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I was just at Disney in Sept of last year. It was our 1st trip staying on property. It was the most amazing vacation ever. We go every 4 years so we were not planning another trip until 2013.
After we got home our worlds kinda fell apart. I lost my job. They closed my bookstore at the end of Oct with only 3 weeks notice. Another bookstore moved in and I got a job there but it was still an adjustment. My mom went in for a hysterectomy in Dec and had complications. Never good when the doctor says at a check up after the surgery that “you do not know how happy I am to be able to see you”. She had a severe case of endometriosis and everything inside of her was fused together. Not good. She is good now.
My mom was off of work for 4 months and in that time your mind starts to wander. From the time we got home all we could think about was Disney. So one day not only did her mind wander but her fingers on the computer keyboard began to wander, next thing I know she has priced a vacation for her to go to Disney this Sept. The price was great for and so I priced my trip. I called my hubby and he said book it. Lol so here we are going to Disney again.
My step dad decided not to join us on this trip. My brother will be just starting his last semester of college so he decided not to go either. My mom didn’t want to have to ride everything alone so she invited my aunt to go. Donna has not been to Disney since it was just Magic Kingdom. Epcot was under construction. She was planning on joining us in 2013 so we thought we might give her a preview with this trip. After telling her what her share would be she agreed to go.
Our Plans:
Sept 2-8th (after last year when we went for 9 days we are calling this our mini vacation)
My boys are not expecting us to go back to Disney until 2013.
They keep asking me if we can go sooner.
So we decided not to tell the boys. We are going to surprise them. So our plan is to send them to school on Sept 2nd. I will have pre arranged them to get out of school early that day. Our flight leaves at 4 p.m.. That gives me time to load the luggage in the car and get ready to pull out for airport. We will pick the boys up for our camping trip. We camp alot especially holiday weekends so they will not expect a thing. I will even tell them Donna is joining us on this trip. We will bring them back to the house and tell them to watch this DVD Grammy made. It has all the pictures from our trip last year with music. There is a screen that says remember our hotel, then remember the fun we had at the Magic Kingdom...etc. The last few screens say "Well guess what Tyler and Dylan" "We are going again" "And we are leaving right NOW!"
It is going to be so hard not to tell them. Especially as our counter gets closer and closer to the date but I have to keep in mind the excitement of the surprise.
Dylan has caught me on here and on the Disney website but I just tell him i am getting ideas for our next trip. He says ok and then gives me ideas. We stayed at POFQ last time and this time he thinks we should stay at POP. I said maybe we can do that. LOL knowing that I booked POP for this trip.
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thanks hasn't been that hard to keep the secret this far but like i said I know it will get more difficult as the counter counts down. Plus we are all going to the beach together in 5 weeks. All of us together for a week not talking about Disney should be interesting.
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What a wonderful start! I am glad things have turned around for you all! Life likes to through us cuve-balls just to keep up on out toes!
Thanks! It is has been a tough 8 months but we overcame it and we get to go to disney.
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Great start and plans!!
Thanks!!!
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Oh I can't wait until you tell them! I love surprises
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What a great surprise that will be for the boys!!!
I can't wait to tell either....I know they will be so excited. Dylan brings up Disney about 1 time every 2 weeks. He gets pictures out or watches the travel channel Disney shows. (I have them on my Tivo for just such an occasion) Tyler will bring it up when dylan does and wants to know why we have to wait so long to go again
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. We go every 4 years so we were not planning another trip until 2013. 
. I lost my job. They closed my bookstore at the end of Oct with only 3 weeks notice. 
Another bookstore moved in and I got a job there but it was still an adjustment
. My mom went in for a hysterectomy in Dec and had complications.
She had a severe case of endometriosis and everything inside of her was fused together. Not good. She is good now.
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We are going to surprise them. So our plan is to send them to school on Sept 2nd. I will have pre arranged them to get out of school early that day. Our flight leaves at 4 p.m.. That gives me time to load the luggage in the car and get ready to pull out for airport. 
We will pick the boys up for our camping trip. We camp alot especially holiday weekends so they will not expect a thing. I will even tell them Donna is joining us on this trip. We will bring them back to the house and tell them to watch this DVD Grammy made. It has all the pictures from our trip last year with music. There is a screen that says remember our hotel, then remember the fun we had at the Magic Kingdom...etc. The last few screens say "Well guess what Tyler and Dylan" "We are going again" "And we are leaving right NOW!" 
He says ok and then gives me ideas.
We stayed at POFQ last time and this time he thinks we should stay at POP
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for keeping the secret until time to go.
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