Okay. Finally moseyed over here...
I'm sure there are some of you out there who are reading the title and scratching your heads wondering "What the...?"
Or maybe it's just psoriasis.
You might want to get that checked out.
Sorry.
Nope. Fleas.
I blame the wife.
Regardless of whether you’re wondering or not, I'm going to tell you anyways. You see this trip actually caused me a small amount of anxiety.
Not anything tremendous or that would require heavy medication, but just a slight feeling of “OCD planner’s” discomfort in the days preceding the trip.
I hear you. I'm having some right now, myself.
Two people don't need a three bedroom tree house!
Sure! Sleep in a new room every night!
a) Of the 10 nights, five of those we slept in places completely new to us. Of the five nights at SSR we were in a completely different section than last time. There are five sections where your room can be located, and each one has a different feel to it, so that counts as half new in my book, making it 75% new on the accommodations.
hmmmm...... okay. I'll buy it.
b) When I counted all the places where we dined of the 20 locations 15 were new. That kinda sealed it up for me 75% new.
Okay. Still with you.
c) Throw in the fact that I've never been to WDW during the Christmas season, this to me adds a whole element of newness.
So... maybe it should be 76 - 77% new, then?
Most of you know us, Alison & Fran. We’re basically fun loving, bonafide Disney Freaks.
emphasis on fun loving or Disney Freaks?
(Notice how polite I was to not just say Freaks???
Well, it applies to me, anyway.)
late June through September are pretty much off limits for us due to the heat and humidity in Florida.
Oh, sure.
Now you tell me!!
So this has caused a sore spot for Fran that will come up later in this trip, but I get ahead of myself.
Uh, oh. Dun, dun, dun, dunnnnnnnn....
The rest? Well you’ll just have to read along to find out how it all turns out!
That's what I'm doing!!
And to get things started, here comes the first update, or maybe you might call it a pre-update.
I don't really care for pre-nups.
I mean I get the necessity of them, especially if one partner brings in considerably more financially to the relationship. But it almost feels like your setting yourself up for...
What?
Oh.
Pre-update.
Nevermind.
Saturday we had a HUGE list of things to do including a trip to Walmart to try and find shoes
I can help!
You can find shoes at the back in the aisle with all the shoes.
You're welcome.
We ordered delivery on our way home, and at this point, I don’t even remember what it was, pizza I think?
It was pizza. And you seemed to enj... uh... I mean.
I don't know. How could I? It's not like I have a camera...
Uh...
I do not know what you ate.
I think we spent the next hour working on Fran's carryon.
Whoa! It must've been really full if it took both of you an hour to close it!
he would need to randomize them himself and make sure they didn’t get too many cans of salmon on any one day. I can only imagine that I passed out almost immediately after.
I understand. The stress of ensuring a cat doesn't eat salmon twice in a row is enough to knock anyone out.
I remember seeing 4:45 when I was getting dressed, later Fran told me she had to rip the covers off of me and pull me up by my arms to wake me.
Our normal plan, drop Fran,
Poor Fran!!
We had these cool movie screens at our seats with on demand in flight movies.
In flight movies = good.
In flight movies that don't end until after you've landed = not so good.
Later I put on the movie Trainwreck. I thought it was supposed to be a comedy, but I didn’t really find it very funny.
You're not the first person I've heard say that.
That's a very interesting shot of the fake-o-rail.
I like it.
The gal at the front desk tried to get us a room with a bathtub, but that didn’t work out.
Oh? Usually rooms have bathtubs unless...
They're for disabled. Yup.
Been there, had that.
The delivery fee was about equivalent to the cost of the groceries
Can you imagine if you'd bought $300 worth???
No they didn’t have any cheerios in a bowl so she got me a box. The problem was how to eat them without a bowl?
Simple, silly.
Tilt head back, open mouth. Poor in cheerios. Poor in milk. Chew.
Plus, I totally forgot about utensils! We had cereal and yogurt and nothing to eat them with!
Yogurt in a tube.
There ya go.
We started off with a Caprese Salad that we split
OMG! Not again?!?!?
but more importantly we got utensils
score.
While at the food court, she noticed that Quiznos had soup and picked me up a bowl. She offered to buy it, but they were nice enough to just give one to her.
And that's the way it should be. Not like at Miriwa in Winnipeg on St. Mary's Rd. where they won't even sell you one... even if you're willing to pay for the meal that goes in it. And are rude about it to boot.
Not still bitter about that at all.
I was up at 1AM, 3AM and 4AM
Oh for Pete's sake. Just pick one!
Nothing major, but a few things not permitted in carry on bags on airlines are only permitted in carry on bags on the ship.
Such as?
This is where staying at MCO works out very well for cruising. We called the bellman to pick up our bags, they came and got them and the next time we saw them was in our stateroom on the ship.
Nice!
This was our first experience of wondering whether or not kids were going to be a problem for us on a
Disney cruise. There was a kid screaming at the top of her lungs.
Oy. Always a joy. But... It happens.
Our bus driver was a saint, and calmed down the kid expertly, while she talked to the girl, the girl never actually answered any questions, but she giggled and made other noises.
Wow. That's really impressive, actually.
And there she is in all her glory.
Meh. Not impressed.
It looks like a brown Ford pick-up truck to me.
Oh! You mean
behind the truck!
I had big plans that morning. First Eggs Benedict
Not ideal but Fran agreed that we could go to breakfast at 8AM and I could head off to the spa for my treatment so we scheduled me for that one instead.
Sounds nice and relaxing. Glad you got it. (Hopefully you did?)
we prefer the kind of buffet where they seat you at a table and then let you go to the buffet. They wait on you, remove your plates and all that stuff.
Ditto.
The gal at the spa told us to take the forward elevator from Deck 11 down to Deck 2 and just walk over to the restaurant. However when we arrived at Deck 2 it was roped off because the cabin stewards were still cleaning the staterooms. So we took the forward elevator up to Deck 3 and walked to the Midship elevators. There we found a HUGE line, so long that they had a Crew Member directing people to the elevators. Eventually we made our way down to Deck 2 where the Enchanted Garden was located.
Did you decide by that time that it was more of a disenchanted garden?
Here’s my first plate
Where's the Caprese salad????
Okay, I'm back.
Had to change the keyboard.
Apparently these things can short out if you drool on them too much.
We took enough time at the spa and lunch that our room was ready by the time that we finished lunch so we headed up.
Nice room! So big!