scuba diver said:
Pam where are you? I got up so I could say Good Bye, but you have not checked in yet this morning.
If you do, have a good trip.
Thanks Jim. Unfortunately, I had no time to check in on the morning I left for the airport. I was running a little late.
Anyway, I am here and it is Monday and I leave tomorrow. The weather has been great since we got here. Pretty hot yesterday. I have made it to AK and got to do Expedition Everest twice. Really like the ride. great theming.
We got to the airport on Friday morning and SW was overbooked. So I jumped up and ran to the ticket counter and volunteered to go later. We got vouchers for what we payed for the 1 way ticket to Orlando, plus $100 over that. So -- now I have a free SW ticket. We waited 2 hours for next flight. When we finally got the car and got to Caribbean Beach, we got checked in and I had a great location (Martinique - with a nice corner room looking out at the lake.) Unfortunately, it was a handicapped room. The closet was so low to the floor, that all of my "work" clothes were hanging on the ground. They also put my traveling partner in a handicapped room and she wanted to change so she could have a tub. Anyway, that took a while to change. Unfortunately, I got moved to Trinidad North and she is up in Aruba. Don't haver any view, but really between being in meetings or at the parks, am only in the room late at night. Well -- by the time we got all that straightened out, we didn't get to EPCOT until 7:30 p.m. Took our time to walk to the back of the park and went up to Rose and Crown to see if they could take us. She told us 20 minuts, but we were seated in 10. Got finished eating just in time for Illuminations and got to go down to the private viewing area. The other person with me had never eaten there or seen Illuminations, so she really loved it. Afterewards, it was an extended hours night, so the park didn't close until 12. We did test track and tried for Soarin, but no more fast passes and the wait was 70 minutes. No thanks. we did HISTA and walked around. it was now 11:30 and I had been up all day, so we headed back to the resort. I had to get up at 6 to make it to my meetings on Saturday. FInished those up at about3:30, so we headed to MGM. It was packed. We got on Tower of Terror (stand-by only 30 min.) RnR was 70 minutes. Decided to go to MK and got over there because they weren't closing till midnight. We got really lucky and rode Space Mountain, Thunder Mountain, Splash Mountain, and Buzz. Had a great spot for fireworks. Left the park again at about 11:45. I was beat and new I had to get up again for a meeting, plus the time change (yuck). Well, I reset the clock, but forgot the alarm part. Ran a little late yesterday, but least I made it. got done early and headed to AK. We did Dinosaur (20 minute stand by), Kali, EE (twice) and then decided to go to the Character Warehouse to find some souvies for people. We were going to go back to MGM for Fantasmic, but I think we were just too tired.