This makes more sense now that I see he wants to escape a dinner to head to Tampa for a hockey game. Takes away your ADR reason.
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My DH used to be non-Disney, but heās come around. Now we have a division of planning labor. He manages the transportation to Orlando and booking the rooms. I handle the ADRs, TPs and FPPs. This time I sat DH and DSs down and made them tell me the top 5 things they want to do in each park. I promised them that we will at least do everyoneās top thing in each park and see how far we can get on the rest of the requests. DH said he could be paid off to make his #1 thing whatever the payor wants.
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When I let slip that I listened to Disney podcasts I got this look. But I realize now if I didnāt freely admit to these things, I wouldnāt have the same opportunities to go to WDW and DLRā¦
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Last night when discussing our upcoming fall WDW trip (our kids will be 4.5 and 23 months).
Me: I think we should add another day to our trip and stay 6 nights instead of 5. Instead of 4 straight park days, we could add a break day in the middle to sleep in and relax around the resort.
Wife: What made you change your mind?
Me: Well, this guy Mike on the Disney forum (@mikejs78) recently returned from a 5 night trip with his 2 young kids and said that next time he would add an extra day to relax. You remember how it was a challenge last time to wake up early 4 days in a row for rope drop.
Wife (looking at me like Iām nuts): Hold up a second. You have a friend Mike on a Disney forum???
Me: Not a friend, but a guy who posts on the Disney boards. I donāt know him at all, but he has a young toddler like us and seems like good guy. He just got back from Disney and I read his trip report.
Wife (now clearly thinking Iām nuts): Okaaaay. Iām not sure I want to stay 6 nights. I was ready to go home by day 5 last trip. And I still donāt get this Disney forum thing.
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That made my day.
My wife is very much into Disney, but she thinks Iām a but crazy with the forums and stuffā¦
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I call everyone on Chat/ Forum āmy Disney friendsā and yes, I get that look from my family too!!
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Me: Iām going to Disney on dates XXXX. You are welcome to come and I would love to have you with me.
DH: OK, as long as we donāt do any Disney stuff.
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How does one go to Disney and not do Disney stuff?
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i rarely say lol, but this did make me laugh out loud and dh asked what i was laughing atā¦when i told him something on TP forumā¦he looked at me like i was cray cray
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Does it look like US or UK orā¦? Manchester @missoverexcited? It looks a little like Cardiff, but I am denying all knowledge 
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I donāt think itās Manchester, looks like the U.K. though. Iām trying to read the shop signs but I canāt!
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I screen captured the window next to him, still hard to read but the trema dots over the A make me think somewhere in Scandinavia?
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Thatās just some sort of advert for Fjallraven (which is a Swedish make, so youāre right on the Scandi connection), they sell stuff all over the world. Their backpacks were very much in fashion a few years ago. 
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A surprising development ā¦ my wonderful (but non-Disney fan or planner) wife says to me at dinner last night with regard to our planned fall trip ā¦ āAre we getting tickets to the Disney Halloween Party?ā
I havenāt not purchased MNSSHP tix because I assumed she wouldnāt want to go to the party. So I said āWe havenāt talked about that.ā
She said āDonāt you think we should go?ā
I replied very calmly āSure, I will get ticketsā, but in my mind I thought āYES!!!ā and was doing imaginary summersaults and cartwheels!
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I just hear āso any Disney updates that I actually need to know about?ā YES STAR WARS IS OPENING!!!
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My spouse was at WDW several times back in the days before paper fastpass was even a thing. Iām sure in his mind Disney canāt be that different now. He clearly expects great stuff is going to materialize when we get there, though, as heās assured me heāll be very interested once weāre there. Excuse me while my eyes positively spin around in my head.
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Wife: Just donāt drag me around the park like you did last time. I donāt remember anything.
Me: You donāt need to remember anything, cause you saw EVERYTHING.
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This was wise.
Once, not too long ago, I decided to do a cartwheel spontaneously. Well, unfortunately I found out how inflexible I am now compared to when I was young and ended up pulling a few muscles. Was sore for days.
But even worse was a few years ago, when my daughter was outside practicing 1-handed cartwheels, and I told her how I used to be able to do both 1-handed cartwheels as well as aerials.
āWhat are aerials?ā she asked.
āKind of like a no-handed cartwheel. Here, let me show you.ā
And yes. I realize the stupidity of it now, in hindsight. Go ahead and laugh now. Get it out of your system. Because, yes, indeed, I attempted to demonstrate my acrobatic skills from my youth as a 40-year-old man. It was a thing of beauty. That is, until my legs were over my head and the ground was coming at my head much faster than I had anticipated. In one last-ditch effort to save my pride, I shot one of my arms down in hopes to at least make it look like a one-handed cartwheel. This, of course, resulted in a sprained wrist asI landed in a heap.
My daughter still brings it up from time to time, just for a laugh. Because thatās just the kind of family we are.
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