Vacation over

It was sad to leave vacation, but I think that Justin and I were looking forward to getting back home and having everyone sleep in their own beds. We were not looking forward to the actual drive home though.

Everyday while we were in Orlando, we would pull out of the resort and turn right to head to the parks, but on Saturday morning, the 21st, we turned left to get onto a freeway and head out of Orlando. Jacob started crying as soon as we turned onto the road saying "I want right. I want right." It was so sad.

Driving to Orlando we stayed overnight in Pensacola because it was a little over halfway there. Going back we knew that we wanted to stay somewhere that would be over halfway home and we initially booked a place just on the Louisiana side of Mississippi and Louisiana using some of Justin's hotel points. But once we were on our way we started thinking that we wanted to be a little closer to home when we stopped and we were hoping for a suite where we could have a living room and a bedroom with a door to close between the two. The twins did not sleep well on the way there in the same room as us and we were exhausted from so many late nights so much walking around the parks.

We couldn't find somewhere to use hotel points on that was just a little about an hour further than we originally booked, but we did find a place where we could have a 1 bedroom suite like we wanted and we decided that we had saved so much money on our trip that it would be worth it to just pay for the hotel. And it was! We put the twins in pack and plays in the living room and Jacob slept in the second bed in the bedroom. Justin and I went to sleep right after putting the kids down so that we didn't have any lights on to disturb their sleep. We loved getting more than 10 hours of sleep that night - it was much needed!

The drive home was long and tiring. We finished our drive home on Sunday and it rained a lot. Since there weren't any McDonald's with play areas and Chick-Fil-A is closed on Sunday and it was too rainy to stop at a park, we weren't able to stop anywhere to let the kids run around on Sunday and that was really difficult.

Overall we loved our trip. But we also learned that there is a reason that kids under 3 get in for free - they are definitely much more difficult to deal with than an older kid. Even though Jacob has developmental and behavior problems, he was the easiest child to handle on the trip. We're thinking - maybe we'll go again when the twins are 6 or 7. Hopefully.