Our Disney Trip Report, Day 1: The Long, Long Drive

This is our trip report, written by Cake's Momma. Warning: it will be long and many of you will not care to read it. That's ok. Here we go!

It's 5 am and we're pulling out of the driveway. Jason's driving, with Shawn as copilot. I've got the driver side captain's chair with Amanda beside me. THREE children UNDER THE AGE OF 6 are in the backseat. That's Riley Cate, 11.5 months, in her big girl car seat, sandwiched between Carson, 4, and Keely, 5, both in boosters. The car is already a mess. And our idea to put sleeping children into the car has already been foiled. They did finally go back to sleep and stayed that way until breakfast at around 9 at McDonald's. Cake knocked out half a hashbrown and half a pancake. No one was surprised. Keely ate half her breakfast and declared herself full, then ate the rest of Amanda's while she was away from the table.

All in all, the day one trip was NOT fun. The boys, who were in the front seat NOT caring for three children, wanted to push on to Tallahassee, but after 13 hours, with Chippley nearby, the mommas made an executive decision to STOP. We ended up spending the night in a Holiday Inn where Shawn whittled the price down from $110 to $65! Score! Adjoining rooms with wall-mounted flat screens were well worth that! Mommas again took charge and ordered pizza. Roly Poly, I mean Riley Cate, ate an entire piece of pizza. Oh, and she was sooooo happy to crawl around on the floor. I NEVER thought I'd let my child crawl on a hotel room floor, but I got over it.

Oh, the pizza man got confused because of our adjoining rooms. Keely answered the door to the McClish room, then ran back through to ours and went out again. He thought she was a twin, so Shawn ran with it and told them that he and Jason were cousins and that twins ran in our family...that we had 3 sets of them!

(Side note: Jason just walked into the kitchen behind me, looked out the window and said, "There's a freakin' rooster in our yard." Random.)

Anyway, that's day one! I'll try to post day 2 later, then we'll have all the boring stuff over with! I just wanted to have it all documented for myself :o)