keagansmommy
Earning My Ears
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- Mar 7, 2013
Here it is! Finally... we are only what 5 months after our trip...
This is a trip report for our first family Disney vacation! We went from
October 27-November 2 2013. We stayed at the All-Star Music Resort,
with 5 day park hopper tickets, and ka-ching FREE DINING!
Ohh yeah, you still don't know the we of it all.
Welllll... when we originally started planning this trip the we only
included Aaron (DBF), Keagan (DD 4), and myself (Carrie... HI! ).
So MIL decided they wanted to go too... Okay, so that adds MIL - Louann,
FIL - Don, and Josh aka Bubba (BIL 18). So 3 went to 6 real quick.
Honestly at first I was a little annoyed, but only because MIL is
the kind of person who is last minute and late for everything.
always.. I mean 100% of the time.
That's okay because I already had most of the trip planned, for us
anyways. Our attitude (DBF and myself) from the beginning is if
they wanted to do their own thing, cool, if not cool. We were there
to have a great time and no one was gonna change that.
Well luckily *spoiler alert* they were all alright with our plans so
it worked great.
Another thing I think that helped to keep the drama to a minimum
was that we didn't travel together.
MIL, FIL, and Bubba flew down Sunday the 27th. Bubba's first time
flying and he was really nervous, but he enjoyed it.
We drove. Yes a long drive, about 13 hours actually. Our original
plan was to drive down two days early to Savannah to see my BFF,
but plans fell through days before the trip. It actually turned out better.
We rented a small car so we wouldn't have to put that kind of
mileage on our car. When I say small.. I mean small.. Chevy Spark
small... but more on that later.
Before we get started, I want to add that I planned Tinkerbell gifts.
Wrote out the notes, had been catching deals and collecting stuff
for months! Well this was the only gift that actually made it... once
we got there I totally forgot and was to exhausted and busy to
even think about it again.
So we left Saturday the 26th at 6:00 am with no exact plans, just
to drive until we wanted to stop. Well our plans were to leave at 5,
but I forgot to make my costume.. and we were already running
late. Good thing we were leaving a day early! And here I was talking
about MIL...
Before we even made it out of our hometown Keagan was out for the
count.
Know how I said we had a small car? Well obviously a small car means
a small gas tank right? Well we didn't think about that. We were about
2 hours in to our trip and notice that we at close to a half of tank of
gas. I started to freak. Is something wrong with this car?! What's
going on! Nope, silly me. Not used to a 9 gallon tank... but hey, it
literally never took us more than $19 to fill up, and got really good
gas mileage.
Turns out we were so full of adrenaline and excitement we made it
all the way to Ormond Beach! We found us a decent place to
stay. It really was a great way to start our vacation.
We settled in a little bit. It was a decent little place, not a 5 star place,
but a good price and comfortable bed... plus right on the beach so we
took a twilight walk on the beach!
We had pizza for dinner and went to bed.
October 27--- We got up at about 7:30 the next morning so we could
hang on the beach for a little bit since we really weren't that far
from DISNEY!! We got pre-bowled cereal and went and ate on the beach!
We played around on the beach for almost 2 hours. The air
wasn't really that warm but the water was really warm. Keagan
got into the ocean up to her stomach... The kid loves water
but won't go under. We went back to the room and got cleaned
up and checked out about 11.
All was going great! .... until 32 miles from Disney we realized
I left the video camera on the bed... So I called the hotel to make
sure it was there and sure enough... So we had to turn around
and go back and get it. It could have been worse.
So after wanting to punch myself.. we finally arrived!
All of us had never been so happy to be anywhere! After a
couple tears shed we pulled it together and made our way
to All-Star Music!
This is a trip report for our first family Disney vacation! We went from
October 27-November 2 2013. We stayed at the All-Star Music Resort,
with 5 day park hopper tickets, and ka-ching FREE DINING!
Ohh yeah, you still don't know the we of it all.
Welllll... when we originally started planning this trip the we only
included Aaron (DBF), Keagan (DD 4), and myself (Carrie... HI! ).
So MIL decided they wanted to go too... Okay, so that adds MIL - Louann,
FIL - Don, and Josh aka Bubba (BIL 18). So 3 went to 6 real quick.
Honestly at first I was a little annoyed, but only because MIL is
the kind of person who is last minute and late for everything.
always.. I mean 100% of the time.
That's okay because I already had most of the trip planned, for us
anyways. Our attitude (DBF and myself) from the beginning is if
they wanted to do their own thing, cool, if not cool. We were there
to have a great time and no one was gonna change that.
Well luckily *spoiler alert* they were all alright with our plans so
it worked great.
Another thing I think that helped to keep the drama to a minimum
was that we didn't travel together.
MIL, FIL, and Bubba flew down Sunday the 27th. Bubba's first time
flying and he was really nervous, but he enjoyed it.
We drove. Yes a long drive, about 13 hours actually. Our original
plan was to drive down two days early to Savannah to see my BFF,
but plans fell through days before the trip. It actually turned out better.
We rented a small car so we wouldn't have to put that kind of
mileage on our car. When I say small.. I mean small.. Chevy Spark
small... but more on that later.
Before we get started, I want to add that I planned Tinkerbell gifts.
Wrote out the notes, had been catching deals and collecting stuff
for months! Well this was the only gift that actually made it... once
we got there I totally forgot and was to exhausted and busy to
even think about it again.
So we left Saturday the 26th at 6:00 am with no exact plans, just
to drive until we wanted to stop. Well our plans were to leave at 5,
but I forgot to make my costume.. and we were already running
late. Good thing we were leaving a day early! And here I was talking
about MIL...
Before we even made it out of our hometown Keagan was out for the
count.
Know how I said we had a small car? Well obviously a small car means
a small gas tank right? Well we didn't think about that. We were about
2 hours in to our trip and notice that we at close to a half of tank of
gas. I started to freak. Is something wrong with this car?! What's
going on! Nope, silly me. Not used to a 9 gallon tank... but hey, it
literally never took us more than $19 to fill up, and got really good
gas mileage.
Turns out we were so full of adrenaline and excitement we made it
all the way to Ormond Beach! We found us a decent place to
stay. It really was a great way to start our vacation.
We settled in a little bit. It was a decent little place, not a 5 star place,
but a good price and comfortable bed... plus right on the beach so we
took a twilight walk on the beach!
We had pizza for dinner and went to bed.
October 27--- We got up at about 7:30 the next morning so we could
hang on the beach for a little bit since we really weren't that far
from DISNEY!! We got pre-bowled cereal and went and ate on the beach!
We played around on the beach for almost 2 hours. The air
wasn't really that warm but the water was really warm. Keagan
got into the ocean up to her stomach... The kid loves water
but won't go under. We went back to the room and got cleaned
up and checked out about 11.
All was going great! .... until 32 miles from Disney we realized
I left the video camera on the bed... So I called the hotel to make
sure it was there and sure enough... So we had to turn around
and go back and get it. It could have been worse.
So after wanting to punch myself.. we finally arrived!
All of us had never been so happy to be anywhere! After a
couple tears shed we pulled it together and made our way
to All-Star Music!