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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