DaveinFallsChurch
DIS Veteran
- Joined
- Feb 5, 2011
Hello and welcome to another edition of my family and my camera’s adventure through Disney!
If you don’t recognize me I really can’t blame you. I’ve been missing in action on the DIS for the past couple of months. Work. Conferences. A little sprinkle of a mid-life crisis. You know, the usual things that keeps one from logging on to DIS. But now I’m back thanks to another fun-filled trip to Disney we just returned from and am fully recharged to take on life and reality again. At least for a week.
Let me introduce you to the cast of characters. First there's me. Obsessed with both Disney and photography equal parts who turned 40 this year. Then there's DW who enjoys our trips to Disney most of the time and tolerates my addiction as long as Disney doesn't become the exclusive destination for all of our vacation trips. We have two wonderful children: DD8 who is becoming more and more enamored with Disney after each trip and is starting to take on a lot of thrill rides and DS5 who really lets loose and let his wild side fly while he's in Disney.
The trip came to be after a little bit of convincing DW when we returned back home this past January. I had visited Disney for a conference October of last year (the TR of which you can find below in my signature!) and got to experience MNSSHP. I enjoyed it so much that I wanted to share it with the kids. On top of that, this year DD's school calendar had her four day fall weekend come on the weekend of Halloween! It took a little bargaining with DW who doesn't think two trips to Disney within a year is worth it so we decided to make this particular visit a short one and combine it with a visit to DW's aunt and uncle who lives in Port Charlotte, FL.
This TR will be a short one because the trip itself was short. We arrived on the evening of Wednesday, October 29th and departed Disney on the morning of Sunday, November 2nd and spent a couple of extra days in Florida visiting family. Essentially, we had just three full days in the parks. Actually, I shouldn’t even say “full days” since we took things easy and spent a good amount of time away from the parks. In fact, we didn’t visit DHS or Epcot this time (gasp!) and we made rope drop just once for the entire trip (GASP!) Our mission for this short weekend trip? To experience Halloween in true Disney fashion! Everything else would be a bonus, an icing on the cake.
If you have read my last two trip reports you probably know that I’ve taken a liking to posting updates in non-chronological fashion. So you’ll see me jumping around in time a bit especially since we took a good amount of resort time during this trip.
If you're not Facebook friends with me and would like to be, please shoot me a PM. I've been posting the photos of my family from Disney on FB that goes along with the trip report.
So sit back and I hope you enjoy the ride as we answer some burning questions through out the trip report! Will DD finally face her fears and confront the Yeti and the Happy Haunts? Will this trip finally be the trip where she’s tall enough to ride on Primeval Whirl? Will DS stay awake long enough to make it through Hallowishes? Will he make it back from time-traveling through the time of the dinosaurs in one piece? Will trick-or-treating in the Magic Kingdom on Halloween be the best thing ever? Stay tuned!
And as I usually do to keep you sufficiently teased, I’ll end this intro with a batch of photos from this very Halloweeny (and not-so-scary) trip! If you would like to see the full resolution versions of each of these images, you can also follow the links I provided to my photography website!
Full Resolution Images available at: http://goo.gl/FJ50tV
Hallowishes from Main Street
Festival of Fantasy
Hitchhiking Ghosts in Boo To You Parade.
Pirates of the Caribbean during MNSSHP
Festival of the Lion King in its new Harambe Theater
If you don’t recognize me I really can’t blame you. I’ve been missing in action on the DIS for the past couple of months. Work. Conferences. A little sprinkle of a mid-life crisis. You know, the usual things that keeps one from logging on to DIS. But now I’m back thanks to another fun-filled trip to Disney we just returned from and am fully recharged to take on life and reality again. At least for a week.
Let me introduce you to the cast of characters. First there's me. Obsessed with both Disney and photography equal parts who turned 40 this year. Then there's DW who enjoys our trips to Disney most of the time and tolerates my addiction as long as Disney doesn't become the exclusive destination for all of our vacation trips. We have two wonderful children: DD8 who is becoming more and more enamored with Disney after each trip and is starting to take on a lot of thrill rides and DS5 who really lets loose and let his wild side fly while he's in Disney.
The trip came to be after a little bit of convincing DW when we returned back home this past January. I had visited Disney for a conference October of last year (the TR of which you can find below in my signature!) and got to experience MNSSHP. I enjoyed it so much that I wanted to share it with the kids. On top of that, this year DD's school calendar had her four day fall weekend come on the weekend of Halloween! It took a little bargaining with DW who doesn't think two trips to Disney within a year is worth it so we decided to make this particular visit a short one and combine it with a visit to DW's aunt and uncle who lives in Port Charlotte, FL.
This TR will be a short one because the trip itself was short. We arrived on the evening of Wednesday, October 29th and departed Disney on the morning of Sunday, November 2nd and spent a couple of extra days in Florida visiting family. Essentially, we had just three full days in the parks. Actually, I shouldn’t even say “full days” since we took things easy and spent a good amount of time away from the parks. In fact, we didn’t visit DHS or Epcot this time (gasp!) and we made rope drop just once for the entire trip (GASP!) Our mission for this short weekend trip? To experience Halloween in true Disney fashion! Everything else would be a bonus, an icing on the cake.
If you have read my last two trip reports you probably know that I’ve taken a liking to posting updates in non-chronological fashion. So you’ll see me jumping around in time a bit especially since we took a good amount of resort time during this trip.
If you're not Facebook friends with me and would like to be, please shoot me a PM. I've been posting the photos of my family from Disney on FB that goes along with the trip report.
So sit back and I hope you enjoy the ride as we answer some burning questions through out the trip report! Will DD finally face her fears and confront the Yeti and the Happy Haunts? Will this trip finally be the trip where she’s tall enough to ride on Primeval Whirl? Will DS stay awake long enough to make it through Hallowishes? Will he make it back from time-traveling through the time of the dinosaurs in one piece? Will trick-or-treating in the Magic Kingdom on Halloween be the best thing ever? Stay tuned!
And as I usually do to keep you sufficiently teased, I’ll end this intro with a batch of photos from this very Halloweeny (and not-so-scary) trip! If you would like to see the full resolution versions of each of these images, you can also follow the links I provided to my photography website!
Full Resolution Images available at: http://goo.gl/FJ50tV
Hallowishes from Main Street
Festival of Fantasy
Hitchhiking Ghosts in Boo To You Parade.
Pirates of the Caribbean during MNSSHP
Festival of the Lion King in its new Harambe Theater
I have to say after lugging around all that equipment for so long the thought crossed my mind about bringing a point and shoot the next time. It was a very fleeting thought. 
