Our Disney World Vacation

We're Back!!

We all had a great time on vacation at Disney World! It went by so fast though! I now feel like I need a vacation from vacation! LOL

We did Disney World on a budget...yes, it's possible!! We rented a condo instead of staying at a DW resort. We ate mostly at restaurants outside of DW. We got 3 day park hopper tickets at a discount through ebay and used membership reward points to fly for FREE!! All in all our Disney World vacation was only $2300. I have heard outrageous quotes for a DW vacation up as high as $12,000...yikes!

Enjoy the pics!

Where are you going this summer on vacation??

We're Back from Vacation

We got home from vacation this afternoon and guess what we came home to??? I wish we could say came home to a big "welcome home" sign, but we came home instead to a flooded house! We opened our front door and heard water running, ran into the kitchen and water was spraying everywhere and we had about 3-4 inches of water on the floor. The plastic pipe on the faucet broke (yes, our new faucet). There was water in our dining room, kitchen, bathroom, our daughter's bedroom, hall way, and the garage. So we spent the rest of the day ripping out carpet, carpet padding, removing furniture, sucking up water with wet vacs and now we have fans running to dry out our home. What a great way to come home after vacation...NOT!!! Oh and ya know our kitchen we just finished remodeling....well the cabinet by the sink is ruined! So is our vanity in our bathroom. Thank the Lord we have homeowner's insurance!! The adjuster is suppose to come out tomorrow.

So if I'm not posting for awhile that is because I'm dealing with this!! UGH!!!!!!!!

Charleston, SC was so nice!

We are still on vacation, but wanted to let you all know that we went to Charleston, SC on wednesday and took a ton of photos. It was such a cool town. We will be back home on Monday and I'll post pics then.

Talk to ya on Monday! I'm off to the beach!

Darlene

Can you help me??

Hi Friends!

I need your Help...again!

I still have not had any success planning a summer family vacation. We go on vacation every summer and always have it planned way before June, so I am way behind this year!




I have enough amex points to fly our family of 4 for free roundtrip anywhere in the US (we don't have passports)...but where shall we go?? Oh I already tried to plan on going to Hawaii, but unfortunately I do not have enough points to fly there. Any other ideas?

Here is a list of our past vacations

2001-western caribbean cruise
2002-eastern caribbean cruise
2003- south padre island, tx
2004- seattle, wa
2005- san diego, ca
2006- destin, fl
2007- destin, fl
2008- panama city beach, fl
2009- ????????

We need some place that will be fun for our daughter's ages 12 & 20 as well as for us 40 something parents. We have vetoed the Disney World idea I had a few weeks ago because so many of you said it would be miserably hot.
Any suggestions?????

Darlene