Family, friends, and a Baby!! 8 is definitely enough!! POFQ 8/11-8/15 **Updated 9/21** COMPLETE - Page 2 - PassPorter - A Community of Walt Disney World, Disneyland, Disney Cruise Line, and General Travel Forums
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YAYYYYY! Great start...love the wedding pics......Wow this is a big group of people going! I cant wait to hear more...i'm so glad you got started this will be such a fun TR!!
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This trip was (in my mind) not even going to happen. But it did - here's how:
Marilyn and Eric broke the news to us 1 night before DH and I were to leave for our December WDW trip that they were trying to have a baby. This immediately said to me that there would be no way they would fulfill their promise to EJ for a WDW trip this year (2008). Why would she want to go to WDW pregnant and with an 8 year old? Then in March she announced she was already about 3 months. This would mean that she would be VERY pregnant around the time we would most likely go to WDW (summer since EJ is in school) So I figured we would not be going, especially since DH and I went twice in 2007.
So in January, DH and I booked a trip for Vegas in June with my sister and her DBF and their friends. This would be our 2008 vacation. Litterally not more than 2 weeks later, Marilyn called and asked when we should start planning/booking the WDW trip. . . . You still want to go?, I asked. She replied, we promised EJ, so they have to take him. Great, I thought, we already booked Vegas and now we are going back to Disney (not that I was complaining at all, but 2 vacations again this year?)
Dh and I agreed that half of the reason they probably still wanted to go was because they knew we would also be going. EJ and Danny are very close and EJ would definitely not be the same if he thought Danny wouldn't be going with him.
So Danny and I agreed that we would also fulfill our promise to EJ and all go as a family. So in February we were all booked up. We decided on FQ, since it would be financially feasable for the Beltran's (since there were 3 of them) and we already stayed at value when we travelled together in 2004, so Marilyn wanted something different. Danny and I stayed at FQ in 2001 and knew everyone would be happy there.
THEN - in April, Mary was venting about where her and Jimmy were going to go on their vacation this year. They have been going to the Outer Banks frequently and I asked her why don't they blow that off and come with us? She said she would ask Jimmy, but knowing he's not a theme park guy, I figured he would decide against it. Imagine my surprise when she came into work a couple days later and announced "He said yes!!!!" I was so excited I let out a couple of squeals in the middle of the restaurant!! So immediately, I got them squared away with a room at FQ and booked their flights. They are not travelling on the same flights as us, because the price difference was over $100 and I told them it wasn't worth it. They could definitely save that money for use in WDW.
So that is how we ended up with "Family, friends, and a Baby."
Next update: For all you "Itinerary Nerds" out there!!
Isn't funny how things always seem to work out when it comes to disney???? Cant wait for the itinerary of course i love those things ( i think the trapper keeper in the 80's started my obsession with planning*LOL*)
Another great update! I always love the "how the trip came to be" stories... maybe they are always so interesting to me because mine are always the same "we had fun last time and i am addicted and i finnally got Rob to say yes"... lol!
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this will be such a fun TR!!
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Can't wait to see that itinerary 
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