Every four years or so the grade school calendar and Christmas allow for about 10 days of Christmas vacation before Christmas Day.
My wife and I decided to "go for it" and packed-up in the minivan with our five kids and drove to Disney World to enjoy the parks at a special time of year when they are decorated beyond the extraordinary standard Disney is known for achieving and avoiding the "Christmas rush."
Granted, there were alot of reasons to keep us from going, the expense, the craziness of traveling with five young children, etc... Never again though were all five children going to be at a "magical age" for Disney - 11 years old, 9, 6, 4 and 2 1/2.
It reminds me of one of the 80/20 principle "top 10" high-value uses time. If it's "no or never," it's always a high-value use of time.
We were rewarded with very special memories, especially a journal we kept of our 21-day, 4,200 mile journey together (by the way, after driving from Dallas to Orlando, we drove to see my wife's father for Christmas in Sturgis, Michigan and then back to Dallas).
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