Today is the day we have been waiting for!!! We're going to Disney World!!!
I was out of bed by 2:45am... Got showered and cleaned up followed by Terry... We got the kids done the night before so we would not have to wake them any earlier then needed...
WAKE UP SLEEPY HEADS!!! IT'S GO TIME!!!
One we were ready and all packed up, the kids saw something by the door... What could it be?? Why, a Tink fart of course...
They thought it was the coolest thing that Tink gave them video games for the plane ride...
Terry left to take our overnight bag out to the van, while the kids and I attempted to get a luggage cart and load our massive amount of bags onto it... Alec went to take the elevator down to get the luggage cart, well, he shows back up a minute later without a luggage cart... Says that the elevator is broken it never came up to the second floor to get him... I look at him for a second, dumbfounded, cause I have to lug 10 bags down a flight of stairs at the opposite end of the corridor, then all of the sudden he goes, OH! Opps, I forgot to push the button...
So, down he goes to get the luggage cart, we get it loaded and into the elevator, while Tailor is whining the whole time that she is tired... T.S. sister, we all are. Keep on movin'...
Terry meets us in the lobby and we wait a few minutes for the shuttle van to pull up... It's just us and a lady who has sold everything she owed to move to England to start over again... She was very nice, but you could tell she was nervous... I would have been too!
We arrived at the airport at 4am. Got our luggage tags from the Delta counter and gave them our checked bags. We made our way to our gate and got comfortable, then Terry went got us breakfast... It was very good, eggs, bacon, sausage, potatoes and biscuits... I normally can't eat before traveling but I was starving! This trip was a lot different for me, my nerves never got out of whack... It was so nice!
Our flight boarded 30 minutes before departure, and we flew out on time. I sat by the window with Alec beside me, while Terry was behind Alec with Tailor behind me... Next to Alec was a lady who had 2 companion dogs with her... They were too cute and they took a liking to Alec and he cuddled with them and they napped on his lap... About 2 hours before we landed in Atlanta, Tailor realized there were puppies up with us so she traded me seats and sat by her brother. The kids did really well sitting together... Terry was able to snap a few photos out the window...
Our flight landed 15 minutes late in Atlanta, only leaving us 15 minutes to get to our next gate before boarding the new plane... We got off the plane and our stroller was not there... We are told to go up to the gate... We do, no stroller... Terry asks the Delta agent and she says to go back down the ramp and it will get there, now we were not in the front of the plane by any means, I have always had the strollers waiting for me when I got off a plane... So Terry turns to go down the ramp and a TSA agent yells at him in a huge attitude that if he takes another step he will be breaching security... He asks how he will get his stroller... She starts lecturing about national security and how it is no laughing matter... By this point Terry is getting irritated, he was just doing what he was told to do by Delta people, so he asks again how she would like him to get his stroller, she replies, "Not by you breaching security and missing your next flight dealing with it..." He says, "Are YOU going to go get my stroller??" By this point the Delta agent has heard all of it, apologizes to Terry and asks the TSA agent if she can go retrieve our stroller and that because of the pouring down rain the guys are not working on the ground getting them, so it's not Terry's fault, he was following the directions of the other Delta agent at the plane doors... So the TSA lady huffs and puffs and says fine, so the Delta lady is gone a few minutes, and the TSA lady decides she wants to be friendly now... Anyway, we get our stroller and we are hustling to get to the next gate which is not even remotely close to where our previous flight landed...
We get there and they are already boarding... There are 2 TSA guys checking ID's and boarding passes, they have 2 lines going and people are just kinda forming into 2 lines when they get to that point, not really organized at all... So Delta calls for all rows to board and a huge mob goes up there, and we are in the middle of it, well one of the TSA guys decides to stop checking ID's right when me and the kids are in front of him with our stuff out and ready... He yells at me that there are not 2 lines! I'm like, okay, where do you want me to go? I have at least 40 to 50 people behind me and all around me... He starts yelling at everyone that the line goes to the left... Dude, there are rows of chairs to the left..
How are all of these people going to line right there? It was obvious that we were all where the line should be forming, but noone was in a "formed" line... Terry got irritated cause the guy yelled at me and the kids... And for him this was strike 2 with rude TSA people... So he mouths off and I give him the look of death that says, I will leave your butt behind if they decide to pull you into a room and strip search you... He says something to the extent that if both guys would check the documents like they were before that things would be running smoother... He TSA guy piped off with "Are you trying to tell me how to do my job???" Terry responds, "Well if you did things more efficiently maybe you wouldn't need to yell at people who are just following what you guys have been having them do for the last 15 minutes..." Oh how the TSA guy didn't like that one... All I could think of was Meet the Parents... "Bomb, Bomb, Bomb... Bomb, Bomb, Ba-Bomb..." People ended up getting in between Terry and I and I had his boarding pass...
Luckily the lady at the gate scanning the boarding passes knew he was with me and that I had his pass and she had already scanned it... I didn't even realize he wasn't with us until he met us on the plane...
Flight to MCO was nice, way shorter then the flight from PDX to ATL... We landed on time at 4:25pm... We made our way down to the Magical Express Area and walked right onto a bus... It was a FULL bus too... This is when the kids starting getting excited...
We watched the awesome welcome video... I just love it, gets me excited!
Next up: Our arrival at Pop!!!
He had just upgraded out windows to Vista so our lazor jet wouldn't work and he couldn't get them to print off his Dad's printers next door... So after me threatening bodily harm for the first time this trip, he finally went and bought the ink cartridge... We are not even on the road yet and El Cheapo has reared his ugly head...
Then I started loading the van... Made sure the hotel address was in Ellie Mae, our Garmin...
His Captain was probably tired of hearing him talk about vacation!
So, this year, she wanted to buy one for him... It was so cute... She was so excited when she went and got them and brought his to him... It was almost like the horns that stick out of her head went back in a little... 
the ME video too - it's like the official start of vacation! Nice ME mojo 
to you, my friend.
