mblc14
Mouseketeer
- Joined
- Nov 15, 2007
Welcome!!! We just got back from a super fun and super fast trip to the world. The reason behind this, our 3rd trip as a family, was our DDs 12th birthday on Dec. 12th. Her Golden birthday. And the super hard part about all of this was we planned on surprising the kids for this one.. It was extremely painful at times when trying to plans meals, fastpass + and what not without her help. She is the one that is a little Disney crazy like myself... First some introductions are in order.... Me...Mike. 36 year old former HS baseball/football coach that is now in administration at my high school in the town that me and the Mrs grew up in and where are families still are today. I get the privilege of ending our planner because, well, I love planning trips and having people ask him for some help either their plans. There is just solo much that people don't know or get about DW and the needs to be some research done first or it could be a miserable and frustrating experience trying to figure it all out. DW...Billie. Won't mention the age.... She recently went from being an Elementary SPED teacher in our district to having her very own 2nd grade classroom this Fall. She enjoys it, but it's like being a first year teacher all over again. Fun times. Loves Disney and tolerates me with my obsession with it and often refers to me as Clarke Griswald while we are on vacation. DD....LG. My now almost teenaged daughter.....sigh. She loves talking Disney with me and what we should do and where to go for our next trip. Even if we know it may be super far off. So taking with her wasn't too bad when I was planning for this trip, but had to be really careful on how much I was asking. So tough. She is soooo into volleyball know and it is awesome to see her want to practice and a do more with it. Nice to see how much she is loving it right now. Everything else she has ever done from softball to play the violin had been just ok for her. But volleyball seems to be her thing for now.
DS....Chance. Fun loving, wears his heart on his sleeve, Star Wars loving boy. His personality has really popped over the past couple if years and it has been so fun ywatching that happen. He is like me in the fact that We. Hate. Fast. Rides. I know, I know. We are wimps. And perfectly ok with that !!
Ok, some background on the surprise before I show the video. We live in Iowa and the closest airport is Des Moines. And even though they have SouthWest airlines now, we would much rather fly out of Kansas City because they have non stop flights to MCO. That's around a 3.5 hour drive for us, and that's not awful. So, we visited KC last year for a quick weekend getaway and came across the Great Wolf Lodge water park there. We didnt go there then, but told them that may be something we could some other time. Well, to keep the secret as long as possible when driving to KC, we told them that we were going to Great Wolf Lodge for LGs birthday. They were excited and we fake planned for that as much as possible. So we drove down on Wednesday evening after school and told them we were staying at a different hotel since we wouldn't be getting in until late, and we would go to the Lodge when we got up on Thursday morning. We wrestled with how to do it a million times and almost caved that last week before the trip. But I think we pulled it off rather well... Ok, we'll stop here for today. I attempted a PTR for this trip, but was not very good at keeping up on it. I won't promise daily updates, but will be sure to check in and post any replies if anyone wants to read along for our fast and furious 2.5 day trip to our favorite place in the world!