1 Week to Disney: Blogging Plans for My Trip

Every week seems to be going faster than the last. A complication since last week is that I have come down with a cold, which has limited the amount of trip preparation I have been able to do. Hopefully it will clear up in the next few days; otherwise it will be a pain on the flights.

My main planning focus now is on packing. I have a master list of what I want to take but I still need to figure out if there is enough room to fit it all in my suitcase and still leave plenty of room for souvenirs.

My main aim for today's blog post is to outline how I intend to post about my trip, both here and on Twitter.

2 Weeks to Disney: 10 Things I've Learnt

Time seems to be going quicker and quicker as my trip gets closer. I'm starting to get a bit stressed, as evidenced by the number of times I wake up in the middle of the night from a bad dream. For the most part the dreams aren't related to the holiday, but they're a good indication that I'm a bit anxious. A few months ago my anxieties mainly revolved around whether my plans for the parks would work out, but as the trip gets closer I'm more worried about practicalities - getting through airport security, finding the shuttle to take me to my hotel, and so on. Rationally I'm sure that everything will work out fine, but everything always seems insurmountable in the middle of the night.

Since I've finished outlining my major plans for my trip, I thought this week I'd go through some lessons I've learnt during the planning process.

3 Weeks to Disney: Disneyland and Universal Plans

Every week seems to go faster than the last, so I imagine that the next three weeks are going to race by.

My plans for Disneyland and Universal are not particularly fixed in stone, but I'll outline what I am currently intending.

4 Weeks to Disney: Disney World Plans

It's hard to believe that it's now less than a month until I leave on my trip.

I still have a lot of work to do on my plans for Disneyland, even though it's the first part of my trip. But since operating hours for Disney World have been out for months and I've already made my FastPass+ bookings, my plans for there are fairly firm.

I do have very detailed plans worked out on touringplans.com but here's a rough overview.

5 Weeks to Disney: Overall Itinerary

The last week seems to have gone so fast, and I suspect the next five weeks will go even faster. I am still fiddling with some of the details of my plans, but the broad strokes have been in place for a while now.

6 Weeks to Disney: Some Background

Today it is officially six weeks until I leave for Disney. I'm hoping to blog the whole trip, and I thought I'd spend the next six weeks giving some background and outlining my plans for the trip.

Norwegian: The First Hundred Hours

Back in March, I decided I wanted to learn Norwegian. This was partly motivated by a general enjoyment of and interest in learning language, but primarily motivated by my becoming completely hooked on Ylvis. I decided to keep track of how long I spent learning the language, and I have just hit a total of 100 hours. I thought I'd detail exactly what I managed to get through in those first hundred hours (note that I only included time where my primary goal was language learning, not my incidental exposure to Norwegian by watching Ylvis).