Okay first day trip report for my family:
Please remember my camera broke the third day into the trip and the first couple of days were not real good so no pictures I am sorry.
We get up extremely early (like 4:00...that's even early for Jim) and confuse the heck out of the cat

What the heck are all the two leggers doing up so early???

We had packed the car the night before except toiletries so we all get ready and are out the door by 4:40. Usually getting to the airport takes over an hour even at this hour. Quick stop at Mcdonald's....when they say they are open 24 hours....they just mean the drive thru as we found out when we were going to have a "leisurely" breakfast.
We make it to airport in half an hour...wait a whopping 5 minutes for our shuttle get dropped off with the rest of the masses at SW's entrance. We are almost 2 hours early for our flight when we get to the concourse after breezing through security. There was a fussy baby there when we got there...I kept praying please don't let that baby be near us. People started getting on line about an hour and a half before boarding....we decided to get in on the action with an hour left. Struck up a conversation with a family also going to Florida for the first time...for a wedding and Sea World no Disney

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They start boarding the "families" with kiddos...I gotta say that I am so happy Southwest is revamping that policy....people who "said" they were part of one family came up as he was taking the gate down for us to board and were allowed to board ahead of us.

God answered our prayers with a resounding nope....the fussy kid was across the aisle from us.

By the time "A" boarding pass people got on there was barely any 2 & 2's anywhere near each other. The kid should have had a seat to herself instead they had her on the floor and at no point did she stop fussing.
I struck up a conversation with the lady next to me...she had left home earlier than I did and had a connecting flight to catch. She was going down because her father was having major heart surgery on that Monday. I hope the rest of her trip went better than those 2 hours!!
We all are still so excited to be heading on our first family trip to Florida (and for that matter first family trip in 5 years).
Wait until later that day!!