Our journey begins - Rest, Respite, Recreation, and Relax - August 2019

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Finally the day is here and we are ready to fly to WDW.

Let me introduce who is going.

Myself - I have been a preschool teacher for over 20 years and over the summer I received a promotion and will start my new job the week after we come home. I am so excited!!!!!

I love going to Disney and have been to both Walt Disney World and Disneyland. In fact we are planning a trip to DL flying out on Christmas Day with our children and grandchildren.

DH - is the store director of one of our local grocery stores here in town. Oh yeah there are only two and he has worked at both. He has been in the grocery business for over 36 years. He loves going to Disney also - however he does suffered from some motion sickness.



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Our journey begins

The day before our trip

I packed our bags and counted how many changes of clothes I had for each of us like three or four times. I also had to pack a bag for the day after we get back, as we have a surprise birthday party for my mom that we are in charge of.

So I made sure the house was cleaned, paid bills, and gathered all of the birthday supplies that DGD will have to bring to us when we get back. Since the dishes were done I decided that we would go out for dinner. We headed over to our local Mexican restaurant (1 of 3) restaurants that were open that night. Yep we live in a small rural town.

Came home and finished getting everything ready DH went to bed around 9:00 as he has to go into work for a hour in the morning. I stayed up to check into our flights - red-eye flight from the west coast.

I found out that a dear friend has passed away this evening. With a heavy heart and thoughts and prayers for his family I finally head to bed at 11:30 pm. Flight leaves at 6:55 pm. However it is a 2 hour drive to the airport, DH wants to do a little shopping, need a couple of items for the birthday party, and wants to go to an estate sale before leaving.

DH always tells me he has to work on the days that we leave but always seems to work it that he can leave in the morning.

Up next how much sleep did I actually get and do I let him buy the motorized bicycle at the estate sale???

 

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Day 1
Sleep seemed to elude me and I was up with DH at 4:00 am. He was headed to work and I got up and finished the packing and getting ready to leave. I had about 3 hours of sleep, uggh.
DH got home at 6:00 am and we left the house at 7:00 am - keep in mind our flight doesn't leave until 7:00 PM.

We left and drove to Glenwood where we had breakfast at the one and only restaurant in town. Just before 9:00 am we headed over to the estate sale to check out the motorized bikes.

Did we buy a bike??????