-laws are driving down from Oregon to stay with our kiddos for the week.
Originally, I decided we would go to WDW and Universal. Believe it or not, I was more excited at the thought of Universal because we are huge Harry Potter fans, but since we are on the west coast, flights were outrageous. It was at least $1,000 for just the two of us, and I just couldn't stomach paying that much for flights.
From there I thought, well maybe we should go on a cruise. Of course I researched Disney cruises but um..yeah, sticker shock LOL. Then on to Carnival cruises...to Mexico! My sister had done one last year and said she loved it so I thought, how perfect...then I can squeeze in a couple Disneyland days! Hubby vetoed that, so I said fine. I will decide and this is what we're doing! So two days at Disneyland with two down days, mostly. And here we are!
We are flying into LAX from Sacramento (though we actually live 2.5hrs away, Sac was $250 cheaper!). As much as I wanted to fly into SNA, LAX was also cheaper. All in all, for the two of us we paid $192 for airfare! Score. Much better than $1,000! I love flying Southwest.
We arrive on Monday, March 16th and fly home on Friday, March 20th. We're staying at the Super 8 on Katella. Never stayed there before but I found a good deal on Orbitz.
I bought our (2 day-one park per day) tickets last night through Last Minute Travel, saved $28! Can you tell I love a good deal? ha!
So that's where we are so far. I paid for our hotel and airfare a few weeks ago, but it didn't feel real or exciting until I bought our park tickets. Funny how that is!
We arrive in exactly one month from today! This month needs to fly on by!
Trip Report started on page 2!
Who:
I'm Elena, stay at home mom to two crazy kids, ages 2 and 5! This trip is a much needed get away, just the two of us, for a week. Of course, I'm having mom guilt because I want the kids to come, but then again I don't! lol.
And this is my DH of almost 6yrs (our anniversary is a couple days before our trip): Eli. He doesn't really share my love of Disney, he mostly puts up with it and rolls his eyes lol. Although he does like Pirates, and I told him if all he does is like the villains, I'll be happy with that.
Over a year ago, I decided we needed to take an adults only trip. We never got a honeymoon and had never been anywhere just the two of us since we had kids. My wonderful in-laws are driving down from Oregon to stay with our kiddos for the week.
Originally, I decided we would go to WDW and Universal. Believe it or not, I was more excited at the thought of Universal because we are huge Harry Potter fans, but since we are on the west coast, flights were outrageous. It was at least $1,000 for just the two of us, and I just couldn't stomach paying that much for flights.
From there I thought, well maybe we should go on a cruise. Of course I researched Disney cruises but um..yeah, sticker shock LOL. Then on to Carnival cruises...to Mexico! My sister had done one last year and said she loved it so I thought, how perfect...then I can squeeze in a couple Disneyland days! Hubby vetoed that, so I said fine. I will decide and this is what we're doing! So two days at Disneyland with two down days, mostly. And here we are!
We are flying into LAX from Sacramento (though we actually live 2.5hrs away, Sac was $250 cheaper!). As much as I wanted to fly into SNA, LAX was also cheaper. All in all, for the two of us we paid $192 for airfare! Score. Much better than $1,000! I love flying Southwest.
We arrive on Monday, March 16th and fly home on Friday, March 20th. We're staying at the Super 8 on Katella. Never stayed there before but I found a good deal on Orbitz.
I bought our (2 day-one park per day) tickets last night through Last Minute Travel, saved $28! Can you tell I love a good deal? ha!
So that's where we are so far. I paid for our hotel and airfare a few weeks ago, but it didn't feel real or exciting until I bought our park tickets. Funny how that is!
We arrive in exactly one month from today! This month needs to fly on by!
Trip Report started on page 2!
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She knows we are going on a trip and that Nana and Papa coming to stay with her while we are gone, so at least she's prepared that way. My 2yo won't know any different so I'm not worried about him. I also told her we were going to the 
Blech. Guess I need to make sure I bring my sunscreen! 
