I'm excited for your TR. I have a 12 year old son and a 9 year old daughter so close to your kids ages! We aren't going to DL until December so I am loving reading all the trip reports until it's our turn! Can't wait to hear more!
Joining in. Happy birthday.
I completely agree with the not being nearly enough info around on Disneyland. I found that with Paris as well. I need to know what I'm doing every second of the day on vacation and can't plan this trip as much as I want because the info isn't there for me
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My family just decided today to cancel our cruise on the Fantasy next summer and instead try something completely new.....DLR!
So excited to hear all about y'all's trip!
Happy Birthday Jenn! Joining in again to get my Disney fix until our trip in Dec. Funny how I'm the Disney dad and plan everything and my DW doesn't do anything. Some people just don't get it.
And So it Begins
Well before we get to that. Since this post was going to be picture less I thought I would start by introducing everyone to the newest member of our family.
I am pleased to introduce, Captain Jack Sparrow (we are calling him Jack for short). I love him!!! And now this post has a picture so win win!
Thank you so much and I am so very happy to have you follow along!! Oh wow sorry to hear that you cancelled your cruise but how exciting for you first trip to Disneyland!!! We have also played with the idea of a Disney cruise but it usually got cancelled out like Disneyland in the past. WDW just seems to be our fail safe go to Disney spot lol. Maybe someday we will take the plunge and do a cruise like we finally did with DLR.
Aww thank you for the birthday wishes!! Glad to have you join in and welcome! Wow you and I sound so much alike lol. Yeah I think WDW has me spoiled as far as info that is out there and available on EVERYTHING! I can only imagine that foreign Disney parks would be worse, and the scary thing is that I think I would need to know more about Disney parks out of my home country than here lol! I would be a nutcase with that planning.So I am guessing that you have been to Disneyland Paris? Oh that would be so exciting to do!!
Jack looks like Po's clone...
That's great that your DMIL was able to help out with the airport situation!
We love flying Southwest. Only problem is, in Louisiana, they only fly out of New Orleans & that is about 2 hrs from us. But, sometimes, their prices are worth the drive.
Glad y'all had safe flights there!
You really should do a Disney cruise one day! Your kids would LOVE it! We've done 3 - 1 on the Dream & 2 on the Fantasy. That made it easier to cancel the cruise for next year.
We also mostly go to WDW, but were put off by the new FP this year so opted for DLR. We just got back June 4th and had a ball!! I'm looking forward to your take on DLR. Your family is adorable!!
BTW, we will most likely head back to WDW next year since the FP system SEEMS to be getting better We do love DLR, but there are things we missed at WDW. That being said, we absolutely LOVED Pirates, Splash and IASW at DLR and will miss those versions at WDW!! I also really liked the feel at Walt's Park.
Sounds like you had a good flight California is 8 hours behind Ireland but I reckon I live by american time all the time anyway so shouldn't be a problem adapting to the change
lol wow 8 hours...good grief. I would live in a state of confusion the whole trip!
The info on WDW is great. DLP there was barely anything on. We've been there 3 times and the parks are great there but the people are soooooooooooooooo rude! I didn't notice it that much the first two trips we were on but last time was 2012 and after 4 days I was more than ready to come home and I'm normally crying leaving Florida! There was people skipping queues for rides, someone physically pushed me off the pavement to try get in front of me at the christmas tree lighting, there was rude CM's, trying to meet a character most of the time was like being in the middle of a mob or something and then in one restuarant someone just came and sat at a table as we were about to put our stuff on it! Was such a shame because the parks are lovely but that kind of ruined the magic
I have to admit, I LOVE packing... when it's for the trip. Not so much when packing to come home.
OK, I'm glad you're on top of this because I read the airport, DMIL, van, car plan multiple times... and I'm still confused.
Even though I completely understand the strategy and reasoning, I still find it funny that you only checked one bag. I'd have to check the bags for free just because I could and because so many airlines charge for that. Heck, I might just bring some empties. It's principle, lol.
But yay you've landed at LAX. And since you're apparently renting a car, I'm ridiculously excited to hear about the road journey to DLand.