DisneyFirefly
DIS Veteran
- Joined
- Aug 25, 2009
I gotta get caught up on your TR, and your 10,000 PTR's you have going also!
I only have two! Although, technically, one's a two-for-one...
I gotta get caught up on your TR, and your 10,000 PTR's you have going also!
I only have two! Although, technically, one's a two-for-one...
LOL, 2, 20,000, it's all the same! I have to go check out your DLR PTR!
Awww, I'm sorry you're feeling the Disney blues! It happens to all of us!
The way I get over it is to start planning another trip! In all seriousness, though, that really helps alot. Even though a Fall 2011 trip might be far away and you don't want to wait that long, it's better than having no trip at all to look forward to. And just think, that is less than a year away!
I found out on our recent mini-trip that I think it is actually better to wait and "do it right" than throw a trip together just for the sake of being there. Don't get me wrong, we had a wonderful time and I'm so thankful that we got to go, but I much prefer longer trips where we can really take our time and enjoy our selves. I just don't think Disney is a place to spend a few days here and there. At least it's not for us!
My vote would be to go in September, so you can take advantage of value season and stay longer! I'm actually looking forward to going in June where there is no special activities and decorations, as weird as that might sound. We took two back to back holiday trips and the thing I missed the most was just seeing the parks in their normal state, and hearing the regular music!
Just think, if you went in September you'd only be a little more than 9 months away, and only a little more than 3 months away from your ADR date! Not too bad at all!
Sorry to write such a novel, here! I know this is going to be hitting us hard after the disneymoon and I'm already worried about it!
I start planning another trip.
Aww, Disney blues stink. I sort of have them right now because as I've said about a billion times we were originally going to go after Christmas but then changed so my sisters and I could go over the summer.
We've really gotten so spoiled being in DVC now. When we first started going to WDW, we went every other year. Now I can barely go a few months without wanting to go back. It is always easier when you have a trip planned.
Some things I like to do in between trips is read the DIS (of course!), look at old pictures/souvenirs, listen to park music, watch youtube videos, and sometimes we'll watch the recordings we made of all the Disney shows from the Travel Channel. I also like to scrapbook (which I haven't done a lot of lately) but it's always fun to relive past trips.
Hope you get over your Disney blues soon!
This might sound strange, but buy a little mascot for your everyday life. Get a little plush Mickey or a small Disney figurine and take pictures with him/her while you're doing your typical and seemingly mundane daily activities. AND POST IT HERE! Haha.
Howard and I printed out flats of our Virtual Magic Kingdom characters and laminated them. We took pictures everywhere, and it helped with the sting of VMK closing entirely. Now I have a small plush Mickey that's my vacation mascot. I don't take pics as often because I'm busy, but he sits next to my computer so that I can grab him if I want to!
LOL I love that idea, of getting a little mascot! AND it gives me another excuse to go to the Disney store that's an hour away! If I get one, I'll definitely post it here!
So...stupid question...but what's the VMK? I always see you mention it and I've never asked...but I have to know!
VMK was a multiplayer game that looked so much like the Disney parks! You created a little character and went from room to room and chatted with friends and played games to earn credits. With those credits, you could buy clothes (Disney clothes, like a Jungle Cruise skipper outfit or a Fantasia Mickey hat; new stuff came out every week) or furniture to decorate your room. VMK is how I found DISboards. I was mainly on that section of the boards because I was a beginner and needed help. Then I used it for trades.
It was the BEST way to help with the Disney blues. There were so many people upset when they closed it; I still don't know why they did it. I guess it wasn't making money even though it required people to work on it? I don't know. If you read The Kingdom Keepers series, they give an explanation for why it had to close (it was done because they needed it in the fight of good vs. evil in the parks). Even though the reason in the book is obviously fictional, it does make me feel a little bit better. VMK helped distract my mind when I was feeling sick since I had/have a lot of health problems.
Someone compiled all the screens and sounds of the game and put them on a website. If you go on VMKRevisited and click "Enter," you can see what it looked like. There are no characters that you can move in the game and the games don't work, but you can see how well designed it was to look like the actual parks.
Even though we don't post here anymore, you can see some of the "adventures" that our characters had - The Flat Adventures of Weird and Ninja. Another DISer came up with the idea of printing out your avatar; she took pics with characters in the pics. Howard and I decided to do that so that it wasn't like our characters (HowWeird and RachelNinja, exactly like our DIS names) just ceased to exist. Haha, I know I sound a little crazy writing this, but I think other former VMKers would understand! I STILL miss it, and I don't go on VMKRevisited because even the sounds make me upset! I can't believe Disney didn't keep it going!
BTW, if your missing WDW means you're being a whiny brat, well, the DIS is filled with a bunch of us whiny brats! Haha.
I'm sorry girl! I know that feeling well. It's been over a year and a half since my last Disney trip. It's definitely hardest at first, I think. It will get better, just hang in there! I have been wishing away the last eight months, and now I kind of regret wishing my life away, but I know how hard it is NOT to do that when you have a Disney trip in your future!