Originally Posted By DVC_dad I just have to see, if my AP's for WDW expire before March, we will go West Coast. If they will carry me one more trip to WDW in March, then we will go to DL in November. I mean the act of flying is hard enough. 8 round trip tickets ONLY for my immediate family and we would probably enlist BOTH grandmothers come with for logistics and troop moral, which means 10 tickets, add park passes, add rental cars, add meals, all tag tax title, and it gets pretty ugly fast. A lot of the expense simply goes away if we go WDW instead of DL. But all that being said, probably MARCH 07. Arrive March the 3rd, leave the 10th most likely.
Originally Posted By chickendumpling Who me? Oh, no. You just told me to talk about something so there ya go. LOL. Kidding. We should chat.
Originally Posted By smedley Awwwhhh I wanna come too!!! Not feasible for next year though I don't think..... *sigh* Y'all have a fab time without me ok (but not too fab lol!)
Originally Posted By RoadTrip <<A lot of the expense simply goes away if we go WDW instead of DL.>> So they don't have a road that goes between Atlanta and Anaheim?? ROAD TRIP man, ROAD TRIP!! Atlanta is only a couple of hundred miles further from Anaheim than Minneapolis is. We had a most excellent time driving to DL. I mean we didn't have 100 kids like you do, but you must be used to that by now. Three 10 hour days and you are there!!
Originally Posted By DVC_dad LOL 6 days of the 1 week vacation would be in the car...WITH the kids. Maybe I could look at it is a bonding opportunity.
Originally Posted By RoadTrip <<LOL 6 days of the 1 week vacation would be in the car..>> Oops. Doesn't work so well with a one week vacation. We took two weeks which left us time to drive plus have 5 days at Disneyland and 3 days at Las Vegas. We really enjoyed the trip -- it took us through parts of the country that we had never seen before. With plane travel you really lose your concept of just how large this country is and the huge variety of scenery, towns, people etc. you find.
Originally Posted By DVC_dad Trippy....six kids all under the age 11, and two in diapers. It's not a matter of WANT to, it's a matter of, HAVE YOU LOST YOUR MIND?
Originally Posted By RoadTrip <<It's not a matter of WANT to, it's a matter of, HAVE YOU LOST YOUR MIND?>> Consider it a character building experience. We took a road trip to Grand Junction, Colorado when our son was about four (our daughter was not born yet). It was the trip from Hades. Our car, less than a month old, stalled in the middle of nowhere in Nebraska. We got out of that, but then were scared to death going up the mountain passes when the car would go no more than 35 mph. This was in the days of low powered 4 cylinder cars that had carburetors instead of fuel injection. It was not a pretty sight. Then when we made a side trip to Ouray (about 8,000 ft) and spent some time there my wife got altitude sickness and was totally out of it for a couple of days. Back at Grand Junction things were no better... our son woke up one morning with bloody puss all over his pillow. It appears a sudden and nasty ear infection had ruptured his eardrum. So we had an Emergency Room visit in a strange hospital which of course was always fun. It was essentially the worst 10 days of our lives. But dang, did it ever build character. Think how much character you could build with SIX kids!!
Originally Posted By TALL Disney Guy ^^LOL! (the last line I mean, lol) <We took a road trip> Heh...good choice o' words. ;-) <It was the trip from Hades.> Ya know, I'm tired of Hades gettin' a bad rap. The Underworld was the realm where *everyone* went after life, it wasn't a "hell" (though there were just punishments meted out in parts of it--but there was also a blissful section and a big "eh" section), and Hades was not evil or the anti-Zeus or anything. He just happened to have been alotted to be the Lord of the Dead. I ain't raggin' on ya Trippy, just on my soapbox of cultural phrases for a minute...I'd love to find whoever started that danged phrase and "take 'em outside"! And then have BigThunder teach 'em a thing or two. <carburetors instead of fuel injection> Hey cool, you speak Greek (to my ears anyway) Sucks it was a bad trip, but glad it built character fer ya!
Originally Posted By RoadTrip <<I ain't raggin' on ya Trippy, just on my soapbox of cultural phrases for a minute...I'd love to find whoever started that danged phrase and "take 'em outside"!>> I was going to say hell, but figured that if I got redlined for 38-D I sure as hell would get redlined for hell.
