I have always loved my holidays. After I left school, I just wanted a job so I could get money and go on holiday. I always need to have something booked, it gets me through my life!
Holidays haven’t stopped since having our son, but the recent years have been either UK holidays or shorter flights.
We have booked Florida for next year and I’m a bit nervous. We have learned over the years not to make a fuss and just keep walking whether it’s in the door of somewhere new, or with characters, so I think we are armed with more information and strategies on dealing with him than eve before, but you just never know how he is going to react.
This is a special holiday as it’s my husband and sister’s 40th birthday year – the reason we are doing this big tip – but also because most of our family in America are going to come and join us in Florida for a family reunion.
As our son has a blue badge, we should get a fast pass to help with the queues in the theme parks – I need to do a bit of homework on this. Queues in Florida heat won’t be much fun!
In preparation, I have Florida brochures and we have been looking through them and looking at our hotel. We will also tell our family not to make a fuss when they see us. Only one cousin has met our son, the rest of my family haven’t, so they will need to keep calm! We will look at photos of them before we go too so he knows who we will be seeing.
He has been ok on aeroplane’s so far but this is a longer flight so we just need to prepare a bit more for it. Santa is going to be bringing some fidget toys he can play with on the plane!
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