The Education of a Lifetime

I’ve made no bones about keeping my son out of school in the name of going on family vacations.  And, in the words of my son’s teacher "it’s not like you are going down on the Alabama River camping”.  No, indeed, we were going to Disney World and the education my children gained was simply limited by their imaginations. 

And, if you’ve ever been to Disney, you know that with a bit of imagination, you can go anywhere.  The education began with a 2010 GM Chevy Equinox being delivered to our home.  And, we have decent auto’s but we don’t have anything that even remotely resembles the Equinox. 

There’s tons more for me to tell but a story developed that is way funnier. 

We have had a good time using the Onstar on the car even though in most cases, we already knew our way to our destination.  We are about 50 miles from home and deviated from the Onstar route.  When the lady in the car asked if we wanted Onstar to calculate a new route, Jace (5-year-old) answered yes before my husband could say no.  And, with that, the lady in the computer said, “Calculating a new route” and the boys went absolutely nuts. 

And, to be honest, I couldn’t help but laugh myself.  Then, Walker (7 year old) starts to giggle and by this time we are all laughing our heads off.  Now, Wayne is teasing the boys that we are lost and that we are headed back to Disney.  He is assuring the boys that we are lost because Jace told the Onstar to take us another route. 

Walker is flipping out.  He is begging Wayne to hit the Onstar button and asked where we are but Jace remains consistent that he knows where we are and he has been this way before (and he has many many many…too many times). 

Walker is now begging me to use the GPS on my phone to get directions while Jace is absolutely certain that it’s all going to be ok because all we have to do is hit the Onstar button again.

The lessons learned……….and honestly, this is not the best educational benefactor of this trip, it just turned into it and I couldn’t help but share. 

More later…….

Ahhh, in the time it took me to post that photo, Walker has decided he recognizes the area as being near his basketball area (which is way wrong) but Jace has assured us that “yes, I told you I knew this was the right way”.  Ahhhh the joy of these little minds.