WDW Poly Princess
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Concerning Our Cast:
Crystal (WDW Poly Princess)- Turning 23 on this trip, my 5th trip to WDW, 3rd solo trip.
Kiki- Friend from Orlando who makes a cameo appearance as our superhero, Airport Transport Girl.
Katie- Twenty-something friend who lives just outside of Orlando. We met on an online horse message board about ten years ago, and have been in touch ever since.
JP- Katies brother, who Ive talked to online for years, but have never met until now.
Travel is only glamorous in retrospect Paul Thereoux
When I last left you, I was still sitting in the Springfield airport, waiting on my flight. I promise that at some point in this trip report, I really do make it to Disney World.
Shortly after everyone was off the plane that had just arrived at my gate, I was boarding, and slipping into my exit row (yay!) seat. I settled into my seat, and pulled out my notebook to jot a few things down. Theres my notebook, but oops! I forgot to bring a pen! I have crosswords, a book of various puzzles, and a notebook to amuse myself on this flight, and I forget a pen! Good thing I brought my CD player, at least Ill have music. Lets listen to M-I-C..K J-a-g-g-e-r! (What? I like Mickey Mouse and all, but I dont want to listen to him sing for two hours!)
Two hours is a really long flight if you, like me, cant sit still for more than five minutes at a time. Add the fact that Im on my way to Disney World to this, and it was all I could do not to climb the walls (which would really be quite the feat, since Im 510, and the plane was only about 56 high but I digress )
So, two very long hours later, we landed in Chicago and I darted into the first gift shop I could find for a pen. $3 later, I was back out and speed walking to my gate. Why do they always make you go from one side of the airport to another to catch your connecting flights?
I had about half an hour to go from the top star to the bottom one.
The sad thing was that the Chicago airport is really cool, but I had no time to stop and appreciate it! On my way from one gate to another, I passed a full-sized brontosaurus skeleton, a cheesecake kiosk (closed,
), and a life-sized gold flying cow. Maybe on the way home I can stop to check things out.
Back on another plane for another too-long-to-sit-still flight. Finally, though, we were over Orlando! Is it just me, or does everyone else always search the ground below for WDW when youre flying over? I have never, ever been able to see it, either! Of course, half of the time Im flying in at night, which doesnt help
But back to the point: I was there!
Warning: Im about to go off on a tangent here! I hate winter. I hate ice on the roads, and freezing cold weather, and the lack of sun. The thing I really hate, though, is how grey everything becomes. The grass dries up and is no longer green, the leaves wither and turn brown, and even the sky turns a sleepy shade of grey. Its as if all of the color gets sucked out of the world for three months. This is exactly why I love going to WDW in the winter- I always feel like Dorothy when she arrives in Oz- stepping out of her black and white world and into Technicolor. All at once, everything is bright and beautiful and alive.
Because of this, I have a special love of the big Christmas trees that are always up in the Orlando airport this time of year. You step off of your plane, a little ragged from a day of travel, make your way down that grayish hallway that leads into the terminal, and there it is. Color, light, beauty, excitement, festivity. Youre stepping in to Oz.
Crystal (WDW Poly Princess)- Turning 23 on this trip, my 5th trip to WDW, 3rd solo trip.
Kiki- Friend from Orlando who makes a cameo appearance as our superhero, Airport Transport Girl.
Katie- Twenty-something friend who lives just outside of Orlando. We met on an online horse message board about ten years ago, and have been in touch ever since.
JP- Katies brother, who Ive talked to online for years, but have never met until now.
Travel is only glamorous in retrospect Paul Thereoux
When I last left you, I was still sitting in the Springfield airport, waiting on my flight. I promise that at some point in this trip report, I really do make it to Disney World.
Shortly after everyone was off the plane that had just arrived at my gate, I was boarding, and slipping into my exit row (yay!) seat. I settled into my seat, and pulled out my notebook to jot a few things down. Theres my notebook, but oops! I forgot to bring a pen! I have crosswords, a book of various puzzles, and a notebook to amuse myself on this flight, and I forget a pen! Good thing I brought my CD player, at least Ill have music. Lets listen to M-I-C..K J-a-g-g-e-r! (What? I like Mickey Mouse and all, but I dont want to listen to him sing for two hours!)
Two hours is a really long flight if you, like me, cant sit still for more than five minutes at a time. Add the fact that Im on my way to Disney World to this, and it was all I could do not to climb the walls (which would really be quite the feat, since Im 510, and the plane was only about 56 high but I digress )
So, two very long hours later, we landed in Chicago and I darted into the first gift shop I could find for a pen. $3 later, I was back out and speed walking to my gate. Why do they always make you go from one side of the airport to another to catch your connecting flights?
I had about half an hour to go from the top star to the bottom one.
The sad thing was that the Chicago airport is really cool, but I had no time to stop and appreciate it! On my way from one gate to another, I passed a full-sized brontosaurus skeleton, a cheesecake kiosk (closed,
), and a life-sized gold flying cow. Maybe on the way home I can stop to check things out. Back on another plane for another too-long-to-sit-still flight. Finally, though, we were over Orlando! Is it just me, or does everyone else always search the ground below for WDW when youre flying over? I have never, ever been able to see it, either! Of course, half of the time Im flying in at night, which doesnt help
But back to the point: I was there!
Warning: Im about to go off on a tangent here! I hate winter. I hate ice on the roads, and freezing cold weather, and the lack of sun. The thing I really hate, though, is how grey everything becomes. The grass dries up and is no longer green, the leaves wither and turn brown, and even the sky turns a sleepy shade of grey. Its as if all of the color gets sucked out of the world for three months. This is exactly why I love going to WDW in the winter- I always feel like Dorothy when she arrives in Oz- stepping out of her black and white world and into Technicolor. All at once, everything is bright and beautiful and alive.
Because of this, I have a special love of the big Christmas trees that are always up in the Orlando airport this time of year. You step off of your plane, a little ragged from a day of travel, make your way down that grayish hallway that leads into the terminal, and there it is. Color, light, beauty, excitement, festivity. Youre stepping in to Oz.
