Growing up in Florida, I had the wonderful privilege of visiting WDW most summers. I know this makes me extremely lucky :) We were only able to go because my dad coached a team at an academic tournament that happened there every summer. It was pretty much the only vacation we ever took, but we loved it :) As I got older, that joy never left and I introduced Brian to the wonders of Disney when we started dating (he had been only once before, when he was very young.) He ended up proposing during the fireworks at the Magic Kingdom during one of our trips, and we even spent our honeymoon at the parks and then on a Disney cruise :)
In 2012, while on another Disney cruise with his family, we decided to join the Disney Vacation Club. I won't go into all the details here, but I feel it was definitely worth it, and that we've gotten our money's worth already. We have since used our membership for a week long trip to Disney's Aulani Resort in Hawaii for our 30th birthdays and on a trip to WDW last summer with my family for my parents' 35th anniversary! We spent a long weekend with my parents and siblings (2 brothers couldn't make it, but their wives did!) and had a fabulous time! Definitely brought back a lot of memories from our younger days :)
We're currently planning our next trip for this October, with my husband's family this time. His mom and sister haven't been since that one trip when my husband was a kid, and it will be our niece's first trip! She will have just turned 9, and I think it is going to be awesome!
I still have a couple of weeks before I can book our rooms (we have to be 7 months out to book, unless we plan on staying at our "home resort"), but I'm hoping we're able to snag rooms at the newly completed Villas at the Grand Floridian. I've never stayed at the Grand Floridian, but always wanted to, and the new villas look AMAZING! Our main goal is to be able to stay at one of the resorts on the monorail to make things easier, so hopefully I'll be able to make that happen!
It will be my first trip with the new Magic Bands and Fast Pass+, so even though I've been there so many times there will be new things for me to experience too :) Needless to say, I'm super excited!
Have you ever been to Disney? I've actually never been to Disneyland, only Disney World, but hope to make it to some of the other parks in my life :) Anybody out there a Disney fangirl like me? If yes, what are your favorite things to do there? If no, where's your favorite vacation spot?
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