The Magical Mystery Trip - Day 3 Part 5 - Cali Grill **Updated 2/14 by Melissa** - Page 8 - PassPorter - A Community of Walt Disney World, Disneyland, Disney Cruise Line, and General Travel Forums
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Whatever it takes to get to Disney, right? Glad that your flight was nice and uneventful. I've heard that same alarm in MCO and it is startling to say the least.
I love reading about departure day! So much excitement and anticipation!
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High-larious update Melissa! From the turkey / salami sandwich to the Disney-turned-boring-stuff convo with the WDW newbies to sounding the alarm in an indelicate position. Bravo! Can't wait for more, more, more!
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Congrats on surviving the flight with a coupke of drinks and a couple of Ativan! Although it probably wasn't funny at the time, the whole alarm had me rolling. Looking forward to more!!!
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I must admit - I am sitting here in the Phoenix airport and I just let out the largest "gafaw" when I read the alarm going off while your pants are around your ankles - got some interesting looks (to say the least)!! Funny stuff - hurry back with more!
AHHH the wonderful invention called Ativan, I highly recommend it
Good thing I am in my office by myself, everyone would be wondering about me I had to laugh about the Alarm in the airport and you are in the loo.... I hope the rest of the trip is uneventful, no more alarms....
Hurry back can't wait to read more
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All caught up but you're making me look bad. Got to get crankin on my TR. I'm looking forward to more. I could never go with my in-laws or my family. They'd all drive me nuts. Hysterical start as usual! More please.
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Okay, Andy can't remember his password at this moment and locked himself out of PP....what a dork So he's copied his two cents and is posting them under my name......
Well, Melissa is forcing me to post while she eats California Grill inspired flatbread...just joking, about the forcing part. Anyway. So I hit the road as soon as 10 rolled around. See ya Classic Graphics suckers!
Charlotte International is always a cluster outside, there's not a lot of room for dropping off people. And Melissa getting through security, she's always the one holding the line up, bumbling over the bins...gosh! Just joking. We stopped and bought some water and a candy bar for Melissa. The lady that checked us out ragged on me about my Beatles shirt, said I was too young to know who they were...excuse me while I whip my Sgt Pepper tattoo out. (A little Blazing Saddles there for you.) While we were waiting on the plane they paged John Poof, I told Melissa that he must have disappeared. Cue rim-shot.
So right as we were loading, Melissa looks at me and says, "I've got to use the bathroom." I told her too darn bad and to get her butt on the plane. She did really well, I was very impressed Maybe flying can become more of a regular occurrence. And the pic of Epcot from the plane is totally for real, you can see it when you zoom in.
When the alarm starting going off it was a little weird. I had this image of Melissa flying out with her pants around her knees, toilet paper flowing in the crosswind behind her. Instead she just came out with this confused look on her face, too funny! So needless to say we got out of the quick.
So we rode the MCO monorail, that was fun! We went the right way, we thought, then we went to real right way. The bus driver put TARZAN on for us. The preview was for the Millennium celebration at Epcot, a little out dated but oh well. POP was next.
Brit_Invader out.
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Glad that your flight was nice and uneventful. I've heard that same alarm in MCO and it is startling to say the least.
but woohoo!!! you made it to WDW
Funny stuff - hurry back with more!
I hope the rest of the trip is uneventful, no more alarms....
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Hysterical start as usual! More please.
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