Mother Of All Family Vacations I

We have arrived. The mother of all family vacations (understanding that the trip to the west coast remains untouched as the grandmother of all vacations) has begun. We left Midland last night around 7:40 cst and pulled in to the hotel at the Disney World Gate at 8:38 est. For those of you time zone challenged that is 23 hours and 58 minutes straight. The kids were great and are so excited about the adventure Lee Ann has planned for all of us. They were great in the car although they have grown significantly since we started doing this kind of thing and there doesn't seem to be nearly as much room in a suburban as there used to be. I do love being together and in spite of the relatively relationship challenging circumstances we really did enjoy the trip across the southern U.S.

We get started early in the morning and will be going hard at it for three days. Thanks to Mom and Dad for making this trip possible. We have such a deposit of family memories because of their generosity. I don't know that in the long run it is any better than inner tubes at Inks lake, but we sure are enjoying ourselves.

Hope everyone has a great week. I will try to check in later. Grace, Tod.