TheMaxRebo
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Part 1 - Kick-off
"To all who come to this happy place, welcome!"
"To all who come to this happy place, welcome!"
Well, at least I hope you will consider this trip report a happy place! This trip was a unique one to us for a number of reasons and also turned out to be one of our best trips ever - and I am excited to share it will all of you (well, assuming I have some readers at least, otherwise I am excited to share it with, well, myself!)
This was our family vacation for the year - and oh look I happen to have a picture of the family here so those of you new to my trip reports know what we look like (apologies in advance for our Northern paleness):
But this trip was also for another reason - we were braving Florida in July in order to attend the DIS Unplugged 10th Anniversary Mega Meet (thus the "and 1 Mega Meet" part of the trip title). See, picture so it did happen:
This trip was also different for us as we decided to drive down (thus the "3,298 miles" part of the trip title - we were coming from New York). This was partly to save money but also partly because of the challenges we had with getting all of us and our stuff (including 3 car seats) through airport security last October when we flew out to California.
We figured driving straight through or even with a quick stop over with three young children would be a challenge, so we decided to break things up a bit and make several stops along the way both down and back up. Then I figured, if we were going to make stops, might as well make them strategically around one of my passions other Disney and see what craft breweries we could visit (and thus the "10 breweries" part of the trip title).
I'll get into a bit more detail (though I do want to keep the focus of this report on the Disney part) to the trip and where we stopped, but to give you a a preview, this is the plan we laid out for our travels ...and we followed this pretty closely:
The details for the trip were:
Dates: July 14th to August 2nd (the Walt Disney World portion was July 22-29)
Location: Various, but For Walt Disney World we were using our timeshare points to stay at Wyndham Bonnet Creek
Who: ... well, check out the next post
So hope you will follow-along and please do join in with comments. Also, as mentioned I will try to spend most of the report on the Disney portions but I will cover the rest of the trip a bit ... if there are specific items you'd like more information on or want me to cover in more detail, please let me know!
I am loving Peter's little grin!
