Can a trip w/ friends make up for an unmagical trip with the BF?-Final Updates 12/30!

It finally was here! Time to go home and I was beyond excited! I used my phone to check my emails again.... oh what's this an email from b with their video from Spaceship Earth. Hmm seems a little weird timed since its been days since they were last on it and supposedly they left right at 8:40pm. I still have yet to open that email, but I have a feeling they didn't leave right at 8:40 like they said they were doing, but someone....needed yet another ride on Spaceship Earth, then they made an excuse why it took them so long to get back and in another brillant move, emails all of us a copy of their video. *Insert hand hitting head here* :confused3 Seriously?

I woke up around 9am. b said she was going to get up and talk to the front desk at 9:30am and I wasn't going to bother dealing with her after seeing what she emailed me. g woke up and we sat and talked for a good long time and worked pretty much everything out. Like how they felt they were doing everything I wanted to do the entire time and they would suggest things and I would poo poo them. Yeah cause I wanted to go on CoP again and I chose to skip meeting characters I really wanted to meet. Seriously, what part of sending me a message saying I'll let you plan the whole thing cause I can't and then complaining because I said what we should do does not make sense?

Things hashed out with g enough that we were on good terms, I got up and got ready. By now it was about 9:45 - 9:55, I heard noise in b's rooms so I thought she was up and had already gone to the front desk like she said she was. She came out of her room at 9:55 and yep you guessed it, she hadn't been down yet. :sad2: Check out by the way is 10am. I am one who likes to be punctuncal for check out so they can get done what they have to. There are dishes and things in the fridge that need to be cleaned out, my cc was on file for the deposit, which she said she was going to put hers (which she never did) luckily no charges showed up, and as far as what Dis people said had to be done for check out and what she was doing, two totally different things! She went downstairs and called/talked to someone who said she was all set for check out, just drop the keys in the box on your way out. She was just like, leave everything where it is, its their job to clean up after us, we just rented the room. I was stil annoyed with her so I started cleaning and throwing away whatever I could, including the park maps I got her when g and I were running around DTD that first day(which became day 0) that she never even looked at!

Everything was finally packed up and g's car was loaded and we headed off to the Disney Outlet, who's address I got from Kathy. The drive was uneventful and we drove to the exact address Kathy gave me, but it was a tacky strip mall, with a big mall across the street in one direction, and a big beautiful outlet mall across the street in the other direction. Hmm, it was probably in the big outlet mall, so we headed there, but first we had to stop to get b some food at the Taco Bell next to the strip mall. Now that she was wolfing down her food we could drive across the street and see if we could find the Disney Outlet or parking. We drove about 1/5 of the way around the building when b annouced she had to get out of the car now! It seems that eating her Taco Bell so fast and driving 10 mph around the outlet mall wasn't working for her, so she insisted we let her out she would sit on a bench and we could come pick her up when we decided what to do. :confused3

g and I drove around the whole mall, not seeing a Disney outlet, then pulled over so I could look at a Directory, yep it was here! So we went back to where we dropped off b and found a parking space and walked over to where she was laying on a bench. I think this was the time she was laying on the bench. I'm not sure. G and I went to the Disney Outlet while b stayed on the bench, until she texted g she needed something out of his car and I stayed in the outlet until I was done, then I realized I could cut through the food court, noticing their food options as I went since it was getting close to lunch time. YUM! Five guys! :yay::dance3::yay: Granted there is a Five Guys a mile from my house, but its been a whole week without their delicious food and I had been eating it regularly at home. So I meet up with g and b and now b wants to look at the Disney Outlet, I tell them I'm hungry and I'm going to get Five Guys which makes g want Five Guys too. So g and I get a table and food while b shops. After she finishes shopping something in the food court is bothering her so she heads back out to the bench. g and I finish and head for the bench. In the meantime, she's not there. So g stays and I wander around checking out the stores. I tell him I'll be back soon and find myself lost amongst (spelling?) so many awesome things I wished my suitcase wasn't fully packed, but maybe its a good thing!

Then I wander upon a Dooney and Burke outlet! I wander in just to see if they have any Disney Dooneys and am about to leave when I see a little table by the door with Disney Dooneys 40% the price. I start looking and calculating and decide I can afford one. I head back to meet up with g and see if b is there. B isn't there, but she's going to be soon g reports. Eventually we all get back together, we load into g's car and we head for the airport. g drops us off and we head off to check in and drop off our luggage, we give each other quick hugs and maybe we'll have the same side we're departing from so we can hang out. I get all set with Jet Blue and start going through security and I get a text from b with her gate, she's on the other side. Oh well! I get to my terminal, relax and be very grateful I'm going home. BF even offers to pick me up from the airport if I dont' mind waiting for him, he will leave work at 10pm and my flight is due in at 9pm. No problem with me because I miss him and can't wait to see him!

POSTSCRIPT: I bought b's ticket for her, then she bought me some things at WoD, which still left a balance for the ticket she owes me. We haven't talked since the airport and I doubt I'm ever going to see the money for the ticket, so everyone please note, don't buy tickets for your friends unless you see the money up front!

Up Next: Disney Goodies and Where in the World.
 
Answers:

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this is the floor in the innovations building while waiting for the disney visa character spot in epcot

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little nemos upstairs in the living seas in epcot

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art of animation buildling during characterpolozza in hs

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in the tiki, tiki, tiki, tiki, tiki room in mk

5.
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on potc in mk, notice no flash!

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tile on the bathroom wall between frontierland and adventureland

7.
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light fixture at ltt in mk

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waiting in line at dumbo in mk

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waiting for tiana behind the christmas shop in liberty square in the mk

and to make an even 10 an easy one....

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sitting on main st in the mk on day 1 !
 

Ok, I feel bad. I missed a TON of updates. Good thing I was kinda along for the ride as it all went down. I still can't believe b!

I love all the goodies you got! Very cool!


And..btw :hug: thank you for having my back!
 
Well, the best thing I can say is it was an "interesting" trip. But I know the next one and the one coming up were/are going to be better.

I love all your purchases.

If I don't get back here before then, HAPPY NEW YEAR Betsy.
 
I'm so sorry that this was definitely not the trip you had envisioned! The annoyance and frustration really did last until the end, didn't it? Unfortunately, I've learned the "never lend money to friends unless their check to you is in your hand" lesson as well. :sad2:

HOWEVER, your Dooney is adorable!!! (And the rest of your souvenirs are really cute too!) But I had guessed when you said you got one that the princess bag was going to be the winner!! Good for you!!! :cool1:

I've already jumped onto your new TR - can't wait to read about your latest trip!
 
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I love that D&B bag!!!!

I still can't believe all that mess with B. It almost seemed .. at least to an outside reader that maybe B and G might have been flirting a bit? Maybe just my take on it?
 
Ok, I feel bad. I missed a TON of updates. Good thing I was kinda along for the ride as it all went down. I still can't believe b!

I love all the goodies you got! Very cool!

And..btw :hug: thank you for having my back!

Anytime, since ya know I'm Zoe's mom and we have Grandma Shelly. :rotfl: You literally were there for almost every moment of the updates you missed.

Well, the best thing I can say is it was an "interesting" trip. But I know the next one and the one coming up were/are going to be better.

I love all your purchases.

If I don't get back here before then, HAPPY NEW YEAR Betsy.

Hi Kathy! I hope you had a great birthday! I hope you have a Happy new Year as well!

I'm so sorry that this was definitely not the trip you had envisioned! The annoyance and frustration really did last until the end, didn't it? Unfortunately, I've learned the "never lend money to friends unless their check to you is in your hand" lesson as well. :sad2:

HOWEVER, your Dooney is adorable!!! (And the rest of your souvenirs are really cute too!) But I had guessed when you said you got one that the princess bag was going to be the winner!! Good for you!!! :cool1:

I've already jumped onto your new TR - can't wait to read about your latest trip!

Yeah the frustration did not end the entire trip from Day 1 to Day 7! I had gotten the Princess Bucket bag when it was on super sale and I couldn't resist the smaller one! I had BF buy me one last year and it had the multi colored teeth on the zipper and it so might be my favorite thing about it.

I love that D&B bag!!!!

I still can't believe all that mess with B. It almost seemed .. at least to an outside reader that maybe B and G might have been flirting a bit? Maybe just my take on it?

Seriously if you have a car, check out the Disney outlet and then the Dooney and Burke Outlet. What's really funny is that I was feeling especially the day I was sitting in the back seat that they were flirting as well and they were so wrapped up in paying attention to one another they totally forgot to look at the road signs. I did mention that I felt like a third wheel on a date with them to g on Day 7 when we were leaving and we talked over things. I just find it funny that you picked up on it too, or it could be how I portrayed things.
 

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