I got a dinner ressie for BOG!!!
It was a LAST MINUTE CHANGE to our plans & just in the nick of time!!! DH & I were discussing plans with the kids (teenagers) on Saturday for our Dec trip. Sunday was our 180 for ADR's.
We had been thinking of LTT for dinner on one of our MK days for a couple of reasons - 1. we like "thanksgiving" type food & it's during the holidays and 2. we have a 14 yo DS who eats us out of house & home, so the all you can eat was an appealing feature!
Well ...... we sat down Sat afternoon and found the DisUnplugged review of LTT from last year on YouTube & watched ....
They gave it HORRID reviews!!! Soooooo ..... what to do???
I knew from reading and hearing all the stories that BOG is almost impossible to get. I knew we were only going for 4 days, so the odds of others with our dates booking ahead of us were pretty great. We were fine with getting a FP for lunch and doing it that way. That was the plan ..... until I found a video tour of BOG on YouTube Sat afternoon! Neither of the kids had seen pics or anything from the restaurant, so it was new to them. DD immediately stated she wants to eat THERE! DS walked through the room with the video playing, stops & watches for a moment and says "Where is this?" I tell him. He promptly responds with "We ARE eating there!" (remember, he's 14!)
I explained to both kids the HIGH level of improbability of us actually getting the elusive BOG dinner ressie & said lunch there is our backup plan. "We want to eat dinner there!" was the consensus of opinion from the kiddos (you know - the ones NOT getting up to make ADRs at 6:00 AM!).
We set the alarm. We got up about 5:40 AM. We logged on. We could sorta see the screen through the sleepy fog ....
I knew where to start - BOG! I knew I could not hesitate. I could not procrastinate. I could not mess around with dates! DH had us logged in and ready to go. He had to step away from the computer (it's early morning - you figure it out), so I took over the controls..... I made a few clicks around .... it was 5:58 AM ....I got to the BOG page and was ready to go .... at 5:59, our dates opened up on the calendar! I opted to go with Monday 12/15 since that is our last night of this trip - no messing around with earlier dates! I hit "find table" .... got an error message telling me to please try again ....... I hit "find table" ..... blah, blah, blah ... kept getting the same message over & over again. I don't know how many times I hit "find table" .... 10? 15? But, alas, it popped up!!! 5:30 PM or 6:55 PM!!! I quickly snagged the 6:55 and could instantly hear the angels singing!!! WE GOT IT!!! Wooo Hoooo!!! Yes, I was ready to shout it from the rooftops ...... but my neighbors just wouldn't get it!
Sorry - I know this was long, but I was sooooo EXCITED & NO ONE else understands!!!