May 15, 2009
The day begun, as they all do with Rob bringing my cranberry juice up to our bedroom. As you all start thinking, "Aww.. how sweet", let me tell you - that's just a bribe for me not to kill him after what he does next. Within seconds - the blinds are opened, the radio goes on full blast and he plops down in bed next to me.
Blecch. I attempt to ignore him until I realize, today's the day I'm going to Disney! It's amazing how fast one gets out of bed, showered and dressed when they know they'll be leaving for Florida within hours!
We got on the road by 7am - our flight was out of Bangor (3 hours away) at 1pm. I'm addicted to Target, and wanted to spend my birthday gift cards before we left, so hence the early departure from Northern Maine! I let Rob drive down there - even with the giddyness of travel, I still wasn't fully awake. It was actually a nice day up here for once as the pictures will prove.
Rob in profile. Styling with the shades!
Caribou, Maine
So we make it down to Bangor with the minimum of bickering and blithering. My Target visit was more than successful AND I got a Starbucks Shaken Passion Ice Tea Lemonade - my favorite! We went over to the airport after that, which is pretty rinky dink. After parking the Meg-mobile and getting ripped off by Delta for 15 to check baggage, we went to grab lunch in the cafeteria of the airport. This airport doesn't even have a franchise place. So we ate at something like Cafe Air. No food porn here - the food (if one can call it that) was horrible!
Then we went through security screening. I had my tiara in my backpack as I wasn't going to let the luggage goons break it in handling! So when I got to put my stuff on the conveyor belt, I asked the guard if I needed to pull it out for them to inspect as it was going to show as a weird piece of metal. He said no, but all the screeners went over to the XRay monitor to see it go through. (There was no one in line - we were early). Two of the women guards got really excited and wanted to know all about my Disney wedding! LOL. I was kinda taken aback since I thought these people couldn't even laugh on the job.
After explaining the goodness that is a Disney Wedding, we waited for about an hour for the plane, and then got into the world's smallest and most uncomfortable jet ever! We were in row 13, literally paralell to the bathroom. EW!! That wasn't the worst part though - the seat belts were wicked short in this row! Rob who is all of 130 lbs soaking wet had some trouble getting his to close. Then he had to help me get mine done! Needness to say there wasn't breathing on this trip for multiple reasons. Ugh.
We landed at JFK right on time. When we got off, we immediately went to Starbucks (again) for our second drink of the day! We don't have Starbucks in Northern Maine, so we kind of overdo it when we can find them. We boarded our flight to Orlando right on time, and of course we were all the way in the back (again). We were like row 36 out of 38. But at least the seats were comfy (as far as coach airplane seats can be) and we got into Orlando only 30 minutes late. (We were delayed on the tarmac due to incoming traffic. I resolved then, never to fly through JFK again.
I hate lines, and by this time it was about 8:30 at night. We had been travelling for 13 hours. So when it took extra time to get off the plane, I got uber fustrated! I got a picture to prove my fustration.
Finally off the plane and Rob had to use the loo, so I took the time to take a few pictures of the airport for anyone who had never been there before.
There was this board as you walk through the airport with fish on it. When you walk by, it stirs up the water and the fish move - totally neato!
Once Rob was all set, we jumped on the shuttle over to the main building. I tried to get some nifty shots of the sky as we went.
With a stop at the KSC gift shop (we're space geeks),
We were off to the Magical Express area. Guess what I encountered there? Yes another line!! So I took another picture of it as Rob pretended not to know me.
It was the first time Rob or I had ridden on the ME. No complaints at all! Stopped at the Caribbean Beach and then right over to the Pop! I was curious to how the cast members would be at check in at the Pop after reading Carly's TR, and how they didn't even acknowledge that she was standing there in her wedding dress! Well, we got the friendliest guy named Kevin. He gave us a ton of buttons - Happy Birthday (for me on Saturday) I'm Celebrating (for Rob because he had to celebrate my birthday), Just Engaged, Happily Ever After and even Just Married! LOL He was even going to give us the Happy Anniversary ones, but I declined those! LOL. We got our keys to our room in the 70's, and hiked over. I had never been to the Pop, so I was really interested in all the theming. Rob was born in the 70's, so I took great pleasure in pointing out how we were staying in HIS decade. Here are some pictures of the theming around us, and room for all those interested in Pop Century pics.
The view from our room
The view from the balcony
The Room
The TV
The Loo
It was about 10pm at this point, and we were ravenous! So we took a field trip to the cafeteria. I had the parmesan crusted chicken with a side salad and Rob had chicken alfredo. My chicken was dry, but edible. Rob's was really good, but the portion was miniscule. (Sorry no food pics! I'm trying to get in the habit!)
After that, it was off to bed! I tried to stay awake to see my birthday come in, but we were out like a light by 11:30...
Coming up - Meg's Magical Birthday in the Magic Kingdom - with the world's weirdest sunburn!
(hopefully the arctic is thawing, and it's not too frigid) 
) The muppets are by far my favorite thing there, it's a must do on my list! I am glad however, that you had a nice bday in the MK! I'm trying to arrange a trip this september for our Planning session/my bday trip! I've never been to CP but I think you sold it to me! And how cute was that mousekeeping surprise! I'd be bouncing around like a kid in a candy store if I got a special towel creation from mousekeeping! 
I'm easily amused! 
