January 11 - On this Day (Journaling Challenge)
Journaling (319 words):
For Tom’s 5oth birthday we planned a family vacation to Disney World in Orlando. Tom’s entire family made the trip with us. His sister Debbi secured timeshares for all of us. Once we all arrived at the park, we determined we would buy four day passes. On the first day, everyone in the group went to Magic Kingdom. As it was my and the kids first time to Disney, we were totally awed by the park and all there was to do. However, we did find it difficult to continuously try to find everyone in our party and to keep everyone happy with the choices we made. We did end p staying the whole day at the park, which was exhausting.
At the end of the day, the girls, Tom and I felt we still had over half of the kingdom to explore! The family plans for the next day, however, were to visit the Hollywood Studios park. We gathered the girls together and asked them what they most wanted to do - go with all the family to Hollywood Studios OR just go as a family and spend another day at Magic Kingdom. The girls chose Magic Kingdom, resulting in us having a family day all to ourselves. That day? January 3, 2012.
We began the day early again, this time taking the time to get family photographs at both the start and the end of the day. We rode the train in to the park, and as it was early, we got immediately onto Splash Mountain. From there we rode roller coasters, explored Tom Sawyer’s island, imagined we were the Swiss Family Robinson, acted like pirates, and flew in to space. It was a truly magical, family day.
At the end, we saw the fireworks show again and left the park completely satisfied and happy. It was truly a magical day and one I will remember forever.