Make A Wish Trip: Give Kids the World


If you've never heard of Give Kids The World, we're here to tell you that everyone should know about this place. The story is amazing. It is a resort near Disney that was started by a Holocaust survivor named Henri Landwirth. He missed his entire childhood by being in concentration camps and he believed that no child should ever miss their childhood for something out of their control. Thus, he created GKTW, a resort specifically tailored and 100% donated to kids with critical illnesses. 

This was our house for the week!

In this hall, every child gets a star which is put up in the castle of wishes. 

Evyn was 100% obsessed with the merry go round. Every time we passes it she had to hop on!


Cooper at GKTW

GKTW is a wonderful place where kids make all the rules. They serve ice cream starting at 7:00am! They also have a holiday every day of the week since many of the kids are in the hospital for Christmas, Halloween, their birthday, etc. They literally get to do everything in one week!
Character breakfasts!

Evyn loved the characters from far away but needed big brother's help when getting closer.



We were so lucky to have both sets of grandparents there to help us with Evyn and to be there for the trip. Evyn is little young for 7 days in theme parks and we also wanted to make sure that Cooper didn't miss out on anything so it was really nice to have some help taking her for naps so we could ride rides with Cooper. 

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