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please, someone calm me down [lots to do before trip]!!!
We leave for WDW on Monday and I am SO excited for our trip! This week is really hectic for us, daughter's dance recital with rehearsals, volunteering at her school, two meetings that aren't normally on our schedule, and company over the weekend with a 6:30am flight Monday morning. And a 12 mile training run on Saturday for myself and my sister.
I am not finished packing (or very close even) and I am panicking that I have forgotten to do things for the trip! I just saw that someone did an online check-in and I totally forgot about that. I also have not reserved a stroller for DD.
Our trip strategy is/was to do the dining plan and we have all but 1 dinner reservation made, we have a general idea of what parks we will be in which days, and we have BBB planned for our DD. Have I planned enough? It is just me, DH and DD.
I know we're going to have a great trip and we are flexible people, but at this point I am thinking that I should have done more to prepare!!!!!!!!!
And, I would LOVE to do a PTR, but that boat may have sailed!
That is PLENTY of planning, trust me. You've got your meals taken care of, so no one is going to starve and THAT is the most important thing. If you feel like doing more planning in anticipation of your trip, please do, but if you're really busy just breathe. Get through this week and pretty soon you'll be in WDW!! Even if for some reason you've forgotten something it will not be the end of the world. You'll roll with the punches and have a great vacation anyway.
-MissFrizz
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"Why do we have to grow up? I know more adults who have the children's approach to life...They are not afraid to be delighted with simple pleasures..." --Walt Disney
I do NOT know why I was so 'worked up' this morning, but I was! I have been taking deep breaths, I did online check-in and I only have one more meeting today before I can do some packing.
I do have the air and hotel booked and that is the most important thing - thanks for reminding me! Of course I will be able to get anything I might forget while we're there, needed that reminder this morning too!
6 days to go ..........................................
I have just been looking forward to this trip and dreaming about a whole week at Disney World for SO many years that it almost doesn't seem possible that it's finally happening! Yay!
Yeah, I think so many people get so hung up on all the planning, scheming, dreaming, and more planning that CAN be done (especially when you get involved in forums like this one) that they forget that vacations are supposed to be RELAXING!!!!! So hard when you have to worry about flights, hotel, tickets, ADRs, what parks which days......
....also remember that there are A LOT of people that do NO planning on their trips to WDW and have a great time while there, going where and doing whatever they want, not being a slave to "the plan". Planning is great (and I'm a huge pre-planner) but having fun and just going with it is often part of the fun. I'm looking forward to seeing just how "off plan" we get this September...
I do a ton of planning and then get to a point right before leaving for the trip where I decide as long as I have my credit card and ID the rest is fixable!
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