After saying that it was going to miss us, that snow storm is going to hit us after all. This is the first snow storm of the year, and of course it's going to hit the day we're supposed to fly.
Corwin, I hope that your son is recovering well and that you somehow you managed to fly out of Connecticut ahead of the blizzard.
Thanks!
We made it! We were just about the last flight out of Hartford before they shut the airport down. It was a very close thing. Our flight was delayed for over an hour while we waited for the plane to arrive from Chicago. They had already cancelled every flight scheduled after ours. I happened to overhear a couple who were scheduled to be on the 3 p.m. flight being told that the earliest they could make it out was the next day at 4 p.m.
By the time the plane arrived, it was lightly snowing. We quickly boarded, but the snow was increasing as we taxied to the runway. They had already announced that the airport was shutting down at 2 p.m., and the airport was starting to empty out because most of the incoming flights were being cancelled.
Anyway, we left the gate and were taxiing to the runway at 1:10 p.m., an hour behind schedule. However, right before turning onto the runway, the pilot throttled down the engines.
He came on the intercom, saying that traffic needed to clear out over New York and that he wanted to save fuel. We waited about ten minutes more as the snow came down harder. Finally, the pilot throttled the engines back up and we took off. Ten minutes later, we were above the clouds and were in the sunlight.
This sort of made up for our cancelled flight down last February. However, with all the uncertainty, my wife is saying, "No more winter trips."
And my son did great. He spent the week in a wheelchair and crutches, but was able to go on just about everything. About the only things he couldn't do were the water slides at Blizzard Beach, so we went to DisneyQuest instead.
All in all, we had a great trip.
I'm thinking of heading there at 8 and plop down in front of the castle around noon
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We did have a great trip, though. Our CM checking us in at the resort spent extra time changing my room to a better location, which turned out to be great for us. I don't think we ever ran into any angry CMs. I had one time I approached a FP machine that had a leftover pass in it and a CM grabbed it out and refused to give it to me when I asked for it, but he was good natured and not mean about it.
Hope I can find some time soon to transfer my notes into word docs and get my PTR converted to a TR...
I've only worked one week since November, so this is going to be NO FUN at all! 
