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Oh, I forgot, anyone is welcome to my Dear Step-Mother to accompany them on their trip. She will talk, talk, talk, talk, forever. I don't think I have ever seen her fall asleep on any of our trips. Rarely does she drive. Advice is always given, welcome or not.
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I like the stoping overnight idea, I'd do it both ways. Not a big fan of driving thru the night, I just don't think it's safe, and you arrive in WDW exhausted. Don't know anyone who can get a good sleep sitting up in a car. IMHO
Audio books are great for passing the time. I find the Harry Potter books to be crowd pleasers with most adults and children. However if you have a book preference your traveling companions don't share, putting it on an iPod or personal CD player is great, especially if you can't read in the car.
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We bring our iPods, Nintendo Ds & games, dvds, etc. We also have a lot of travel games like Taboo. And everyone loves to play the license plate game! We usuallymake a list beforehand so we can try and get all the states but, for a challenge, we just try and remember all of the states and make the list as we go! Of course we include all the different Canadian areas so we can pump up ur score!
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If you bring a Portable DVD Player, while the kiddos are a sleep, if you have any boxed sets of your fave shows like CSI, NCIS, those are also a great way to keep occupied on that long of a trip. Plenty of hours in each season, you can probably get at least 3 or 4 seasons out of the way
Or if you or your kiddos ever watched the show Full House or Family Matters (both family shows appropriate even for the littlest ones) they both had a Disney Episode that were both an hour segment instead of just a 1/2 hour, you could watch those too and get everyone excited closer to Disney!
I'm a big audio book fan. There are plenty of audio books out there that would appeal to both adults and kids (like the Harry Potter series as mentioned above.) I think a couple of portable DVD players or laptops with headphones would help alleviate some boredom. We did the straight through drive from New Jersey years ago with 3 small children....don't remember how we occupied them, but I do remember it as not being a bad trip.
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We listen to books on tape. I get P.G. Wodehouse or something funny. Or I pick a book from childhood that I haven't read in a while. Nancy Drew or Trixie Belden or something like that. Something that require you pay attention but no a lot of concentration.
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I used to read a TON in the car. But DH feels lonely when I do that lol So I have a couple things. the kids have DVD player and game systems and other things to ocupy them int he back of the van. In the front DH and I talk. We get to have conversations that we dont usually have in the midst of daily craziness. It is nice. One way to have them is get one of those question books (The the Book of Questions series). And I read questions off and we both answer them. It ALWAYS starts really interesting conversations. Then other times I knit. Yes I am a knitter!! And No you don't need a lot of elbow room, at least I don't. I actually just started a new blanket for my mom that is an easy patternm so I don't have to count. That allows me to knit and talk with DH without messing up. We also help the DD4yr play License PLate Bingo (if we dont help her DD13yr kicks he rbutt every time).
Another vote for audio books. Last year I checked The Kingdom Keepers 1 & 2 out of my local library. They lasted the whole trip and really put us in the Disney mood.
We take the Trivial pursuit cards out of hte box and quiz each other. DD9 plays along too.
We got a kids version of "Would you rather" in a kids meal at Arbys. Liked it so much that we bought the real one for the next road trip.
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Oh, I forgot, anyone is welcome to my Dear Step-Mother to accompany them on their trip. She will talk, talk, talk, talk, forever. I don't think I have ever seen her fall asleep on any of our trips. Rarely does she drive. Advice is always given, welcome or not.
This is where the Burbon comes in And an I-Pod with noise canceling ear plugs!
I would say knowing myself and how I used to do homework in the car as a child (with all of my after school activities being all over the place and that was when it was homework time in between activities) since I'm taking at home college courses, I'd probably bring along my school work and at least get my reading, hilighting, margin notes, and other notes, and start to write out any ideas for the homework assignments that don't need to be done online (I'd leave laptop at home). Homework or grading papers or tests if you're a student or teacher is a great time killer on a trip too, and then you don't have to worry about so much work left to be done once you return.
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