In five days, we will embark upon a pilgrimage to the home of Mickey Mouse. That's right, Disney World in Orlando, Florida. Each parent is contractually bound to make this voyage with their children at least once in their lifetime as part of the agreement in which the kids will someday agree to move out of the house. And it wouldn't be a Chevy Chase style family vacation without the obligatory road trip. Yes, we are driving 18 hours to spend five days at the happiest place on earth. Hopefully, unlike with the Griswolds when they arrived at Walley World, the amusement park will be open when we get there.
It gets better. Once we arrive, we will stay with Charla, Doug, their kids, Doug's mom, and our niece Jessie. There will be two teenagers and four kids six years of age and younger in our group. I keep hearing Clark Griswold saying, "This is crazy. This is crazy. This is crazy." I think I will chronicle our exploits and post the accounts of our journey on the blog. I kept a journal when I was a kid on our family vacation to D.C. It has been lost over this years however. Electronic journals are easier to keep track of. To read the Journal that Bill Herrin and I kept during our roadtrip to Vegas, click on the "Excellent Adventures" link on the right of this page. Click on the scanned images of the actual pages of the Journal to enlarge them so they are more intelligible. Not intelligent... intelligible.
Wish us "bon voyage." We just had a $1200 transmission put in our van two days ago. (Good timing.) So much for our "Disney on a Budget" theory. They have beer in Florida, right?
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