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Just a short interruption to our PTR….in a few of our updates I think we will ask some…do you do that questions . For example: The last few days my DW and I have been going through terrible Disney withdrawals..........DO YOU DO THAT?
This time last year we were at WDW!!! We don’t know if we can make it for 80+ days!!!! What a great trip we had last year!
We were even part of the AK Parade!!!
Oh well…I guess we’ll just have to relive old memories and as our Pal Mickey says…see you real soon WDW!!!
And now back to our regularly scheduled update
Where:
We began our trip planning with deciding when it would be best to go again. Our last trip was at the end of September 2011. We had a great time and got to experience two firsts,
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and one day of the FWF in Epcot. But we really missed being at the world during the Christmas Holidays. We knew this would be a shorter trip and the first trip that we were going down with just the four of us.
In previous trips, at least DH’s mom or DW’s dad have joined us for our trips. (DH’s dad went for a few days our last trip, because the kids begged and then he was done. ) This has always been lots of fun and a great help with the kids. But, in planning ahead to 2013 and ensuring we had enough points for hopefully scoring a 1 BR SV at AKL-K for a grandparent to join us, we knew it would just be the four of us this time. So, with school schedules and work schedules we chose December 18-23.
We booked a Deluxe Studio at SSR at 11 months out and kept our fingers crossed for getting into BWV at 7 months out. We got in…or should we say DW on the phone as early as she could that morning got in! J Yay! Let the planning wheels begin turnin’! (DW chiming in here…I actually was going to do it online and saw that there was availability, but did not see a way to book BWV and cancel SSR in the same process. Since it made me nervous, I just called up and got a great CM as usual.)
Now on to the surprise…. When we were planning our 2011 trip, our DD kept talking about how she would like to be surprised for our next trip. She kept going on and on about not wanting to know about the next trip or ADRs etc….. So, when we booked this we decided to try and keep the time and place a secret and tell them we were going in March. Can’t you just hear the evil laugh!
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WDW- july 2015 beach club
We have read several threads and watched you tube videos to get ideas on how to surprise the kids…. At this point we are going to try a low key approach. We are fortunate to be able to take trips to North Myrtle Beach, SC as a family to just hang out. We plan to tell the kids that we are going to take a beach trip. We travel highway 95 to get to both places. We will keep driving past our turn off to the beach and see how long it takes the kids to start asking questions. At that point we will have an envelope with customized park maps; each one will get 2 maps printed by Disney and 2 printed on our printer in their envelope. Note to self get the printer working! We’ll probably say something like take a look at these maps and tell us how to get to where we’re going?
We will create the maps with activities we would all like to do for this trip. We will have some other small surprises to pull out along the way, which will give them additional fun activities to do while we drive. We are hopeful they will be super excited!
Soooo…what do you think? Do you have any ideas or have you surprised your kids in the past? We’d love to hear your feedback and experiences!!!
Coming up next….travelin’ down and a dilemma on our arrival day …Help!
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. For example: The last few days my DW and I have been going through terrible Disney withdrawals....
......DO YOU DO THAT?
What a great trip we had last year!
) This has always been lots of fun and a great help with the kids. But, in planning ahead to 2013 and ensuring we had enough points for hopefully scoring a 1 BR SV at AKL-K for a grandparent to join us, we knew it would just be the four of us this time. So, with school schedules and work schedules we chose December 18-23.
…. When we were planning our 2011 trip, our DD kept talking about how she would like to be surprised for our next trip. She kept going on and on about not wanting to know about the next trip or ADRs etc….. So, when we booked this we decided to try and keep the time and place a secret and tell them we were going in March. Can’t you just hear the evil laugh! 
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