Our wish trip started with a send off party at Chick-Fil-A. Nora told the wish grantors that she liked Chick-Fil-A, so that's where we partied! We had the Asay family there with us playing games, eating chicken sandwiches and just relaxing. We had a great time there.
Here's a picture of the girls before we left the house for the airport. We were ready to have a great time. The Make A Wish foundation made arrangements for us to stay at a place called Give Kids the World Village. This place was designed for children with life threatening diseases - to give them a chance to see some of Florida's attractions. We had heard lots of great things about the village before we left - and we were not disappointed! The village was great. They had parties every night, had an all you want Ice Cream Palace that was open from 7a-10p. They also had a couple of different choices of places to eat our meals. Did I mention that everything on the trip was free? What a blast!
We were given theme park tickets to Disney, SeaWorld, and Universal Studios. We were also given tickets to many other Orlando area attractions like the swamp boat ride that we took. We spent 3 days at the Disney parks and that was about enough theme park for us. We went to Universal for 1 day but we were so tired we decided to leave after about 2 hours. We were given preferential parking at the parks and we had guest assistance passes which allowed us to cut to the front of any lines - including character lines at Disney. That came in very handy since the parks were loaded with people in August when we went. We also had access to various VIP lounges at Disney, which came in really handy since it rained on us every day we were there. It was nice to go indoors, sip on some sodas and wait for the weather to improve. They thought of everything to make our trip wonderful.
The last pictures are of the characters from Give Kids the World Village. The male bunny's name is Mayor Clayton, the mayor of the village. His girlfriend bunny is named Miss Mary. The village was like a theme park by itself with many characters there. Some of the Disney, SeaWorld and Universal characters also came and roamed around the village for the families to meet. One of the fun things they did at the village was have Mayor Clayton tuck your kids in at night. Our kids thought that was really fun. The trip lasted 7 days, which was too short for all the stuff that we could have done there. We had a great time, came home totally tired and have a ton of great memories that should last us a lifetime.
2 comments:
What a fun trip. Looks like you guys had a ton of fun. Did you go to Gatorland? We did that when we were there years ago.
That's so cool! What a fun trip--man, you sure earned it!
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