Kayla came home and I am so bad that I didn't wait for the boys to come home, I just let her open it! They are going to be so mad!
Here she is opening it
Checking it all out.. Kayla has some huge issues with keeping her eyes open for pictures.
And two of her trying the adorable skirt and shirt on! One with a good smile and not so great eyes open and one with eyes and not so great smile because I was telling her she didn't have her eyes open AGAIN!
Thank you so much Jeanne (jham)
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Mandy
I hope I put enough postage on it.GKTW told us that Gatorland is basically a zoo. A good zoo. But a zoo.
If you have a child or children that LOVE that kind of thing, it would seem like a good way to spend time...but if not, there are other great ways to spend that extra time.
First...GKTW has SOOOOO much to do. We easily spent from 2-6 (dinner time) playing putt putt, riding the train, playing in the arcade, playing with the boats, train set, taking pictures, eating ice cream, watching a movie, doing our star
The other thing...you have 7 days worth of tickets...of course the 3 days of Disney, 1 day Sea World, and TWO days of Universal. Since you really have 5 full days...I would do the 3 Disney, 1 Sea World and 1 Universal as a full day...which leaves no time for the second day of Universal. So you could do that on the first day, too.
But you can't do much until after your orientation, though. Check on an afternoon orientation so you could get your tickets.
You will also get your villa...so you could take a nap...get unpacked, etc.
You could also go to Walmart, which is right down the street...they have some good Disney souvies...that are cheap. And you might want to buy cheap snacks for the parks to save some money. And anything you forgot!
I guess I hate to see any wish family start right off going and going just to fill up time...you will be going and going all week. If we could do it again, we would have gone slower and rested more...and not filled up our first full day...I don't think it would have kept Lauren from getting sick, since it was a virus, but it might have helped.
Anyway...I have heard that some GKTW families did enjoy Gatorland...some went there instead of doing Universal, for example.
OR...you could go to Downtown Disney. But, you might be tempted to spend MONEY!!!
Ok...there's my 10 cents for the day....
Kayla came home and I am so bad that I didn't wait for the boys to come home, I just let her open it! They are going to be so mad!
Here she is opening it
Checking it all out.. Kayla has some huge issues with keeping her eyes open for pictures.
And two of her trying the adorable skirt and shirt on! One with a good smile and not so great eyes open and one with eyes and not so great smile because I was telling her she didn't have her eyes open AGAIN!
Thank you so much Jeanne (jham)
I made my DD11 model for me. Speaking of which she has the same Mickey hoodie Kayla wore today! My DD likes to sort of bite her lip in pictures which makes her smile look weird. *sigh*
Hey! We will be at GTKW at the same time as you! We are a family with 5 kids and a service dog! I hope we can bump into your family somewhere. We are there from the 19th to the 26th.)
Thanks for the pictures! I hope Kayla likes them. You never know with a 13-year-old, do you? The shirt was kind of long but I'm not talented enough to fix that
I think the length is great! That is the exact length of the shirt she took off! I have a feeling Kayla will wear the outfit with her *chucks* (all stars, I think they are called many things.. many places) she mentioned that the laces matched..
She actually wore the shirt to confirmation last night where she got something on it.. ugh, I could have yelled at her! So it will make it thru the wash today.
you know, I almost commented that it looked like her chucks matched in the picture my DD likes to wear outfits like that with black leggings. Hmmm...maybe my DD11 needs some chucks. DD3 has some!
