mindylee847
DIS Veteran
- Joined
- Mar 6, 2012
Introductions
Hi everyone! Welcome to my first ever pre-trip report! It's probably a bit early to be posting this, but I'm too excited! My husband and I were booked for what would have been our tenth Walt Disney World vacation in May 2016… until we (or I should say “I”) decided that we needed to go back to Disneyland as this could very well be our last adult-only trip before we have some offspring! We’ll see how all that goes. I’ve been told that you “Sometimes can’t plan these things” but these are our hopes.
So who the heck are we??
My name is Mindy. I’m 28 and work as a sales and use tax analyst to help pay for my Disney addiction. I had never visited a Disney park until I was in my senior year of high school with my best friend. We went to Disney World for one magical week and I was officially hooked!
The other character in this story is my husband, Mike. He’s also 28. We actually got together in sophomore year of high school and well, it just worked! He’s passionate about Disney as well, more so in some aspects than me.
Here we are at Walt Disney World in February 2015 with the Genie when we ran into a ton of great characters randomly at Hollywood Studios (aka “Characterpalooza”):
Please disregard my sloppy hair. The FL water just does not do well with me.
Why are we going??
Mike and I have been to Disneyland once back in October 2008. I’m not sure how we were able to afford going all the way to California at that time, but we somehow made it happen! Side note: We live in Wisconsin. Doesn’t seem that there are often any cheap, direct flights out that way from our neck of the woods. Disneyland was absolutely wonderful. We spent 5 days out there, 4 days in the parks. Mike and I were actually celebrating our sixth anniversary of being together… and on the day of, he proposed!
It’s actually kind of a funny story. The above picture shows a proposal in front of the castle, but that is just a staged shot. What really happened… is a mess!
We went to eat at Café Orleans for dinner. I had the three-cheese monte cristo and it just was not my thing. For some reason I thought it tasted like chlorine! In hindsight, I should have sent it back… but Mike graciously offered me his salmon and he took on my chemical food. While I was staring off into the distance waiting for our check, Mike was poking me from the side. I turned around and there he was down on one knee with his pumpkin Mickey Mouse ears! How could I say “no” to that? Well, I actually was in such shock that all I said was “What? Okay?”
Even funnier, apparently Mike had left the ring in our backpack near our money all day and was hoping I would find it… I never did! So that’s another reason all of this is such a mess, but what a great story! I wouldn’t have this any other way.
So after all my rambling, you can tell that Disneyland holds a special place in our hearts. I had gotten a little “sick” of WDW and was checking flights just for kicks and scored some great prices for flights… non-stop from Milwaukee! Unbelievable! So with a quick phone call for approval, I bought them and called our travel agent to switch over our reservations. Our official dates are Sunday, February 28th to Friday, March 4th!
For now, I’ll leave you with that. I start my final course tonight in my graduate MBA program but I figured this would help pass the time and get some happiness while I wait for the trip!
Hi everyone! Welcome to my first ever pre-trip report! It's probably a bit early to be posting this, but I'm too excited! My husband and I were booked for what would have been our tenth Walt Disney World vacation in May 2016… until we (or I should say “I”) decided that we needed to go back to Disneyland as this could very well be our last adult-only trip before we have some offspring! We’ll see how all that goes. I’ve been told that you “Sometimes can’t plan these things” but these are our hopes.
So who the heck are we??
My name is Mindy. I’m 28 and work as a sales and use tax analyst to help pay for my Disney addiction. I had never visited a Disney park until I was in my senior year of high school with my best friend. We went to Disney World for one magical week and I was officially hooked!
The other character in this story is my husband, Mike. He’s also 28. We actually got together in sophomore year of high school and well, it just worked! He’s passionate about Disney as well, more so in some aspects than me.
Here we are at Walt Disney World in February 2015 with the Genie when we ran into a ton of great characters randomly at Hollywood Studios (aka “Characterpalooza”):
Please disregard my sloppy hair. The FL water just does not do well with me.
Why are we going??
Mike and I have been to Disneyland once back in October 2008. I’m not sure how we were able to afford going all the way to California at that time, but we somehow made it happen! Side note: We live in Wisconsin. Doesn’t seem that there are often any cheap, direct flights out that way from our neck of the woods. Disneyland was absolutely wonderful. We spent 5 days out there, 4 days in the parks. Mike and I were actually celebrating our sixth anniversary of being together… and on the day of, he proposed!
It’s actually kind of a funny story. The above picture shows a proposal in front of the castle, but that is just a staged shot. What really happened… is a mess!
We went to eat at Café Orleans for dinner. I had the three-cheese monte cristo and it just was not my thing. For some reason I thought it tasted like chlorine! In hindsight, I should have sent it back… but Mike graciously offered me his salmon and he took on my chemical food. While I was staring off into the distance waiting for our check, Mike was poking me from the side. I turned around and there he was down on one knee with his pumpkin Mickey Mouse ears! How could I say “no” to that? Well, I actually was in such shock that all I said was “What? Okay?”
Even funnier, apparently Mike had left the ring in our backpack near our money all day and was hoping I would find it… I never did! So that’s another reason all of this is such a mess, but what a great story! I wouldn’t have this any other way.
So after all my rambling, you can tell that Disneyland holds a special place in our hearts. I had gotten a little “sick” of WDW and was checking flights just for kicks and scored some great prices for flights… non-stop from Milwaukee! Unbelievable! So with a quick phone call for approval, I bought them and called our travel agent to switch over our reservations. Our official dates are Sunday, February 28th to Friday, March 4th!
For now, I’ll leave you with that. I start my final course tonight in my graduate MBA program but I figured this would help pass the time and get some happiness while I wait for the trip!