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Family traditions?
I am taking my boyfriend to Disney World for the first time in January. I could not be more excited to share my 'happy place' with him, and he is excited as well! We were discussing our vacation last night, and he said he would love to figure out a tradition we could do every trip.
I am just curious, what are your family traditions? Trying ice cream from every park, each vacation? Visiting Soarin' first, every trip? Riding the monorail on your first day?
AKA Courtney
"To all that come to this happy place: welcome...Here age relives fond memories of the past, and here youth may savor the challenge and promise of the future.."
Most Recent Trips:
September 2007 - Pop Century
September 2011 - Pop Century
January 2012 - Pop Century
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My tradition is to go to Epcot and ride the monorail to ttc then transfer to the MK monorail. Ride through the CR then get off at MK take the ferry back to the ttc and ride the monorail back to Epcot. Since I would drive to WDW, I would get there in the late afternoon. Too tired to actually go to the parks. This allowed me get in the "Disney spirit"
Sean
DL - '72, '74
WDW - '84, '85, '86, Honeymoon '90, '93, '96, '00, '01, '03, '04, 2x '05, '06, 2x '10, 2x '11, 10x'12, 2x '13
Booked for February 22-27
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Our tradition, before they cut back on the showing of Fantasmic everyday , was to make sure that we saw the show on our first and last day
We now make sure we get to see it at least once during our trips.
18 Previous Visits
Most Recent December 2011 (POP)
May 2012 (Disney Fantasy !)
Sept 2012 POP Mom/Daughter Trip
Sept 2013 40th Anniversary Adventures Disney Ireland
2014 Check out MK Makeover!
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We always have a chocolate covered coconut mickey head on our last night.
And then do a trip debriefing( where we give our trip superlative)s on our way home...i.e favorite meal, funniest moment, etc.
There's a great big beautiful tomorrow
CR 74, 7, 11 Offsite 79,80,98,00,8 (2) Sports 94 DD 02 AKL 05, 08 AKLV 8 WL 6, 10 POP 07, 13 Movies 08 CBR 08 Swan 08 POFQ 08,11 CSR 08,13 FWC 09,13 Music 09 SSR-Tree 09 POR 10 12 Poly 10 (2) YC 10, BC 10, GF 10, AoA 13, OKW 13, Dream 11, next fwc 1/2014
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The tradition in my family excludes me entirely. In fact the tradition does not exist when I'm there.
It all started years ago, I had a younger cousin who was just starting out in life and had himself a bit of spending cash and wanted to get everyone a souvenir to bring back. Well I was going to Disney about once or twice a year back then and didn't really buy souvenirs. I told him he should just save his money and buy himself a Mickey Bar, then just sit on a park bench somewhere eat it, and think of me and that would be enough. Sure enough that's exactly what he did and he took a picture of himself eating it as proof. Now whenever anyone goes to Disney World without me they all take a picture of them eating their Mickey Bars and bring the picture back.
This was especially hilarious as I cancelled out of a big family vacation last October. There were about 10 family members going, but I decided I had a better use of my money that fall. So instead of going to Disney World I saved my money and bought my now fiancee a nice diamond ring. Sure enough they got a picture of all of them eating their choice of frozen desserts and took a picture of it for me and gave it to me for Christmas.
Well my fiancee and I are set to get married here in just over a month, as part of our family moon, she, my future DS9, and I will be taking a Familymoon this December down to Disney World. I think we will just have to send back a picture of our own this year.
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Is this your Boyfriend's very first trip ever, or just your first trip together? When my boyfriend (now husband) and I went on our very first Disney World Trip together I made sure we went to Toontown (now you'd go to main street theater) and had a photo of us taken with Mickey.
That's a great idea! He hasn't been since he was 8 (we are 25 now), and it wasn't the optimum Disney vacation (stayed offsite, went for 2 days only), so I am counting this as his first REAL WDW vacation I am trying not to talk about it TOO much, which is hard, because I have been 8 times. Like most of us here, I am making ADRs and planning out our days. He is such a great guy, letting me plan everything and reassuring me that he trusts my Disney knowledge enough to 'follow the leader' while we are there
AKA Courtney
"To all that come to this happy place: welcome...Here age relives fond memories of the past, and here youth may savor the challenge and promise of the future.."
Most Recent Trips:
September 2007 - Pop Century
September 2011 - Pop Century
January 2012 - Pop Century
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Originally Posted by Djscherr
Now whenever anyone goes to Disney World without me they all take a picture of them eating their Mickey Bars and bring the picture back.
That's great! I may have to adopt something like that.
Steve (aka brownie)
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BC 9/94
CSR 8/14, 3-4/22
POP 11-12/10, 3/12, 10/12, 7/17, 4/22
POFQ 10/01
POR 9/04, 1/16, 11/19
WL 12/03
Disneyland 6/07, 1/15
Disney Dream 8/14
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We always see the MK fireworks on our last night, and dd picks out our refillable mugs while the wife checks us into the hotel.
1986 and 1991 offsite
1998,2000,2001,2003,2004,2006,2008 movies
1999, 2002 sports
2005, 2007, 2009, 2011 pop
2008 Riverside (Christmas Parade)
2010 CB (25th anniversary)
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Last December was my DW and my first trip together to the World and she was pregnant at the time. We have now scheduled our first trip to DW taking our DD who will be almost two in December 2012. We plan on starting a tradition of taking a trip to DW every December!
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Chef Mickey's..fun we have the pictures with the plate and see how kid 1 was so little and grew then kid 2 added to picture, how they and we grow, etc - very nice -
Dec 2013 - Wilderness Lodge
Dec 2012 - Wilderness Lodge
Mar 2012 - AKL
Nov 2011 - Wilderness Lodge
Dec 2010 - Wilderness Lodge
Jun 2008 - Wilderness Lodge - Yippee!
Feb 2007 - Wilderness Lodge
Dec 2005 - Wilderness Lodge
Feb 2004 - All Star Sports
Dec 2000 - Offsite
Dec 1996 - Offsite
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Every year we are there we make SURE we get a certain picture.
It helps this description if you have seen this before but there's a metal Mickey head outside of the Contemporary in the back. My daughter stands behind the sitting Mickey (it's on the Mickey head), one of my son's lays inside one of the ears and my other son lays inside the other ear. My hubby and I stand on either side of the sitting Mickey and hold hands. I place the camera on a stand that's perfect for self timers & take the picture.
77-85:Day Trips at Easter
88:Fort Wilderness
91:Swan(Honeymoon)
99:Wilderness Lodge
00:Caribbean Beach
02:POR
03:Coronado Springs/Polynesian
04:POR/Polynesian
06:POR
07:POR
08:POR
09:Polynesian
12:POR
14:POR
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Our family tradition is to ride Splash Mountain during Wishes, at least once on every WDW vacation. It happened by accident on our first trip with our kids (we had no idea when fireworks would be going off), but wow, what a magical experience! On top of that, there's almost no one in the queue, and you can ride several times with no waiting. Splash is our favorite WDW attraction anyway, and riding it during the fireworks puts it over the top for us.
1971 (age 15) MK was new!
1974 off-site (Senior Trip)
1982 off-site
1988 off-site
May 2002 AS-Sports, with DW & kids
May 2004 Pop Century
Feb 2005 Wilderness Lodge
Oct 2006 Pop Century
Oct 2008 Camped at Fort Wilderness
Feb 2010 Cruise on the Wonder
Dec 2014 POFQ for Christmas!
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We have a few traditions, most are centered around visiting DTD on arrival day for some shopping & dinner. We always arrive midday & we are anxious to get into Disney mode without hitting the parks that late in the day. Every trip we always do 3 things in DTD, take a picture of us in front of the holiday scene outside of the Christmas shop, we use that pic in Christmas cards! We also pick out an ornament & have it personalized including the date! We also take a picture of DS's in front of the Lego Loch Ness monster! It's so cool looking back at those pics taken in exactly the same spot every year & see how they grown!
Another pic that we've taken for years is in front of COP, they used to change the year on the sign every year, sadly enough that has changed! This year the sign was just generic - no year!
Shari
-"There's A Great Big Beautiful Tomorrow..."
'02 - All Star Movies
'04, '05, '06, '10, '11, '16, '19, '21 - Pop Century
'08 - Offsite/Pop Century
'13, '21 - Offsite
'17 - Port Orleans/French Quarter!
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My family tradition was taking the ferry to Magic Kingdom the first day we were going. Know that the buses take you there instead of TTC, we haven't done it lately.
"To All Who Come To This Happy Place, Welcome "
79,87,88: off property
89:CB
99:POR (DS first visit & b-day)
00,02,:ASS (DS b-day)
04,05:POP
06,07:ASM
08:ASM (Anniversary Trip)
Nov 08:ASM (DS first visit)
Aug 2011 ASM (DS first visit, DS b-day)
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Our tradition is breakfast at Kona. We try to do it the first day of vacation but that's not always possible. But we always fit it in somewhere. It's become an important part in vacation planning. While we may eat different things we always have a Wasbi Bloody Mary for my daughter and a Mimosa for me.
"I'm so hungry! I sure hope those Princesses' can cook!" my DD before our breakfast at CRT
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Originally Posted by McLiberal8
That's a great idea! He hasn't been since he was 8 (we are 25 now), and it wasn't the optimum Disney vacation (stayed offsite, went for 2 days only), so I am counting this as his first REAL WDW vacation I am trying not to talk about it TOO much, which is hard, because I have been 8 times. Like most of us here, I am making ADRs and planning out our days. He is such a great guy, letting me plan everything and reassuring me that he trusts my Disney knowledge enough to 'follow the leader' while we are there
Does your Boyfriend have a favorite Disney character or movie? Perhaps you can find some things that hes looking forward to doing and plan them out in your schedule. My husband loves the muppets and indiana jones so I made sure to definitely hit Those early in our trip to keep him happy. When we went for the first time Lights Motors Action just came over from Paris. He loves fast cars and stunt shows so this was another must do!
One thing we like to do every year before we go is watch the newest vacation planning DVD and make a list of all the things we each want to do. That way he feels like he's had some input in planning the vacation and he has something to look forward too
Next WDW Vacation: 1st Disney Cruise w. Land and Sea adventure, Summer 2014
WDW 76x ON PROPERTY since March 1984
Most Recent Trip: Thanksgiving/Christmas 2013
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We have a couple of traditions:
1. We always hit the Outlet Mall on the way in. There's a Disney Store in the outlet, and it allows us to get some souvenir shopping out of the way early (and we always find some cheap pins...my wife is addicted to those things).
2. We always have a special shirt for the trip. Last year we made a bunch of special "I Survived...." t-shirts that we thought were hilarious. Mine was "I Survived Spaceship Earth", with a really scary font and a photo of SE in the middle. My son's said, "I Survived It's a Small World" with pictures of the Small World dolls on it. People here on Intercot thought it was great, too. Most people that talked to us in the parks just seemed confused, as the rides featured on our shirts were the most tame, unexciting rides in the parks.
This year, my wife is getting some tie-dyed shirts that i'm sure will say something about WDW on the front.
We also always each have a Virginia Tech shirt, and one day on our vacation we all wear them. It's "Hokie Day". This year, Disney has actually released a line of t-shirts that feature universities. So, we actually have Disney/Virginia Tech shirts that we bought at the bookstore. If you're an alum of a major Div. 1 university, or just a fan, you need to check at the bookstore to see if Disney did this with them. I know that they have apparel for BYU as well.
2002 - 2022: 20+ visits (POR, BW, All Stars, VWL, CSR, BLT, BC, SSR, CB, Dolphin, OKW, Poly, offsite x8)
DL - 1996, 2019
Next up - January 2023 short trip! We just want to try that 50th Anniversary chocolate monstrosity at Mexico!
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We have a few:
1) On arrival day (we usually arrive around 4pm), we check into the resort unpack freshen up and head to Downtown Disney. We like to eat at Wolfgang Puck Express then go shopping. Its nice to get those little souveniers you have to get for people out of the way first thing.
2)We buy a Christmas ornaments every year, one with the year on it that we are visiting and then a special character ornament.
3) We always eat a nice TS breakfast on our departure day and then visit our favorite park of the trip (usually MK or Epcot). We each get to pick two rides a piece to ride one more time.
4) We buy a piece of candy at the MK candy store and wait until we get home and all eat it together.
5) We designate at least one day to return to the resort early. We go to the pool while we wait on our clothes to wash and dry. I always get an adult beverage and sit and watch my son swim.
Dec.11-18, 2021 Port Orleans Riverside
Jan. 25-Feb. 1, 2017, Port Orleans Riverside
Oct. 29-Nov.4, 2014-Yacht Club
Dec. 17-23 2011-Wilderness Lodge
Dec. 20-30, 2008-Pop Century
Dec. 25,2005-Jan.1, 2006-Coronado Springs
Jan. 1-7, 2003-All Star Movies
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