Walk to Disney World

So we have been saying for two years now that we are going to take the kids to Disney. It seems like everyone has gone in the past two years, except us. Why? Because we haven't been successful in saving the funds for such an adventure.
I not only wanted to save money for this trip, I wanted the kids to be involved in the saving. But I wasn't sure how to do this when the kids didn't make any money. We thought of lots of ways but none of them stuck. However, we found a new way and I hope it works.
I was browsing the Family Fun magazine one day and read an article titled "Kids walk 60 miles to Amusement Park!" In the article a family lived about 60 miles from an Amusement Park. The parents wanted their kids to be more active. So they made a chart, and for every mile they biked, walked, or ran, as a family they marked off their chart until they made it to 60.
So after reading this article I thought to myself, Hmmmm, this might be my answer to our Disney problem.
Disney World is 712 miles from us. We plan on doing more family walks/ hikes/ bike rides in the next 2.5 years and save the money we would have used towards entertainment and put it into our new Disney Savings Account. We told the kids for every mile we go as a family, we will put $5 into the account. Once we reach 712 miles we should have more then enough money to enjoy a Disney adventure. We hope to make our goal a reality in 2 and a half years.


Saturday we started our journey and hiked to the LU. (Liberty University)

RJ trying to find our house.

View at the very top.

This is what Zachery thought of the view .

There were tons of Mushrooms along the way. The kids loved counting them.

2 miles down! 710 to go!
Disney here we come!
:)