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Girls Trip to the World! TR COMPLETED 11/9 Wedding Pictrues Posted
It’s been well over a month since we’ve come home and I can’t put it off any longer! So, without further ado…here goes.
GIRLS TRIP TO THE WORLD
The characters are:
Me – Donna – 52 years old. (53 on Thursday. Yikes!) This will be my 9th trip to the world, my first being in 1976 with my Mom, Dad and 5 younger brothers in a Winnebago!
DD Liz – 30. This will be her 4th trip to Disney.
DD Katie - 27. Also her 4th trip to Disney.
The opportunity came up for the three of us to go and DH didn’t mind missing out this time since he had two trips of his own this year – one to New Orleans with a Habitat group from church and one to Cooperstown, NY to play in an over 40 baseball tournament.
We booked a room at POR shortly after the first of the year, and were able to change it to a package when free dining was offered. We originally booked for 5 nights and then we (I) decided an extra day would not kill us, so we made it a 6 night stay. I purposely booked an early flight out of Buffalo and a late flight out of Orlando so we could make the most of our travel days. I made some great ADRs at our 180 day mark and planned our days in the parks to coincide with those ADRs. (No park-hoppers). Then we waited for the big day to arrive…
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I got up at 3:45AM, showered, and dressed and was ready to go by 4:30. Katie and I loaded our bags into the car and we were off to pick up Liz...
We arrived at Buffalo airport at 5:00, said good bye to DH Jeff. Hugs and kisses all around. Then went inside to check our bags. The security line was quite long, but it moved rather quickly. I always end up saying, “this is the first of many lines we will wait in this week.” By 5:30 we were at the gate – not too long of a wait afterall.
We stopped on the way for Liz to get a breakfast sandwich and by the time she was finished they were almost ready to board. We did not do the SW early bird check in so we had B 43,44,45. But luckily we were able to find three seats together. We took off on time and had an uneventful flight.
It's hard to look good this early in the morning!
As we were taxi-ing to the gate the flight attendants, who had been rather quiet and serious for most of the flight, started throwing in some funny remarks. One sang this little ditty: (to the tune of the Barney theme song) “We love you, you love us, we’re much faster than the bus, We hope you enjoyed our hospitality, Marry one of us and you’ll fly free.”
We made our way to the ME check-in, (boarding area was empty this time of day)
and were on a bus at 9:00AM. Pulled out and headed for Disney by 9:07.
Love this sign:
POR was the first stop! We arrived at 9:40 and went right to check-in. There was no one in line, but us. (I think there were only a few families to get off at POR and we were the only ones without bags under the bus.)
I’d requested a room at Acadian House since that building had just been refurbed. Unfortunately we got a room in Parterre Place. When I asked about my request, the CM made a phone call and then told us we could have a room in Acadian House, but it would not be ready until 3:00. The room in Parterre was ready immediately. We decided to take it instead of waiting. It was a quick walk across the Sassagoula to Parterre Place and our room was down the first path, on the ground floor.
Up next: Lunch and then MK!
P.S. I wish I'd resized these pictures a little larger. But after loading pictures from all three of our cameras plus photopass onto the computer and then photobucket, I decided they will have to do.
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