Okay, gang, I need your help. Ideas, thoughts, the whole thing. If this works, this will be the most awesome Christmas present I've ever given. But, I need it to work.
My cousin is a huge Potterhead. I mean huge. I'm a Potterhead too, but she puts me to shame. A big dream of ours is to be able to go to the Wizarding World of Harry Potter, but there's a lot of roadblocks.
about the time the theme park opened, my cousin was pregnant, and quickly became a single mother to my awesome niece, Alice :) she's now almost three, and might be coming along with us on the trip. I dunno.
also, is cousin's live in boyfriend. don't really think he's into Harry Potter, but he may just come because. again, dunno.
Biggest hurdle? MONEY. I work full time retail, and have a couple bills of my own, on top of an insane concert habit (i know, frivolous, but still). Cousin is in between jobs, making just enough money to help boyfriend, and take care of little Alice, and keep their apartment.
I want to get a piggy bank, and customize it, and give it to her as a promise that we're going. we're gonna make it. I save up my change all year to be able to afford another gift, and I was thinking of putting it all in there as a starter fund.
:Looking at prices though, it's gonna be 400 for the two of us to fly one way, and 400 to come back from Dallas to Orlando. It's also going to be over 500 for us to have 2-3 days in the park. I don't know if we'll be able to save almost a grand up in time to make the trip around her birthday in July.
What can I do? I really want this to work, I just don't know if it will.