My kids are so gullible!!
They are currently DS8
, DS5
, and DD2
.
Every year we have gone on a big summer vacation to Disney, usually right before school starts in the fall. We go on other shorter vacations as well during the year. Every year, I don't tell them that we are going to Disney, but they really should be able to put together the clues because they are so ridiculously obvious.
Normally we fly, but this year we are driving because me and my husband don't have very much work for our jobs. We are taking a 2 1/2 week vacation and seeing tons of things! My kids are just stumped because we always fly to Disney, and they can't get it out of their heads that maybe driving there would be an option.
The last 10 days are at Disney. The kids are stumped because they know we are going on vacation, but they also no we aren't flying (which we've always done before to get to Orlando).
DD2 is "The Vault". I tell her everything. She has a limited vocabularly, so what she does tell doesn't clue her brothers into anything.
Here are the not so subtle tipoffs that should have caused DD8 and DD5 to figure this out by now:
1. We go every August.
2. We went to the
Disney Store last weekend to try on princess dresses so I could figure out what size to order for DD2 (after years of boys.....yes I am enjoying this very much).
3. We've watched every Disney planning DVD that we have many times this summer (trying to get DD2 familiar with the parks and characters so that she isn't overloaded when we get there).
4. We keep watching the
Disneyland Sing Along Songs video (for the same reason).
5. We go every August.
6. The "Disney Bag" is already sitting on the floor in my bedroom. This is a DVC bag that contains the squirt bottles, pins and lanyards, and our other stuff we only use at Disney.
7. New matching Disney shirts just came in the mail from the Disney store (we buy new ones every year).
8. We go every August.
9. My DD5 begged to know....so I told him we were going to the beach. We actually are for a couple days only near the beginning of the trip...but then we are going to the Beach Club. I told him to keep it a secret!!
10. My DD8 couldn't stand knowing that DD5 knew "the secret" so he said he wanted to know too and could keep it from Daddy. So I told him we were going to the mountains. Again, we actually are spending a couple days in the Great Smoky Mountains, but obviously that is followed by some time at the "other" Disney Mountains.
11. Of course, neither of the boys are actually capable of keeping a secret, so they slipped and now they each know what the other was told, resulting in some humorous arguments about what we really are doing. Then they say that I'm lying to them, so I'll say...."okay you caught me, we are really going on safari"......but given they've already heard the mountains, beach and now safari they just really don't believe me anymore. So then DD8 says he wants to go to China, and I just say "okay".
12. Did I mention that we go to Disney every August????
Seriously....they should know by now and they probably will become convinced that it's Disney at some point. But by then we will be driving on our way (with the new Disney princess costume and pin lanyards in one of the bags), to the mountains and the beach where they will realize that I wasn't lying to them.