RockinDisney
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For those of you who missed my PTR a little back ground information...
I work at Comic Book conventions. I had to go to Orlando for work, the first convention of my Convention season. I decided to try to squeeze in a little Disney if I could and I had my first official DIS meet!!
So I am back and here it is....HOW MUCH DISNEY COULD I FIT INTO A NON DISNEY TRIP
My Day one –The Flight in
I worked Wednesday until 4pm then raced over to the airport. Normally I can fit everything I need into one suitcase but as this was a work trip and I was bringing some items for work, I had two Large suitcases full of Company give aways , plus a carry on, plus my laptop….AAAGGGHHH how do you people with kids do this all the time?
Trying to lug all this to check in was not the most fun I have ever had.
Got checked in only to find my flight on time
- I am getting excited as my plan is to get my rental car and rush over to DTD and have a Sandwich at EOS. My flight was to take off at 5:50 and land at 9:55 and it did!! 
Sat next to some golfers on the way down, the flight went by fast. We landed on time!!
I was excited, I knew I would be pushing it but should have no problem making it over to DTD… Got to Baggage claim and right as I arrived the belt started, WHOO HOO
….one of my two bags was third or fourth off the belt and then I waited and waited and waited
…just as I was starting to panic, ok so manybe I was already panicing as it was the suitcase with the give away stuff - my last piece of luggage came out….That’s right my suitcase was the LAST piece of luggage off the belt but it was there, whew
… So I leave Baggage claim with all of my luggage balanced and hooked together and feeling like I was coming for a month and not 5 days; only to realize that ALAMO is one floor down and the EXACT opposite end
…no problem except it was after 11:00 by now so no DTD for me
….Picked up car, checked in and was in bed by Midnight as I had to set up the booth the next day and figured I would hit EOS Thursday for dinner. Did I make it? Did I get to find out if EOS sandwiches are Awesome? Tune in for day two to find out…and Thanks for reading this!!!
Day 1=ZERO Disney
I work at Comic Book conventions. I had to go to Orlando for work, the first convention of my Convention season. I decided to try to squeeze in a little Disney if I could and I had my first official DIS meet!!
So I am back and here it is....HOW MUCH DISNEY COULD I FIT INTO A NON DISNEY TRIP
My Day one –The Flight in
I worked Wednesday until 4pm then raced over to the airport. Normally I can fit everything I need into one suitcase but as this was a work trip and I was bringing some items for work, I had two Large suitcases full of Company give aways , plus a carry on, plus my laptop….AAAGGGHHH how do you people with kids do this all the time?
Trying to lug all this to check in was not the most fun I have ever had.Got checked in only to find my flight on time
- I am getting excited as my plan is to get my rental car and rush over to DTD and have a Sandwich at EOS. My flight was to take off at 5:50 and land at 9:55 and it did!! Sat next to some golfers on the way down, the flight went by fast. We landed on time!!I was excited, I knew I would be pushing it but should have no problem making it over to DTD… Got to Baggage claim and right as I arrived the belt started, WHOO HOO
….one of my two bags was third or fourth off the belt and then I waited and waited and waited…just as I was starting to panic, ok so manybe I was already panicing as it was the suitcase with the give away stuff - my last piece of luggage came out….That’s right my suitcase was the LAST piece of luggage off the belt but it was there, whew… So I leave Baggage claim with all of my luggage balanced and hooked together and feeling like I was coming for a month and not 5 days; only to realize that ALAMO is one floor down and the EXACT opposite end…no problem except it was after 11:00 by now so no DTD for me….Picked up car, checked in and was in bed by Midnight as I had to set up the booth the next day and figured I would hit EOS Thursday for dinner. Did I make it? Did I get to find out if EOS sandwiches are Awesome? Tune in for day two to find out…and Thanks for reading this!!!Day 1=ZERO Disney
I am with you- I hate traveling with a bunch of luggage- but I still ALWAYS overpack. It's a sickness. 
The weather was perfect for it and there are sidewalks up and down International Dr that makes it so much easier
and no damage had been done-they did have to use the fire extinguisher to put it out, the bad news was that instead of rolling in at 9:00am, it looked like they would be rolling it at 2-3ish
. We were done eating by 9:30ish, as we were walking out my phone rang again-another tire had caught fire and the RV and trailer were now pushed back until 5:30-6:00ish!
-for those interested-it turned out that the Grease around the bearings was packed wrong on the brand new axle
… The Polynesian…we knew we didn’t have time to actually go to a park but we did decide to do the Hotel Monorail tour. 
and gave them the Poly tour…it is such a beautiful hotel and I could see the Castle
-I couldn’t stop smiling
! After showing them the Poly, we jumped on the monorail and headed over to GF…got off at GF and gave them the tour of GF, we walked all around, Aideen was impressed by how clean the bathroom’s at the GF
. We headed over to the Contemporary and of course did the tour…Aideen again used the ladies room and I am sad 
to report said it was not very clean HOWEVER as she was walking out a cleaning person was walking in
… B & A were not so sure about it and decided to split one- after they both tried it they ended up splitting two
. 
…my phone rang again at 4:30- the good news no tires were on fire
, the bad news they were in traffic that was at a dead stop
…they were getting off the interstate and coming down back roads and according to the GPS would be at the convention center at 7:00… 
. We unloaded and started building,-we build a 20ft x 40ft mobile store and as soon as I figure out Photobucket, I will post pics- we stayed until 2:30am
, I was asleep by 3:00am and back at the Convention Center at 7:30am…But that is Day 3 stay tuned to see …Did we get the booth built in time? Did I fall asleep standing up? And Did I get any Disney worked into Day 3?And most importantly did I make my Dis Meet with GaRain or did I fall asleep? 
