Thursday, May 30, 2019
Day 1, Part 1
I was up at 3am with my coffee (actually, it was the iced chai we decided to get the night before) - despite being super excited, I was pretty tired!
Allison was up at 4...
V straggled along (as usual) at 4:45... Even the prospect of leaving for Disney in a few hours, does nothing to rouse her out of bed any earlier.
At the very last minute - literally walking out the door to leave for the airport - we noticed that one of the patches on V's shorts was coming off... So, she threw her travel sewing kit in her stuff, and worked on sewing it as Josh was driving us to the airport.
We were on the road at 5:30am.
We made it to the airport at 6 - I am thankful, when we have these early flights - that we live close to the airport.
Our check in line was very long - but there were several gate attendants working, so it seemed to go quickly. We've flown out of our "small airport" several times - so I knew that once we were through check-in and security, our gate would be right there... No walking a bazillion miles with our carry ons to find our gate.
We were through security by 7am.
The longest line of the morning was for our morning coffee at Caribou - we ended up waiting in that line for 30 minutes.
While we waited to board - the life of a college student - V did her homework.
Our plane was waiting for us...
We boarded at 7:45am...
Found our seats at the back of the plane...
Something new to us, thanks to Grandpa, I grabbed a deck of cards on our way out the door and threw them into my carry-on... We played cards for 2 hours of the flight (Rummy 500 - or is it 500 Rummy? Either way...). We had SO MUCH FUN and it made the flight go super fast!
At one point during the flight - V crawled out from her window seat for a bio-break... She comes back, super annoyed - her bathroom was out of TP - and she had to "improvise" (her words, not mine... I didn't ask her to clarify either - LOL). She told the Flight Attendant (so everyone could hear) - the FA went
immediately to put a new roll on... The FA comes back, only to tell V that there
was a full roll of TP and it was under metal flap.
My gosh, Allison and I just rolled - and V was so embarrassed! LOL
Our flight landed 20 minutes early - though I didn't note the time - only that we landed early.
We stopped for another bio-break (doesn't everyone do this?) on our way to meet our town car driver... The service we use always texts me a photo of our driver the day before - I really love this - this is something "new" they've been doing only for about the last 4 years. I really like knowing who we are looking for - and as luck would have it - it was a female driver who has driven us in the past.
Fastest luggage unload ever, it was waiting for us on our carousel when we got there. So, we were literally in our town car as soon as we landed.
We had made arrangements with Cindy to pick up bottled water for the girls and sparkling water for me... but I wasn't thinking we'd have to do a grocery stop anyways, as I needed half & half for my morning coffee. We did a very quick grocery stop for that & we were on our way!
Before we knew it - we were seeing an unobstructed view of this!
We checked in at Shades of Green at exactly 2pm. Sadly - our room wasn't ready... This has never happened to us before and we weren't sure what to do. We were hungry and had initially planned to have lunch at the Poly on our way to the parks... but this kind of changed our plans, because we were all wanting to freshen up before we headed out. We decided to check our bags with Bell Services, and head down by the pool to eat at Evergreens - not our first choice for our first meal - and probably not in the top 10 either, but we were hungry.
On our way to Evergreens - walking past the check in desk - the CM flagged us down to tell us our room was now ready (5 minutes later - LOL)... Change of plans again. Check our room, have Bell Services deliver our luggage, then go back to our plan of eating lunch at the Poly.
Our room request was... Lobby floor, close to the elevators/lobby, with a view of the Koi Pond. We were given room 2108 - which was a bit further than I would have liked to have been, but it was an OK room and not too far away from everything. This room location guaranteed us the "bigger bathroom" - as opposed to the small bathroom in other areas of the resort. These rooms have also been newly remodeled, and seem to be a bit more spacious than the old rooms, because they don't have the half wall between the beds and the couch/table area. Overall, we were very happy with our room, and would request this area again.
And the "big bathroom" with the long vanity, in a separate room from the tub/toilet... It was SO NICE to have all of this counter space with the 3 of us! It really makes me wish we would have requested this area many trips ago.
I just wanted to show you a pic from Allison's grad trip TR (2015), which shows the small bathroom configuration... The small vanity with the tub/toilet in the same room...
Anyways... All freshened up and ready to hit the parks! Where are we headed????
Link to
Day 1, Part 2
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