Disney Travel Journals

I love to keep a travel journal for all of our vacations. I include all the info from what we did each day. On travel days I keep track of how far we drove, where we stopped to eat, and where we stayed the night. (I even keep info about what exits on the highway had great playplaces for the kids to burn off some energy.) And for the rest of the days of vacation I keep track of all the activities of the day and especially where we ate. This is helpful for when I am doing my scrapbooking and for when I am planning future vacations. My travel journals are done for my sake, but I want my kids to begin keeping travel journals as well. I love to hear about the things that they think are memorable about each day. The places that they enjoy and things they liked to eat are sometimes not what I thought they would enjoy. I couldn't find a travel journal that I liked anywhere so I set off to make my own.

I found a design on the DIS boards and used it as a template. The Disigner had completed her book on Microsoft PowerPoint so that is what I used for my book. I changed the book quite a bit to make it match up exactly to our trip. I had to duplicate some of the pages since we spent 2 days at Epcot and 2 days at Magic Kingdom. And it helped since I knew where we were going to eat each day and what things we would do at the parks. I didn't give the kids their books until the end of the trip, so I had to keep track of their favorites each night so that I could help them fill in their books at the end of the week. On the bus ride back to the resort each night I would interview the kids about their favorite rides, snacks, foods, characters, and attractions. I recorded their answers in my phone and then we completed their books together when we got home from vacation. I will make Travel Journals for our next vacation too, but I will probably design them differently and will most likely use Microsoft Publisher.