Only four more days and we are off to Walt Disney World for a week. Yeah, I am so ready for vacation. Of course that means this work week is going to be the slowest week ever.
I have been working on my plans for our September trip. I booked our hotel room for four nights at the Grand Californian at Disneyland. We are talking about flying to Las Vegas and spending three days there and then driving to Disneyland for four days. The hotel we want to stay at in Las Vegas just sent us a great discount rate. We will decide and book after the WDW trip because right now all we want to think about is warm weather in Florida. St. Louis is experiencing sleet and snow at the moment.
Monday, January 26, 2009
Tuesday, January 20, 2009
September Trip is in the works...
My boyfriend and I have been talking about a trip to California the first week of September to attend Disneyland's 40th anniversary Haunted Mansion event. Neither of us have been to Disneyland so we did some research on the internet. Thank goodness we did.
We learned that the Haunted Mansion event is a much anticpiated event, so much so that discussion forums were predicting the event would sell out very quickly. Sometimes too much information can be a bad thing because now we were stressing about whether we would be able to get tickets or not.
The tickets went on sale today and we were able to score two reservations. Yeah, one less thing to worry about. The discussion forums were right and the two event packages available for sale today sold out within 15 minutes. Wow. Seems like this is going to be a very popular event.
Since we are flying all the way to California, we decided to take a week long vacation. Now we just have to decide what else we want to see besides Disneyland. This is the fun part for me. I love researching vacation spot ideas. I am sure my boyfriend will come up with some great ideas too.
We learned that the Haunted Mansion event is a much anticpiated event, so much so that discussion forums were predicting the event would sell out very quickly. Sometimes too much information can be a bad thing because now we were stressing about whether we would be able to get tickets or not.
The tickets went on sale today and we were able to score two reservations. Yeah, one less thing to worry about. The discussion forums were right and the two event packages available for sale today sold out within 15 minutes. Wow. Seems like this is going to be a very popular event.
Since we are flying all the way to California, we decided to take a week long vacation. Now we just have to decide what else we want to see besides Disneyland. This is the fun part for me. I love researching vacation spot ideas. I am sure my boyfriend will come up with some great ideas too.
Tuesday, January 13, 2009
Best Boss in the world
I am pretty sure I have the best boss in the world. Not only did he approve my three weeks vacation for 2009, but he also gave me a nice raise. Woo hoo, more money for vacation.
So on that happy note, I called Disney reservations and booked a weekend trip for the end of June. I prefer to go to Disney off season (which is definitely not June), but Walt Disney World is having a pin trading event that weekend so I am going to give WDW's busy season a try.
I have never been to a pin trading event and am sorta new to the whole pin-trading-craze that is popular at the Disney resorts so I am really looking forward to seeing what the event will be like. My boyfriend, on the otherhand, is not looking forward to it. Luckily he has agreed to be dragged along with me and he will suffer in silence. Hmmm, on second thought, I doubt he will be silent but I told him to keep the complaining to the mininum and reminded him relationships are about compromise ;-)
So on that happy note, I called Disney reservations and booked a weekend trip for the end of June. I prefer to go to Disney off season (which is definitely not June), but Walt Disney World is having a pin trading event that weekend so I am going to give WDW's busy season a try.
I have never been to a pin trading event and am sorta new to the whole pin-trading-craze that is popular at the Disney resorts so I am really looking forward to seeing what the event will be like. My boyfriend, on the otherhand, is not looking forward to it. Luckily he has agreed to be dragged along with me and he will suffer in silence. Hmmm, on second thought, I doubt he will be silent but I told him to keep the complaining to the mininum and reminded him relationships are about compromise ;-)
Thursday, January 8, 2009
Never enough time for vacations...
2009 is promising to be an interesting year with at least four vacation ideas in the works. I do have a 9 to 5 job with two weeks paid vacation time but my planned vacations are going over my allotment. Three weeks vacation time would be perfect...now if only I could get my boss to agree. My boss is a very understanding guy so hopefully he will say yes when I ask for a third week (soon when I get enough nerve). What would really be perfect is if I didn't need a 9 to 5 job but alas I have to pay for all these vacations somehow.
My first vacation is just around the corner. My boyfriend and I are heading to Disney World January 30th 2009 through February 7th. We visited Disney World twice last year and loved it so much we bought season passes on our second trip.
One of the perks of a Disney World Season Pass is great room discounts. Disney offered a room for $50 a night so we couldn't resist our second return trip. With airfare very reasonable ($200 roundtrip a person) we are off to Disney in three weeks.
My other vacations in the works are a weekend trip to Yellowstone National Park at the end of February, a return weekend trip to Walt Disney World in June for a special event, and a week long trip to Disneyland California with a side stop at Las Vegas first week of September. We would also like to go back to Disney World in December to check out the Christmas lights but I really have to play that trip by ear since I will have no vacation days left for that trip.
In between all these trips; we also like to make local weekend trips, visiting parks, tourist stops, etc. Missouri has lots of neat places to visit for a short trip.
My first vacation is just around the corner. My boyfriend and I are heading to Disney World January 30th 2009 through February 7th. We visited Disney World twice last year and loved it so much we bought season passes on our second trip.
One of the perks of a Disney World Season Pass is great room discounts. Disney offered a room for $50 a night so we couldn't resist our second return trip. With airfare very reasonable ($200 roundtrip a person) we are off to Disney in three weeks.
My other vacations in the works are a weekend trip to Yellowstone National Park at the end of February, a return weekend trip to Walt Disney World in June for a special event, and a week long trip to Disneyland California with a side stop at Las Vegas first week of September. We would also like to go back to Disney World in December to check out the Christmas lights but I really have to play that trip by ear since I will have no vacation days left for that trip.
In between all these trips; we also like to make local weekend trips, visiting parks, tourist stops, etc. Missouri has lots of neat places to visit for a short trip.
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