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[Jenny Pooh]

Who: Jenn - 15th trip, DH Jim-7th trip
When: January 13 to 17, 2005
Where: Pop Century Resort
Why: Annual January Trip with my DH and to go to my new favorite place in WDW Comedy Warehouse and Adventures Club

Thursday January 13, 2005

I have been looking forward to this trip since, well since I came back from WDW in October! Somehow it’s not as bad leaving when you know you are coming back so soon. Jim worked today and I finished up the packing, tidying up the house and getting DS Jameson prepared to leave Mommy and Daddy for a few days. He is to stay with my DS Pam (who some of you may remember from my Dental Divas Go to Disney report). We have done this before in 2003 but he wasn’t even 1 yet so he never really knew we were gone for a long time. This time he is 2 and knows that he will be staying at Aunty Pam’s house while Mommy and Daddy go to “floweeda”(as he says). I know he will have a blast with his cousins, but still have that guilt of not taking him.

Our flight takes off at 7:50pm and I’m getting worried about all the fog that has set in. I check in online and our flight is on time but other flights are delayed or canceled. I drove Jim to work today so I could pick him up from work and go straight to the airport from there. I had so much stuff to lug down to the car by myself! Jameson was getting excited to go to the office and see the gals and by 4 we were off.

Jim finished up his last patient early, changed in to his airplane clothes while I switched Jameson’s car seat to Pam’s car and transferred his luggage to hers as well. 5:30 rolls around and we kiss Jameson goodbye, but he hardly notices we are leaving because he is having fun with Pam and my other DS Kathy.

It only took 20 minutes to get to the airport and the fog is getting thicker and thicker. Jim says they take off all the time in fog but I disagree with him and am getting nervous about our flight leaving at all. We park in the long term parking and wait for the tram to the terminal. The tram comes and the driver tells us that all flights are canceled!! NOOOOOOOOO!!!! See Jim I told you. I keep thinking well we could be put on the first flight out tomorrow and that would still get us most of the day blah blah blah. We get up to Southwest’s counter and tell us that we would be going, maybe. Our luggage gets checked in and we have a boarding pass but it’s still a 50-50 chance.

We get a snack at McDonalds and wait by the gate. There are no planes at the airport at all! People are everywhere and it’s a little crazy. People are yelling at the Southwest workers like the fog is their fault. I just keep looking at the gate to see if a Southwest employee comes over to get ready to debark the plane and load ours. Sure enough just before 7:15 he comes over and makes the announcement that the plane is 5 minutes away from landing and we will take off on time! YES!!!!!!!!!!! In fact our plane will be the first all day to take off on time and the first to take off at all since this morning. As group “A” was called to board the SW guy asked if everyone could get on as quickly as possible because a 1 degree change in temperature would doom us. Surprisingly everyone did get right on and no one lollygagged getting settled. I crossed my fingers and we made it up and off into the air; we were on our way!

It was a smooth flight and I brought my brand new laptop with me to watch “Curb your Enthusiasm” the complete 2nd season DVD’s (Jim had his new Ipod to listen to). It really passed the time and I got to watch one whole DVD before we had to put away the electronic devices. We used Tiffany Town Car this time and had a great driver whose name I forget. He was very friendly and loved WDW (unfortunately you don’t get that too often from the TTC drivers).

We arrived at Pop in record time hardly any traffic that late at night and I ran right in to check in while Jim handled the bags and tipping our driver. We got all the requests I asked for, the 60’s, the building closest to the Classic Hall, 4th floor. Our room overlooked the Hippy Dippy pool and was close to the Yo-Yo stairwell. We unpacked and I sent an e-mail back home. This was my first time brining a laptop and e-mailing away from home. I loved it and brought with us in February when we went to St. Pete Beach. And so did everyone I e-mailed everyday ( I would also send pictures). We didn’t call Jameson as it was too late and we would call first thing in the morning. It was time for bed but there was just one problem we had 2 full size beds and we are used to a king. We ended up sleeping in both beds…..you can tell we have been married for 8 years! We fell asleep and apart not being able to kick Jim to stop snoring it was a good nights sleep.
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