Disney daze

[falcongrrl]

My mom works for a state academic tournament as judge, reader, and question writer...and Disney is one of their sponsors. She gets free tickets and often doesn't use them. She had one ticket with two days left on it and one from a friend (also with two days left). Both tickets were Park Hoppers. They expired on June 18th. I received them in the mail on June 13th.

There was an interesting little logic problem there: if you have two tickets expiring within a week and two adults and two kids and two days to be used on each ticket, who goes to Disney with whom, when, and how?

We decided to buy one more ticket - a three-day Park Hopper.



So...because I am a masochist, the 3-Day Disney ticket was for me. :-) I took both kids to Animal Kingdom this past Saturday...but, because Animal Kingdom really didn't work for us, we left and trekked over to Magic Kingdom. This led to logistics hell at the end of the night, but hopefully I'll get around to writing about that later.

Sunday we were in Winter Haven with my dad for Father's Day, and Monday I worked all day at the playschool.

So for the past two days I've had a back-to-back Disney extravaganza. It wasn't as much fun as it sounds in 95 degree heat...but definitely pretty fun in spots. What it meant for the kids was one-on-one time with mom, which seemed to work really well both days. I feel like I should make that work more often (though in less-expensive venues, to be sure.) Daniel's day was Tuesday and Ellie's day was Wednesday (yesterday).

I'm hoping to write up some of our experiences and rest a bit today. Plus, the house is a complete disaster and I'm hoping to get the mess back to manageable levels.

Comments

[bucktowntiger.livejournal.com]

I think I know what tournament you're talking about. :)

I played in it twice back in high school.

State-funded trips to Disney World FTW