Pesky
"Who's the monkey?!"
- Joined
- Apr 9, 2012
Cast of characters in this brief romantic comedy:
DH: leaves the room when I watch my Disney stuff or start to talk about our Disney vacations. Eye rolls when I dragged him and our VERY excited kids to the recently opened Disney Store (which rocked, BTW).
Me: Dreaming of multiple idyllic family vacations to the land of Mouse both in FL and CA. Imagining my kids' reactions and wanting to see DD go and be a princess (her new career ambition) before she grows out of that phase.
Not appearing but factoring in, FIL, who has said his sole bucket list item is to take a family cruise with all his kids, their spouses and grandkids. BIL and SIL also factor in as they work in entertainment and the ONLY time they can guaranty being available for a cruise is Christmas. The most expensive time to cruise. Factor in that hopefully other SIL and her husband will be having a baby or two in the next year so we need a nursery.
Backdrop: we have looked into the Disney Christmas cruise as it is one of the more child-friendly lines but the price for what FIL wants (7 night cruise) is outrageous at Christmas. But so far we are the only ones balking right now (and would be paying the most). I'm also not keen on cruising period having horrible motion sickness and last brief boat tour ending with mal de debarquement (basically felt like I was on a ship for 1.5 months after on dry land!).
Tonight's dinner conversation:
DH: You know what [neighbor] said made a lot of sense. I think we should look at doing the cruise but only the 4 night Bahamas one.
Me: Not that excited about Bahamas.
DH: I know but it'll be a lot cheaper and then we can tack on 3 or 4 days at WDW. Maybe we even go before the cruise too and do a couple days on our own in the parks.
Me: Uh, really? That's what you want to do?
DH: Yeah! It'll cost a bit less or about the same as the longer cruise and we get some time in the parks. That'll be a lot better.
Me: you know I'm still planning on doing the big WDW trip in 2016 though, right?
DH: Sure. But we'll do a little bit around the cruise too.
I knew showing him that hidden parks of WDW would pay off.
DH: leaves the room when I watch my Disney stuff or start to talk about our Disney vacations. Eye rolls when I dragged him and our VERY excited kids to the recently opened Disney Store (which rocked, BTW).
Me: Dreaming of multiple idyllic family vacations to the land of Mouse both in FL and CA. Imagining my kids' reactions and wanting to see DD go and be a princess (her new career ambition) before she grows out of that phase.
Not appearing but factoring in, FIL, who has said his sole bucket list item is to take a family cruise with all his kids, their spouses and grandkids. BIL and SIL also factor in as they work in entertainment and the ONLY time they can guaranty being available for a cruise is Christmas. The most expensive time to cruise. Factor in that hopefully other SIL and her husband will be having a baby or two in the next year so we need a nursery.
Backdrop: we have looked into the Disney Christmas cruise as it is one of the more child-friendly lines but the price for what FIL wants (7 night cruise) is outrageous at Christmas. But so far we are the only ones balking right now (and would be paying the most). I'm also not keen on cruising period having horrible motion sickness and last brief boat tour ending with mal de debarquement (basically felt like I was on a ship for 1.5 months after on dry land!).
Tonight's dinner conversation:
DH: You know what [neighbor] said made a lot of sense. I think we should look at doing the cruise but only the 4 night Bahamas one.
Me: Not that excited about Bahamas.
DH: I know but it'll be a lot cheaper and then we can tack on 3 or 4 days at WDW. Maybe we even go before the cruise too and do a couple days on our own in the parks.
Me: Uh, really? That's what you want to do?
DH: Yeah! It'll cost a bit less or about the same as the longer cruise and we get some time in the parks. That'll be a lot better.
Me: you know I'm still planning on doing the big WDW trip in 2016 though, right?
DH: Sure. But we'll do a little bit around the cruise too.
I knew showing him that hidden parks of WDW would pay off.
