Third Time Is A Charm Trip Report!!!

[Melanie230]

The traveling group including in this report are:

DH Matt
Myself Melanie
DS Hayden
DD Lauren

Let me start out by saying this was a crazy pre trip time. I had to work on Friday before we left, and on Saturday until 6pm. It was very difficult to get everything ready to go, but thankfully I had done a lot of prep beforehand.

The Night Before:

After working until 6pm, I ran to the grocery store to get sodas, and a couple of snacks for the road trip. I got home and finished packing. Got the kiddos bathed and in bed by 10pm. After getting a few things in the car, I finally laid down around 11:30pm. Well I slept for 20 minutes and something woke me up. That was it. I was thinking too much. I had to get up and make sure the camera was by the door. Then I needed to go find my new backpack I had bought for the trip. I finally went downstairs to lay down and watch tv. I decided to set the kitchen timer in case I fell asleep on the couch. By the time I did this...I realized I only had 2.5 hours left to sleep. The last time I looked at the timer, it said I only had 1.5 hours to sleep. Ugh! Well needless to say I got about that much sleep. The timer went off at 3:30am. I got dressed, put my hair up and finished up my luggage and went down for coffee. After my first cup DH made it downstairs and loaded the rest of our stuff while I went up to get DS, then DD. We loaded them in the car, turned on their tv's, kissed the dogs, and out the door and off we went. Yes...5am on the dot!!!

 

[Hollywoodhaha]

Haha. My dad is like that with trips.
He comes in with pots and pans waking me and my sister up.
He makes up random times to leave like "we need to be on the road by 4:37"

Im aboard!

 

[Melanie230]

Continued....

Off we go. We drive until about the South Carolina line and stop for gas (it is cheaper than NC) and grab some McDonalds. Back on the road. We had made plans to stop in Brunswick, GA at my friend Julie's house to say hello, and to wish her little one a happy birthday!! I couldn't believe how light the traffic was. Despite stopping 3 times, we still made it from Raleigh, NC to Brunswick in less than 6 hours. No we didn't speed at all. WARNING TO ALL DRIVING TO UNIVERSAL...POLICE ARE OUT IN SOUTHERN GEORGIA AND NORTHERN FLORIDA!!!! We stopped for about an hour, then jumped back in the car. I guess that burst of energy was too much for DD . Boy were we ever happy to see this sign We laughed at all the signs that we saw as soon as we hit Orlando. Sign1 Sign2 Sign3 and of course Bloody Mary . We drove right past Universal Studios and headed for our offsite hotel for the night. We arrived about 4:30 at the Country Inn Suites at Calypso Cay . The kids LOVED this hotel. The Kids Suite there is really cute. room1 room2 room3 We got settled in and decided to let the kiddos burn off some energy so we headed to the pool pool 2 pool 3 After a couple of hours by the pool we all showered and headed out for dinner. We decided on the very close Cracker Barrel for dinner. As soon as we left we went back to the hotel and I immediately went to bed. I was exhausted. DH stayed up to watch Bears football....the last time I saw the clock it was 8:15. Oh did I mention DS wanted to watch football with Dad, so I climbed up in the kids bunk bed and slept there for the night. Go figure. Next thing I knew...it was 7am and the alarm was ringing!!!! Got up and got dressed, woke the kiddos, and got everything packed up. Went downstairs to the breakfast room for the free breakfast We had bagels, cereal, juice, coffee. As soon as we finished we shot upstairs grabbed our bags and out the door. TIME TO GO TO UNIVERSAL!!!!!

 

[pixeegrl]

 

[tlinus]

come on mel, don't leave us hanging

 

[macraven]

that's it???


no more about the trip????

 

[mplsmom1]

Waiting for your trip info!