Thursday morning, I woke up early and headed to work. Hoping to get some stuff done and leave early.
Because of the debacle with Chriss flight I was trying to avoid leaving 2 cars at the airport. But from where we live taking the airport shuttle would be just as much as parking the extra car, so instead of just sucking it up, I devised this uber complicated plan that essentially left me completely at the mercy of other people. As I was sitting stranded at work at 6:30 am, I was having one of those internal conversations like crazy girl, all this to save 40 stupid dollars? But I have awesome co-workers, and we made it work.
One of my co-workers lives near the airport, so she dropped me off on the way home. Kona Kone here I come!
We were able to dodge traffic and make it to the airport by 5:30, our flight left at 7, so we were in good shape. This is more time than I usually like to spend in the airport, but when we went to visit Panic a few weeks earlier, we also had a 7pm Thursday night flight and we nearly missed it because of the insanely long and slow-moving security line, which was a first for me. I was starting to loose faith in my beloved General Mitchell. But I neednt have worried; apparently that was just some crazy-daisy fluke. We headed through security quickly; no one was stopped for menacing looking Kleenex or anything.
I hate the food at the Milwaukee airport, so I packed my own dinner. Im such a dork! I sat and ate my dinner while I waited for the plane.
Another annoying thing (of my own doing) was that I let Chris take my ipod since he has never traveled alone before. Sweet of me I know, but this left me ipodless. Now, yes, I had my portable DVD player, my nook and my smart phone. But I still felt naked without my ipod! Im such an electronics junkie!
Since I was traveling alone, I had upgraded myself to business class. AirTran offers upgrades for $50, and I find this much easier when traveling alone. I dont have to subject strangers to my wrigglyness.
I was in row 2, and in row 1 there were 4 20-something guys. I dont believe any of them knew each other, but at least one of them had been at the bar since 3 (it was a 7 pm flight) and all 4 of them were downing Jack and Coke like it was going out of style.
The flight attendants LOVED them, and by the time we were landing I was pretty sure Id somehow booked a ticket on Frat Boy Air. They were loud the entire flight, and were using some very not-disney-appropriate language. We were all adults in first class, but the plane was loaded with little kids. At some points, they were funny, but mostly obnoxious. At least I was next to a business traveler that didnt want to drink or chat!
Side tangent here, but some day, Im going to invent a better way to deplane and Im going to become a millionaire! Though, I shouldnt complain too much. Ive noticed that planes in and out of Milwaukee are much friendlier (people offering to help you with luggage, actually waiting for you to leave instead of trying to crawl over you) than flights to/from other places Ive beento. But it is still an awful and inefficient process.
So after being rebirthed into the Orlando Airport and singing to ourselves my favorite Sesame Street Song of yore, Letter B, to remind ourselves to go to the correct side, we made our way to the Magical Express.
Because of our resort changes and such, before the trip I had received no less than 4 ME packets. And because of Chris change, we still ended up without ME documents
I do love arriving so late at night, because there are no lines for the ME. All the sane people are asleep already.
Soon, I was on the ME watching the video.
I know it is supposed to be cute and campy, but for some reason it kind of creeps me out. Id much prefer a shorter video which really if you think about it tells you stuff that if you are on your way to Disney, you probably already know. Like, youre ON the Magical Express, obviously you know about the service. You know? I think there should be more old cartoons, those are much more entertaining!
So I checked in, I was a little worried, since technically the reservation was in Chriss name (we dont have the same last name because Im lazy) but there was no need to worry, it was all good.
I took some glamor shots of the room.
Smile Sexy!
Arriving so late is kind of weird. Your adrenaline is pumping because you are finally there and you want to do all kinds of stuff like jump on the bed and run and hug Mickey. But, you are so tired, because youve worked a full day, plus spent the last 3 hours traveling, so your body is just like Bed. Yay!
My exciting evening included looking at the hours for the next few days and eating potato chips - I'm a party ANIMAL!
Oh yeah, there was some Wizards of Waverly Place in there. I
you David Henrie!
And for good (adult)measure, I had some My Little Pony Fruit snacks. What can I say, I have a sophisticated palette!
I think it was a combination of over-exhaustion from the week, being in Disney and being nervous that Chris was traveling by himself, and I just had this feeling in the pit of my stomach that it wasnt going to go well, but I could not sleep! I was up until about 3 watching the Disney Channel. Yep. Party Animal.
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so that wouldn't have been the best, plus since we’re only going to 2 parks, that’s not the best use of a park day. So, we decided to go to MK because it has the highest number of things to do. 
I am off to read all your past DR and TRs... 
