I finally have a day off to make it over here, and of course I'm already 10 pages behind
A quick note about the title.
Several ladies, of whom I know
a few, were all meeting up in
Disney on an EPIC Ladies Trip.
And several are writing EPIC
trip reports as a result.
While I was asked to join
in on the festivities, I didn't
feel it was my place to
intrude.
That and Elle isn't very big
on meeting people she
doesn't know, sealed the deal.
Next Epic trip, you'll have to plan to actually hang out with us all!
I did however manage to meet
a few of them over the course
of our own trip.
I'm sad we never managed to meet up!
Elle is involved in a little
fender bender.
No one was hurt except
the bumper of her car.
To avoid insurance penalties,
she decides to pay the cost
as opposed to putting in
an insurance claim.
I'm glad everyone was ok!
April 29th.
It snowed this morning.
There is nothing else I
can add about this day.
Ugh, yes. I feel your pain! I drove to work in a snowstorm the morning of the 30th
We were flying with WestJet.
I have a WestJet credit card.
I and my travel party get one
free checked bag each.
Except... it was telling me
that Elle's bag was going
to cost $30.
I love my WestJet Mastercard! The savings on baggage fees alone cover the cost of the card per year!
We were waved forward and
Elle placed her bag on the scale.
33lbs. Well under the 50lb limit.
I put mine on next... fairly sure
that it was going to be over.
Yep.
55lbs.
We bought a luggage scale from
Amazon, and it has saved our butts so many times! I tend to have overweight suitcases... (it's just one of those tiny little ones, you loop it around the handle of your suitcase and lift it straight up, and it tells you how much it weighs)
You didn't want to change your flight to WS571 instead? Or AC8513? Or Flair325?
But... you're in the James Armstrong Richardson airport, yet I do not see anything from Rocky Mountain Chocolate Factory in your daughter's hands?!
As a little treat for Elle,
(and because I had my
own reasons)
I had upgraded our seats
to "Plus" seats.
Some of the advantages
to Plus seats are more leg
room, no middle passenger,
priority boarding and free snacks.
I love WestJet's Plus seats!
Hmm, when did WestJet rebrand their planes?
We also left April 30th and had to de-ice
That Florida heat and sunshine definitely felt nice !
The attendant made this
announcement:
"Welcome to the centre of
the Universe."
(Canadian inside joke)
The flight attendant must have been from Toronto.
There were monitors on the wall
showing the status of your flight
as well as the initials of those
allowed to proceed through customs.
I'd never seen that before.
I hope to never see it again.
This is a stressful room! I don't like it!
WestJet's "Frozen" plane.
I wonder if it
always needs de-icing?
Our resort for our stay
was at...
Old Key West!
Again, I can't believe we didn't realize this and make plans to meet up!
I asked the CM to point out
where our room was located.
She grabbed a map and
explained it thusly:
"We're here (circles Hospitality House)
and to get to your room, you just hop
on a resort shuttle and take it along
this road, past the pool, around the
bend, past Typhoon Lagoon, get on I-4,
follow that past Celebration, keep going
until you reach Tampa, get on a boat,
take the boat to a bigger boat, cruise
past St. Petersburg, transfer to an
even bigger ship, cruise out into
the Gulf of Mexico, past Havana,
cruise down past Central America,
go through the Panama Canal,
dock at Panama City, take a cab
out into the rainforest, get on a
burro and ride it into the mountains.
Stop there."
"That's where our room is?" I asked.
"No." She answered. "That's just the
resting point. The long part of the trip
is for the next day."
Okay...
Maybe I'm exaggerating just a touch.
But...
OKW is big and sprawling.
And where our room was...
Was in the farthest building away.
Were they trying to put you in the South Point Road section (or whatever it's called - building 49/50 I think it is) ? We always stay in building 35 in the Old Turtle Pond area. It looks really far away on the map, but it's actually only a 7-8 minute walk to the main building!
We popped over to Olivia's which was
pretty much empty at that time of day.
Right away, we liked the
way it looked.
Very inviting with the décor,
tin ceiling and fans.
Olivia's is such a hidden gem! And I don't even eat seafood!