I've Found Me: Disneyworld Vacation 2011

Thursday, January 27, 2011

We have been wanting to go on a family vacation, just the 4 of us, for quite some time. Since we don't live near any family, all of our vacation time has been used to go to one side of the family or the other, both of which take a day of travel to get there and back. This time, we decided it was time to go to Disneyworld! The kids were ecstatic! The Hubster, Sweet Pea & Monkey had no idea really what to expect. I had some sort of idea since I grew up going to Disneyland, but it was all still new to me!

We booked our tickets in November and were excited to get the Free Dining Plan. Yay for free meals! Little did we know those meals would be as interesting as they were. More on that throughout my updates, later!

The kids didn't ask EVERY day when we were going to go, but they knew it was sometime soon. So, I found some Disney paper on clearance and made a paper chain countdown. Monkey had the blue Cinderella paper and Sweet Pea had the orange Tigger paper. The Hubster & I had the black Mickey paper. Such an easy way for them to count down their trip! They loved it!

Don't mind the ugly curtain on our back door. We think it's been there for 34 years (since the house was built)

We decided that since it was a long drive, we would break it up into two days of travel. We were set to leave on Thursday after school got out. Pick up the kids and GO! But, lo and behold the weather kept the kids out of school, so I ran around town with them trying to do final prep. It all worked out though!! Even though they were out of school, we still didn't find our way out of the garage until 2:12pm that day since The Hubster had to work in the morning and I just wasn't ready!