Today we woke up at Walmart, ate a quick breakfast and got out as soon as we could. We drove through New Orleans – didn’t get to see the cool parts but got a better understanding of Hurricane Katrina. We were very excited to drive across Lake Pontchartrain! It’s just one of those things. The…
This amazing journey is coming to an end and it is time to make our way back to Colorado. We woke up, later than we should have, I don’t think any of us want to go. We started getting ready. John went down to cash in our last four meals for breakfast. He came back…
Last night I made a list of all of the things we still wanted to do, studied the map, and hatched a plan. Armed with our checklist, fast passes booked and a lunch reservation, we set out for Magic Kingdom, Day 2. Here is a picture that I took later in the day. As we…
We headed out this morning and planned to have a quick service breakfast in the park. I found a place that said they had quick service breakfast, but when we got there, they said they did, but you have to have reservations. There were no other places in the park to have breakfast, apparently, and…
This was a long day. We started by getting up early for extra magic hours at Hollywood Studios and ended by closing down Animal Kingdom without having dinner. Kids finally ate around 10, John and I at Midnight. We got to Hollywood Studios right as they opened. Slinky Dog Dash is the hot attraction and…
In a perfect world, I would have done two park days and then a down day and then two more park days. However, that isn’t the way this trip was working out and we did not want any part of a Disney park on a Saturday, so today became our day of rest. Last night,…
Starting from the time we pulled in, I was struck by many of the details that Disney doesn’t let slide. For example, we pulled into Fort Wilderness and pulled to a security booth and Trista at the bench right behind me and visible to the security guard, who immediately looked up to her and said,…
Back to blogging. It has been a nice break from nightly blogging, but I am anxious to get it all caught up. So many fun stories from our time at Disney. I plan to blog these as if I had done it each night. I kept good notes and the pictures are organized that way,…
We have arrived safely in Florida! Unlike Maryland, Florida not only welcomed us… They welcomed us with free orange juice! And the tornadoiest (I made up this word, seemed appropriate) skies I have ever seen (took Meteorology in college, didn’t do so well). I will post this picture I took, you can decide for yourself.…
Don’t mean the one that the country song sings about either! Carkeet Caravan is going DISNEY! We check in today! I am not planning to blog during our time at Disney. We are driving to Orlando and checking in this afternoon. I will try to make a post that we made it. We paid for…
I realize that I did not blog yesterday, it was not one of our finer days. Five weeks on the road, together 24/7, in a confined space combined with the urgency of trying to get all of our work and school work done before Disney is starting to take its toll. I will say that…
A couple of really cool things happened today, but there isn’t a ton to write about. We packed up this morning and we heard from a lot of family members who called to wish Levi a Happy Birthday. We even got to Skype with Me-Maw and Grandpa Nanny before we headed out for the day. …