All of these are great !!! I am "Borrowing" another disbaorders idea for this trip.( Thanks MouseearsJenny)
We surpised the kids last year during the free dining and it back fired a little bit. I drove down with my cousin and our kids (DD11 DD10 DS 7 DS4 cousins DS 7 and DD4) My husband flew down cause the "burb only holds 8
( lucky duck) we told the kids we were going to NC to go camping .We get to NC and say you know what maybe we should camp in GA.
We get to GA. and said once again maybe we should go camping in Fl
, all the while thinking all the monkeys in the car would figure it out (well at least DD10 she is as big a disney nut as me) nope none of them
, as we get into Orlando and are about 10 miles from the Disneyworld exit ,this huge gigantic dark cloud formation was off in the distance with awesome lightening going on.
We rolled down the windows
to get a better look and as soon as we did that, a bolt came down about 10 feet away , all the kids screamed like a bunch of banshees and started crying.
Then it started pouring and all of a sudden we were stuck behind a van that is one fire and this woman, her friend, and a little girl and a tiny baby jump( ok tiny baby did not jump) out of the van and my cousin and I are freaking out 'cause no one will let us get out from behind her and no one will stop to let these people get on the side of the freeway. We were terrified . Finally we get over after seeing flames engulf the van, the kids are hysterical now, oldest DD says " of all the places to go camping why did we have to come here " so we say guess what we aren't going camping we are going to Disneyworld , they thought we were lying.
Then DD 10 says "wheres dad?" I told her he was flying , then she hit the roof , "he's flying in this ?? What is going to happen to him ? Is he ok?" I felt like the worst momma in the world.
To make it even better as we were checking in to PORR DH calls and says hey did you see that huge storm , I just said " uh huh "
and I believe I also asked if he was on ME ,his plane should have landed 40 minutes prior. He said well I am at an airport . Turns out the storm was so bad the plane had to circle around MCO for quite some time and ended up landing in Jacksonville due to them being low on fuel. He eventually made it.
The 1st day was a nightmare ,glad we didn't plan anything for that day!!! The kids perked up when they found out their Aunt, Uncle,2 cousins , and their Nana and Popa were going to be there. This year I am going to make a booklet to present to them when we get halfway down there. Wish me luck and lots of Pixie dust