Updated Pre Trip Report - 17th April 2019
I’ve been pretty rubbish with the updates but I’ve put that down to being a newbie and not having a single clue what to do…but my good friend Rachael (Redrach1903) came to the rescue and gave me step by step instructions. 😊 I won’t bore you with all the deets but I’ll tell you where we are currently at.
Since booking a little over a year ago, we are currently sitting at 24 days…24 days – can you believe it, it’s flown by. I just really hope that our trip doesn’t fly by as quick.
So….I’m packed – let’s go! 😊 I’ve packed Sophie’s case too and she’s also good to go, she has the most clothes, just your typical girl but I have (reluctantly) scaled back as I’m hoping to have a bit of a spree when I’m there as I hardly ever buy myself anything anymore, the joys of kids! Still to pack for Cameron but he has everything too, so I’ve just to take it all out the case to put it all back in the case! Ha!
I paid off our Universal Tickets a good while ago and within 5 days they were here, how’s that for service? I was a bit disappointed with the flimsy bits of paper though, for the price we paid, I was expecting them to be a bit more appealing, maybe a little bit of lamination…?
At our 180 day mark which seems an age ago, I booked the following :
12th May - BoG Breakfast – 8.10am (since booking, they’ve put on an Extra Magic Event) – Gone are the chances of getting on 7DMT straight after…sigh!
13th May – Tusker House Breakfast (Lunch too maybe) – 10.50am – I bought this as a gift for the kids and my Mum’s Christmas – they can’t wait.
17th May – BoG Lunch – 11.35am – looking forward to this.
These are the only
ADR’s I’ve booked. I have a list as long as my arm for all the food that we want to try when there. I’ve also made a mental note to wear the bikini at the start of the holiday as there’s no way that will be going on after day 3 or 4?
I was meant to ‘diet’ and hit the gym but I had an accident at netball where I hurt my ankle, I said I was lucky there was no break but unfortunately it turns out I have a small tear in my ligament on my right ankle – so I think a break would’ve healed so much better; we are currently on week 8 and there’s still stretching and pulling going on. I can rest when I’m home!
For anyone who read my initial report, I was surprising the kids with this trip for their birthday and wow, it was just amazing. Their reaction was everything and more and I had to stop recording as Sophie was crying which made me start to cry and Cameron was just Cameron, I don’t think he had registered that we were going to Florida! It makes all the hard work and forgoing things worth it even more. They sat down and kept asking, are we actually going to Disney in America over and over again – amazing! 😊
There is still one secret I have kept from them, they still don’t know my Mum is coming, they will find that out when we are at the train station. Eeeek! Train tickets were a steal too, got a great price and the kids were £1 each return.
Fast Pass Day was 12th March and my God, how stressed was I on the run up to that? I had everything looked out, laptop was fully charged, one of the kids iPads looked out and my iPhone; just in case one of them decided not to play ball. A couple of notepads, 10 pencils and a rubber…why?! I must’ve been really lucky though as it was a breeze! Got everything I wanted and no massive intervals in-between either. Even managed to get FoP a whopping four times!
I purchased a Revolut card, I normally only holiday for a week at a time and AI so taking smaller amounts of money didn’t faze me, this is my first two week holiday in about 15+ years I think and the kids first two week holiday with me so there’s going to be a lot of cash so I decided a Revolut card may be a safer (sensible) way to spend out hard earned cash.
Anyway, I’m hoping that this is what an update is meant to look like, if not, I apologise as I am fully aware that I have just actually bored you with all the deets! Sorry but I am just far too excited!
I am still planning on doing a TR and hopefully a much easier and nice read for anyone who will be reading along.
Thank you for reading this far! 😊