Our next trip!!!

So, we homeschool and we try to make everything worthwhile for a learning experience. My family is going to Disney, meaning my brother and his family and my parents. They want everyone there and that means us too.
DH wasn't going to be able to get off from work(and still might not be able), but I planned to go anyway. I am not going to miss Disney!!!!!!
WEll, I began to plan and it just never seemed to be happening because DH and I kept disagreeing. FINALLY, I found out information on discount Disney tickets that include a class taught in Disney by Disney. I sold DH on the idea that we can do a family trip, while making it homeschool and cheap!
I ordered tickets for the 4 of us and Chloe gets to do 2 classes. American History and Ocean Conservation. She is totally excited to be able to do them. I will post how they work and if they are worth it.
We talked about going to FL early and doing Universal and Sea World. Both would be exciting for both kids. Harry Potter and Sea Life come on who wouldn't love that?
We, are leaving Disney before everyone else and potentially headed to Columbia,SC to do a musuem lock-in and learn about life in the civil war maing our own soap and candles and cloth. EXCITING! Then the next day we get to do Body Worlds exhibit. Not sure about it since it is really human bodies donated to science and preserved in plastic.
While is SC, we plan to do the Zoo and the Children's museum and show the kids our own haunts. After, we are either driving to NC to do a homeschool day at the museum there or driving to Williamsburg and doing Great Wolf Lodge.
The Great Wolf Lodge would be to make up for Joel being sick and we had to cancel a previously scheduled trip. It was within the 72 hour window, so we had to reschedule and not get a refund of our deposit.
Anyway, that is a brief synopsis of what is planned.
as we plan more I will post more!

Memories

Today,as part of our school day, we are going through all the pamphlets and brochures we picked up on our cross country trip. It is interesting that you can remember it, but not remember it. Meaning that you have it as part of your memory, but not until you see something to trigger it such as a map or a ticket.
We have decided to place the road maps we picked up on the wall. Then we are putting up the brochures and running string from the brochure to the city it is located in on the map.
I thought it would be a great way to learn about maps,miles,distance,capitals, cities vs towns, interstates vs routes etc. We will see how it goes. We are waiting on daddy to come home so he can help us. He did the majority of the driving, so he is helping us map out our trip.
Our next task will be to add the mementos we collected to the kids own scrapbooks. They made them before we went on our trip, but didn't do what we had hoped and add thoughts and mementos during our trip. I know we are a lot behind, but something is better than never doing it!
That trip was still one of the BEST family vacations we have ever done. We stuck it out and spent so much time together, we grew as a family in so many ways we just couldn't do at home and on the weekends.
I will try to post pictures of it when we are finished.