Mason Family roadtrip trip report :)

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Mason Family roadtrip trip report :)

So we leave in 6 days for our first ever roadtrip and our first ever spring trip to Disney. We usually only go once a year in November but my cousin said we could stay at her house (she lives in Orlando) and we have annual passes so this trip was kind of like a why not since all we would have to pay for would be gas and food. You all know that i don't really like to write trip reports where I list what we do every day so I will only talk about the things that are new to us this trip. Those would be.....

Driving from Ohio to Florida
Flower and Garden Festival
Staying off property
Character breakfast and Hollywood and Vine with the Disney Junior Characters

We also have some time already scheduled to hang out with Jessi to. So excited to see her again....We love hanging out with her and my kids love her to Smile

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Holy cow I can't believe you are down to 6 days already!!

clapping clapping clapping clapping clapping yay yay yay yay yay

Enjoy mickey

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So excited for you guys! Want to detour through Pennsylvania and pick me up? Its not that far out of your way. wink

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yay for only six more days!!!

Have a very safe drive from Ohio! We'll be following behind two days later from Chicago! Smile

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Kris1971 wrote:
So excited for you guys! Want to detour through Pennsylvania and pick me up? Its not that far out of your way. wink

You know we would love to Smile

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Yay! You're so close! I can't wait to hear all about the new things you're trying out!

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Jess wrote:
Kris1971 wrote:
So excited for you guys! Want to detour through Pennsylvania and pick me up? Its not that far out of your way. wink

You know we would love to Smile

muchlove

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YEAH!!!! clapping

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And since this is kinda a test trip to see if we ever do this again... ill just hijack my wifes thread and post in here as well. Ill do more video reports like last time. Seemed easier than actually writing things out. Ill do some from the road as well. And if anyone is familiar with Vine... ill do some Vine videos and maybe post some here. Just got to get through this work day, and then I can get ready.

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clapping 3 more days!!! You must be ready to explode lol

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Jess and the kids are. I just wanna get through the driving. Especially the Turn Pike in WV. Once through that, and we get to Georgia... ill be golden. awesome

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I can not wait to see what you think about the drive. We have done it for years, many many years. We even did it when the boys were little. To us, the road trip is part of our vacation. I will admit it is a bit more enjoyable now that it is just the two of us though. Are you guys driving straight through or are you stopping overnight someplace? We did drive straight through once and once was enough. That was just too tiring.

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Both ways we will be stopping, but on Thursday were gonna drive to Savannah, Georgia which should be around 12-14 hours. So the first day will be a long one. But then its a hop, skip and a tiny jump to Disney the next day. One the way back we wont be as aggressive. Splitting it half and half.

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We can't wait for the "Mase Report". We did the 20 hr drive from Oklahoma to Orlando straight through last Dec. Never again. Smart idea stoping.

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Magic Days wrote:
We can't wait for the "Mase Report". We did the 20 hr drive from Oklahoma to Orlando straight through last Dec. Never again. Smart idea stoping.

awesome

I like the sound of that... lol biggrin

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Testing out a new app

http://youtu.be/7tSsssWxJtI

Guess the links it gives won't post the video. Only a link..... Can staff add http://youtu.be to be viewable?

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Mase wrote:
Can staff add http://youtu.be to be viewable?

I don't think that I have a way to do that.
I'll look into it, I think Admin is out of town at the moment.

The test video looks good though!

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Yay! It's so close! Have a safe and fun trip....and I can't wait for more videos!

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Mase wrote:
Testing out a new app

http://youtu.be/7tSsssWxJtI

Guess the links it gives won't post the video. Only a link..... Can staff add http://youtu.be to be viewable?

Mase, I got an email from Brad who said try this link instead
h t t p s : // w w w . y o u t u b e . c o m / w a t c h ? v = 7 t S s s s W x J t I

(I added spaces above for you to see because when I dropped it in it worked!)

https://

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YAY! MASE VIDEOS! YOUR FAMILY IS AWESOME! Can't wait to follow along!

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Kristen K. wrote:
Mase wrote:
Testing out a new app

http://youtu.be/7tSsssWxJtI

Guess the links it gives won't post the video. Only a link..... Can staff add http://youtu.be to be viewable?

Mase, I got an email from Brad who said try this link instead
h t t p s : // w w w . y o u t u b e . c o m / w a t c h ? v = 7 t S s s s W x J t I

(I added spaces above for you to see because when I dropped it in it worked!)

https://

I mean I know how I do it. But all of the YouTube apps now give you this shorter URL. If I want to add that link... I have to go to the regular YouTube site... which is very hard to get to via Mobile Device because they want to use these shorter URL's. Was just recommending this because it seems as if this is what YouTube is going to now. But I guess ill have to try to edit my link and change the http://youtu.be/ to h t t p s : // w w w . y o u t u b e . c o m / w a t c h ? v =

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Mase wrote:

I mean I know how I do it. But all of the YouTube apps now give you this shorter URL. If I want to add that link... I have to go to the regular YouTube site... which is very hard to get to via Mobile Device because they want to use these shorter URL's. Was just recommending this because it seems as if this is what YouTube is going to now. But I guess ill have to try to edit my link and change the http://youtu.be/ to h t t p s : // w w w . y o u t u b e . c o m / w a t c h ? v =

It's possible I didn't explain what you needed it to do quite right. The contact form email (in the bar at the top) should go right to him if you want to give it another shot. The other mods and I don't have any way to authorize specific URLs.
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The Night Before the Storm

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Drive safely Mase! I hope you have open roads clear of traffic, quiet kids who don't ask if you're there yet every 10 minutes laugh , and that you hit your goal of Savannah!

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So far were looking great. We are in Virginia having lunch. So far making great time. Before this break. Tomtom has putting us in at 6:10pm. So was thinking around 8. But so far. Every stop I've been making up plus time. So I'm thinking 7:30. Originally tomtom had us in at 6:30. So yeah. Doing well.

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The kids have been very well behaved other then my daughter asking quite frequently if we are there yet

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Mase wrote:
So far were looking great. We are in Virginia having lunch. So far making great time. Before this break. Tomtom has putting us in at 6:10pm. So was thinking around 8. But so far. Every stop I've been making up plus time. So I'm thinking 7:30. Originally tomtom had us in at 6:30. So yeah. Doing well.

Virginia? Well poop you should have stopped to see me!

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Jess wrote:
The kids have been very well behaved other then my daughter asking quite frequently if we are there yet

I think you're going to hear that a lot on the ride down! biggrin

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Have fun & be safe!

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Sounds like you're making fantastic time! I'm so excited for you! yay