chunkymonkey
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- Joined
- May 27, 2009
Chunky, We're Home!
A Star Wars Galaxy's Edge Double Preview
August 2019
Hi everyone! It's been a while since I started a new TR. I am still working on a few others but one of them is almost done. I really need to post this TR before it gets too late and I forget everything! We got a chance to preview Galaxy's Edge in WDW twice last August and it was amazing! As a Star Wars fan, it was priceless to visit the land in it's pristine state without the massive crowds! We went once with our AP previews but we were also guests of another special preview the next weekend from a friend! We visited on back to back weekends in August, which sounds completely crazy to everyone but to a Disney fanatic it is definitely in the realm of possibility! It just so happened the dates were on back to back weekends and I did not have the time off from work (or really, the funds as well
) to stay the entire week in between. Both trips were from Friday night to Monday evening.
First Trip: We stayed at All-Star Movies the entire time and our preview was on Sunday morning
Second Trip: We stayed a night at the Grand Destino at Coronado Springs and the last 2 nights at Saratoga Springs with our DVC points. Our preview was on Sunday evening.
I will try and update this quickly as most of the details have escaped me but I have a ton of pictures. Despite these trips mainly being to preview GE, we definitely did a lot of other stuff too and ate a ton (of course). And as always I got to meet up with a few of my DISBoard friends!![smile :) :)](http://www.wdwinfo.com/images/smilies/smile.gif)
Who we are:
Hi I'm Su-Lynn and most of you know me by Chunkymonkey on the DISboards or just plain ol' Chunky, LOL. I'm 43-years-old (soon to be 44 in a few weeks) which only means I need to go to Disney more often to hold on to my youth, right? This pic was actually taken last February on my birthday trip because I will spare you the bad hair day Aug pictures because they will be in the rest of my TR! I'm an avid Disney/Star Wars/Marvel fan and am happy to call many of you on the DISboards my friends/therapists. I say therapists because I think only such a community would understand my anxiety at waking up 5 minutes late 60 days out and wailing for 10 minutes that all hope is lost in getting FP+ but then getting really excited to grab a last minute 'Ohana reservation and thinking this is the best day ever. You guys get it, right? LOL. I've written many reports on the DISboards and you can find them all HERE.
My DH, Steve, aka Chubby Hubby, he's 44 and comes along on my Disney trips only because I plan them all and he really needs to do is show up! Wow the luxury. LOL. He really does enjoy Disney though and he likes to be active and walking which we do a lot of in the World. We don't get to do that much in New Jersey as we pretty much lead boring office jobs in financial services and drive everywhere. Steve also really likes Star Wars and Marvel and he also likes Grumpy and Gaston.![laughing :laughing: :laughing:](http://www.wdwinfo.com/images/smilies/laughing.gif)
We became AP holders in 2017 and never looked back! Now we also own DVC at the Polynesian and are looking forward to trying all the different resorts! We stayed in a few new to us resorts on these trips and it was a lot of fun.
Bright Suns and Rising Moons travelers! Hope you're in for a first impressions trip to a Galaxy Far Far Away....
A Star Wars Galaxy's Edge Double Preview
August 2019
Hi everyone! It's been a while since I started a new TR. I am still working on a few others but one of them is almost done. I really need to post this TR before it gets too late and I forget everything! We got a chance to preview Galaxy's Edge in WDW twice last August and it was amazing! As a Star Wars fan, it was priceless to visit the land in it's pristine state without the massive crowds! We went once with our AP previews but we were also guests of another special preview the next weekend from a friend! We visited on back to back weekends in August, which sounds completely crazy to everyone but to a Disney fanatic it is definitely in the realm of possibility! It just so happened the dates were on back to back weekends and I did not have the time off from work (or really, the funds as well
![Grinning squinting face :laughing: 😆](https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f606.png)
First Trip: We stayed at All-Star Movies the entire time and our preview was on Sunday morning
Second Trip: We stayed a night at the Grand Destino at Coronado Springs and the last 2 nights at Saratoga Springs with our DVC points. Our preview was on Sunday evening.
I will try and update this quickly as most of the details have escaped me but I have a ton of pictures. Despite these trips mainly being to preview GE, we definitely did a lot of other stuff too and ate a ton (of course). And as always I got to meet up with a few of my DISBoard friends!
![smile :) :)](http://www.wdwinfo.com/images/smilies/smile.gif)
Who we are:
Hi I'm Su-Lynn and most of you know me by Chunkymonkey on the DISboards or just plain ol' Chunky, LOL. I'm 43-years-old (soon to be 44 in a few weeks) which only means I need to go to Disney more often to hold on to my youth, right? This pic was actually taken last February on my birthday trip because I will spare you the bad hair day Aug pictures because they will be in the rest of my TR! I'm an avid Disney/Star Wars/Marvel fan and am happy to call many of you on the DISboards my friends/therapists. I say therapists because I think only such a community would understand my anxiety at waking up 5 minutes late 60 days out and wailing for 10 minutes that all hope is lost in getting FP+ but then getting really excited to grab a last minute 'Ohana reservation and thinking this is the best day ever. You guys get it, right? LOL. I've written many reports on the DISboards and you can find them all HERE.
My DH, Steve, aka Chubby Hubby, he's 44 and comes along on my Disney trips only because I plan them all and he really needs to do is show up! Wow the luxury. LOL. He really does enjoy Disney though and he likes to be active and walking which we do a lot of in the World. We don't get to do that much in New Jersey as we pretty much lead boring office jobs in financial services and drive everywhere. Steve also really likes Star Wars and Marvel and he also likes Grumpy and Gaston.
![laughing :laughing: :laughing:](http://www.wdwinfo.com/images/smilies/laughing.gif)
We became AP holders in 2017 and never looked back! Now we also own DVC at the Polynesian and are looking forward to trying all the different resorts! We stayed in a few new to us resorts on these trips and it was a lot of fun.
Bright Suns and Rising Moons travelers! Hope you're in for a first impressions trip to a Galaxy Far Far Away....
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