Well, once the rest of the group has their flights I will relax. LOL! It's a fine line on flights, buy too early and they are too much, too late and they are too much and that sweet spot of them going down...may or may not happen over the holidays!
yep, 6:14 am
It will be our 4th red eye into Orlando so we've got a routine down. It will be 7-7:30 by the time we get to the resort. We will have suits and stuff in case we want pool time and the weather works for it but will leave those at bell services. We will check in and then go out for breakfast, a nice lazy sit down one this year at Captain's Grille. Of course in this instance I think we will have to head over to guest services first (or I will) to pick up my TIW card so I can use it at breakfast. Then we hit the parks and of course MK will be first (though we may walk through Epcot and take the Monorail if folks want depending on what time we finish breakfast). This year I actually have all the boys scheduled for haircuts at Harmony Barber Shop (traditional E's first day must do but we have done walk in and wait, the ressie option is new), we should be done with that by about 1:30. If we are doing the whole magic band PF+ thing, I'll book those for MK. We may have issues getting those though, some will be able to for sure but I may not be! I will likely not be able to show having a "valid" ticket until I head to guest services to claim my PAP voucher so all that stuff will take up a bit of time in the am too.
It's a little bit of a bummer as MK has early EMH hours that day, plus the holiday crowds but it is what it is. I'd much rather be able to have a short walk to breakfast after the red eye then try to get it over at MK, it just works best for everyone to start the trip out right. Haircuts later in the week would have worked better but it's a tradition and I'm ok with that now that we have a reservation for it!
If no text yet (and not expecting it to be early at that time of year) we will likely grab snacks or light CS somewhere and kind of play it by ear. In the past we've headed back to swim, hit a different park, etc. It's an early dinner night (5) at R&C for CP so there should be enough actually scheduled to keep us busy and not crashing. It's worked well in the past.
The real question will be my dad...they are at the Swan and he is a napper so he will likely try to power nap before dinner the minute their room is ready. I think everyone else will be too full of adrenaline to be too much of an issue. I don't think it will be a late night and actually hope not or I won't get all those boys up the next day. Ideally we are back and heading to bed right after the 10:30 Illuminations.
to a banana eating volcano. I'm sure that sounds perfectly plausible to kids who grow up on the island. 
At least it wasn't so bad you found yourself screaming like a banshee though.......... 
