We are Disney club members, and have been from before we had our struggles with his work. Now that he is back to work, we decided to cash in our points that we have been saving for the past 2 years and take the kids and stay at Animal Kingdom Resort in Disney.
We decided to drive down to help save money.
We left at around 6:20 a.m. Friday morning.
After passing thru North Carolina we came to this South of the Border place. It seemed like an interesting place to stop and feed the kids lunch. We made really good time so far, with no fussing from the little ones. At this point they still have NO idea that we are going to Disney.
South of the Border was your typical tourist trap. As soon as we got out of the car Sawyer fell and scraped up his hand and arm. Oh he cried and cried. He had to show every single person we passed his boo boo's.
And then we made it into South Carolina!
We made it to Savannah Georgia, found a hotel in time for dinner.
We found this cute restaurant called Sweet Teas. It was their version of an Apple Bee's. The food was really good.
Everyone was hyper from being cooped up in the car for 11 hours!
We decided to explore the old town section of Savannah. I really liked this city.
Live music, old fashioned river boats and very old historical stair cases and cobble stone paths.
We got up fairly early, had breakfast and then got back into the car and headed to Florida.
The kids knew we were going to Florida, but had no idea we were going to Disney.
We had some fun at the Florida welcome center. They even gave free samples of fresh Florida orange juice!
The kids finally figured it out once they saw the huge sign that said
"Welcome to Walt Disney World"
Our time share is thru Animal Kingdom Lodge, so that's where we stayed.
We saved up 3 years worth of points, so we were able to do it big and not pay a cent!!
(We already paid by placing a monthly fee)
The kids all had their own sleeping areas. The balcony overlooked the animals which included
Zebras, Giraffes, Ostriches and many other exotic deer and birds.
We had our own kitchen, so we stopped at the grocery store when we were close and bought a weeks worth of groceries. We cooked most of our own meals, which also saved us a ton of money!
to be continued......
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