tinksmom02
06-07-2012, 09:07 AM
Sorry it's kind of long.
Last Fri I ran to the Disney Store and grabbed 2 APs in advance of the price hike--to be used for our August trip & perhaps a November one.
My life has been so not fun lately, and the stress is coming at me from every single direction, and Saturday I just kind of hit a breaking point. Contacted Terrisue to ask about rates for this weekend coming up. Not too bad, but I still hesitated. (BTW, Terrisue is the most awesome person in the entire universe.)
Tuesday (my birthday), at Book Expo America, while in line to meet an author, I happened to check my email. Spirit is running a GREAT sale--DD9 & I can get to & from Orlando for $230. TOTAL. Contacted my boss to see if I could have off on Friday, and hemmed and hawed a little more.
Yesterday morning in the car--I wasn't driving!--on the NJ Turnpike on the way back to BEA, I pulled the trigger. That's right, on Wednesday I booked a Disney vacation with an arrival date of Friday.
So, DD9 & I are leaving ACY tomorrow evening at 5:30, arriving at MCO at 7:30. Staying POP standard. Coming home Monday night, late. DD9 will be missing a day of school and won't have a full night's sleep, but it's half days now so she's not missing much.
I have ZERO ADRs planned. I have NO idea of park hours. I figure we'll just get on the first bus we see and go from there. When I checked online, there appears to be a lot of availability at most restaurants, so I figure we would have some luck with day-of or next day ressies, if that's what we want.
The only thing I would like some input on is: do you think it would be worth it to drop our stuff off at POP tomorrow night and head over to a park, or to DTD, to activate our APs and purchase TIW? If yes, where would you recommend we go? If we did that, we'd be all set for wherever we decide to go on Saturday.
For someone who plans months and months in advance, I'm super excited about having a spontaneous trip like this--I have never done anything like this before. Forget about the fact that all of my friends & family are going to be super-angry with me when they find out (I might not even tell them I'm going :secret:), but I really was at that point where it was either a long weekend in Disney, or a stay in a room with padded walls.
OMG and I haven't even told DD yet! I think I'm going to tell her that I finally figured out what I want for my birthday--a pineapple float--and see if she figures it out!
Thanks for reading, I knew you guys would share my excitement!
Last Fri I ran to the Disney Store and grabbed 2 APs in advance of the price hike--to be used for our August trip & perhaps a November one.
My life has been so not fun lately, and the stress is coming at me from every single direction, and Saturday I just kind of hit a breaking point. Contacted Terrisue to ask about rates for this weekend coming up. Not too bad, but I still hesitated. (BTW, Terrisue is the most awesome person in the entire universe.)
Tuesday (my birthday), at Book Expo America, while in line to meet an author, I happened to check my email. Spirit is running a GREAT sale--DD9 & I can get to & from Orlando for $230. TOTAL. Contacted my boss to see if I could have off on Friday, and hemmed and hawed a little more.
Yesterday morning in the car--I wasn't driving!--on the NJ Turnpike on the way back to BEA, I pulled the trigger. That's right, on Wednesday I booked a Disney vacation with an arrival date of Friday.
So, DD9 & I are leaving ACY tomorrow evening at 5:30, arriving at MCO at 7:30. Staying POP standard. Coming home Monday night, late. DD9 will be missing a day of school and won't have a full night's sleep, but it's half days now so she's not missing much.
I have ZERO ADRs planned. I have NO idea of park hours. I figure we'll just get on the first bus we see and go from there. When I checked online, there appears to be a lot of availability at most restaurants, so I figure we would have some luck with day-of or next day ressies, if that's what we want.
The only thing I would like some input on is: do you think it would be worth it to drop our stuff off at POP tomorrow night and head over to a park, or to DTD, to activate our APs and purchase TIW? If yes, where would you recommend we go? If we did that, we'd be all set for wherever we decide to go on Saturday.
For someone who plans months and months in advance, I'm super excited about having a spontaneous trip like this--I have never done anything like this before. Forget about the fact that all of my friends & family are going to be super-angry with me when they find out (I might not even tell them I'm going :secret:), but I really was at that point where it was either a long weekend in Disney, or a stay in a room with padded walls.
OMG and I haven't even told DD yet! I think I'm going to tell her that I finally figured out what I want for my birthday--a pineapple float--and see if she figures it out!
Thanks for reading, I knew you guys would share my excitement!