I'm exhausted! LOL, I need a vacation from vacation! Yesterday was an interesting day to say the least. First, it was hotter than heck again yesterday and the heat was really getting to us after so long of being out in it. We were spending the day trying to stay in air conditioning. We had dinner ressies at Teppan Edo for noon, and we weren't at all hungry by then, so we talked to the hostesses, and they changed it to 2:30. That left us plenty of time to hear Voices of Liberty again and go down to Norway to do the Maelstrom ride. We had wanted to see American Adventure again too (it's usually pretty cool in there), but the show was having technical difficulties, so we came back later to listen to the Voices of Liberty again, and that time the show was ready. After that Am. Ad. it was time to make our ressies in Japan. We thought we were pretty smart planning our dinner for 2:30, since we planned to be back at OKW by 4:00 to leave for our 6:00 flight. The vacation gods were not in on this plan though. First off, we got the world's slowest teppan chef! It took her over an hour to cook everything ordered. She must have been new. That meant we didn't get out of the restaurant until 4:00, and we were supposed to be at OKW by then.
When we exited the restaurant, the temperature had dropped about 20 degrees, and it was very windy and spitting rain. We walked as quickly as we could to the bus stop, but we could see the OKW stop empty, so that probably meant we had just missed a bus. We had no time to wait the 20 mintues for the next one, so we decided to take a cab to OKW. By the time we arrived there, the rain had come full force, so now we are heading to the airport in driving rain. Folks in Florida seem not to know how to drive in this stuff. They don't turn on their lights (something that's the law here at home), and you can't see them. Then they stop all over the highways, and it's like an obsticle course dodging them. Add to that the fact that they don't turn their hazard lights on when they are stopped, but they DO turn them on when they are moving. If we move with hazard lights on here, we get a ticket. It made for an interesting trip to the airport. We arrived there at 5:00 and had to rush once we dropped off the rental car.
Arriving at the gate was another confusion. There were folks standing all around in an area that included 5 gates. None of the planes were going anywhere because evidentlly MCO has a rule about luggage personel and plane service people not working if it is raining. Our flight board said it was leaving at 6:00 yet, but we weren't on the plane by then. In fact, they didn't board the plane until 6:30, and then they had us sit there on the ground for an hour before they let us fuel up and get in line to take off. We were about an hour and a half late leaving. Top it off with a rather bumpy flight, and we were pretty pooped by the time we got home around 11:00.
My father was a Drivers Education Teacher so I try to be reasonable when I drive and really try to calm myself when I start to get heated up with other drivers. Which is everytime I get in my car nowadays! 
Thanks for sharing your trip with us. 
