Hello, my bucket list friends! In January I went on a very fun family vacation to Florida. I crossed off two bucket list items while I was on vacation and I’m so excited to tell you all about it . I had a lot of fun during my first vacation on 2026 so let’s get to it
January 25th – This was the day that my vacation began! It took two planes to get to Florida but I was very happy to be there. We stayed at Disney’s Old Key West hotel. This hotel is huge! I went to the gift shop and I got a magnet with the hotel’s name on it. After getting to our room we went out to dinner. While we were on our way to dinner I saw a bunch of gift shops. After dinner we went to the mermaid gift shop. This gift shop was so much fun to explore. There were so many souvenirs to choose from. I got a hat, a shirt, keychains and more! This day was a good start to a great vacation.
January 26th – Today was the day we went to Epcot. I enjoyed going on some of my favorite rides here including living with the land, The Seas with Nemo and Friends, Gran Fiesta Tour Starring The Three Caballeros, and Test track. I also enjoyed exploring the world showcase. I loved collecting the free post cards. It was also the festival of the arts I liked seeing the decorations and I also had fun doing a paint by numbers activity. Two other highlights of the day were getting a fun coffee drink and eating at the space 220 restaurant. I’m glad I got to visit Epcot again.
January 27th – On this day I crossed an item off my bucket list by visiting another Crayola Experience location. I had been to the Crayola Experience location in the Mall of America back in 2018. I loved it so much that I put visiting another Crayola Experience location on my bucket list. I had a fun time visiting the Orlando location. I had a great time making art with melted wax, making my own crayon label, making coloring pages with my picture on it and making other fun projects. I even got my picture sketched by a robot! Oh and there was this area where you could draw with chalk on the walls and I wrote Let’s go Mets more than once. They had a photo booth and I took some fun pictures there. Included with my ticket I got a free scribble scrubby toy. There were so many coloring pages and projects here. I took some with me so I could use them later. The gift shop here was beyond amazing there were so many Crayola products that you could buy. I got so many fun souvenirs including a shirt, another scribble scrubby toy, a coloring book, an ornament and a pack of markers. I highly recommend going to the Crayola experience I could write a whole blog post about everything I did here. Some other quick highlights are the pressed penny machine , getting soda in a Crayola cup , the silly putty claw machine and doing rubbings with crayons. The Crayola Experience is located in a mall so after I wrapped up my time there, I went to the American girl store. It had been I long time since I had gone to an American Girl store and I was so happy to have the chance to go to one again. I had a good time looking at all the displays and seeing some of the new items that are available. I bought the American Girl sticker book that I had been wanting I also got a shirt with the old American Girl logo on it and a chocolate bar with and American Girl wrapper. I also went to Claire’s .There was a great clearance sale going on and I was able to get a lot of fun items for a great price. This mall actually had two Claire’s locations at I got to go to them both. Later that day I went to the Rainforest Cafe in Disney Springs. I love this cafe so much but we don’t have one where I live. After eating I went to the Rainforest Cafe gift shop where I got a mug and a ball. I love that they have items on clearance here. After dinner I got coffee it was a great vacation day.
January 28th – On this day we went on a day trip to St. Augustine. We went on a tour where we got to see a lot of different places around St. Augustine. We also did a tour of an old jail. My favorite part of our St. Augustine adventure was the Fountain of Youth. It was fun drinking from the fountain but my favorite part was seeing the peacocks and getting to feed them. They are truly beautiful birds. I just loved taking pictures of them. We only had a short amount of time in St. Augustine it would be fun to go back sometime to have more adventures. On the way back that night we stopped at one of my favorite places. For the 2nd time in my life I got to got to Bucee’s. I had so much fun shopping here there we even some Valentine’s day items. Some of the items I got where a stationary set, a magnet, a hairbow, a coloring book, a tin of mints, and a rubber duck. Shopping here was the perfect end to this fun day.
January 29th – This was the day I went on a solo adventure to Magic Kingdom. I had not been here since 2021 and I was excited to go on the Tron roller coaster. My first ride of the day was the people mover. I love this ride it was the perfect way to start the day. My next ride was Tron I had a pass for it so I didn’t have to wait in the long line. I loved this ride it was very thrilling and I wish I could have ridden it twice. It seemed like it was a somewhat busy day at the park but I still got to go ride the rides that I wanted to the most Including Winnie The Pooh , It’s a small world, the carousal, jungle cruise, and the barnstormer plus more. I also did some shopping of course. My favorite thing that I bought was a Winnie the pooh bead kit. The Winnie the Pooh ride is my favorite. I had a great day here but I was so tired at the end of my adventured filled day.
January 30th – On this day I crossed off a bucket list item but before I did that I went to Disney Springs. I went to the Coca cola store and I got some fun items including some polar bear items. I also got coffee. Then it was time to cross off a bucket list item. I took the bus to Fort Wilderness. I had put exploring Fort Wilderness on my bucket list because one of my favorite sing a long videos was filmed there. I remember watching it a lot as a kid. This place is huge so I did not get to explore all of it but I did enjoy walking around. It was a nice day and I’m glad I went on this adventure. I walked to a store where I got a snack. It would be so fun to stay here sometime. There were also horses here. There was an outdoor theater that was really cool . I’m glad I crossed this item off off my list. That night we went out for ice cream it was a great way to say goodbye to this great vacation.
January 31st – This was the day I came back home from a wonderful vacation. At the airport I got a very cute bear that had different locations in Florida on it. I’m so happy I got that bear I’m also happy I got to go on this Wonderful vacation.
Thank you for reading love, Christina Epperly





































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































