Since this was a somewhat last minute trip, I didn't have as much time to build my kids (mostly my daughter) up to it as much as I would have liked. Like most kids her age--she was 3 at the time--she doesn't fully understand the passage of time. To help her with this (and to save my sanity!), I made a simple Disney countdown chain. We've used countdown chains before to help her learn how time passes (see this post here), so I knew that making one again would be a successful way to count down to our trip.
