Day 11 - It can't be over!

This is, by far, the most heartfelt trip report I have ever heard. It is clear from your post's how well planned out this trip was. I am so glad you had a wonderful trip. Thanks for all the thoughtful advice. I have read many times about the Camera Shop characters, but know we will be sure to stop there!
Thank you for all your posts.
Jenny
 
This is, by far, the most heartfelt trip report I have ever read. It is clear from your posts how well planned out this trip was. I am so glad you had a wonderful trip. Thanks for all the thoughtful advice. I have read many times about the Camera Shop characters, but now we will be sure to stop there!
Thank you for sharing your trip.
Jenny
 
mskani,

Camryn is right at 43 inches. She is really tall for her age. That combined with she usually wore tennis shoes and she did not have a problem getting on any ride that she wanted to ride. We always told her what to expect and would tell her that she did not have to ride any ride that she didn't want to. She was a real trooper though and all along she had been telling us that she wanted to ride and do everything.

As far as percentage of the total budget (by total I mean air, hotel, tickets, souvenirs, etc...) the meal budget came to around 25%. That was at least the plan. Even at home we consider eating out entertainment and try to make it something special. We generally don't hit the fast food places, but enjoy more sit down meals. If I have to pay for it, I want to be waited on. We knew that meals were going to take a large hit in the budget, but we had planned for that. Most days I planned for $175.00 in meals for 5 people. Devon really likes to eat and it's usually not just the cheap stuff either. The days that I had special meals planned (Hoop-Dee-Doo) I knew that our expenses would be higher and planned more food dollars for those days. Now when we were actually there, we were pretty much consistently under budget. We generally spent less on breakfast than what I budgeted. Since we were running under, we added Crystal Palace to our list as well as 'Ohana's as places to eat. Still we ended up $375.00 under budget for meals over the 11 day period.
 
Thank you all for your wonderful comments. I have enjoyed reading your responses and I very much appreciate your taking the time to read the reports. I had never written a trip report before, but it was actually a lot of fun. I am trying to convince Michelle that maybe we could sneak down next year around Christmas for a few days while the kids are out of school. Hopefully it will work out. If not, I have a ton of pictures and a lot of video tape to look at as well as these reports to take me back anytime I want to go.

Thanks again,

Tombstone
 

Wow, what a great dad and what a great report. I loved reading it. Thanks for sharing your vacation with us. It sounds like you really spent a lot of time making it a special trip. Your kids are lucky to have you as their dad. We're going in one month, we're staying at the Swan (hopefully there won't be any alarms!) and I'll be sure to take advantage of some of the tips you mentioned. Thanks again!
 
Oh, I wish it wasn't over either! You put your heart into these reports and they were great! Thank you for posting your special vacation!!!
 
Thanks Tombstone for such an excellent, detailed report! I stumbled across your last day one today, so serached and found them all - wonderful!

It sounds as though you had the time of your lives, and hearing about all the food that you enjoyed whilst you were there made me so hungry i had to pop to McD's half way through reading them all just to get a little taste of the states.

So if you could change just one thing about your trip what would it of been? Apart from the illnesses that is, even though your trip did sound perfect!!

Thanks again, i hope that my first atempt at report writing in Oct is just half as good as yours!

Emma

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Emmab,

If I could change just one thing is a tough question. I think I would schedule my flight a little later on the last day so that I could be at the Magic Kingdom one last time before I leave. It is always so hard that last day. Nobody really wants it to end but you know that you have to go home. That is until I win the lottery and can move to Celebration. Anyway, I think if I had planned a little something special, like the Magic Kingdom before we had to head to the airport it would have been nice. As it was, it seemed that we were just sort of filling time until they came to take us to the airport.

Good luck on your planning, and I hope you have a wonderful "holiday". The weather should be fantastic when you come. We will all be looking forward to hearing about your wedding and honeymoon at WDW!

Tombstone
 














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