December – must be time for our annual trip to Walt Disney World! I think this might be my very favorite time of year to visit – the weather isn’t hot, the crowds are relatively light, and all of the holiday events are in full swing. This year it looks like we’re going to have colder than usual temperatures for our visit – mostly in the 50s and 60s during the day, and 30s and 40s at night! We’ll be sipping hot spiced wine instead of frozen margaritas.
As I write this, it’s the day before our trip and I haven’t even started packing yet – but I’ll be packing the long-sleeve shirts and jeans rather than the tank tops and tees! Better throw in some gloves, too.
The main reason for this visit (apart from the holiday festivities) is the RADP Meet December 10-13 – it’s an annual gathering of some of us who know each other from the rec.arts.disney.parks newsgroup. That’s how all of us Disney fans communicated with each other in the days before the World Wide Web, discussion boards, and Facebook! This is the 15th holiday meet – you can read more about it at http://meets.radp.org/radp15.
It’s a great group of people and we have a lot silly fun together.
But we’re also doing something new on this trip – Lee and I are going to visit the Wizarding World of Harry Potter at Universal’s Islands of Adventure theme park. We’re going on Thursday, and are hoping the early December mid-week crowds won’t be too bad. I’ve heard a lot of good things about that area and am looking forward to seeing it for myself.
I am planning to post a blog daily – though some of them might not be as detailed or photo-filled as I might like depending upon how much time I have to work on them. I do have to sleep sometime! 🙂
On a different topic…not too long ago I posted a blog about A Little Disney in Your Decorating. I’m sure a lot of you incorporate some Disney in your holiday decorations and I thought I would get a fair number of replies, but the response has been, well, underwhelming. 🙁 It’s not too late – I won’t be putting that particular blog together until after I return from Florida, so if you’d like to share, please use either the Feedback Form link or the Comment section below. I really hope to hear from more of you – and thank you to those who have already replied.
The next time I post it’ll be from Florida!
A little late, but here is my Disney Decorating:
I have a beautiful Mickey & Minnie Tree Skirt, my tree is about 3/4 Disney ornaments(Characters).The rest are some old family and some of my favorites that came from EPCOT’s Germany. My DD stocking is Mickey, I have a singing Tigger & Roo in a rocking chair, and don;t forget the Mickey Shape hanging door bells. We have cookie cutters in Mickey Shapes for our butter cookies and I always have Disney wrapping paper for some gifts.
Merry Mickey Christmas to all.
WOW have fun! My family, and I went to visit with Harry Potter on our last trip to WDW in Nov, and it was AWESOME!