180 Days

I've talked before about how planning for Disney is an Experience in itself. Well, part of that Experience is that 180 days out from your trip, you're able to book dining reservations for your stay. Guess what day it is!

I don't know how much I like this feature of things. My philosophy of vacationing tends to be more like "Sure, go ahead and make a plan, but it's going to get obliterated before you even get there." That just seems to be the way things go. Maybe your flight ends up delayed or you're just too tired to do a certain thing one day or the timing isn't what you expected it to be or you just changed your mind. Have ideas of what you want to do and how long it takes to get there and what's around it and all, because that's just good planning, but don't expect that how you imagine everything to go is the way it's actually going to happen. And Disney sort of makes you do that. I mean, you could always not book any reservations or Fast Passes or whatever, but it's also the best way to make sure you don't have to waste time in line for hours and if you want to just stop in at a sit down restaurant at Disney World because you feel like it, it's not going to work out so well. It's very weird to be someone like me and to have to kind of plan a vacation out this far in advance. If we're going to go to the Halloween party then we want to get to the park at this time and be somewhere else before then, and what park won't be completely crowded on Saturday in October, and where should we go this one day if we're going to go to a character breakfast here? I sucked at word problems in school but rule at them when it comes to vacation, but I don't necessarily want to have to do it that way.

Which isn't to say that I wasn't geeking out on the treadmill this morning when I saw our reservations on the My Disney Experience app, and I'm sorry to the neighbor that I think I scared with the noise I made. I may not love how we have to do it, but man, does it make it feel more and more real.