{"id":169,"date":"2009-03-02T07:15:22","date_gmt":"2009-03-02T13:15:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nealbreeding.com\/blogs\/?p=169"},"modified":"2010-11-04T15:04:45","modified_gmt":"2010-11-04T20:04:45","slug":"vacation-vacation-vacation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.nealbreeding.com\/blogs\/vacation-vacation-vacation\/","title":{"rendered":"Vacation! Vacation! Vacation!"},"content":{"rendered":"

L<\/span><\/strong>ong time, no blog!<\/p>\n

As most of you with kids know, there is less and less time to do the things you have been doing the older they get.\u00c2\u00a0 I’ve also been extremely busy the last 6 months with my side web site business.\u00c2\u00a0 A good problem to have, but does cut into my personal computer time of blogging and producing Caden videos.\u00c2\u00a0 ha!<\/p>\n

We recently went on vacation, where else, but to Disney World!\u00c2\u00a0 We said “pre-Caden” that we would wait until he was 48 inches, but Jennifer and I knew that would never really happen.\u00c2\u00a0 Hey, we made it 20 months, that is pretty good, huh?<\/p>\n

\"Walt<\/p>\n

When we arrived on February 12, it had been 3 years and 1 day to the date since Jennifer and I had last been to Walt Disney World in FL.\u00c2\u00a0 We booked the trip, for 5 nights and 6 days, \u00c2\u00a0in September of 2008.<\/p>\n

A month later Disney started promoting the “Book 4 days, get 3 days free” + a 200 gift card special.\u00c2\u00a0 I quickly called and explained we couldn’t stay the extra day, but would book it if it meant we got a better deal on the price (and the $200 gift card).\u00c2\u00a0 Disney came through for us and said they would give us a day free and still give us the gift card.\u00c2\u00a0 Never hurts to ask!\u00c2\u00a0 (A common motto of mine).<\/p>\n

The transportation:<\/strong> We decided to drive.\u00c2\u00a0 We broke the trip up over 2 days (both ways) which worked really well.\u00c2\u00a0 We were in the car for about 15 hours for the total trip (that doesn’t count stopping for gas, food, bathroom, directions, ha!)<\/p>\n

\"Pop<\/p>\n

The resort:<\/strong> We stayed at Disney’s Pop Century. It was a lot of fun.\u00c2\u00a0 We stayed in the 80’s wing of the resort.\u00c2\u00a0 It was the furthermost away from Magic Kingdom, but it had its own bus line, so it didn’t stop at other resorts.<\/p>\n

The time:<\/strong> As I mentioned above, the last time we were at Disney World, was basically the same time, and the crowds were great.\u00c2\u00a0 Not the case this trip.\u00c2\u00a0 While the dates were the same, the days were not.\u00c2\u00a0 We hit the trip President’s day weekend.\u00c2\u00a0 It was packed.<\/p>\n

The Food:<\/strong> We tried the quick service<\/strong> meal plan, which included refillable drinks for the resort (only).\u00c2\u00a0 This meal plan included 2 quick service (counter service) meals and 2 snacks a day, per adult.\u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0We feel like it was a good deal.<\/p>\n

Caden just shared with us. \u00c2\u00a0The meals included an entr\u00c3\u00a9e or combo, a drink, and a dessert or a snack (only for lunch\/supper).\u00c2\u00a0 We usually ate breakfast at the resort, so we would use our “drink with the meal” to get bottled water and use our re-fillable mugs for breakfast.\u00c2\u00a0 For lunch\/supper we would normally get one dessert and one fruit snack (as part of the meal) and split them between the three of us.<\/p>\n

More to come: <\/strong>I will break the trip blogs up into multiple posts instead of having one extremely long post.\u00c2\u00a0 YES I will post photos soon!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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