Florida bound??

Ok, so maybe we're crazy, but we're entitled to a moment of madness once in a while, right?!? Today Jacob competed in his district Bible quizzing meet and qualified to go to the World Quiz in Orlando in late June! We had pretty much ruled it out since it's in Orlando for goodness sake before today even rolled around. But today, after he found out he qualified, he was really excited and all but begged us to go.

So we did some number crunching tonight and said a little prayer that it would all line up. And, boy howdy, did it... First of all Grammy said, "Sure, I'll keep Josh for a few days!" (Thank you, Grammy!!) Then we went on priceline.com and low-balled an offer to the Orlando hotel market. Came back on the first try. $45 a night at the Hyatt across from Universal Studios. Hmmm... Guess we'd better start socking away a little cash for gas money, huh?

He's at a slumber party tonight and has no idea that we've already lined up everything to make this happen. We're going to make sure he signs a "contract" that he'll continue to study for three more months (even though he was just complaining about having to study so much this past week!). To save money, we're going to make the 17-hour drive straight through (at least our plan for now) and hope we don't spend all our money at Starbucks on the way down. :)

So, we'll keep you all posted. Kinda crazy, we know, but this is his only shot at going to the World Quiz as it only comes up every four years. Next time it rolls around he'll be too old... And it's honestly the kind of trip that lifetime memories come from... And we're not missing out on that...

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