First Resort to the Right & Straight Until Relaxation!1/25&1/26 updts!Final thoughts!

Before I begin I must apologize for the lack of pictures in this update! I always promise myself that I going to take pictures while we're traveling but I never do it! Maybe next time! I promise you that I'll make up for it in future updates!

On with the show...

This adventure begins the night before our trip!

As with the last trip that was just DH and I this night was meet with tears from some kiddos who where upset that Mommy and Daddy were going away! Luckily this time was not as bad as the last time. A few tears and lots of hugs and the kiddos who had been running around the yard all afternoon that day were soon asleep! Thank god for fresh air ;)

3:45 am came quickly, lucky for me it had been preceded by an early bedtime and a good night sleep! I was up and getting ready in no time!

Of course, while I was blowing my hair dry someone snuck into the bathroom and scared me half to death! DD was looking for a drink of water! Sure, that’s a good excuse! She wouldn’t go back to bed and somehow wound up waking up DH and DD7! Thank goodness DS3 slept through it!

Soon MIL was here to stay with the kiddos, the kiddos were kissed and hugged again and tucked into to blankets on the couches and DH and I were out the door listening to a few more tears!

FIL was in the driveway waiting to chauffeur us to the airport! About 30 minutes later, around 5:15 or so, we arrived at our small local airport!

We checked in curbside with no one else around and were soon making our way through security and off to the gate!

We ate coffee cake from Starbucks and played with my ipad until about 6:30 when we lined up to board for our Southwest flight! DH and I were lucky enough to be in maybe the 1st 15 people on the plane! I know it may sound weird but I like to get on the plane early on because I hate to have to worry about seats and fighting to get through people standing in the aisle! We are also lucky that the flight wasn’t full and DH and I were able to sit in a row alone! Woo hoo!

Take off came quickly and I soon felt a tap on my arm! DH was looking for Dramamine! Darn it! I had bought him this arm band thing that was supposed to help his motion sickness but it wasn’t working at all! Boooo! Chewable Dramamine is a good thing for instances like this! It works almost right away!

I wish I could say the rest of the flight was uneventful, but I can’t!

We flew along and I listened to some music and dozed off and on. About ¾ of the way I started to feel a little funny! Then things started to get a little fuzzy! Everything I was looking at started to get a snowy and everything I could hear sounded like I was in a tunnel! I woke sleepy DH and told him I thought I was going to pass out! Honestly, I think I actually might have for a second! I had visions of being taken off the plane on a stretcher! Soon I started to come out of it! I tried really hard to remain calm and not freak out! This was not the way I wanted to start the vacation! But it passed almost as quickly as it came on! I still don’t know why it happened! The only reason I’ve every passed out is from low blood sugar or pregnancy! I know it’s not the later of the 2 and I don’t think it’s the first either!


So, I was feeling a bit better but kept hoping that this flight would be over soon! I really wanted to get off the plane and get some fresh air!

Unfortunately, I soon thought the flight was going to be coming to an abrupt end!

The pilot was apparently beginning the initial descent and went nose down! You could feel the forward-down momentum! DH and I both felt it and I heard people in the cabin gasp! I truly thought we were about to crash! But, as fast as we went down we leveled back off! Thank god!

The pilot soon announced we were making our final descent into Orlando! Woo hoo! But, he really jerked the plane around during the descent! It was perfectly clear weather, barely any clouds! I don’t think turbulence could be the cause! A poor guy a few rows up from us actually got sick!

We landed, safe and mostly sound, and were super happy to get off that plane! I was truly tempted to ask the pilot what the deal was when we walked past him! I really hope he never flies us again!

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Now that we were off the plane it was time to change from our chilly NY morning attire to our warm FL day attire! Woo hoo!

Poor DH really wasn’t feeling well after the flight, the motion REALLY got to him! He was really glad I didn’t have to wait for a ME bus! Our driver was wait for us near baggage claim and our bags were on the turnstile! Woo hoo! We were out of MCO in a matter of 10 or 15 minutes and off to CR!

When I reserved the car I paid for a town car! We got a big, white stretch limo! Woo hoo! It was nice to ride in luxury, ice cold water and all! Ahhhh!

We arrived at CR in no time and were soon checking in! I sent DH to sit and relax while I took care of everything! I had checked in online and assumed that it would take a matter of minutes to do everything!

Ha! A matter of 30 minutes!! It took a ridiculously long amount of time to check in! The girl who checked us in was having some sort of computer issues and kept disappearing into the back! Then she told me that she had some how deleted herself from the system! Really?! This was getting ridiculous! She eventually got everything worked out and finally gave me our stuff! Our room wasn’t ready. Bummer, because DH really could have used to lay down in bed for a bit!

This was when change number 1 of the trip occurred! We were supposed to have lunch at The Plaza at 1:20, but at this point it wasn’t even noon and DH was hungry and I was hoping eating would help him feel better! So we decided to head up 2 Contempo Café for lunch!

I ordered a cheeseburger, because I was playing it safe, and DH ordered some sort of turkey sandwich, because he thought he was playing it safe too!

When our food was done I went to get and we were soon diving in!

DH did not like his sandwich! It was just weird! Being the good wife that I am I decided to offer to switch with him! I figured I could choke it down a lot easier then him!

I’m not sure exactly what it was supposed to be but it had cheese on it and to the best of my recollection the cheese was supposed to be cheddar. It wasn’t! I’m not sure what kind it was but it definitely wasn’t cheddar! It was really gloppy and sticky. It was supposed to have arugula on it, but it wasn’t arugula. It was that spiky looking, bitter lettuce that I think is some sort of endive! It just wasn’t a good combo! I could only eat a few bites! DH, however, enjoyed my burger! LOL!

After lunch it was time for us to head off, where do you suppose we ended up ;)
 
Ohhh not a very magical start to your trip. That is weird and I am sure was very scary at the time what happened to you on the plane....the cabin pressure or something? :confused3 I remember you posted on FB about the flight and I had wondered what had happened...what a crazy pilot! :sad2:
One thing I must say is nice job of going to bed so early! I woke up at 315am and went to bed the night before my flight at 1am:scared1: I couldn't sleep!!

Can't wait to see your room pictures and hoping that the rest of your afternoon improved! :hug:

Tracy
 

Ohhh not a very magical start to your trip. That is weird and I am sure was very scary at the time what happened to you on the plane....the cabin pressure or something? :confused3 I remember you posted on FB about the flight and I had wondered what had happened...what a crazy pilot! :sad2:
One thing I must say is nice job of going to bed so early! I woke up at 315am and went to bed the night before my flight at 1am:scared1: I couldn't sleep!!

Can't wait to see your room pictures and hoping that the rest of your afternoon improved! :hug:

Tracy

It definitely was weird and very scary! I'm glad the kids weren't there because it would have made it that much more scary! I hope it never happens again!

I'm so glad I made it to bed early!! It was nice to get a good nights sleep before the trip!

Room pics coming soon!

Definitely not a magical arrival. But I have a feeling you made up for it! :upsidedow

It definitely lacked pixie dust!!! I have a feeling you maybe right ;)
 
Hey Melissa! I'm here :)

Isn't MacArthur the best airport? Did you fly there though? Because it takes us like 20 mins to get there and I live about 20 mins from you :rotfl:

Uh oh, sorry to hear your flight wasn't so great! I hope after eating and getting to a park (or wherever you end up lol) you guys start feeling better!
 
:scared1: Not the best way to start a vacation, but I'm sure everything improved dramatically I hope!!! :goodvibes
 
Hey Melissa! I'm here :)

Isn't MacArthur the best airport? Did you fly there though? Because it takes us like 20 mins to get there and I live about 20 mins from you :rotfl:

Uh oh, sorry to hear your flight wasn't so great! I hope after eating and getting to a park (or wherever you end up lol) you guys start feeling better!


Yup, we always try to fly from MacArthur! It's so much easier!!!!

It was an interesting start to the trip that's for sure!

:scared1: Not the best way to start a vacation, but I'm sure everything improved dramatically I hope!!! :goodvibes

It definitely wasn't the best way to start off the trip!
 
I'm here I'm here!!!! Well not the most magical start but it's going to get better and I for one can't wait!!!!!
 
I'm here I'm here!!!! Well not the most magical start but it's going to get better and I for one can't wait!!!!!

:welcome: Jen! It definitely wasn't a magical start! But with a little pixie dust things are bound to get better!
 
I tried to do this last night before the board went down! Luckily I wrote it in word! Let try again, shall we?


So, I left off with us heading out of CR to destinations unknown!

Where do you suppose we went!

Well, this was seen along the way!



I turned around to take a picture of our home for the next 6 days!



We also saw this,



And this!



First, I must tell you some disers love having a private entrance to Epcot (I’m sure I will too in May;)), some love having a private running path! I LOVE, LOVE, LOVE having a private walkway to MK! This is absolutely amazing to me! MK is my favorite park and having the ability to leisurely stroll back and forth on a whim was amazing!!!

We soon found ourselves passing under this



And out onto Main Street!



It was a tiny bit after noon on a beautiful, cloudless, 80 degree day and here we were in the middle of the magic! Ahhhhhhhh!

We stopped to have our first photopass picture of the trip taken!





When we had just about reached the Hub I heard a familiar clang, clang! So we stopped to watch the show!







Then we were off into Tomorrowland! DH LOVES Buzz Lightyear Space Ranger Spin so that was our destination! There was quite a line for Buzz, something like 45 minutes, so we got FP and headed off again!

We ended up at COP! It’s funny, this is our second trip alone and we’ve started both with COP!







When our spin through progress was over we decided to head into Fantasyland! But, first we stopped to watch this fun guy!



I have to say, it just doesn’t feel the same with all the construction walls up! It’s much less magical! I feel bad for people who are there for their first trip or their once in a lifetime trip during all of this! It’s hard to feel the magic with big walls all over Fantasyland! I know it will all be worth it in the end and I’m happy to see them progressing but, it’s just different and odd!

See what I mean...



So, now we were in Fantasyland but it seemed that half of Fantasyland wasn’t functioning! The Tea Cups were down, as scheduled, and IASW was down, also as scheduled, but for some reason Pooh and Snow White were also down!! Alrighty!!

So we decided to see PhilHarMagic! I love PhilHarMagic it teems with Disney magic to me! It was a great second ride!

When we were finished it was time for our fastpasses for Buzz so we headed back into Tomorrowland!

DH kicked by butt as usual! Oh well!

I was hoping by time I would have received the magical “your room is ready text!” DH was really not feeling well. But, alas I had not!

Trying to keep it tame we decided to head toward Pirates!

Stopping to take a picture, of course...



Having not been on the Jungle Cruise in awhile we decided to grab a fastpass for that because it would come due a little bit after we got off Pirates!

While DH got the FP...



Now we were off to POTC!



So, we got online for Pirates! I can’t recall what the posted wait was but the line was out into the atrium area! I don’t think I’ve ever seen it that far out! But we only waited 20 minutes tops! Most of that was spent slowly walking!!

I tired to get a few potc pictures but not one of them came out! Boo!

But something magical did happen on POTC! I felt a little buzz in pocket! The buzz that means I got a text! I was hopeful that it was the one that said our room was ready! As soon as I got off the boat at the end of the ride I checked my phone and it was!

DH was very happy and we decided to abandon our Jungle Cruise plans and head home!


We decided to head into Frontierland and take the train to the front of the park!

I also decided that I was thirsty and hungry! So we stopped before leaving Adventureland to get a soda and my first ice cream of the trip! We shared both as we moseyed through Frontierland and over to the train!

Waiting for the train...







I love taking the train around the park! It’s so relaxing!

When we left the park DH decided he wanted to take the monorail rather then walk! Not sure why because that ramp to the monorail sometime seems to be at a 90 degree incline! Anyway, it worked to our advantage this time because we stopped at Fantasia Market to pick up a few staples for the week! Milk, snacks, soda, etc!

Then we were off across the bridge to our home for the week ;)
 
Sounds like a perfect afternoon in the MK! :cloud9:

One day I'd like to stay at BLT too, if not for anything but the walkway to the MK! I'm sure I will enjoy the walkway to Epcot as well :) Too bad we're going to miss you ladies by a few weeks!

Of course, I love your DH's shirt :thumbsup2

Can't wait to see what room you got and how the rest of your day went :)
 
The walkway to MK is pretty cool!

Aww, I love how the Main Street dancers even have different outfits for the fall! I love their performance. Such a neat little show.

Looks like you're off to a good start!
 
Sounds like a perfect afternoon in the MK! :cloud9:

One day I'd like to stay at BLT too, if not for anything but the walkway to the MK! I'm sure I will enjoy the walkway to Epcot as well :) Too bad we're going to miss you ladies by a few weeks!

Of course, I love your DH's shirt :thumbsup2

Can't wait to see what room you got and how the rest of your day went :)

It really was a great afternoon in MK!

BLT is a very cool resort! DD and I are staying there in March for her Birthday, I don't have a ticker because it supposed to be a surprise. I can't wait to stay at Beach Club though! It's going to be a lot of fun! It really is too bad we're going to miss each other! But, I promise to take a lot of pictures to get you all excited!

LOL! I somehow knew you'd like DH's shirt! He has this rule about his shirts on vacation, they either have to be from sailing regattas or Giants shirts! He's got one really nasty, ratty one from when they won the super bowl and he tried to take it! I draw the line there!!!

New update coming soon!

The walkway to MK is pretty cool!

Aww, I love how the Main Street dancers even have different outfits for the fall! I love their performance. Such a neat little show.

Looks like you're off to a good start!

I really, really love that walkway!! Being able to walk to MK is unbelievable to me! The thing is, we never really thought about staying at CR! I'm not sure why. I guess I figured it wasn't DH's taste. But that walkway alone is worth the stay of your going to stay in the MK area!!!

I love the trolly show! It's so cute and very Main Street-esque to me!
 
I'm joining in. I'm planning on an adult only trip for my 40th bday in January 2012 and hope to get some tips on how to make it great!
 
I'm joining in. I'm planning on an adult only trip for my 40th bday in January 2012 and hope to get some tips on how to make it great!

Thanks for joining in! This was our second trip alone and I assure you it's totally different then traveling with kids!
 
Yes, I feel comfortable assuring you that you WILL enjoy a private walkway into Epcot. They say a picture says 1,000 words...

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Trust me, being that close the grey goose slushie is priceless. :upsidedow

Totally agree with you on Fantasyland. Can't wait to see it when it's done but in the interim it is something short of magical.

Can't wait to see/hear what you thought about your BLT room!
 
Yes, I feel comfortable assuring you that you WILL enjoy a private walkway into Epcot. They say a picture says 1,000 words...

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Trust me, being that close the grey goose slushie is priceless. :upsidedow

Totally agree with you on Fantasyland. Can't wait to see it when it's done but in the interim it is something short of magical.

Can't wait to see/hear what you thought about your BLT room!

That picture definitely speaks volumes and I know being that close to any number of yummy drinks, especially the Gray Goose Slush, may make me want to never leave! :lmao:

It's definitely falling short on magic in Fantasyland! I really can't wait until it's done! I wonder if they'll have DVC or AP previews!!! That would be FABULOUS!!!

Room update coming soon!
 
oh what a less than magical start to your trip. I had a similarly long experience as you know with online check in, I don't think I'll ever do it again. That flight, on many levels, sounds just horrible. So glad you were able to get a little MK in and that magical "room ready" text!

I know I would love a private walk to MK. But I'm not sure I can ever give up that walk to Epcot. :love:
 












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