Our twelve day stay at the Walt Disney World Resort in July
was our longest stay to date. And, just
like our other trips, to stay organized, I had made a card for each day listing
park hours for the park we planned to visit, dining reservations along with
confirmation numbers, and any other pertinent information. The husband and I both had a set of those
cards, as did the boy. (Think cards that
are a bit bigger than business cards but smaller than an index card.)
Each morning we headed off on whatever adventure was planned
for that day. When we got to the last
three days, things got a bit fuzzy in terms of my memory. I knew our very last
day was a Magic Kingdom day as we had reservations for
Be Our Guest. I also knew that one day
was going to be spent at Blizzard
Beach and another at
Disney’s Hollywood Studios—as we had reservations for the Fantasmic Dining
Package at Mama Melrose.
We turned in and woke up the next day thinking about,
preparing for, and planning our day at Blizzard Beach. Our swimsuits were laid out, sunscreen and
towels packed. When I went to get into
my purse to get $$ for mini donuts, I happened to check the cards—as the bright
yellow cards were in my wallet. That’s
when I discovered that I had mixed up the days.
We were really supposed to be at Hollywood Studios that day NOT Blizzard
Beach, as that was on the
agenda for the following day.
We quickly scrambled.
Different clothes were put on, the bag repacked for a day of park
touring. We had also planned to eat
breakfast at our resort before going to the water park. Now, we needed to eat breakfast in our room
due to time.
Amazingly and gratefully, we still made it to the park prior
to park opening. Actually, we were some
of the first in line. The guys even went
to get character photos taken at the entrance while I kept our place in line.
I just kept thinking about what would have happened if I had
not have checked the cards. The husband
said we would have still made it to our dinner and Fantasmic. He is so positive sometimes! Though, we would have had to use a “day” of
our park ticket to get into the park later in the day and would have only had
one day left—for our Magic
Kingdom day—leaving us
with a day of our vacation without a park ticket. Yes, we still could have found plenty to do,
we just would not have gotten the best value out of our park tickets.
Needless to say, we had a great day at Disney’s Hollywood
Studios—our second visit during our vacation.
We rode Toy Story Mania 3 times, two times even before 9:00 am as the
park opened around 8:40ish. (Another
reason to be in line before park opening!)
I learned that while my family likes to be prepared, they
are also very flexible. All of our
Disney experiences made it easy for us to switch gears and change the plan for
our day.
I also learned that having our resort room organized so that
everyone could easily find what they needed was very helpful. Sometimes, only one person knows where
everything is located, such as sunscreen or breakfast items. Having items easily accessible by everyone in
the traveling party evenly distributed the preparation work of getting up,
getting dressed, getting food, and getting to the parks.
Our family was so busy making new Disney memories that my
memory failed 8-9 days into our vacation.
Glad I had a back-up system!
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