22 days to go!

Here's my first attempt at a blog!

Taylor and Stephanie (the one typing) will be travelling to see the mouse in the med this summer. We're very excited...well let me rephrase...I'm very excited. I don't think my daughter really gets it yet. I guess after the 18 hours of travel to get from california to barcelona...it'll sink in!

A little about our disney passion:
I was raised on disney. It was the vacation spot we used to go to all the time. Of course it helped that we had grandparents that lived close by. After I had my daughter, I decided she should be all about disney too. She loves disneyland. A couple years ago, we went on our first cruise for my sisters wedding, taylor loved that too. So I decided to combine our vacation wishes. Taylor wanted to take a disney cruise and I really wanted to go and see italy. Low and behold, disney answered my request by taking the magic to the meditteranean. How great is that! I'm also a Disney Vacation Club member, so after looking at the cost/points I decided that we could do this trip. I booked it over a year ago, and I can't believe it's right around the corner.

Here's our itinerary:

Leave 6/13 arrive barcelona 6/14
6/14-6/16 Staying in Barcelona doing it "on our own"
6/15 - Dinner with all of our "dis" friends!
6/16 - Start Disney Cruise on the Magic.
6/17 - Day at sea. Gift exchange and Meet and Greet in the Roy suite. Dinner at Palo with my "dis" friends!
6/18 - Palermo, Sicily. We decided to do an on our own walking tour.
6/19 - Naples. This is my biggest goal! We are doing this on our own too, but exploring! Taking the train to pompeii, then onto sorrento and if I time it right, we'll ferry over to capri and catch a ferry back to naples. Everyone wish us luck!
6/20 - Olbia, Sardinia. We are doing "day at sea at La Maddalena". It looks like the most beautiful archipelago! I have a coworker from italy who has told me it's the italian "hawaii"
6/21 - Rome. Our excursion today is "Jumping back to eternal Rome". This excursions covers all the basics in rome and includes the vatican.
6/22 - Day at sea. Time to relax!
6/23 - La Spezia. Our excursion here is "Pisa" We'll be climbing that tower in Pisa and taking those dorky tourist photos that look like were holding it up!
6/24 - Marseille. Our excursion is "aix en provence" A quick trip to a quaint old town. It's in the afternoon, so I am hoping to get over to Chateau d'if in the morning. The home of "the count of monte cristo" and the "marques de saad" Not sure if I am spelling these right..but there you go!
6/25 - Villefrance. During the day we are doing "Monaco, Monte Carlo and Eze" and at night, I am going with some "dis" friends to the Monte Carlo Grand Casino. Momma needs to win her trip money back!
6/26 - Day at Sea. Last time to relax before the cruise portion is over..
6/27 - Aww...back to barcelona. Cruise is over!
6/27 - Leave for Paris!
6/27-6/30 Paris. We will do all the touristy things here including a trip to Eurodisney. We should be able to meet up with our "dis" friends at disney as many are going after the cruise.
6/30 - Take the train to London, England.
6/30 - Quick explore of london. I don't want to do the eye, but my english friend will disown me if I don't.
7/1 - Leave to come back to california! Aww and it's over! boo hoo!

You can catch other info on our cruise meet thread at: http://www.disboards.com/showthread.php?t=1071396

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More to come.....