As our family continues to grow, and as life gets busier and busier quality time together as a family becomes more and more important. This past year as we were thinking of Christmas gifts, etc we decided to forgo traditional Christmas gifts for our family and instead to plan a BIG trip to Disney World! It was so much fun to surprise the kids on Christmas morning and then finish planning our trip together as a family. We were gone for 7 days and spent 5 days at the Disney World Parks. It took a lot of planning, a ton of flexibility, a big dose of patience, but was SO MUCH FUN! Follow along for a recap of our trip day by day!
The first day was our travel day. After lots of research and the flexibility with homeschooling we determined that February was one of the best times to go to Disney World due to the "mild" temperatures (which didn't end up being completely "mild" as it got up to 86 degrees one day) and low crowds due to no school breaks occurring. We traveled on a Tuesday leaving our home around 6am and arriving in Orlando around 2pm after one layover and change of planes.
We decided last minute (like the week before we left) to buy our "infant" (15 months) child his own seat on the plane and it was one of the best choices we made for our trip. We took his carseat with us and it made flying with a wiggly toddler so much easier. We did not bring a stroller with us, but rather rented one for our time in Florida (more on that later), but we did use a Travel Cart, with our infant's carseat. We could literally roll our baby, or also our three year old who also fits in the same car seat throughout the airport and then put the one who was not riding in an Ergo Carrier. Our 5 and 7 year olds did great walking.
We stayed at the Hilton Grand Vacations - Tuscany Village, which provided as a wonderful location for our family. We rented a 3 bedroom, 3 bathroom condo which also included a full kitchen and laundry. Having a kitchen was key to us because we saved a significant amount of money making a majority of our meals there. I also love the opportunity to work on laundry as we go (as much fun as laundry is, it is better to keep it going than to come home to 10 loads of laundry to do!). By the time that we arrived at our hotel for the week, we went grocery shopping, unpacked and got ready for the next day!
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