I don't wanna be at home, I wanna be at Disney World.

(Mommy asks Alex what would have made the vacation even more fun.)
Alex: If we could stay here forever.


(The bus to the airport approaches.)
Mommy: That's our bus.
Alex: Yippee!
Claire (excited): We never ride on this bus!


(getting on the bus)
Claire: My shoe fell off!


Alex: I don't wanna go, I like our hotel. Daddy, I like our hotel, I don't wanna go home.


Claire: Look at that airplane! Alex, come, there’s an airplane!


(on the plane)
Alex: I don't wanna go back home.
Daddy: What?
Alex: I don't wanna go back to Virginia.
Daddy: Ohhh. Why not?
Alex: ‘Cause I liked seeing Mickey.


(The plane is approaching Richmond.)

Claire: When are we going to Disney again?

Claire: Daddy, when are we going to California?


(driving home in the car)

Alex: I had fun here.
Claire: Me too.
Alex: And now I wanna go home and rest.
Claire: And I'm gonna tell my friends all about it.

Claire: I wanna go home and pet my doggie.

Alex: I hope they like the transportation I went on.
Claire: Me too.


(driving home from the airport)

Claire: Mommy, why is the (inaudible)?
Mommy: To keep the cars from --
Alex: I can tell her. So, so nobody bumps into each other. And, do not drive on the white part because, the policeman will give you a ticket.
Claire: But Alex. I saw a white one go straight out like this.

Alex: Just going across it, and going on a different road? Did he do that?
Claire: No. (inaudible) It was a tiny straight one, it was just (inaudible) this way, no I mean this way, and it was so tiny, and we went over it.
Claire: Well, Claire, we went, that’s weird, just, I don’t know what that’s for if you just want to get on a different road’s just, I don’t know why.

Claire: I know what you should do!
Alex: What?
Claire: Shouldn’t bump into another car.
Alex: What if it’s an accident? If a bad guy does that. Only bad guys do that, then they put them in jail, or give them a ticket. If they do that.
Claire: Alex, when a policeman does – no, when a bad guy does, something to a car, um, the… um… policeman
Alex: He might get in jail, or get a ti—
Claire (upset): No I was gonna tell you that!
(Claire starts whimpering.)
Alex: I thought you were asking.
Claire: I was telling you.
Alex: Okay. I forget it.
(Claire says something very quietly.)
Alex: What? What?
Claire: The policeman come and put you in jail.
Alex: Uh, I heard you. I heard you now.
Alex: I heard you. That he puts you in jail.

Claire: Is this the highway?
Mommy: No, not yet.
Claire: Oh.
(Pause.)
Claire: But we were going fast.
Mommy: Yeah.
(Pause.)
Claire: Mommy, how do you make your car go fast?
Mommy: You press on the gas pedal.
Claire: Oh.


Claire: What’s this road called?
Mommy: Two ninety-five.
Alex: And this is the highway. Because we’re going faaaaaaast.
Claire: Mommy, is this the highway?
Mommy: Yes.
Alex: See.
Claire: Don’t say “see”!
Alex: Sorry.


Alex: Claire, say, bye, bye, um… uh, merry-go-round.
Claire: What?
Claire: Bye-bye, merry-go-round!
Alex: Because you like that ride, don’t you.
Claire: Yeah, because I like the purple horse.

Claire: Alex, I saw that (inaudible) more people are going back home.
Alex: And I like the Pooh ride.
Claire: Me too. But Alex, I don’t like the Pooh ride, and you don’t like it.
Alex: Well, I did a little bit.
Claire: I did a little bit too.
Alex: I – I was worried right from the lightning, and the rain, but, uh…
Claire: I was scared of the storm.
Alex: But, and I liked, Tigger’s thing. “Come bounce with me!”
Claire: Me too, and I was, and I, liked this thing too.
Alex: And (inaudible) stepping down on his tail.
Claire: I liked seeing Pooh.
Alex: And he had a (inaudible), he drinked up all his honey.
Claire: Yeah.
Alex: He loves honey!
Claire: Yeah, he – he loves honey.
Claire: He was gonna eat his honey tree.
Alex: What?
Claire (laughing): He was gonna eat his honey tree ‘cause he loves honey.
Alex (laughing): Yeah.
(Long pause.)
Claire: He really loves honey!
Claire: He really, really, really loves honey!

(Claire is telling Daddy not to rest his hand on the back of Mommy’s seat.)
Alex: Claire, worry about yourself.
Claire: What?
Alex: Worry about yourself.
Claire: I can’t hear you.
Alex: Worry about yourself.
Claire: I can’t hear still.
Alex: Worry about yourself.
Claire: Yell.
Alex: Worry about yourself.
Claire: Do it a little louder!
Alex (whining): Mommy? Claire keeps doing that!
Mommy: I know.
Claire: And I can’t hear you.
Alex (whining): I know she can hear me, because, I’m talking in my regular voice.
Claire: Alex, you’re whining though, I can’t hear you when you’re whining.
Daddy: Claire Bear. Let’s just, not talk about that. You wanna talk about something else?
Claire: Yeah.
Daddy: What?
Claire: Uh… I don’t know.
Alex: Or we could play a game.
Daddy: Yup.
Claire: Play a game! How ‘bout I pick the thing that we’re gonna do. How ‘bout we find… a (inaudible)? How ‘bout we find a taxi?
Daddy: Okay, let’s find a taxi.
Alex: Now, Daddy has to find it before time’s up. Daddy has to find it –
Claire: Why does Daddy have to find it? I thought all of us have to find it.
Alex: Well, how ‘bout Mommy and Daddy do that, and, and you can tell us what to find, and I’ll tell you when it – when time’s up. If you haven’t found it, that’s too bad, if you did find it, that’s good.
Claire: All right. I’ll tell the thing right now, ‘kay?
Alex: Okay.
Claire: Let’s find – we shouldn’t tell a car because, it’s easy, right?
Alex: Yeah.
Claire: How ‘bout… … how ‘bout a taxi?
Alex: Okay.
Claire: Somebody find a taxi!
Alex: Go!
Claire: Go!

Alex: Time’s almost up.

Alex: Uh-oh.
Claire: What?
Alex: Just one minute left!

Alex: Time’s up!

Alex: All right. Let’s play again!
Claire: Then let’s find a sign.
Alex (laughing): Hey, that’s too easy! Time’s up!
(Alex and Claire laugh.)
Alex: More signs! More signs!
Claire: Then let’s do a different thing.
Claire… You said “signs”, and we already found –
Claire: There’s another sign!
Alex: Two signs, because I alr – I saw a blue one down a different road!
Claire: More signs!
Alex: Ah, we’re seeing too many signs, throw some of them away ahhhhh bang.
Claire: We threw all of them away.
Alex: Let’s find a car! I found a car ahhhhhh!


Alex: Look! Mommy, while we were gone my beanstalk grew!


(in bed)
Alex: I don't wanna be at home, I wanna be at Disney World.