60 Days to Disney

This one's gonna be short and sweet. Mainly short since we're a little behind schedule tonight.

But anyway: 60 days to Disney! From this point on, it's going to be so much easier to figure out how many days are left before our trip since we won't have the days left in February to factor in anymore. Yes, it's mathematically lazy but, that's really the whole point of my talking about this for so long.

So that's it. The requisite daily Walt Disney World picture from years past is below. See ya!

Molly and Caleb with Donald in the meet and greet spot at Epcot from our 2009 trip.

61 Days to Disney!

As a way to force myself to blog daily in the lead-up to our Disney trip, I'm going to try to do daily "countdown" posts. I'm also going to try to post pictures of our Disney trips from years past (except for the first one since none of those are digital yet). So here goes:

At the risk of being redundant... 61 days to Disney!

Joy and Molly worked on an awesome countdown chain (pictured below). So, it's officially "on". As Molly has told me, once Tuesday rolls around, we'll be able to start saying, "We're going to Disney next month!" (See, we're going to Disney at the end of April so, once it's March... Well, you get the idea.)

Well, that's it for this countdown post.

The countdown chain:

Soon, very soon, we'll be standing near this spot. In 61 days. Or more, depending on when we go to The Magic Kingdom:

My Guess About Our Room Location

Okay, this is probably going to be very boring for almost everyone but Joy, Molly, and me but, I found some pictures from our 2010 trip that were taken just outside our hotel room door at Pop Century Resort. I don't remember if that was a "standard pool view" room then but, it wouldn't surprise because, with a little effort, you can see the pool from your room--sort of.

Anyway, I do remember coming out of the door, looking left and seeing the laptop pool so, I think it would be cool if we were in generally the same area again this year. Although, it would be cool to be near the bowling pin...




And here's one from 2014 that I just love. This shot was taken in the Everything Pop eating area at Pop Century Resort but kind of off the to the side, near the area where you pick up pizzas. I'm just so amazed at how much Caleb and Lily have grown in two short years. Especially Caleb! He's even taller than Joy now! (That's not saying much. No offense Joy! But you know I'm right. And remember, you're not short, you're petite.)




I might post some more pictures from our previous trips because, well, I've got a lot of them and there are some great memories tied to each and every one of them.

Trying Again

Well, it's been quite some time since I tried to post anything on here. When I first started this blog about two years ago, I was caught up in the idea of maintaining this Disney World focused blog that was updated on a regular basis and was informative and fun to read.

The truth of the matter is I bit off more than I could chew. In an effort to basically relive our past Walt Disney World visits, I tried to document (in excruciatingly precise detail) each and every day of our most recent trips. Ouch. Doing this made was an incredible chore, which is pretty obvious based on the fact that I basically didn't post anymore one week after I started. Wow. What a quitter.

But anyway, here I am again. And here we go again...

We have booked a trip to Walt Disney World starting on April 29th 2016 through May 7th 2016. This will be the longest trip we've ever taken to Disney (even if it's only by one day). We will be staying in two standard adjacent standard pool rooms at Pop Century Resort, which means our room will either be facing the bowling pin pool or the computer pool. Either way, I'm happy.

This time, we considered getting a family suite at either Art of Animation or All-Star Music but, as it turns out, it was actually cheaper to go with two rooms at Pop Century.

Anyway, we've made the plunge and booked the trip. Now all we have to do is figure out what parks we're going to and when. We'll also need to decide if we're going to add an extra day at the parks because, as of right now, we have a 5 day magic your way ticket. To add the sixth day would cost roughly $60. I know, that's ridiculous. But, I don't want us to feel obligated to hit the parks every single day we're there. Those chill days are totally worth. So, I have no idea if I'm going to really keep this blog up to date but, I think I'd like to--especially once we're actually in Disney. I really enjoy going back and reading old blog posts from our other trips. There's so many details that I just would not remember were it not for writing some of it down.

Well, time to go. I should have spent this time working on schoolwork but, I'll make sure I do that this weekend. For now: 64 days to Disney!