palmickey2005
Mouseketeer
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- Jan 27, 2006
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Cass said:Yes, your supervisor was green with envy and really had her nose out of joint. I love how your team leader had heard it all on the radio and already knew!!
I'm glad all your coworkers were happy for you, it was a grat prize to win. How was the flight down, transfers, check in, was it all organizd very well? Were any meals included? Did your 500.00 hold out?
The flight was great. We flew with Westjet, our first time flying with them. Leather seats, tv's for each passenger with 24 channels from Bell ExpressVu which everyone can watch their own channel.
We flew out on Saturday night. My 6 year old was watching Treehouse TV, both my 10 year old and I watched MuchMusic and my husband watch the Leafs game. That I must say was great. If you didn't want to watch TV you can watch the live map showing the location and altitude of the plane. They also gave us complimentary snacks and non-alcholic drinks but it's $5 for a sandwhich. The flight crew were great. We all laughed when the flight attendant was announcing that there is to be no smoking on board. "Anyone smoking would be asked to leave the aircraft immedietely"....we all burst out laughing because we had already taken off.
When we landed the flight attendant announced that we had arrived at Orlando early because of the "hard work from the lovely flight attentants".
Also they congratulated all the smokers that decided they would stay on board with us and then they congratulated the 40 ChumFM winnners that were also on board and we all clapped. That was a nice moment for all of us.
We picked up our luggage and noticed someone holding a sign that said "CHUMFM WINNERS". She gave us directions to the bus where we met up with a Disney rep. from Toronto.
It was a Mears bus reserved us. My mom had to take Disney's Magical Express as she was staying at the Pop Century so we communicated by cell phone while we were on our bus and she was on hers. She told us she was watching "Cars". I told my 6 year old and he wanted to be on her bus. Everything was really organized though no complaints at all.
Check in was a breeze. Well actually there was a tiny error at first. They gave some of us a room with only 1 bed. So a few of us had to go back to front desk and ask. They told us there was a mix up because whoever made the reservations booked the rooms for 1 person only. They quickly made changes and assigned us to another room with 2 beds. We even had someone bring the luggage up to our rooms. We've never really done that before so my husband was loading up one of the luggage carrying carts and an employee quickly came over to assist.
Near the front desk was Santa's Workshop made out of sweet smelling gingerbread. There was also a train going around it. Everytime we walked into the hotel we can smell the gingerbread scent. Just amazing.
For the three broadcast mornings they provided us with a lovely hot breakfast buffet with eggs, bacon, fruit, pastries, coffee and juice. So that was great. For the $500.00 it lasted us until Wednesday afternoon. We had 1 character lunch at Garden Grill. A buffet dinner at Cape May Cafe and also had dinner at Sci-fi theatre at MGM. Everything else was counter service meals. We ate 2 times a day and that was plenty. One time we had breakfast at the Pop Century hotel because we went to check out where my mom was staying. Another time we had chocolate croissants for breakfast from the Boardalk Bakery as we waited for the friendship boat to arrive and take us to Epcot. One night we all had Mickey Bars
and all shared one (churro) pastry just to try it. Because we were actually 5 people when it came to spending the money it lasted us until Wednesday afternoon as I was paying for the Dole whip pineapple ice cream treats for all of us. First time we tried this. Yummy we all agreed. So really not too bad.This was a great prize yes I still can't believe we actually won but it was totally a dream come true.
Almost forgot that when all the families were asked to attend a welcome meeting at the conference room to meet everyone from Chumfm they treated us to ice cream.
Unfortunately no pics yet. I went to Walmart to get a photo cd done but the Kodak picture maker wasn't working well for CD's or enlargements.
I only had a few pictures printed so that I can bring in to work this morning just so I could show them a few for now. One picture I couldn't even correct the red-eye because of the problem the machine was having. But as soon as I get the CD I will post. 
Have a great night everyone.
