MommyTo3Boys1Girl
02-08-2006, 06:54 AM
I am SO excited for this upcoming mini vacation with my 4yo DS. I could use a break from the early mornings with my 2yo too. Not that we will be sleeping late, but he DOES get up between 6 and 6:30, so anything past then is sleeping in for me.
We have decided to fly down to Phoenix on the 28th, that gives us an early start on our flight to Orange County on the 1st. Actually I am considering going all the way to SNA, if we cannot find a room cheaper than our rate at HoJo's, on the 28th, and then just getting a good nights sleep and waking for the park on the 1st, but I will check on the room rates in Phoenix, this afternoon. I have family there, but not near the airport, so we will just get a room. Since we fly standby, we are flexible on our travel. I didn't want to lose the entire day on Weds. traveling. As the earliest we would get to SNA would be 2:45pm, even if we left Spokane at 8:15 in the morning, we just miss the earlier connection, by about 20 minutes.
So we will arrive at the room by about 10am on Weds. We will get settled, gather up the stuff we need for a day at the park and head over to DCA. I am thinking that by the time we get lunch, and hit the stuff, DS likes to do there, we should be done by 3, 4 at the latest. Then we will head over to Downtown Disney. I want to look at a few shops there, like the Ann Geddes shop, and World of Disney. We will have dinner at Rainforest. On our way back to HoJos, we will stop in DL and hit a few of his favorites, POTC of course. I want to get back to the room by 7:30, as he is use to going to bed at 8, and I don't want to have him miss his sleep, that is when he gets sick. Up and ready to go on Thursday and heading to DL. I don't anticipate needing to go back over to DCA for the rest of the trip, with the exception of wanting to see BPB, on Friday. We have PS at Blue Bayou, at 11:30 on Thursday, he is SO excited about that. It is funny, a 4yo chosing to eat at Blue instead of Goofy's but that is what he picked. He doesn't know that I made PS for Goofy's on Friday, although I need to move it back to 6:30pm, since we are watching BPB at 5:15. Again we will get back to the room about 7:30. Friday, back to DL again. We will watch POD at 3:15, and BPB at 5:15. Dinner at Goofy's at 6:30, maybe 6pm, and will spend a few minutes looking around at DLH. Plan is to see fireworks at 9:25 Friday night. Depending on how he is doing, we may stay for Fantasmic. Our plan is for an 8am flight on Saturday, so more than likely we will just head back to the hotel after the fireworks. He has seen Fantasmic before, so it won't be a big deal to miss it, although the option is still there to see it.
I would like to take a later flight out on Saturday but our connection back to Spokane doesn't allow us to, there is only 2 flights a day and the 2nd flight puts us home at 11pm, which would be difficult for DH, being that my 2yo would be asleep. Hopefully all the flights will work out ok.
We have decided to fly down to Phoenix on the 28th, that gives us an early start on our flight to Orange County on the 1st. Actually I am considering going all the way to SNA, if we cannot find a room cheaper than our rate at HoJo's, on the 28th, and then just getting a good nights sleep and waking for the park on the 1st, but I will check on the room rates in Phoenix, this afternoon. I have family there, but not near the airport, so we will just get a room. Since we fly standby, we are flexible on our travel. I didn't want to lose the entire day on Weds. traveling. As the earliest we would get to SNA would be 2:45pm, even if we left Spokane at 8:15 in the morning, we just miss the earlier connection, by about 20 minutes.
So we will arrive at the room by about 10am on Weds. We will get settled, gather up the stuff we need for a day at the park and head over to DCA. I am thinking that by the time we get lunch, and hit the stuff, DS likes to do there, we should be done by 3, 4 at the latest. Then we will head over to Downtown Disney. I want to look at a few shops there, like the Ann Geddes shop, and World of Disney. We will have dinner at Rainforest. On our way back to HoJos, we will stop in DL and hit a few of his favorites, POTC of course. I want to get back to the room by 7:30, as he is use to going to bed at 8, and I don't want to have him miss his sleep, that is when he gets sick. Up and ready to go on Thursday and heading to DL. I don't anticipate needing to go back over to DCA for the rest of the trip, with the exception of wanting to see BPB, on Friday. We have PS at Blue Bayou, at 11:30 on Thursday, he is SO excited about that. It is funny, a 4yo chosing to eat at Blue instead of Goofy's but that is what he picked. He doesn't know that I made PS for Goofy's on Friday, although I need to move it back to 6:30pm, since we are watching BPB at 5:15. Again we will get back to the room about 7:30. Friday, back to DL again. We will watch POD at 3:15, and BPB at 5:15. Dinner at Goofy's at 6:30, maybe 6pm, and will spend a few minutes looking around at DLH. Plan is to see fireworks at 9:25 Friday night. Depending on how he is doing, we may stay for Fantasmic. Our plan is for an 8am flight on Saturday, so more than likely we will just head back to the hotel after the fireworks. He has seen Fantasmic before, so it won't be a big deal to miss it, although the option is still there to see it.
I would like to take a later flight out on Saturday but our connection back to Spokane doesn't allow us to, there is only 2 flights a day and the 2nd flight puts us home at 11pm, which would be difficult for DH, being that my 2yo would be asleep. Hopefully all the flights will work out ok.