Disney Fever has struck us...

If you read any of my posts about our trip to California, you know that our reason was not to visit Disneyland, or even Los Angeles. We are extremely Canadian - we went for NHL playoff hockey. Disneyland was just an added bonus - something we knew we wanted to do at some point, but we figured we would have children before we ever made it there. As it happens, we ended up loving Disney! 

Luke had mentioned before that he would like to run a Disney race at some point in his life, so as soon as we returned to Canada we started looking into it. There was a Marathon weekend in January 2016 at DisneyWorld which had a full marathon, a half, a 10km and a 5km race. Luke has run 5 different 10km races, a half marathon and numerous 5km's in the 2 and a half years we've been together, so I knew he'd have no trouble with the training. He ended up deciding on the 10km - long enough to feel a sense of accomplishment, without putting himself out of commission to recover from a half marathon (which would have meant an entire missed day in the parks, and I just wasn't having that!).

Luke signed up and paid his registration fee at the end of April - this trip was going to happen! It was time for us to start looking at the length of our trip and where we'd like to stay. The 10km race is going to happen on January 8th, so we knew we'd want to be there by the 6th (sitting in an airplane for the entire day before a race didn't seem like a good idea), and my birthday is on January 13th so that gave us a starting point of dates to work with. 

We figured we would book the cheapest flight available, and then book everything else accordingly. Neither one of us is loyal to any one airline company - if flying within Canada we try to stick to WestJet, but international flights are entirely based on price! I've flown Alaskan Airlines (to Anaheim and to Las Vegas), American Airlines (from Anaheim to Edmonton), United Airlines (last time I went to Miami), and Air Canada (to Philadelphia, Puerto Plata and numerous domestic flights), as well as Lufthansa and Air Austria when I went to Europe years ago. We finally settled on Delta (who I don't think I've ever flown with) because they had the cheapest flights by a couple hundred dollars. The connections sucked, especially on the way there with 2 layovers, but money talks! So we now had our dates set: January 5th - 16th, 2016!

Check back soon for my next post: What the hell is a pre-RD ADR @ BOG?!

xoxo,
Fallon