June 30th (part 1): Getting to FL!
For some odd reason, I slept REALLY well. There wasnt the whole I CANT SLEEP CAUSE DISNEY thing. I dont know why. I probably sound NUTS because I couldnt sleep. But I am nuts so you should expect nothing less. I went right to bed without a problem and woke up the next morning right when I was supposed to. Weird.
Mum couldnt sleep though. She was up before 3am and then got ready while I slept till 3:30. Beauty sleep, dudes.
We got a few last minute things together to put in our suitcase and we were out the door by 4:45.
We were about a half hour away from our house when Mum almost hit a bunny. It was starting to run across the road and she didnt even see it. I saw it out my window in the pitch black and then it stopped right before it was about to smash into the tire.
I looked at Mum and said You know you almost just hit a bunny.
She was like WHAT OMG HOW?!?!?
mum almost killed a bunny this morning. SHE IS A BUNNY MURDERER!!!! (kinda)
It was lovely. Very lovely.
After that incident, we drove along to the airport and arrived there a little after 6.
And parked in the economy lot.
It was the cheapest, but then you have to take the tram to the airport and all that and aint nobody got time for dat. But mums big excuse for everything now is Well I have no job! she may or may not have a point there.
We parked, got everything out of the car, and a shuttle was just getting there so we hopped on and then checked in our bags once we got to the entrance.
I really wanted to stay on the shuttle though because a great opera song was playing. I joined in. It was magical.
Anyways, a family in front of had ME tags on their suitcases (GOOD JOB!) and they said AK on them. Mum was like Aw that is awesome! Animal Kingdom Lodge! I took a closer look at the tags. Yeah no. Animal Kingdom RESORT AREA. They were staying at All Star Movies. I kind of looked away and didnt say anything.
#deluxesnob
We headed to security and we had no problems, except my bow was going off so they had to pat my head down. At least it was better than what happened later, but I am getting ahead of myself.
I was trying to get all my stuff together after security and then I dropped my baby.
MY BABY.
My $600 or so baby.
I picked my baby up off of the ground and made sure it was ok. I took a picture with it and everything was fine, so we moved on. BUT STILL.
This morning has been interesting. Thus far, we had the bunny incident, I listened to opera, and I dropped my camera.
We headed to our gate and then got Dunkins for breakfast. Everyone in the airport had the same idea.
I got a bacon, egg, and cheese on a croissant and Mum got a bagel, which was half wheat and half white. NICE GOING DUNKINS.
Mum posed with my orange juice. FROM THE BEST STATE EVAH.
My croissant.
Cuties.
While I ate my breakfast at our gate, I listened in on peoples conversations, cause that is what I do best.
And then I continued to tweet about them. YOURE WELCOME.
"Are you guys just going to Disney or are you going to Universal?" "We are going to both!" Idiots. WHY.
"We are staying at Port Orleans Riverside for 11 days!" Mum- "we'll be there for forever soon!"
Its quite fun to hear people talk about Disney. I guess they dont realize how stupid they sound. Some of them, anyways.
I used the bathroom before we left (important info) and THEY AHD THE AWESOME HAND DRYERS FROM DYSON.
I am so strange.
MOVING ON.
We started boarding at about 7:30 and I rented a movie off of
Amazon and it never finished downloading, which stunk.
And then I noticed there was a bird flying around in the airport. I cant be making this stuff up here, people.
Of course, NO ONE followed directions to line up since we were on Southwest. So ridiculous.
PLUS we were also delayed 10 minutes because one of the STEWARDESSES (idk if that is even how you spell that) WAS LATE. LIKE REALLY. 10 minutes would be fine anywhere else BUT COME ON NOW. I WAS GOING TO DISNEY WORLD FOR CRYIN OUT LOUD.
Loser.
We finally boarded and we found two seats together and some little dude sat next to Mum. And then he fell asleep. On her. Oh the joys of flying.
Before takeoff, we browsed through the best magazine in the world and I saw SO much stuff that I wanted.
Mum enjoyed Sky Mall very much, just look.
I wanted to get this for our kitties, but sadly, Mum said no. LIKE WHY.
I looked out the window before takeoff and saw THIS. Like, HOW AWESOME!
Pretty soon, we were taking off, which wasnt bad at all.
I wrote in my journal for a while and watched most of my movie, well what was downloaded anyways.
I also read for a little bit and before I/we knew it, WE WERE AT MCO!
I basically ran off the plane and cheered. And then we had to use the bathroom. AND THEN I died over this.
AND THEN we took the fake-o-rail.
We were at the main terminal in like two seconds and then I saw it.
A TOUR GROUP FLAG.
So I ran for my life. No lie. I cannot stand tour groups and they were already starting. And that is why we dont go to Disney in July. TOUR GROUP CENTRAL.
This made moi feel better though.
We headed down to baggage check and this is when I realized how many people were clueless about the Magical Express. It started on the plane. Then I saw people wheeling their luggage AT MCO with the tags on. It seems like people dont get how to use ME. AT ALL. I saw people asking how they use ME at THE AIRPORT. Like read the instructions. Not that hard. And I heard people say I thought we put the tags on at the airport. NO NO AND MORE NO.
People need to learn how to use Magical Express. Like its not that hard.
We got our bags and then went to Budget to pick up our rental car.
And that is when we waited over 40 minutes to get our stupid car. The line was SO long and so ridiculous and people were up at the desk for like 20 minutes. WHY.
This line for car rentals <<<<
Ok this is ridiculous. Like can I have a Fastpass for this line
It was THAT long and being spoiled by FPs and all, I HATE to wait. Like why would you ever wait in lines over 20-30 minutes when there are FASTPASSES?! I really needed one for this line. BADLY.
STILL WAITING. HOW CRAPPIN HARD DOES THIS HAVE TO BE
It was just awful. It was wasting precious Disney time and that is so not cool. I just wanted to leave and that was not happening at any point soon.
Like I said, we waited for about 40 minutes and seriously, we were up at the desk for 5 minutes or so. WHAT WAS UP BEFORE.
We headed to the garage and up to the second level. Now on the second level, Budget and Avis are up there. Our car was in E11 and we couldnt find it. There was an E11. But in the Avis section. So I heard some choice words from my mother and then we headed up the desk to ask where the crap E11 was. The woman told us oh right over there. BUT IT WAS IN AVIS, which made NO sense whatsoever but it was our car! So we loaded everything in to our Ford AND WE WERE ON OUR WAY! Finally.
Our Ford Focus. In the Avis section.
Getting out of the airport wasnt a problem and we found our way right away. Not hard at all!
Then it rained the whole way. WELCOME TO THE SUNSHINE STATE!
Our wipers stunk on our car so that was pleasant.
Pretty soon, I saw signs. SIGNS DUDES.
DO YOU SEE WHAT I SEE.
OMG. (and I added the somewhat blue sky via Photoshop. It was still raining)
AHHHHH
EEEEEEEEE.
PURPLE SIGNS!!!!
CRYING.
