Journal #4

My Family Trip to Disney World

Last year for Christmas, my family took a trip to Orlando, Florida. Normal people fly there because it only takes a few hours and you get to watch movies and eat peanuts and eveything, but my family isn't exactly normal. We decided to drive there (well, my parents did). There are six people in my family. I have three sisters, and a mom and dad. Two of my sisters are under the age of twelve, and they sometimes don't get along. We were only in the van for about five minutes before they started to bicker with eachother. Unfortunately, we had to stay in that van for around three days. The trip, like i mentioned, started out with a bang, and before i knew it, i had been sitting in the same spot for hours, listening to my i-pod, reading, then doing it all over again. My sisters fought off and on, and so did my parents. The GPS was acting up, and that caused some problems because my mom, the appointed navigator, didn't really have any idea exactly where we were going in the first place. The hours dragged on and on, and thankfully my dad stopped in some gas stations on the way. We stocked up on snacks and drinks and tried to stretch our legs out, but all of us dreaded having to go sit in the van for more long hours. Traveling with my family can be fun too. Haiving to sit next to eachother for a long time forces us into conversation, and we are all really close to eachother in the first place, so we have things to talk about. We played card games and took pictures, and told jokes and counted all the Waffle Houses we saw on the way (TRUST me, there is ALOT!).  It was also fun stopping at rest stops in the early hours of the morning because we were all slap happy and realy tired, so everyone laughed really easy (and sometimes at nothing at all!). There was alot of laughing, but there was always the occasional groan. It was long, but the good thing was, none of us were alone. We all had to sit through it, and the excitment of getting to Disney was enough to keep us going.  Finally, we got to Orlando. It was five am, and we stopped at a gas station before we got to our resort. It was wierd because it was warm out! like 70 degrees! And it was winter! That was one of the coolest things about the trip. Getting to our resort, FINNALY was a godsend. We were all exausted out of our mind, and our dad drove through the night pretty much for the whole trip, so we hadn't actually slept in a bed for a while (Our dad drank a TON of Mountain Dew to keep himself going!). We were staying in a 'Cabin' in the Disney resort, and we did as follows: Unloaded our stuff, located beds, passed out. Every single one of us. We were complelty tired, but after resting for a couple hours, we were as good as new, and we went to Animal Kingdom for the rest of the day.