A Trip Down Disney Memory Lane… For the Record

Last week, we decided to go to Walt Disney World to celebrate my upcoming 45th birthday in December. It is probably more accurate to say that I decided we should go, and then proceeded to steer the talk of going away for my birthday down the road that leads to Disney World. And really, doesn’t every road eventually lead there?

While making arrangements and securing the various reservations — airline, hotel, etc. — we replayed a discussion that we have every time a Disney trip is in the works. How many times have we been? Where did we stay in 2000? Wasn’t that the trip in 2009? And so on…. I finally decided to sit down and compile the details of all of our various trips. Tonight I’ve been flipping through photo albums (I used to be so thin back then), looking at planning spreadsheets, going through my collection of Disney card keys and passes, and even Kristin’s old Franklin Planners.

I’m happy to say that after an evening of research, I now have a complete list of all of our trips. The only visits to a Disney theme park that I’m missing are two or three visits to Disneyland when I lived in California. Since I lived in L.A. at the time, I’m not counting those for purposes of this list since they were just day trips. I know nobody else will care about this, and if anyone is still reading at this point I’ll be shocked, but posting here means I’ll always have a place to find it the next time we start that discussion.

Update 2015-06-01: I’ve updated the table with additional trips after the original post. I’ll probably move this to a page so I don’t have to keep going back to the post to make edits.