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<font color=blue>DVC-Trivia Contest, Apr-2006: Hon
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Trip report day 1:
We got up at 4:30 a.m. and were only 10 minutes late leaving for the airport. Im told it was my fault. Oh well, we had a VERY short line at security so no problem. Our flight even left a few minutes early and with a strong tail wind, we arrived in Orlando nearly 30 minutes ahead of schedule!
Since we only had one small carry on bag with our clothes, and a computer bag for each of us plus my oxygen machine, we were able to walk right from the gate and down to the National car rental Emerald Aisle. (thanks to Owners Locker)
We checked in at OKW and learned we were indeed going to be in our preferred area of 45/46, so we parked our car down there after picking up our very HEAVY Owners locker and headed to the Studios. We were inside the park and headed for Toy Story Mania by 12:30! The board outside TSMM said the wait was 60 minutes, but in fact the line only took 35. That is the shortest time we have ever waited at that attraction! We laughed at how close our scores were. Dick had 130,000 and I had 130,400. I usually beat him by more than that! Oh well, its only the first game of the trip, so we will improve with practice.
After leaving TSMM we went through the animation studio and did our first drawing of this trip .BOLT was the subject. After finishing our drawings it was around 2, so we called to find our room was indeed ready and we were assigned 4621. On arriving back at OKW and building 46, we discovered it was the exact same unit we had in January! How unusual is that??? We LOVE this location great view and its very quiet. Well except for the happy birds in the morning, but thats one kind of noise I enjoy.
After getting our stuff put away, we headed over to the grocery store and then made our way to Wilderness Lodge for our dinner reservation at Artist Point. Dinner was wonderful as usual, and after a fantastic dessert of chocolate mouse, we headed over to Epcot to meet up with John at his Owners Locker meet in France. John is a great host, and we saw a lot of DIS/DVC folks whom we hadnt seen for several years. After Illuminations, we headed back to OKW and fell into bed!!
Today is another day, and we arent even sure where we will go today. We thought maybe back to the studios and possibly AK later in the day. Who knows we might just take the first bus that comes along! So much for trip planning. I like these relaxed schedules!
We got up at 4:30 a.m. and were only 10 minutes late leaving for the airport. Im told it was my fault. Oh well, we had a VERY short line at security so no problem. Our flight even left a few minutes early and with a strong tail wind, we arrived in Orlando nearly 30 minutes ahead of schedule!
Since we only had one small carry on bag with our clothes, and a computer bag for each of us plus my oxygen machine, we were able to walk right from the gate and down to the National car rental Emerald Aisle. (thanks to Owners Locker)
We checked in at OKW and learned we were indeed going to be in our preferred area of 45/46, so we parked our car down there after picking up our very HEAVY Owners locker and headed to the Studios. We were inside the park and headed for Toy Story Mania by 12:30! The board outside TSMM said the wait was 60 minutes, but in fact the line only took 35. That is the shortest time we have ever waited at that attraction! We laughed at how close our scores were. Dick had 130,000 and I had 130,400. I usually beat him by more than that! Oh well, its only the first game of the trip, so we will improve with practice.
After leaving TSMM we went through the animation studio and did our first drawing of this trip .BOLT was the subject. After finishing our drawings it was around 2, so we called to find our room was indeed ready and we were assigned 4621. On arriving back at OKW and building 46, we discovered it was the exact same unit we had in January! How unusual is that??? We LOVE this location great view and its very quiet. Well except for the happy birds in the morning, but thats one kind of noise I enjoy.
After getting our stuff put away, we headed over to the grocery store and then made our way to Wilderness Lodge for our dinner reservation at Artist Point. Dinner was wonderful as usual, and after a fantastic dessert of chocolate mouse, we headed over to Epcot to meet up with John at his Owners Locker meet in France. John is a great host, and we saw a lot of DIS/DVC folks whom we hadnt seen for several years. After Illuminations, we headed back to OKW and fell into bed!!
Today is another day, and we arent even sure where we will go today. We thought maybe back to the studios and possibly AK later in the day. Who knows we might just take the first bus that comes along! So much for trip planning. I like these relaxed schedules!
