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13 Sep 19, 09:41 PM |
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Very Serious Dibber
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“Happy tears, it’s all happy tears” Oct 19 pre trip report
Hi everyone!
I’m so excited to finally be writing this! We have 33 days to go and we finally told my son Charlie tonight that we are heading back to Disneyworld. I wrote a live trip report for our first trip and I really enjoyed it so will be trying to do the same again. You can find our first trip here So without further ado, who are we? Me - Natalie. Now the other side of 30 from our previous trip in July 2017. I will be 32 in November. I’m chief planner, organiser and budgeter for everything because I’m a control freak. I insist on being the driver on holiday, being in charge of paperwork and holding the Revolut card at all times. By day I work in Client Relations. Sam - my partner. We’ve now been together over 5 years and he is an amazing father figure to Charlie. He is super laid back and is happy for me to crack on being the control freak I am for the most part but won’t hesitate to stop me in my tracks when he needs too. He is also 31 (5 months younger than me - a toy boy if you will! ) and is an accountant by day. Sam is studying at the moment so I’m really looking forward to spending some quality time together. Charlie - by far the most important member of the trip, Charlie is 8 (9 in December) and was highly commended by those who read my last trip report due to his stamina. There aren’t many 6 year olds who could have done an 8am - 1am Magic Kingdom day walking over 20 miles in the process without a hint of a moan 😍 Here we all are in 2017: Sam and I don’t look hugely different (I may or may not be heavier than in 2017 but hey, I’m over 30 now and I like the finer things in life!) Charlie however is much more grown up, here he is now: 😍😍😍😍😍 So how did this trip come about? Well to put it bluntly my poor boy has been through it over the last year. We very unexpectedly and suddenly lost Charlie’s Daddy last year. We’d been separated a long time but got on and he was a great father. Charlie has been amazing, he has navigated the last 18 months whilst retaining compassion for others and refuses to allow this to define him or use it as an excuse for ever crossing a line. It goes without saying Sam and I are incredibly proud of him and Sam has held us together and been amazing too. One evening last year Sam and I started discussing returning to Florida, we wanted to do something big for Charlie and he has always wanted to stay on property at a Disney resort. We decided to aim for October 2019 as that’s the only season I’ve not seen at a Disney resort. A few clicks later and we’d paid a deposit for Coronado Springs with QSDP and a 100 dollar gift card with the idea we’d figure out flights when they were released and if we could actually afford it! Come 7th December and I did my daily flight checks and bam there was BA direct from LGW to MCO with luggage etc for Ł1150 for all of us!? We snapped that up and the realisation hit that we were going to do this! After booking ADRs: Chef Mickeys (out of pocket) ABC Commisary Restaurantosaurus Oga Cantina (out of pocket) Via Napoli (out of pocket) Be our Guest Pizzafari And fast passes! All the headliners we wanted, when we wanted! It was time to think about how to tell Charlie. After much deliberation we decided to tell him 33 days before as we wanted him to have a month to be excited and wanted to tell him on a Friday. That day was today (13/09/19) He walked in, looked around and said in a really small voice “are we going to Disney” then when I said to open the cookie he read it a couple of times and just ran in to a hug with me crying and kept saying “happy tears, it’s all happy tears” and just like that the cat was out of the bag and the trip report title was born! We are just doing Disney this time, we only have 10 days and last time we did everything and all of us came away feeling like we wished we had more Disney so we’ve decided to focus on that this time although we are sneaking in a Wild Florida trip and may or may not have hired a mustang for the day as a final surprise for Charlie 😉 I think that’s it for us for now. I hope some of you will read along with us. Pre travel day will go live on 15th October and I will do my best to stay live so for now.. we’ll see you real soon 🥰 Edited at 09:47 PM. |
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13 Sep 19, 09:55 PM |
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Someone is cutting onions! I hope you have the best time and I’m so happy for Charlie- what a star xx
Edit- I’ve just been through my old threads thinking I was sure this was the reveal I’d been highly invested in ages ago and it was! So glad he loved it! Edited at 10:01 PM. |
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13 Sep 19, 10:17 PM |
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Awww yes that’s us. I couldn’t find the thread to go back and report how it went! It feels like it’s come around really quickly x
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14 Sep 19, 08:05 AM |
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Getting Excited
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How lovely! Looking forward to reading all about your trip.
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14 Sep 19, 08:14 AM |
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Have a fabulous holiday
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14 Sep 19, 08:18 AM |
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Aww Charlie is super cute. Might see you out there?! 😆
Kat
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14 Sep 19, 08:23 AM |
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Not peeling onions but do have some grit in my eye 🤥. What a lovely reveal for a superstar - I hope you all have a fantastic holiday xxx
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14 Sep 19, 05:16 PM |
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What a lovely little boy, have a wonderful time.
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15 Sep 19, 03:46 PM |
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15 Sep 19, 09:23 PM |
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Aw this is just lovely! Have a fabulous trip, will be following along
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