DougandBeth
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Sorry for venting this early in the morning!!!!
Well we are DVC members and our two sons ages 5 and 7 absolutely love Disney as we do and have been there 7 times in their short years. Anyway we surprised them last year with a trip and are surprising them again this April (already booked) and they have no idea.
Anyway with these two kids they one of their favorite things about the trip is getting up in the middle of the night (usually 3:00 or so) to catch a 6:00 flight. They just thing it's the greatest thing!
However this trip due to flight costs going through the roof we have to fly from an airport about 4 hours away. It was either fly from our local like we usually do for $1,800 or drive 4 hours and get 4 free flights due to my points. No brainer!
So our plan is to pull them out of school about an hour early on a Friday drive down 4 hours to stay in a hotel and then the next morning we are leaving on a 6:30 am flight so they will still get up in the middle of the night.
Here is the bad: They literally ask daily if we can go to Disney and we told them to save enough money so they can go some time in the July timeframe. Having said that we explained that depending on how much they save by then we may have to fly out of different airport about 4 hours from here to save money. Boy did they lose it this morning about that conversation. Crying and crying more that they want to excitement of leaving from home in the middle of the night. BRATS, BRATS and more BRATS!
The good: They are great little boys and this is a side we have not seen from them. Even better yet they are saving every penny they can because according to them "mommy and daddy if we can save $800 will that get us 4 tickets to fly to disney?" They are trying to earn money through chores, tag sales, saving bottle depsits, buying things on sale at the grocery store. They want to be the ones to pay for all of our plane tickets and that makes us very proud!
What we usually do is the money they save is their spending money for souveneirs, etc. We have not given them money in the last two trips and those little stinkers figured out how to save $150 each. Good for them!
Anyway sorry for venting! Just felt frustrated and bad because I want this to be a big surprise and don't want the disappointment of having to drive 4 hours and not leave until the next day.
Well we are DVC members and our two sons ages 5 and 7 absolutely love Disney as we do and have been there 7 times in their short years. Anyway we surprised them last year with a trip and are surprising them again this April (already booked) and they have no idea.
Anyway with these two kids they one of their favorite things about the trip is getting up in the middle of the night (usually 3:00 or so) to catch a 6:00 flight. They just thing it's the greatest thing!
However this trip due to flight costs going through the roof we have to fly from an airport about 4 hours away. It was either fly from our local like we usually do for $1,800 or drive 4 hours and get 4 free flights due to my points. No brainer!
So our plan is to pull them out of school about an hour early on a Friday drive down 4 hours to stay in a hotel and then the next morning we are leaving on a 6:30 am flight so they will still get up in the middle of the night.
Here is the bad: They literally ask daily if we can go to Disney and we told them to save enough money so they can go some time in the July timeframe. Having said that we explained that depending on how much they save by then we may have to fly out of different airport about 4 hours from here to save money. Boy did they lose it this morning about that conversation. Crying and crying more that they want to excitement of leaving from home in the middle of the night. BRATS, BRATS and more BRATS!
The good: They are great little boys and this is a side we have not seen from them. Even better yet they are saving every penny they can because according to them "mommy and daddy if we can save $800 will that get us 4 tickets to fly to disney?" They are trying to earn money through chores, tag sales, saving bottle depsits, buying things on sale at the grocery store. They want to be the ones to pay for all of our plane tickets and that makes us very proud!
What we usually do is the money they save is their spending money for souveneirs, etc. We have not given them money in the last two trips and those little stinkers figured out how to save $150 each. Good for them!
Anyway sorry for venting! Just felt frustrated and bad because I want this to be a big surprise and don't want the disappointment of having to drive 4 hours and not leave until the next day.