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My Ultimate Family Vacation
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Our vacation to Disney a couple of years ago sucked. (If you have been reading this blog for a couple years, you’ll know what happened. For those who haven’t, I’ll recap what happened. Madison got sick while we were there, and we spent the majority of our 7 day trip in downtown Orlando with her at the Children’s Hospital. With some help from Disney’s PR people, we were able to make what we had left special, but it wasn’t the vacation I envisioned). I would absolutely love a redo on this trip. There is no way we’ll be able to afford another trip there for a very long time, and I would love my daughter to have happy memories of Disney World instead of the memory of sitting in the hospital. The other thing is that Will is older know and I think would enjoy it more now too. And well, we missed out on seeing a ton of stuff. That trip was Bill’s first trip to Disney World. We even stayed on site, so we wouldn’t miss the magic. However, the hospital didn’t have the same magic.
If we are going to make it the ultimate though, I’d love to say in the resort hotels on site (we stayed in a moderate hotel on site. It was nice, but no where near what those really nice ones are). I’d have the dining plan again, because it was nice not having to worry about the cost of everything. I’d like to have character dinners whenever possible (something else we missed out a lot on). I’d also love for Madison to get done up at the Bibbidi Bobbidi Boutique. I think she would soooo get a kick out of that. The other ultimate part — I’d love to invite my parents and sister (and her family) and my inlaws (mother, father, brother, and sister in laws and their families).
How awesome would a trip to Disney World with everybody be? Very awesome and my ultimate family vacation.
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Thank you Twitter and my blog readers!
There is nothing worse than being thousands of miles from home and having your kid get sick and be in the hospital. What makes it worse is when you are on vacation that you spent a ton of money on! However, thanks to the many friends on twitter and the readers of my blog, we were able to somewhat salvage the few days we had left of our vacation.
Honestly, this was the worst vacation ever — and the repercussions have not yet died down. Some of Madison’s test results are still not coming back normal, so we have to get her blood drawn yet again next week. They also have to figure out why this happened (again). I’ll go into this in another blog post.
However, due to some really awesome people contacting people like Lee Ann at Disney, my daughter was able to enjoy the last couple of days. She still is talking about what we did and who we saw. I just wish my resort (who knew what was going from day one and who told me were were just SOL) would have made some effort to do more. We really liked the French Quarter too and would probably stay there again if I can get beyond their nonhelpfulness.
For all of those, people who stepped up for someone they only know online, I can’t thank you enough. I’ve never asked for anything in my life, so when I asked for help that night, it was hard. However, we were able to salvage a couple of days and my daughter remembers more of the fun and less of the hospital. Lee Ann, thanks for everything you did and anybody else behind the scenes that helped this happen, I can’t thank you enough. I’m sending Pixie Dust all of your ways, and I believe good things will come to you for making a 5 year olds vacation.
Now, I still have bronchitis and generally feel like crap, so until I feel a tad better, I still won’t be blogging as much.
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