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The mom are we in Flordia yet and where is Mickey pre-trip report
This is my very first trip report so if I am doing this wrong I am sorry. Any tips would be appreciated!!
Traveling for the first time alone are:
Ashley(that's me) I am 22 and a stay at home mom which I love. - 20 or so trips to Disney, 1st solo family trip.
Joseph(my love who is not yet thrilled about being at Disney for a week. But, I am sure things will change. Always do.) He is 25 and works for his dad in construction but is about to take over the buisness. - 30th trip or more for him. Went alot as a kid.
Daniel(our precious little one. He loves all things Mickey.) Just turned 4. And started Pre- K this year. There is not much he does not love. I believe this makes trip 10 for him.
Okay a little background about us. We are from a kind of small town in Tennessee. We are located half way between Nashville and Knoxville. Joseph and I have been together for seven years married almost 5. Have the most beautiful son who takes up nearly all of our time. We always make it to Disney once a year because that is where I have to be. But, hubby loves the beach so we compromise a week at the beach a week at Disney I think it is worth it.
Well, I guess this is not really a pre-trip report since we are already at the beach. But, oh well how about a semi live trip report.
September 27- This day is pretty uneventful this was our driving day. We woke up at 5 am and got on the road. We stopped a few times for gas. We also stopped to eat at Sonny's sorry guys no pictures for this part of the trip. We also stopped at the Wildwood exit in Flordia at the Chrome shop. We had to get an Al Capone for the truck at home.We got to Clearwater Beach at around 6 and had dinner at the Bahama Breeze.
September 28- Our First full day at the Beach. We woke up at 8 and went to have breakfast at post corner which has went down hill since the last time. They can't seem to keep a cook. After that we decieded to head to Tampa for awhile. We went to the Tampa Aquarium which was really neat and got some great pictures. I will post them when I get back home. We were there for about 3 hours and Daniel was amazed by everything. But, his favorite was the otter. We stood for about 45 minutes watching these guys and they were in the mood to play. These guys just played and played and gave such a great show. Well, after this we decided to head back to the beach.
Daniel and myself decided to go to the beach for awhile. But, we were only there for about 30 minutes. This is what happened we were walking in the said and I saw a beautiful place to take his picture. So, I took it and he decided he wanted to climb on the sand dune. As, he was getting ready to climb he stepped on about 30 coco burs. And if you don't know what these are they are little round balls with sharp spikes all around them and if they break off in your foot it is a trip to the hospital to have them removed. Thankfully that did not happen. I got them out but since he was still crying we headed back to the house. That is all we got done today. We did go eat at Shepard's which was pretty good.
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