Just reading that you decided on Wolfgang Puck Express made my mouth start watering! Love that place!
Up next, our YES program.
I quickly got on the internet and discovered that there was no Disney store anywhere around us. Then I found a website for a Disney outlet in Cincinnati. I was excited! We had to drive through Cincy on our way to Orlando. Then I read down the webpage and learned that it will open later this fall.
The drive from Ohio to Florida is basically 2 days on I-75 (with just a little on the Florida turnpike at the end). The first day was really frustrating. First we got stuck in a traffic jam in Cincinnati taking 45 minutes to go the last 12 miles to the Kentucky state line.
About 15 miles from the Tennessee state line we get to our 2nd traffic jam of the day. After rolling along for another 1.5 hours and going 30 miles () we finally decide to get off of I-75 and take a highway that runs parallel to it. We have to do 50 mph, but we make decent time down into Knoxville where we stop for gas.
While at the gas station, DH talks to a local man who informs us that there have been two MAJOR accidents in Knoxville that morning including a roll-over of a Haz-mat truck. He gives us directions to take some surface streets around Knoxville to reconnect to I-75 about 30 miles south of the city. We follow his directions and get back onto I-75 only to discover it is STILL backed up. We go 3 miles in 15 minutes and quickly get off again. We now declare ourselves done with I-75 and follow US-11 to US-74 to US-411all the way into the Atlanta metro area.
Now I'm really intrigued. Just learned about the YES and Homeschool Days Programs recently and am hoping for a class next February when my daughter and I plan to take my oldest granddaughter on a surprise trip to celebrate her turning 13. Can't wait to read what you thought of the class. (The tickets are an awesome enticement!!)
Coming in a little late. Have a couple of comments on your earlier posts.
We're getting a Disney outlet store? That's the first I've heard of it. I'm in Northern Kentucky, just south of Cincinnati. That makes up for us losing the Disney Store in our local mall about five minutes from here. However, the new outlet store will still be a hike for us. It's in Monroe, about an hour south of us. I'll still find an excuse to get up there.
They are doing bridge work during the weekend. 45 minutes to go 12 miles on a Saturday isn't bad. I've heard horror stories of two hours to go three miles.
That was the Saturday after the Fourth of July, right? We were in the middle of that mess coming home from outside Knoxville. Took us six hours to make a trip that's normally about 4 1/2 hours. Bad thing about it...there's two routes we could take home, I-75 all the way or US 25E from outside Knoxville to Corbin, then pick up I-75. We decided on I-75 all the way since we thought it would be a little quicker.
Looking forward to getting some more budget tips. We're going in a little over two years for my DGD's 5th birthday. However, the YES program is out for us...unless, through some miracle, they offer the "How Things Move" program on Oct 31 or Nov 1, 2013.
How do you find out about the YES program? I never heard of it either
That YES program sounds very cool. My Dd would love that. Sadly i've never heard of it before and we will be there in a few weeks so I don't see us participating...
looking forward to BBB story.
Sounds really neat! I had never heard of the YES program before!
I'm joining in! Sounds like a great trip so far!
Thanks for such an awesome review of the YES class. It sounds like it was lots of fun. My 6-year-old DGS would think it was very cool! Hoping we can get them all in a class or two next time we do our big "Grand" family trip.
How do you find out about the YES program? I never heard of it either