EASTER 2018
Yes it's true...we are going to attempt our first EVER Easter break trip, a time of the year I've sworn to many, many people I would NEVER attempt to go to Walt Disney World. And yet...here we are going.
Details: This will be a short trip, basically leaving either VERY early on Thursday morning before Easter (3am) OR leaving late the night before. The night before is my oldest son's 18th birthday (how the HECK do I have an 18-year-old?) so we'll see if he's up for being in a car for his birthday. We will drive home on Easter Sunday. I'm not sure if I can convince the family to visit a park for a few hours that morning or not but we'll see.
We've booked Shades of Green for the 3 nights, which was no easy feat because we decided last minute to invite my FIL and by then I couldn't get a room for him. I'm shocked I got the room for us initially...that's what made me pull the trigger. SOG is so affordable...and we aren't flying...and we have Platinum Plus APs so this trip will be really done on the cheap.
I have FPs already for the 5 of us, and once we get a ticket for my FIL I'll hopefully add him to all of ours. We've decided the one park we will SKIP is going to be Animal Kingdom this time. We've done FOP many times now, and that park always seems extra crowded anyway...so our focus will be MK and EPCOT and probably a little bit of time at HS just to ride our faves (TOT and TSM).
Hoping for water park weather so we can visit there, but we'll see how that goes.
I have a few ADRs booked...not sure if we'll keep them but you never know.
Oh and last but not least, I've booked the Marceline to MK tour for myself and my oldest son, so he can finally cash in on the birthday gift of a Disney tour that I gave him LAST year. I think he'll love it, especially since I've read there is a chance to go behind the scenes at HM, which is his favorite!
So call me crazy...but as a veteran I *THINK* we can handle this. Some of the family has indicated they would rather go on a ski trip, which was my thought a while ago too, but honestly our weather has been so warm here this year I just don't see the ski resorts having a good time this year or being able to stay open through the end of March, at least the East Coast ones.
Anyway hoping to get my December 2017 TR done here BEFORE we take our first 2018 trip!