I have become a Disney Dinning Manic
I just spent the entire day
refreshing my pages on my laptop in hopes of getting ADR’s for our Disney world
trip for the days and times I want. I have called and stocked forums in hopes
of seeing a cancellation but so far I am just refreshing. I think this may be
the job in planning that no one wants I never understood people waiting all day
continually checking to see if there is an opening, until I started planning
out trip.
So what are these magical
reservations I just have to have; Well the must see Be our guest for dinner because
I really want a photo with Beast , a 1900 Park dinner so I can see the step
mother and sister, and finally a breakfast at Cinderella’s table because what
is Disney without princesses. Now I know I should have been up at 180 days out
trying to get these, and I was the fool who waited thinking I am sure I will
get the reservation I want, this is my Disney dream vacation how could I not.
Here is one of the issues; I have
OCD that really comes out when planning and this trip is a lot of planning
things need to go the way I want and have pre planned. The thing about vacation
planning is that it not always happens how you plan and so the stress begins. I
find that I am getting what reservations I can for the days I still need, while
checking nonstop to see if there is any chance of a cancellation. I have become
one of those people that I use to think was nuts. Maybe it is Disney, maybe it
is just hoping to make the perfect vacation for my family, but I have become
less go with the flow and enjoy and more if I do not get this I am going to
lose it.
Now here is the guilty confession
my children could care less they do not care about the princesses not even my
daughter, my son just wants food and the rest of my party just plans on going
with what I plan. There is no real need outside my desire to plan what I see as
the perfect trip for me to be continually be trying and hoping. I know there
will be other vacations in time but this vacation has me wanting to make it
perfect. Perhaps because we have already spent so much more than our budgets by thousands, or because
I know my children are getting older, or that my in-laws will not vacation WDW
with us again, whatever it is I have gone over the bend and I realize and
accept that I have become a Disney manic.
So if you find yourself doing the
same things as I am understand you are not alone. The continually looking and hoping,
the stress that no one in your vacation party understands well there are people
who understand so take a deep breath and keep refreshing the worse that can
happen is you end up with something you did not fully plan on. You and your
family will still have a magical vacation regardless if you get to eat in the castle
or meet the step sisters.
