Let the planning begin!
Day 1, February 15 - And off we go
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We will have had a short night when we get up at 4.30 that day. The day before we will have taken Pixie
to her vacation home, then get the house ship shape and finally have finished packing. I guess around midnight we will have fallen into bed, just to get up 4 and a half hours later.
We will then quickly get ready, grab a bite to eat before locking up the house and loading our luggage into the car to drive to the airport. Since it will be so early in the morning, we should not have any traffic problems and arrive at the airport in good time. We will then leave the car in the 10 minute parking zone, grab the luggage, head inside and drop off the luggage, before driving the car over to the parking lot. Car parked we will just stroll back to the terminal, only having to take care of our carry-ons. Soon we will be through security and after a short bathroom break we should be able to board our plane for the first leg of our trip.
The trip only takes and hour and 5 minutes and will fly by while we will be nibbling our snack
and enjoying our free drink.
Having arrived in Frankfurt, the plane will most likely be parked at an outside position and we will all be taken to the terminal by bus. Once there we will have 5 and half hours to spend, but since we were lucky enough to get an upgrade to Business class, by paying with airmiles, we will have the lounge
to hang around in, have internet access and lots to nibble on.
I guess we will be able to relax in the lounge and soon we will be on our way to the gate to board our plane to Orlando. If I remember correctly, we will be greeted by a nice glass of wine
and will settle into our seat. Once we are on our way we will be treated to a nice lunch, white table cloth
and all, before we will watch a little TV and try to catch up on a little sleep. Thankfully these seats convert to beds,
so it should be fairly easy. Shortly before we arrive in Orlando
we will enjoy a light dinner
and once we have arrived at our destination we will try to get off the plane as quickly as possible to be as far at the head of the immigration line as possible. Once immigration is done we will hope to find our luggage and head through customs before getting in line to pick up our rental car.
And then finally we will fit our GPS in the car and off we go to Walt Disney World. If we are in time we will make a slight D-tour and stop at Publix and the Kissimmee Krispy Kreme
to officially start off the vacation in style. Soon after our stop there we will drive under the well-known arch
that is the entrance to Walt Disney World. We will head right for the Villas at the Grand Floridian
and check into our Lake View Studio.
We will then pick up our Owners Locker and haul our luggage up into the room.
Then we will quickly freshen up and head over to the Monorail to go to the Magic Kingdom.
Depending on when we arrive we will either use our first fastpass+ at Peter Pan
or get ourselves to either Cosmic Rays or Pecos Bill
for some dinner. And after dinner and a flight over London we will head over to the Jungle Cruise,
where we will use fastpass number two. If there is enough time left we will try to get on Pirates
before heading to the last ride of the day, Big Thunder Mountain Railroad.
Once we get off there we will slowly head towards the exit, get onto the Monorail and head back to the Grand Floridian. I guess by then we will be more than tired enough to get a good nights sleep.