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The Oh No We are going to miss our flight update 7/20/2011
Hello My name is Hallie. My family and I went to Disney April 17th to April 23 this is my trip report I hope u enjoy. Sorry I Trip report is a little late but Have a great day I will try to add photos once I find out how to.
The Day: April 17, 2011:
We got up early on this day it was 3:00am so not a morning person. Got dressed, since we needed to leave out the door a 5:00am. It was all for the love of Disney. So 5:00 comes and we are waiting for are car service to come to pick us up. We normally don't use a car service to take us to an airport but we are using a different airport and didn't really know how to get their and didn't know their parking policy.
So its 5:00 no driver no worry right. 5:00 came and went. 5:05 came and went little panic we called the driver their was no answer. 5:10 came mom calls the car service company leaves a message. 5:13 mom calls the travel company to let them know the situation. 5:14 the car company calls, they couldn’t get a hold of the driver they could send us another driver but as my mother who doesn’t yell hardly ever. Is yelling No thank you we are now late and probably not going to make our flight now she hangs up on them. 5:15 we pack the 2 cars up. And head out to find this airport, which we never been to before.
My mother calls the travel company and told them we are going to need to stop an get gas for our car, and that we are going to try to find the airport ourselves. She said to travel company is their anyway you can call them to let them know the situation. Which they did. He guy who she was talking to told her that the last time for final check in was 6:15. They give us directions to he airport and we went on our way.
It took us 45 minutes to get to the airport. It though for sure we are going to miss our flight. We made it just in time. We had a line to wait in anyways to check-in. They took our names. Said all 6 of you made it. They told us to go to another line. We check-In at the 2nd spot. The lady gave us our passes and info we needed. Then we went to move to the next line to check our check in bags, told to move to the next line to get screened and carry-on’s checked.
We finally got to go to the gate it was 6:45. At around 7:30am They started to make final checks and started to call seats. We had good seats, we had 3 exit seats and 3 seats before that. The seating went like this My mother, brother in law and father in the exit row. My niece, sister and myself in the row a head.
My mother says to my sister, hey just a small reminder your sister that’s me isn’t’ big on flying. That’s true I am not. I don’t like take off or landing.
The plane takes off I am starting to stress a little bit. I focus on the drink menu, saying this would be a great time to have something strong. The plane finally lays out and I am all good now. Few moments later the flight attendants who are all really nice. Come by with snacks they say take 2 snacks each wow never did we get to snacks. A little bit later She comes back and takes are drink order, I choose a Dr Pepper, sister and my niece take ginger ale. My mom and brother in law had coffee, my dad had a coke.
She come back gives us our drink and then comes back again and say have another snack great and I took a cup of water. Come to think of it now I had to cups of water. Then a little while later captain comes on saying we are close to Orland about 20miles away. We waited to land, finally we land and had to wait for our gate to be free. We finally get to the gait, head out of the plane. And all of us get settled.
We start to walk to Magical Express. Everyone kept telling me I was going the wrong way well I knew I wasn’t. After Arguing which way was Magical Express, they all agreed I was going the right way after all. See I told them Magical Express. We get to the check-in counter get in the line for Pop Century.
I get on face book to let my friends know we made it safe. We load finally and on to pop we go we made one stop before pop. Then we so the Pop Sign. Yahoo! We got right to the check in counter and greeted by a nice Cast member who told us our room was ready. Sweet! My sister was next and was told her room was almost ready so she took her bags to bell service. Went to lunch while My mom, dad and myself went to our room. Then head down to Everything Pop. it’s a nice little counter service place and the gift shop is nice to.
After lunch my sister went to see if her room was ready, it was so she went to pick up her carry-on bags up. Our room are nice and we all decided to head to the buses and go to Magic Kingdom. I love Magic Kingdom. We have a family tradition when all 6 of us go to Disney we have to head to the Walt Disney World Railroad. We ride it all around. Then we walk down main street USA.
Since My mom and I decided this trip we would take it slow. We told the other 4 in the group to go ahead and get a fast pass if any are left for Thunder Mt. or Splash Mt. So my mom and I walked around we saw that Snow White ride was 10 minutes. Well the time lied it was more like 30 minutes. We walked around and got a snack and waited for the group. Finally the group got back together. The 4 of them decided to do thunder mt. We walked around a little more rode a few more things and then it was 7:00 time for dinner. So we head to Liberty Tree Tavern. Meal was good. We all decide we are to tired to continue we went back to pop, went for a swim and called it a night. That was day one.
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Hallie and Her Portuguese Water Dogs Triton and Paris, and Her Bearded Collie Emma
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Welcome back to my trip report. Lets Back up.
Before I start day two I for got to add about the day before for we left we dropped 2 of the dogs off at the Spa, okay it’s a kennel but they call it a spa. We took the 3rd dog to the breeders house because she need to go to a dog show while we were away. I went to work as my parents took them for me. When I left home to go to work it was nice an sunny, when I got in to work it was raining and it didn’t stop. I got done with work at around 7p.m. and was stressing because I kept think I don’t have time now if I for got anything.
So I get home and we are having Pizza, it was okay nothing special. We finish up any last packing and around 9 - 9:30 we take are suitcase down to the family room. We turn on the TV. And What do we see, Tornado warning. Tornado was going to be in county to which our airport was at. Yikes great. All I keep thinking at that point was who do we contact, Travel agency is closed. We stayed up until about 10:30.
When we got up the next morning, the tornado must have passed by but their was no damage to the airport and we didn’t hear much about if their was any real damage to the area, or if it went around the area. So I am guess everything was fine and that it was just a warning instead.
This was pre travel day
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Hallie and Her Portuguese Water Dogs Triton and Paris, and Her Bearded Collie Emma
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and it didn’t stop. I got done with work at around 7p.m. and was stressing because I kept think I don’t have time now if I for got anything. 
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