We last went to Disney World to celebrate Dan's med school graduation 3 1/2 years ago. At that time we had 2 kids and it was a 9 hour drive in our Camry. This time we are celebrating Dan's residency graduation (a little late) and it's a 12 hour drive with 3 kids in an Odyssey. The gas mileage wasn't quite as good, but it was a comfortable drive and having the built-in DVD with headphones was wonderful.
We took 2 days to drive down to Florida. Dan had work on Friday and so I got everything packed up and ready while the kids enjoyed one last day of school before missing 5 days in a row. We opted to have them miss a week of school to take the trip a random week in November, so that we could be at Disney during one of their least crowded weeks of the year.
We started the drive on Saturday morning. The little ones did really well on the drive. We drove 9 hours the first day and stayed in a nice, inexpensive hotel in Georgia. It was the same one we stayed at back in 2011 when we were on our way home from Florida. Ah, memories...
They had fun jumping on the beds (quietly since the hotel was completely full), swimming in the indoor pool (big bummer that the pool heater wasn't working), and goofing around being kids. After a nice, free, hot breakfast, we took off. We went to church at a ward in Georgia (it was their Primary program) and then we continued on to get to our Florida hotel.
The kids enjoyed playing outside at the splash pad area. It wasn't as fun as the last time we came in May though because, unlike the pool, the splash pad did not use heated water. They managed to have some fun and run around a bit. Elena even got soaked. We went swimming to warm up afterwards and that was really nice.
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