Every year the first day of vacation is different lol. I remember the first day of vacation from July 2005. I will never ever forget it!
We were spending the night at the Sheraton Hotel in Bradley International Airport. We arrived there and had our luggage ready to go up to our room. We checked in and they gave us the room key. So we found the area of elevators to head on up to our room. This is what happened:
I pushed myself into the elevator along side my parents and sister. We each had our own luggage (about three pieces each) It was a tight squeeze but we managed in. My dad was closer to the buttons and pushed the appropriate one. The doors closed but we didn't go anywhere. While we were so excited to be initiating our anticipated vacation, emotions were emphasised as we inflated the situation fearing we were stuck in the elevator (and as a Disney fan, I kept telling myself *I was not planning to ride The Tower of Terror just yet!!!*) More buttons were pushed and luckily the doors opened. As we were all nervous, trying to get out of that elevator was another adventure.
No one wanted to stay in that thing any longer than the next person. There were four elevators in this area. We quickly darted off into the one directly across. Pushing and shoving our ways into it yanking our luggage towards ourselves, my dad proceeded in again, pushing the appropriate button. This time the doors had not closed. Realizing that it is not working as we understand an elevator to work, we quickly started shoving and pushing our ways out again. Then just as I was on my way out, my luggage got caught so I was half in and half out. Just then the doors started closing. lol I finally got the luggage free and got out of that elevator. We all stood there wondering why the elevators were acting all messed up. This time we decided to try another elevator. There were two left untried at this point.
My sister and my dad ran into one and quickly pushed the buttons before my mom and I had a chance to get ourselves in there. The doors closed immediately for them. So we ran into the last untried elevator and my mom started pushing any button to get it going. The doors did not close and no matter what we tried, it did not work. At this point, we were laughing so hard thinking about what we must look like running from elevator to elevator. Not more than about 3 minutes later, the elevator doors from across us opened and I saw my dad and sister race out with my dad yelling back to my sister "Go, go go!" lol They ran straight into our elevator unknowing of its unsuccessfulness lol. After 5 minutes, my dad noticed this slot above the buttons that was about the size of our room key. He swiped the key and sure enough, on goes the elevator! We were completely overcome with laughter at this point. So we finally reached our floor and as the elevator was crowded enough, my dad and sister got out first and before we could stop it, the doors closed on us and down go my mom and I. There was only one key to our room and my dad had it. lol We had hoped they would bring us back up.
My mom and I stood in the elevator unable to open the doors and unable to bring ourselves back up. lol. Soon enough though we felt the thing jolt and we started back up. Sure enough, they pressed the button for an elevator and brought us back up. We couldn't stop from laughing at oursleves knowing the security guys must have had a great laugh watching us dart across from elevator to elevator like a bunch of fools! This experience really cannot be said well through words, as being there was too hilarious to describe.
That was the first of many hilarious moments during our Vacation. And that was even before we got down to Florida!!
We are going in seven days. Yay us. Lemme think.......
