Going to Disney-on a budget of course!

I am on a weird schedule at work which may explain why I will be posting more frequently this week. I volunteered to cover a shift for someone who went on vacation this week and part of next week. My husband wasn’t too happy since it requires me to come home in the wee-hours of the night. I love it. I have no traffic, no bosses to deal with, and get a lot of “dead” time. This shift is awesome, but not great for those with families. I am missing out on dinnertime, homework, and listening to my husband yell at the TV while he is watching the World Series. Actually doesn’t sound too bad to me.

So, since I am off this Saturday, we decided to go to Orlando and the family will be trick-or-treating with Mickey Mouse again this year. I really like the fact that Halloween fell on the weekend. We get to go on a weekend and not worry about missing school or work. Gosh, I think it has been over a year since the last time we went out of town. My golly it has been over a year! I just looked up my old blog post from last year when we went. Yeah, I know, I keep track of these things well, don’t I? lol Time flies I tell ya. Besides budget restraints, we have animals. Traveling with animals is not easy, not with ours anyway. My dog does not bark, she howls and she howls quite loudly! Even though there are hotels that allow animals, we don’t do them unless we have to…like the one time we did with Hurricane Wilma. Oh gosh, it did not go well. So since our dog is due for her shots, she will stay at our vets office overnight. The other animals are going to grandmas.

This trip will definitely not be a budget buster. As much as I love my Disney Resorts, I could not find a good deal this month on them. I did find a brand new hotel that was very reasonable. I always get nervous when we stay somewhere I am not familiar with, but we will see. I also booked the room using my rewards points account so I not only saved money, I earned points towards a gift card for Christmas too. We are taking our non-gas-guzzling Honda for the drive and will be packing our own food for the day. The only thing we really had to pay for were the tickets, which were a little high for a frugal person like me, but still cheaper than going to Disney World on a normal day. We paid for the hotel and the tickets with money I earned for a writing project that I did for a private client a few weeks ago. So we did not need to touch our savings.

What’s really nice is we are going knowing that everything is all paid for. No credit card bill will be coming next month for it. I know, it is only a day trip but I am so happy to be going somewhere for a day.