Here's the text for our travel day and our arrival day at DW for my son:
"We are going to Disney World in Florida.
On Sunday afternoon, Mom, Heather and I will drive in our van to Seattle. It will take about 3 hours to get there.
We will go to the Seattle airport. Mom says weve been there before when weve gone somewhere in an airplane.
We will go to a booth to check in and send our luggage to the plane. We might have to wait awhile for our turn.
Once weve checked in, Mom, Heather and I will go through security. First, Mom and Heather will put all of our stuff on a belt so it can go through an xray machine to make sure there is nothing unsafe in it.
Then Mom and Heather will take turns walking through the scanning booth. One of them will stay with me all the time.
Then it will be my turn. They will use something called a wand to check to see if I am carrying anything dangerous. The alarm might go off because of the metal in my back. Mom will stay with me while they check me. They will also look at my feeding pump and anything else on the back of my chair.
It might take a long time to go through security because we have so much stuff.
After that, we will go find the right gate for our airplane. We are flying on an Alaska Air plane. We will wait there until it is time to board the airplane. Mom says I might be able to see our plane from the window while we wait. It will be very late by the time we get on our airplane.
When the plane is ready, the airline attendant will help us go to the plane. We will go on first or almost first as it takes a long time to get me into my seat.
I will sit in my chair until the door of the airplane. Then I will go into a special chair that is small enough to go down the aisle of the airplane. They will use a lift to get me into the chair and then into my seat on the plane. The flight attendant will take my chair to a special place on the plane.
Once Im settled in my seat, mom and Heather will sit down too. Then it will be time for the other people to come on to the airplane.
When everyone is on the plane and the pilots are ready we will back up and then get ready to take off. The plane will go very fast until we are in the air.
Because it will be very late when we leave, mom will give me my bedtime medications and will tell me to try and go to sleep. We will fly all night.
When it is morning we will be in Florida.
After we land, we will stay in our seats until all the other people have left. Then there will be room for the flight attendants to bring me the special chair and get me out of my seat. My wheelchair will be waiting at the door of the airplane.
Once were off the plane we will go to a special area called Magical Express. Thats where people who are going to Disney World go. The people that work there will make sure our suitcases get sent to our hotel.
We will go on a special Magical Express bus to our hotel. It will take a little while to get to the hotel. We will see palm trees out the window as we go. It will be very hot out.
We are staying at the All Star Sports Resort. It is very large and has many buildings. There are 5 main sections of the resort. They are the Football, Baseball, Tennis, Basketball and Surf.
Mom says we will be staying in the Football section. We will probably be in the Touchdown building. There will be a large football outside this section as well as lots of other big football themed decorations.
We will get off the bus and go in to the hotel and check in. We wont be able to go to our room right away as it will still be early in the morning. At the check in desk they will give us all our tickets.
Because it will be too early to go to our rooms, Mom, Heather and I will walk around all the buildings to see what there is to see.
They will probably get something to eat at the food court.
I will just be happy seeing everything.
In the early afternoon Lynne, Nikki & Jenny will come to the hotel. I know I will be happy to see Nikki again.
Once we can go to our room, I will have a chance to get out of my wheelchair and have a bit of a rest. I will probably be very tired.
After a rest it will be time for us to get ready to go out for dinner. We are going to Chef Mickeys. Ive been there before. It was fun.
All of us (Lynne, Nikki, Jenny, mom, Heather and I) will take a bus to the Contemporary hotel which is where the restaurant is. It will probably take awhile to get there. Nikki and I will stay in our wheelchairs on the bus.
At the hotel well take an elevator up to the restaurant. We might have to wait for a few minutes before we can go into the restaurant.
When it is our turn, someone will probably take some pictures of us.
The restaurant is a buffet. That means that Mom and Heather will take turns going to get their food. Lynne and Jenny will go get their food too. Nikki will stay with me at the table because she doesnt eat any more either. I just want to see the characters.
Mickey, Minnie, Chip, Dale, Donald and Goofy are at this restaurant. They take turns coming around to the tables to see everyone. Mom will take lots of pictures of me and the characters. It gets pretty noisy in the restaurant. I think that it will be a lot of fun.
Something else that is fun at Chef Mickeys is that the Monorail goes right through the restaurant. I like to watch it.
After everyone is finished eating, we will take the bus back to our hotel. We will all be very tired."
Once I've got the text all worked out I'll print it and then put it into an 8x8 scrapbook and use as many pictures as I can find to go with the words.
If you've taken the time to read all the way through, if you see any errors-like the wrong characters at CM, please let me know. I won't be printing most of it out right away.
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