In December of 2013 we went on our first actual family vacation (you know, other than just vacation to visit family). We wanted to take advantage of the fact that kids under age 3 get into Disney for free and we took a trip to Orlando to go to Disney World before the twins 3rd birthday.
We tried really hard to save money, but still have a good time. We drove instead of flying for a few reasons, but one big one was the cost. It is far less expensive to drive your family of 5 than to fly them and then have to rent a vehicle. We stayed at a resort using my parents' time share points to also save money and my parents' joined us to help us out with our kiddos. I prepared most of our meals at the resort to save money on dining expenses. And Justin's dad and step-mom also joined us and he was able to get us super discounted tickets to Disney since he used to be in the Air Force.
Our plan was to leave at 4am on Friday morning the 13th of December, but instead we considered ourselves lucky that we left by 6am (and that was after Justin and I only got maybe 4 hours of sleep). I gave a final on Thursday morning the 12th and had to have all of them graded, final grades calculated and turn in my end of semester paperwork before we could leave (so I had to have it in before the offices closed at 5pm on Thursday since they wouldn't open again until 8am on Friday). And Justin ended up getting in a fender bender on Thursday morning that also took time that we meant to be packing, etc. to deal with.
We spent the 13th and 14th (Jacob's birthday) on the road driving there and then we drove back on the 21st and 22nd.. We ended up stopping at Chick-fil-a a lot since it is just about the only place that has a play area for the kids to go crazy and each day we got to our planned destination later than we would have liked.
I want to write more (with pictures) about actually being at Disney - hopefully that won't take another whole year for me to post!
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