Just got my tax return done, got my time off approved, and I'm officially going June 21-29! Staying at The Tropicanna from 6/21-6/26 and at DPPH from the 6/26-6/29.
....actually it was delivered by my neighbor because it was sent to their house instead 
. It's another thing I can add to our pile of things going with us . I also got all of our trading pins together and put in our pile. I was also going through my kid's closets and realized that they will be needing new bathing suits and capris for the trip....I am thinking a shopping spree will be happening soon 
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....I am thinking a shopping spree will be happening soon
at age 10 and 2 tell your husband flying shouldn't be that hard. I frequently do 4 hr flights with a 4 yr old and 6 month old. He just needs to be prepared. With the 10 yr old he should be ok. Books/small games/snacks. My 4 yr old has a nintendo ds and that can entertain him for many hrs out of the flight. I'm from Canada and have never flown southwest, but do they have tv in flight? That also helps entertain kids. Movies on a laptop or iPad will also help.I have fab news IF I can work all this out.
Our trip is suppose to start on May 5. My company is having a conference in nearby Irvine from May 1 - 3.
I'm trying to convince my husband to let me stay in CA and just fly out with the kids to meet me there. The benefit to this is that then my company would pay for my flight and I wouldn't have to be flying back and forth within 24 hours of each leg. DH is opposed to this because he's not sure he would be able to handle flying with the kids alone. I'm working on convincing him and even planning to take all the kids luggage with me so he doesn't have to worry about that.
There is a possibility that my co-workers and I would take the day of the 4th to go to DL which would be awesome as my family aren't fans of thrill rides, so I could all of that out of my system.
The savings of the flight would of course be canceled out by getting an extra day at DL for me, including another night's hotel stay, but it would be so fun!
The only hard part about this is I was planning on buying our plane tickets in the next couple of weeks when we get our tax refund, but I won't know full details on our conference probably until April so I'm a little hesitant to move forward with this plan. I might have to risk flight cost and just buy 3 tickets for my family now and wait to see if I have to buy my own flight later on. We're planning on flying Southwest so the seating wouldn't be an issue, but I worry about having to buy my own ticket and then the flight being sold out by the time that decision is made.
I'm probably way overthinking this.
What do you guys think of this plan?
Thank goodness we are flying Southwest and able to change flights without fees and was cheaper so instead of driveing from San Fran we are flying.
SCORE!
I was booking my room for the conference and discovered I had a free night certificate at a Marriott hotel so I just book a room at the Townplace Suites for FREEEEE!!!!
. You've got some major Pixie Dusting going your way .
TheChapman6 said:
I love the idea of the gifts. On our first trip we did a paper chain ahead of time to really build the excitement. About every 5 links there was a sticker that corresponded with a gift I had wrapped in disney paper. Most of the gifts were from the dollar store, but the kids really loved getting all the Disney stuff.
BTW- We were going to go that week, but opted for the following because of Bats Day. I don't care, but DH didn't want to be around all the Goth people.
Lana
lana772 said:BTW- We were going to go that week, but opted for the following because of Bats Day. I don't care, but DH didn't want to be around all the Goth people.
Lana
