Something Old, Something New, Something Borrowed, Something Blue **Updated 12/23~~2 Times** About This Page:

[mestitch]

This is where the actual TR begins... if you need to catch up on the backstory you can find the PTR here.

I will continue to write in red and we'll let Andy blab on in green

So we start with our travel day, Thursday, Nov. 20th. I had a lot to get ready at work before I could leave, including a final project for one of my grad classes. That ended up taking way longer than I had wanted so I had to run around like crazy after work to pick up last minute things and then run home to straighten up the house and pack all the last bits of stuff we needed. Andy was home by about 5 and pretty soon we were finally on the road. As we were driving we soon realized that we were making a list of all the things we forgot One thing was the cable to upload my photos to the computer. Oh well. I knew we'd just buy another memory card if need be. So that problem was solved. And all the ladies out there will understand my panic when I realized I had forgotten to pack my strapless bra for my dress that I was going to wear to Palo But I figured, I could safety pin the one I had to the straps of the dress and it would be okay (which it was by the way )

We stopped and had some McD's on the road. The girl at the window handed my bag of apple dippers to Andy and said "Here go your apple dippers". Which made me laugh b/c all the kids at school talk like that.

And I just went "uuuuuuh, pardon?" Cause I really couldn't understand her. Melissa had to translate for me.
Andy doesn't speak little kid like I do My kids drive me nuts with that. "Mrs. Loflin, here go your pencil". Really?? Where's it going?????? Anyway, we joked about "here go your" the rest of the trip.

About 9pm or so, Pom called. I remember that it had to be around 9 b/c Pom has free nights on his cellphone and he's very particular about using up his cellphone minutes... so I usually get calls from him after 9pm. We talked for a minute and then he put Brandi on. She and I talked till 10 which was nice b/c it distracted from the drive Good job Brandi!

We finally made it to the Microtel in Brunswick around 10:30 and checked in. This poor old lady was working the check in desk and she couldn't figure out how to make the stupid phone system work. It kept ringing, she kept answering, and nobody was there. This went on at least 5 times. Then she tells us we were supposed to be there by 6pm! What??? That wasn't in my confirmation. Which of course I had out in the car, so I sent Andy out to get it. Apparently they'd given our room away and we ended up getting a Microtel upgrade. Who knew?? We got a Microtel Suite. Which translates to = regular size hotel room

We crashed, watched Jay Leno (because the sexiest man alive was on there I had already tortured Andy by reading that issue of People in the car and making him look at all the fabulous pictures of ole Hugh Jackman )

The next morning we were up and ready to hit the road by about 8am. We made a pit stop at the Goasis since Andy gets all excited about stopping there. On the way we got a text from Angie asking us if we were making good time. I told her we were and that we figured we'd be making it on property by about 11am.

Pretty soon we were driving through those fabulous gates...


And then another magical set...


And then we pulled up to our home for the next few days...


We checked in and found out our room was ready Andy of course was in his usual pose..


We headed up to our room and walked in to find the magical music playing for you as you walk in. We were on the 8th floor (Andy argues and says it was the 4th because we had a 4 in front of our room number, but we pressed 8 in the elevator....)

Pics of our room..




Our view from our balcony..


And we both LOVED the bathroom...


We took a self shot of course


And then Andy had a Christmas Party Present that he just had to give me early. We're horrible about that. We can't wait to give presents...

It was a Stitch Christmas pin from Disney Shopping. Stitch is dressed like Santa and his picture is on a stamp. Andy felt it was fitting since he works with mail.

I had to play with the in room computer of course! I thought this was just too cool!

It was personalized for us. And I was able to add my one day park hopper to my key to the world card right there on the computer
I've read of people complaining that the computer woke them up b/c it would beep with messages at like 5:30 in the morning. We just turned it off when we left the room and at night and never had that problem. I did see that all the messages that came to our inbox came at like 5:37am though.

This was the view from outside our door...


The whole time we were in our room, we kept getting knocks on our door. First some guy wanted to inspect it for some reason but said he'd come back later. Then a maintenance guy wanted to do something but said he'd come back later.
And then there was another knock at the door......Andy answered and.....

you'll have to wait till we come back to find out

edited to add that I just realized Andy only said one flippin' thing there.... hopefully he'll have more to add in the next installment. I guess I had to get us rolling first...