It's the trip that every parent hopes to take their kid(s) on at least once in a lifetime. It's the trip that takes hours upon hours to plan and prepare for. It's the trip that's worth pulling kids out of school for an entire week just to make it happen during a "less crowded" week. It's the trip that is SO exciting that it's worth waiting until the morning you leave to tell your kids because seeing their reaction was the most priceless way to start the trip. We did it....we took the trip to Disney World!
It started as a regular Saturday morning (in the kids' eyes). Little did they know, Mom and Dad spent all week packing in secret. About twenty minutes before we had to leave for the airport, Grandpa, Grandma, and TiTi showed up. When the kids asked why they were at our house, we decided it was time to present them with their bags of goodies. Inside the bags were all kinds of treasures that would be perfect for their trip to Disney. They looked through the bags and after about a minute, Leah exclaimed, "We're going to Disney World!!!". Caleb was equally excited and Joel didn't really seem to realize what was coming his way (you can tell the older two have been in school long enough to hear lots of classmates tell stories about going to Disney).
We had some very excited kids, because two of the three had never flown (the one who did was so young he didn't even remember).
After a day of traveling, a day by our awesome resort pool was just perfect. There's nothing like the high 70s, sunshine, and a pool in November!!!
After a day of relaxing, our insanely busy and tiring week began on Monday morning. We spent all five days visiting the four different parks. There were awesome rides, shows, fireworks, parades, treats, character visits, and precious moments of family bonding. The kids were on cloud nine (most of the time) and did a great job of keeping up with the pace of our jam-packed week. Knowing we'd only be doing this trip once during their childhood meant that we had to get all the fun in that we could in one short week. By the end of the week, we had a few meltdowns, a few moments of being terrified on rides, a few rough early-morning wakeups, and a whole group of very tired people. It was, however, worth every second of the difficulties....this trip was magical! The kids will hopefully remember it for a long, long time. The memories made were priceless!
