I just wanted to post a quick update to let you know that we are home and our wish trip was amazing. I feel bad we didn’t keep up with the daily posts but there was so much to do and we were exhausted every single day.
Give Kids The World is an incredible organization, as is Make A Wish. We had the time of our lives and the kids begged to be able to stay. They never wanted to come home!
We will post some photos and write more about our trip soon.
So, no DisneyWorld yet, but we’ll be there tomorrow!
This morning we were able to visit Goofie, Pluto, Belle, Mickey and Minnie and get our pictures taken with them. Serenity wasn’t too sure about the guys in dog costumes, or the mice, but she was definitely comfortable with Belle! She had fun hanging out with a fellow Princess.
After photos we had breakfast and visited the park here for a while. Then we headed over to GatorLand to spend some time with the Aligators – Talysa was the brave one!
We’re pretty sure Kaniho was hoping to meet some girls here – but I doubt he thought he’d end up kissing Minnie Mouse!
We were planning on watching the Space Shuttle launch tonight but they changed it (again) to tomorrow night. We’re hoping we can catch it then.
Needless to say, we’re all pretty worn out – can’t wait to see how we feel after tomorrow. All day at DisneyWorld is going to wipe us out!
Today was a LOONG day! We started out leaving a half hour later than we wanted to to head for the airport. I managed to make up most of the time during the drive though – don’t ask. 🙂 So after chasing 7 kids around all morning, then driving to the airport for an hour, we got on a plane for four hours. What a lovely time. About 2 minutes after we were airborne, the excitement of being on a plane wore off for the kids and the reality of being strapped into an uncomfortable chair for 4 hours really settled in on them. To their credit, they did a pretty good job of keeping quiet for most of the time.
I need to diverge for a second. 6 days ago Indigo (our 4 year old daughter) fell on the concrete and landed on the underside of her chin resulting in it being split very wide open. We took her in and she had to get 6 stitches that had to stay in 5 days – so they came out yesterday night.
Well, no sooner had we landed then a stir crazy Indigo started messing around in the aisles while we were waiting to de-plane. Somehow she managed to end up on the floor and getting her chin stepped on by Gibson. There are about 300 people standing in the aisle and suddenly she is
After we finally exited the plane (in what felt like the slowest de-plane in history) we met up with a rep from Give Kids the World who was holding a big sign for Serenity. We rented a 12 passenger van and made our way to the GKTW Village. This place is magical! The whole place is a playground for kids! We are staying in what looks like a candy house (pictures coming tomorrow) and is right across the street from a lifesize Candyland game! That place looks just like the board game!
We got settled into our cottage and then went to dinner followed by all you can eat ice cream for desert! The kids went and participated in “Village Idol” – a contest for the kids to perform for everyone. In an interesting turn, the judges just could not decide on a winner and so all the participants won!
We headed back to the cottage and got settled in for the night – then everyone decided to order late night pizza. Did I mention that all this food and the lodging – in fact EVERY SINGLE THING is free?!?
So now everyone is crashed and for some reason I’m up blogging. Wow. Time for me to go to bed, it’s 1:25 here! We’ve been taking lots of video and pictures, I’ll get some put up tomorrow.
Our family and house is in chaos as we plan and try to organize for Disney World. I’m ready for it to be over! (totally kidding, but you parents know what I mean) We plan to post several updates while we’re in Florida.
We got Serenity a Snow White outfit at the Disney store the other day – she absolutely loves it!
The awesome folks at Make A Wish Foundation have granted Serenity a wish! She wanted to meet Snow White so….. they’re sending our whole family to Disney World! We’ll be leaving August 26th and returning a week later on September 2nd.
While we’re there, we’ll be staying at Give Kids The World. We’re really excited to take a family trip there! We’re ramping up for it now and trying to get everything organized.
We’ll be blogging much of our trip and sharing lots of photos and videos here. We’ve received advice from several cancer friends who have made the trip already but would love to hear more from anyone else who has already done it!