4 Parks – 1 Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious Journey Home - Dec. 18-23, 2010 PTR UPDATED 12/13 - PassPorter - A Community of Walt Disney World, Disneyland, Disney Cruise Line, and General Travel Forums
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4 Parks – 1 Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious Journey Home - Dec. 18-23, 2010 PTR UPDATED 12/13
We are taking the plunge on writing our first trip report, especially since we have been inspired by those who have written such great ones. It is a good time for this since we will be experiencing some big firsts on this trip.
You will often see us write with using we or us. DH and DW share this account and really enjoy reading trip reports together. We both are the Disney geeks in the family. We actually accuse the other of being the bigger Disney geek, but it depends on the moment. One of DW’s and DD’s favorite Disney movies is Mary Poppins hence the movie references you’ll read as we go along.
Backstory:
We have made two trips to the world as a family in 2007 and 2009. We stayed both times in a family suite at the All Star Music Resort. DD recommends this place to stay.
The family at ASMu in Dec 2009-sorry so small...we kept trying to resize via photobucket but couldn't get it to work ...now it is showing up large...go figure
DMom (DH’s momma) or also know as Mammy to the kids has been the one to go with us in the past. Yes we are from the south and we use terms such as momma and mammy and it is usually done with a nice slow southern accent. Now isn’t that precious. LOL
We love this picture of mammy!
After our first trip, we came home and looked into DVC and decided that we would wait. We had after all only gone once and it is a lot of money. We went again in 2009 and came back and looked into DVC after that trip. We read a lot of advice and had decided that we could not swing such a big purchase. Since the kids were still small we would just continue the every other year at the ASMu.
DDad for Christmas surprised/shocked us all with some early inheritance (DW has a sister and brother who all have families with two kids each). He gave it to us with a very sweet letter that focused on us spending the money on something that “he could see us enjoy”. After a lot of research of things we could (DVC) or should (home improvements) do with this incredible gift, we kept going back to the phrase that he wanted to see us enjoy it. So what did we do, we bought through resale 160 points at SSR (We got one with banked points from 09) Yeah!!!!
Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious…when you just don’t know what to say!
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As mentioned previously DMom was the one that went with us to Disney. She is not quite a geek like us, but she really enjoys going with us and we love that she wants to come. She was the only one that expressed interest in going to the world. Until recently, we thought we would continue with our every other year pattern and she would be the one to go with us. With the purchase of DVC with the banked points it essentially gave us almost a free trip…well free lodging. We decided we would go again right before Christmas so we would not miss too much work (both DH & DW work in education). The kids are “tracked out” as they both go to a multi-track year-round elementary school. We decided to ask Ddad as he had given us the great gift that would allow us to go. We did not expect him to want to go as this is not like him. We wrote him a nice thank you letter back and told him what we had decided to do with the money and invited him to go with us on our “first trip home”. To our surprise Ddad said yes! He has expressed interest in seeing Epcot and some of the oldies but goodies in the MK He actually found a map from when he took us as kids in the early 80’s.
4, 3, 2, 1 …Fire! (Admiral Boom from Mary Poppins) So…..we’re set to go! Up next….who’s the cast of characters…
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It is a good time for this since we will be experiencing some big firsts on this trip. 
us all with some early inheritance (DW has a sister and brother who all have families with two kids each). He gave it to us with a very sweet letter that focused on us spending the money on something that “he could see us enjoy”. After a lot of research of things we could (DVC) or should (home improvements) do with this incredible gift, we kept going back to the phrase that he wanted to see us enjoy it. So what did we do, we bought through resale 160 points at SSR (We got one with banked points from 09) Yeah!!!! 
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