ExcitedMama
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- Aug 29, 2013
For the first time we will be out of town for my daughter’s birthday. My husband has a work conference in Palm Springs in September so we are tagging along. I had planned out a great surprise stop at DL with BBB and F! package at BB that I was excited to surprise her with on our way down. We just found out that my husband will have another conference in OC in October so budget wise it makes a lot more sense to scrap my surprise trip and buy our multi day PH for that trip since the 1 day is so expensive. I know I could add some sort of note on her birthday to do BBB on our next trip but that would be a long way away for her and not the immediate surprise I was going for. I’m trying to come up with something else instead. I’d love to do something great on her birthday but I don’t think Palm Springs really caters to a 6 year old!
We are driving from Monterey so it’s a very long drive that we wanted to break up. We will be coming down 5 so there would a ton of options for stopping. She loves American Girl so I was thinking of stopping there to eat at The Grove. We need pit stops at both ends of our trip and we were thinking of stopping and spending the night somewhere or just stopping and breaking up the drive. Any reasonably priced places that would be fun to stay? What else would be fun to do special for her? We did Universal last fall so her brother could do all things Harry Potter and she really wants to but that’s out until she’s tall enough. She really wants to do a real tea party but I cannot find a reasonably priced fun kids one. Unfortunately the DL one has a very short window that would be too hard for us to do on a travel day. She loves to swim, any fun hotels with great pools for kids? A lazy river? We’ve never done Wolf Lodge and I’m not sure about that. I’m worried about all the chlorine I’ve read about. She wears goggles on her swim team but if there’s too much chlorine she gets red eyes pretty quickly and complains. What else am I missing that would be the perfect thing to do if DL is out?
We are driving from Monterey so it’s a very long drive that we wanted to break up. We will be coming down 5 so there would a ton of options for stopping. She loves American Girl so I was thinking of stopping there to eat at The Grove. We need pit stops at both ends of our trip and we were thinking of stopping and spending the night somewhere or just stopping and breaking up the drive. Any reasonably priced places that would be fun to stay? What else would be fun to do special for her? We did Universal last fall so her brother could do all things Harry Potter and she really wants to but that’s out until she’s tall enough. She really wants to do a real tea party but I cannot find a reasonably priced fun kids one. Unfortunately the DL one has a very short window that would be too hard for us to do on a travel day. She loves to swim, any fun hotels with great pools for kids? A lazy river? We’ve never done Wolf Lodge and I’m not sure about that. I’m worried about all the chlorine I’ve read about. She wears goggles on her swim team but if there’s too much chlorine she gets red eyes pretty quickly and complains. What else am I missing that would be the perfect thing to do if DL is out?