Hey! I’m a little early for this trip report. I keep making changes and adding things to this trip and want to share. I was doing it in my last report post, but figured that stuff would be more applicable in the actual trip report.
I don’t leave until Saturday morning and I’m just too excited…
Some of you who follow along with my Universal trip reports know a lot of this. However, I recently looked back at a TR I did earlier in the year and it was such a great personal journal. I’ll definitely print / store these reports at the end of the year. So, for myself and anyone just joining here, are the overall details
This will 9.5 day trip… It was originally planned as a 5 day trip, but due to some good deals and personal good fortune I have made this trip much longer. Also, my DD20 will be joining me mid-week. She doesn’t go at my “theme park junkie” pace. I’ll have 5 days solo to do what I want as much as I want (hopefully) before she arrives. This is the first time either of us have been to Halloween Horror Nights!! We are the type of people that love Halloween. I custom make yard decorations and such. I decorate more outside my house for Halloween than during Christmas!
(We both have 3 Park Seasonal Passes and Rush of Fear HHN Passes)
DD20 just signed her first lease - finally! (She’s been at home this summer, but rarely there)
She came by the house last night to get some things and I really stressed to her the need to not “plan”, but have “priorities” for HHN and UOR. I know she didn’t get to do everything she wanted last time. (She couldn’t stay out past 8pm and walk as much as me)
However, it’s so hard to get any kind of notion of what she wants!
She’s more of a “I’ll have to wait and see how I feel” person. Don’t get me wrong, my biggest stress is that I want to spoil my kid! (while still getting to do everything I want!)
I really want her to be able to do stuff in IOA/USF that she didn’t last time while getting to do all of what HHN offers. HHN looks like a lot!! (In a good way) My concern is trying to balance out the daytime activities with the HHN stuff. Do we skip EPA and sleep in? Do we take long mid-day breaks so we can be out after midnight? When do I plan meals?
Oh well… It’s going to be fun and she’ll get to do as much / whatever she wants. If she doesn’t get to “do-it-all” it will through no fault of my own!
Right now I’m trying to double book dining reservations so I have lunch and dinner options. I have things already booked, but now it’s about “safety nets” since I need to be more flexible. However, it’s pretty hard to get anything so close to the dates now.
I did manage to snag a “hard to get” breakfast reservation at The Kitchen at HRH. I say it was difficult because I’ve been looking for a week for a solo resrvation. Then I just changed the number of guests to “2” and had full availability. (looks like my “other” guest will not make it that morning!)
My bags are, basically, packed and I’m just waiting to leave with two day to go!
(I’m still compulsively checking the hotel rates to see if I can get an even better “last minute” deal on our rooms)