The following is our daily journals from the trip. Katie's is copied down exactly as she wrote it, and Jimmy's is my best translation of what he said (I wrote it down each day).
Jim
What a day, I started out with no sleep, I was just too excited. We left
at 4 am and made a quick fill up. I had to quickly pull the dash apart
to reattach the trip meter, but it was just a standard drive after
that. I told the kids at a rest stop on I-75 where we were going. They
both just looked at me dumbfounded, thinking I was kidding I think.
Jimmy kept on saying "but we haven't filled the pigs!", but he eventually
started to believe me. We stopped for BBQ at Jim's BBQ in the middle
of nowhere. Then it was on to Disney World. We put the top down again
(the first time at highway speeds just was too windy) and cruised into
Disney. We checked in but the room wasn't ready, so we changed in the
car and just went swimming. Jeff met us at the hotel, and straightened
out the room. He then helped us move our stuff into the room. The kids
had cards from Cinderella and Buzz Lightyear, there were towels shaped
into a Mickey on the bed, it was cool. We then headed out to the Magic
kingdom. Jeff drove to the ticket center, we got on the monorail, in
the front, and Jimmy even got to blow the horn! wow. I couldn't stop
smiling a the park,the kids were just awesome. I got quite a few thank
you's from them for bringing them there (from out of the blue) and
I just couldn't stop smiling looking at them and their
amazement. We did the Jungle Ride, Pirates, Peter Pan, Dumbo, Small
World, Stitch, Buzz, People Mover, Snow
White, Mickey's PhilharMagic, ate turkey legs and pretzels, and a bunch
more. The kids fell asleep on the bus on they way home and after a
quick "Zombie Walk" to the room, crashed quickly. I will need to get
them to journal first thing in he morning. Oh and dinner should be
with Jeff and Wendy on Tuesday or Wendsday, I think we are going to
hit Epcot on Thurs, so we can do the fish restaurant then, and I'm
going to shoot for Animal Kingdom tomorrow.
Katie
Magic Kingdom
Today I had a great time. We went swimming, rode int the front of a train,
got on rides, and saw a huge parage. This morning I got a card from Cinderella.
Jimmy
We got in the car at nighttime, we drived all the way to Florida. Wen
we got there at the hotel we went simming. It was cool when we saw
2 swimming pools. It was just coolw when we went to that park. When
we went on the train it was awesome. It was funny wen Donald when ahhhh
and I couldn't reach anything. The best ride was Goofy's Barnstormer,
it was scary but fun.
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