My Do-Over PTR w/ Pics & Angry Travel Agents!

[Care]

I carry alcohol wipes to prevent anything from setting in.. nursing (medical kind) trick

Thanks for the tip, Sha. I'll have to hunt up some alcohol wipes to bring along for the trip. 22 more sleeps!!!

I can see me washing my bras and hanging them all around the room for my DAD to walk through

NOT!

I took advantage of laundry services last year. No way am I doing laundry while I'm on vacation. I wouldn't mind hand-washing bras so long as I had a better place to hang them - ick- just the thought grosses me out

I've handwashed bras and undies in the hotel sink before, and hung them up to dry in the bathroom overnight. However, I always worry that they won't be completely dried by the morning -- and I worry that the housekeepers can see them when they come in to clean if the delicates are still drying.

it is nice to have a washer and dryer in the 1 bedroom and higher DVC rooms

Nice... I'm jealous! I hear there are washers and dryers available at Pop, and I might just need to use them since I'm not convinced that I need to bring that much along for the trip.

 

[rebecca06261]

I leave for Orlando tomorrow and I haven't done ANYTHING to get ready I'm draggin! I'm so excited to be going to .... wait a second.

Sha, close your eyes







I can't wait to go to Universal on Sunday!!







Okay Sha, you can come back now


I love both parks for very different reasons. Of course, my heart and soul will always belong to the Mouse but I guess you could say that I'm a bit of a cheater at times I'm really nervous about flying... I hate it. I can't fly without a really strong Zanex, or a really strong drink. I specifically chose an early afternoon flight so I wouldn't look like a lush sitting at the airport bar on a Saturday morning I'll be back on Monday - if I turn up missing, I have friends in place who are looking out for me When I return, I'll finally get around to doing something on my costume for MNSSHP!

 

[Care]

Hope you have a terrific trip to Orlando, Rebecca!

 

[Sha]

I leave for Orlando tomorrow and I haven't done ANYTHING to get ready I'm draggin! I'm so excited to be going to .... wait a second.

Sha, close your eyes


Okay.. they are closed????




I can't wait to go to Universal on Sunday!!







Okay Sha, you can come back now

wonder what i missed???


I love both parks for very different reasons. Of course, my heart and soul will always belong to the Mouse but I guess you could say that I'm a bit of a cheater at times I'm really nervous about flying... I hate it. I can't fly without a really strong Zanex, or a really strong drink. I specifically chose an early afternoon flight so I wouldn't look like a lush sitting at the airport bar on a Saturday morning I'll be back on Monday - if I turn up missing, I have friends in place who are looking out for me When I return, I'll finally get around to doing something on my costume for MNSSHP!

thats is a short flight! you can do it!!! I am not a fan either, but got through it to get to Germany (return flight was better). Hope you have a great time even if you are cheating did I say that???!

 

[rebecca06261]

Hi everyone! I'm just checking in with everyone from the hotel lobby. I've had an amazing time in Orlando this weekend and I DO NOT want to leave I started crying this morning (literally) and cannot wait to come back. I'll do a mini-tr on my pre-vacation trip tonight or tomorrow... so you will just have to wait to see how my weekend with the Handsome Stranger went

 

[Sha]

Hi everyone! I'm just checking in with everyone from the hotel lobby. I've had an amazing time in Orlando this weekend and I DO NOT want to leave I started crying this morning (literally) and cannot wait to come back. I'll do a mini-tr on my pre-vacation trip tonight or tomorrow... so you will just have to wait to see how my weekend with the Handsome Stranger went

must have been good if you are making us wait

You will be back soon

 

[rebecca06261]

As you all know this past weekend I went to Orlando on what was affectionately referred to as a "Pretrip-trip." I named it that because I felt extremely foolish about going to Orlando to meet some guy. After battling cold feet for over a week, I decided to go for it, and went to Orlando despite myself As I indicated earlier today from my hotel, it was an amazing weekend filled with firsts and surprises. I am so sad I had to leave... but as you'll see, it didn't really begin that way.

Saturday 8-23-08 The Flight into Orlando

My flight was scheduled to leave around 2ish from Atlanta. I only live 15 minutes from the park n' fly place and as I've repeated on many other occasions, " I HATE FLYING," so I was in no rush to get away from the house. Ironically, despite being so nervous all week about meeting the Handsome Stranger, I woke up extremely calm and resolved.

I made it easily to park n' fly and the shuttle whisks me away to the terminal. If you've never been to Atlanta Hartsfield Airport, it's freakin' humongo! Really, MCO could fit nicely into 2 terminals at Atlanta (no exageration.) Anyways, because I printed my boarding pass at home, I proceeded directly through security and directly to the bar closest to my gate. I have a rule, I can't fly without a very large Zanex, or a couple of drinks. Not very princessy of me I know, but some things a girl just has to do for her own sanity.

2 cocktails and a hot dog later, I moseyed over to my gate.

As I approach the gate to have a seat, the Airtran attendant calls my name over the intercom to approach the kiosk. What do you know- it was my very first sprinkling of pixie dust!!! BAM! SCORE! Upgraded to Business-class In all of my 32 years, I've never flown business or first class, so this was a real treat! Within 5 minutes they begin boarding the plane & being business class- I'm the first on the plane. More than anything, this means I don't have to watch where I'm going, whose feet I'm stepping on, where I put my carry on- I can do whatever I want I make it to row 2 seat aa. I put the carry on up and take my seat with my book. Then more pixie dust started flying! What do ya know! They offer free adult beverages to business class I ordered a jack & coke- since they didn't have crown .

As I enjoyed my beverage, the other guests boarded the plane. I felt like a royal snob and I didn't care one bit **Note: I actually had forgotten about this drink until I started reading through my live report text messages

Good & liquored up , the plane departs and I could have cared less about anything happening. Yep, I was good and tipsy at this point. Add a little altitude madness and I was quite loopy for the entire one hour flight.

Funny how when you finally land and you realize you are about to meet your Handsome Stranger for the first time, you sober up almost instantaneously The plan was that Handsome Stranger was to meet me at Starbucks. Did you know there were 2 starbucks at MCO? I didn't... but he knew what he was doing. I trusted that he'd be there. Long story short, at some point I had walked right past him when I was walking to the starbucks. A phone call later and he finds me. Again, I'm still not nervous at this point..I have no idea why not, but I'm not!

First impressions- My Handsome Stranger is indeed very handsome and has amazing brown eyes- I'm a sucker for brown eyes. After he finds me, he approaches and greet one another with a slight hug and cheek kiss...and almost instantaneously, he turns the other way and starts walking toward the parking garage.... walking like 5 feet ahead of me He never even looked back either All I could thing was "wow, this is going to be a long weekend." I snuck a text message through to Timmy and Jim saying "I don't know about this." Another thing that was painfully evident, is I only had a carry-on and small back-pack. As a gentleman, I would have thought he would have offered to carry my bag- but he never offered. However, he did later pick it up so that it wouldn't go through a puddle and then he did put it in the trunk of his car. So far- seriously not looking good for the handsome stranger or my weekend. Next up, the painfully awkward ride to my hotel...

 

[Sha]

As you all know this past weekend I went to Orlando on what was affectionately referred to as a "Pretrip-trip." I named it that because I felt extremely foolish about going to Orlando to meet some guy I had met here on the DIS. After battling cold feet for over a week, I decided to go for it, and went to Orlando despite myself As I indicated earlier today from my hotel, it was an amazing weekend filled with firsts and surprises. I am so sad I had to leave... but as you'll see, it didn't really begin that way.

Saturday 8-23-08 The Introduction

My flight was scheduled to leave around 2ish from Atlanta. I only live 15 minutes from the park n' fly place and as I've repeated on many other occasions, " I HATE FLYING," so I was in no rush to get away from the house. Ironically, despite being so nervous all week about meeting the Handsome Stranger, I woke up extremely calm and resolved.

I made it easily to park n' fly and the shuttle whisks me away to the terminal. If you've never been to Atlanta Hartsfield Airport, it's freakin' humongo! Really, MCO could fit nicely into 2 terminals at Atlanta (no exageration.) Anyways, because I printed my boarding pass at home, I proceeded directly through security and directly to the bar closest to my gate. I have a rule, I can't fly without a very large Zanex, or a couple of drinks. Not very princessy of me I know, but some things a girl just has to do for her own sanity.

2 cocktails and a hot dog later, I moseyed over to my gate.

As I approach the gate to have a seat, the Airtran attendant calls my name over the intercom to approach the kiosk. What do you know- it was my very first sprinkling of pixie dust!!! BAM! SCORE! Upgraded to Business-class In all of my 32 years, I've never flown business or first class, so this was a real treat! Within 5 minutes they begin boarding the plane & being business class- I'm the first on the plane. More than anything, this means I don't have to watch where I'm going, whose feet I'm stepping on, where I put my carry on- I can do whatever I want I make it to row 2 seat aa. I put the carry on up and take my seat with my book. Then more pixie dust started flying! What do ya know! They offer free adult beverages to business class I ordered a jack & coke- since they didn't have crown .

As I enjoyed my beverage, the other guests boarded the plane. I felt like a royal snob and I didn't care one bit **Note: I actually had forgotten about this drink until I started reading through my live report text messages

Good & liquored up , the plane departs and I could have cared less about anything happening. Yep, I was good and tipsy at this point. Add a little altitude madness and I was quite loopy for the entire one hour flight.

Funny how when you finally land and you realize you are about to meet your Handsome Stranger for the first time, you sober up almost instantaneously The plan was that Handsome Stranger was to meet me at Starbucks. Did you know there were 2 starbucks at MCO? I didn't... but he knew what he was doing. I trusted that he'd be there. Long story short, at some point I had walked right past him when I was walking to the starbucks. A phone call later and he finds me. Again, I'm still not nervous at this point..I have no idea why not, but I'm not!

First impressions- My Handsome Stranger is indeed very handsome and has amazing brown eyes- I'm a sucker for brown eyes. After he finds me, he approaches and greet one another with a slight hug and cheek kiss...and almost instantaneously, he turns the other way and starts walking toward the parking garage.... walking like 5 feet ahead of me He never even looked back either All I could thing was "wow, this is going to be a long weekend." I snuck a text message through to Timmy and Jim saying "I don't know about this." Another thing that was painfully evident, is I only had a carry-on and small back-pack. As a gentleman, I would have thought he would have offered to carry my bag- but he never offered. However, he did later pick it up so that it wouldn't go through a puddle and then he did put it in the trunk of his car. So far- seriously not looking good for the handsome stranger or my weekend. Next up, the painfully awkward ride to my hotel...

YOU ARE KILLING ME HERE!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[pmama]

Wow, ditto to previous poster. Talk about a cliff hanger. Hope the next segment comes soon.

 

[lazydoxy66]

Holy Smokers!!! I'm afraid to see what comes next!!!

on the Bus. class though!!!

 

[Care]

Ms. Rebecca... Where's the rest? You've got us all on the edge of our seats, waiting to read about how the weekend went. Details, young lady, details!

 

[rebecca06261]

First of all, I must apologize. I do have a couple of pics from this afternoon but I don't want to post them out of respect for Handsome Stranger. I haven't asked his permission to post them and since he's a fellow DISer, I don't know how comfortable he would be to have his picture here.

Day 1 Continued...
We make it to the car, he puts my carry-on in the trunk, and we're on our way. At this point, he's still coming off like a pompous jerk who is easily aggravated and all I'm thinking to myself is "might as well make the best of it, you can call for a rental when you get to the hotel and call Sha as soon as possible"

As we're riding along in the terrible rain, things began to shift... he began to loosen up, and omg, he even smiled We're both feeling a little more comfy and we engage in a little small talk- honestly couldn't even begin to tell you what we talked about but I imagine it was nothing more than sarcastic barbs and witty one-liners NOTE TO READERS: IF YOU SEE - THEN THAT WAS A MOMENT THAT LOVE-STRUCK ME

Within a short distance, we arrive at the Sleep Inn. Having had many previous conversations with him, I knew he lived not to far from the hotel so I asked about where he lived... conveniently he responds with "would you like to see?" Sure, I'm feeling adventurous... why not?? Within a few minutes we're pulling into his apartment complex. Now... I don't know at what point I went from "No way" to "Let's see." The whole weekend was very surreal. I cannot tell you anything that happened in the car that would have made me specifically change my mind...but evidently I did. We go up to his apartment and the first thing I notice is the abundance of alcohol everywhere He had 2 etageries lined with many bottles of booze and some sort of booze dispenser laying on the kitchen counter, filled with booze as well. I have to admit, my initial thought was omg, he's an alkie! Then I came to my sense and thought, if he were really an alcoholic, there probably wouldn't be any booze left Moving on...

We sat down for a little while and listened to the rain falling into the palm trees, just outside his window. Having had a long day and a few drinks, I was feeling kind of sleepy- and I must have been boring him to death because before I realized it, we were both wanting naps! So we're chilling on the sofa and I start thinking about politics. (I'm such a dork) He and I both love politics so I just knew I could babble to my heart's content on the subject and I just blurted out "Can you believe blah blah blah blah?" Wouldn't you know that this ended up being the real ice breaker for me?? After this he began opening up a little more...so did I.

The rain doesn't let up but I'm feeling kind of antsy, he suggests that we hit the complex's hot-tub I'm game so he goes down stairs to get my heavy carry-on out of the car and brings it to me so I can change into my suit He hands me a clean towel lovestruc ) and we begin our walk through the rain towards the hot-tub... me following only a few feet behind him this time

We get into the hot-tub, not too close to one another, but certainly not on opposite sides of the tub. We float, relax, and chit chat... and then we both get a little quiet... We're both thinking the same thing- the heat of the hot-tub water combined with the cool rain had caused a beautiful fog to creep around us- the rain delicately trickled down, and it felt as though we were completely alone... Now here's where my memory get's a little fuzzy- at some point, I float over to him, crawl into his lap and wrap my arms around him to give him the "Hug Test." (Are you familiar with the Hug Test?? If not, I suggest you watch If Lucy Fell, it's a movie from the mid-90's staring Sarah Jessica Parker- excellent chick-flick...but I digress.) He passes the hug test with flying colors As a matter of fact, neither one of us really wanted to let go. Oh yeah, this is where we had our first kiss too It was at this time that I decided that this one moment would make my trip worth while, if this is all that ever happened

Moving along... it's a darn good thing I had decided that our little cuddle-fest in the hot-tub was worthwhile- things were about to go downhill again... sort of... we came upstairs to get cleaned up for dinner. Also, I needed to check into my hotel. At this point we're both starving and he suggests that we go to the Village Inn Restaurant- quick, easy, and right next door to the hotel Now, I promise I don't have princess syndrome. I never expected to be lavished with fine dining for our first date... but come on! Village Inn ?? Whatever, I'm starving, Village Inn it is. Note to readers: Avoid Village Inn like the plague. The service and food was terrible... although Handsome Stranger swears they have great pie At this point, I'm finding his company enjoyable and am strangely comfortable around him. I later find out that he feels the same way too Romance gone after the dining fiasco, we decide that we're both tired and that we need to get a good night's sleep since we have plans to be at USO bright and early in the morning

Anyone interested in hearing how we cuddled all night???



Up next: Rebecca cheats on the Mouse with Handsome Stranger and Universal Studios Orlando

 

[Sha]

Anyone interested in hearing how we cuddled all night???


Up next: Rebecca cheats on the Mouse with Handsome Stranger and Universal Studios Orlando

whats this last part???!!

am so glad you went!!!!!

 

[ANTSS2001]

our lil girl is all grown up....

 

[lazydoxy66]

I'm speechless!

 

[pmama]

 

[rebecca06261]

our lil girl is all grown up....

oh Timmy... silly silly Timmy

I'm speechless!

So was I

See anything interesting??? *Looks over your shoulder*




**So I've had a difficult time planning my up and coming trip because I still haven't even unpacked from this past weekend. I MUST do something about a costume quick though! I haven't had time to look through the thrift stores, shop online or anything!

Another interesting note, I've been trying to find a job in Florida for about 5 months or so without much luck. I do have a minimum salary requirement that has limited my options, but have always figured that it just isn't meant to be if something didn't come along. Anyways, I currently work in the Court system (can I be more vague lol.) Silly ol' me started jumping wayyyy ahead of myself and decided to narrow my search to the Orlando area only (had been Orlando - Tampa...bet you could never guess why .) Yesterday, I was talking to one of the Judge's I work for and he reminded me that he had many connections in Orlando and would be happy to set me up with his contacts Keep the pixie dust flying & the prayers said at night that something finally comes through. Afterall, don't ya'll want someone to visit when you come to Orlando?!!

 

[Sha]

**So I've had a difficult time planning my up and coming trip because I still haven't even unpacked from this past weekend. I MUST do something about a costume quick though! I haven't had time to look through the thrift stores, shop online or anything!

Another interesting note, I've been trying to find a job in Florida for about 5 months or so without much luck. I do have a minimum salary requirement that has limited my options, but have always figured that it just isn't meant to be if something didn't come along. Anyways, I currently work in the Court system (can I be more vague lol.) Silly ol' me started jumping wayyyy ahead of myself and decided to narrow my search to the Orlando area only (had been Orlando - Tampa...bet you could never guess why .) Yesterday, I was talking to one of the Judge's I work for and he reminded me that he had many connections in Orlando and would be happy to set me up with his contacts Keep the pixie dust flying & the prayers said at night that something finally comes through. Afterall, don't ya'll want someone to visit when you come to Orlando?!!

LOTS AND LOTS of pixie dust for you sweetie!!! And yes, I want you and some others down here to have some fun more often! Plus am sure that someone more important might really like that

 

[rebecca06261]

LOTS AND LOTS of pixie dust for you sweetie!!! And yes, I want you and some others down here to have some fun more often! Plus am sure that someone more important might really like that

We'll see... to say that would be a bit presumptuous again... one of my specialties Truthfully, it would make dating a heck of a lot easier..if he wanted to continue seeing me that is

 

[Sha]

We'll see... to say that would be a bit presumptuous again... one of my specialties Truthfully, it would make dating a heck of a lot easier..if he wanted to continue seeing me that is

Hugs!!! And why wouldnt he want to????