It is amazing the details that are in Pandora @waltdisneyworld Animal kingdom✨
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They are easy to miss if your not looking especially if the line is quickly moving✨
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The @waltdisneyimagineering has done a terrific job at making the queue an immersive experience ✨
It was fun to see the @disneyraya display @waltdisneyworld Animal Kingdom✨
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It was such a cute movie! And not far from the display was where we picked up the adorable Baby TukTuk treat @starbucks called Creature Comforts✨
Oh to be back @waltdisneyworld hanging out in France #epcot #epcotflowerandgardenfestival enjoying a delicious treat ✨
When you step into Pandora-The World of Avatar @waltdisneyworld you feel like you have stepped into another planet. The Imagineers did a wonderful job of defying gravity with mountains that float above and bioluminescent
landscape. You become completely immersed into the movie.
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When you complete Flight of Passage your path will lead you to Windtraders shop. Probably one of the coolest shops in all of Disneyworld . The walls have been overtaken with roots growing so you almost feel like you are under the Hometree of the Na’vi.
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This is where you will find the beautiful display of the Na’vi princess Neytiri✨
One of the reasons we ❤️homeschooling is how flexible we get to be in learning new things.
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A sweet friend came over a few days ago to teach us to knit 🧶. She did a wonderful job of teaching us and we were all able to get a few rows completed. Yay!
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I love that I get to learn right along with my littles. They are growing so quickly and the scales are tipping from I need a break to I want to cherish every moment 💜
Anastasia Tremaine .. Cinderella’s step-sister is one of the funniest character meetups @waltdisneyworld . Her and her sister Drizella put on a fun show that you can’t help but stop by and watch✨
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Bravo to the castmembers who do such an amazing job✨
Cooking with our homeschool pod.. Flan 🍮
We hosted our first American Girl Doll History Class recently. Our doll of the month was Kaya and we had a fun time learning all about her tribe the Nez Perce.
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The girls are sent their monthly work they can do at home and then once a month ,I host a Tea Party where we can come together and talk about the doll of the month and what we learned. The girls also earn class money from doing their homework, answering questions and the vocabulary bingo that they can then purchase items for their dolls. So fun!
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Our Tea Party food is based on what Kaya would have eaten such as seeds, berries and popcorn.
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We then cleanup and do an activity that Doll would have done.. for Kaya we did weaving.
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Then the girls shopped and chatted .. it was a wonderful time!
Here are some of the Kaya item we used ..by clicking on the links below we will receive a portion of your sale. Thanks for supporting us ✨
Just finished reading this and it was so good.. definitely worth adding to your reading list.
This book was packed with betrayal, a orphan and a marriage of convenience. The author weaves a beautiful story of how it all comes together.
This is the third book in the series ❤️
Kicking off the start of a new week with some money saving tips to help you plan your Disney Vacation. Do you make a budget or just pay as you go when you plan a vacation? We have done both and over the years we have learned that having a budget is a great tool to give us freedom to purchase what we like without the guilt of are we overspending. It cuts down on the impulse buys and makes us really consider what we are buying. Plus it cuts down on financial stress between my husband & I because we both have a clear picture of what the plan is.
Today I’m going to share my budget with you for our last trip to Disney.Let us know what you think.
Disneyland May/June 2019
Budget $6000 for a family of 5
8 days total and this total includes our day trip to Universal.
Airfare roundtrip for 5=$750
Homewood Suites for 7nights /8 days- $1250 Airport parking-$75/8 days
Airport transfer to hotel-$69
Airport transfer to airport-$70
5 day park hoppers 2/ kids & 1/adult-$1029
4 days of maxpass@$15 a day/3=$180
Annual pass 2/adults-paid for last trip -0$
Food budget $75 for 2 meals a day=$150 x 8 days=$1200
Spending budget for snacks/souvenirs=$50 per person= $250
Universal trip
Universal 1 day tickets /3 adults /2 kids-$548
Transportation to universal-$170
This puts us @ $5,591. We allow the rest for a buffer zone to add in tips and anything we may have forgotten.
Lets start with Park Tickets.
Disney raises their prices each year so we wanted to catch them before they did for 2019. Here’s the breakdown..
Current price 5 day hopper
$395 {10 & above}
$375 {3-9}
We bought our tickets through #getawaytoday and purchased a 5 day hopper {prices have changed}
$355 {10 and above}
$337 {3-9} we bought 2 of these
Total we saved $116
That’s about a 10% savings!
Here is one of the simplest ways we saved on our food and souvenirs for #disney
Before our trip, we went to target to pick up Disney gift cards for the trip. I purchased $1450 in gift cards and saved $72.50 by using my target red card and saving 5%. We then used the gift cards to pay for everything from food/ snacks to souvenirs. The only draw back is you are walking around with lots of gift cards. A solution that worked for us was to number the gift cards and take pics of the codes so we could keep track of them and if we did lose one we could call and cancel it.We also used our Annualpass discount every time we purchased which gave us another savings on top of the gift cards.. it really does all add up!
Do you have any favorite ways of saving? Share them with us!
