I returned this past Saturday from a tumultuous yet lovely trip to the House of the Mouse -- Mickey Mouse. I would have liked to chronicle my trip a bit earlier, but I'm still making a recovery from the horrendous chest cold I picked up thanks to the thousands of germy mouse-seekers I encountered every day.
We departed for our trip on Jan. 31 after dropping off Lily and Lola to Camp Bow Wow, where they would reside for the first half of our time away. Thanks to Carol Drum taxi service, we arrived at the airport super early and even had time to watch an episode of House on Guy's laptop before the flight. I am normally a nervous flyer, but I wasn't too bad this time. It helped that we were in the "A" boarding group, so we were able to get a good choice of seats within five rows of the exit, like I read was safest. :) Also, the flight attendants were really fun and helped to pass the time.
I had never flown on Southwest before, so I wasn't sure if this was standard, but our flight started off with a "snack race" to predict the winner of the Super Bowl. John, the male flight attendant, announced that the Steelers would be represented by the blue bag of peanuts and the Cardinals would be the red bag of pretzels. He would set both snacks down in the aisle, and upon takeoff, whichever slid to the back of the plane first was the winner. We were all gearing up for the race, and then we heard one of the ladies say, "Oooh, I found something yellow!" and then John comes back on the P.A. System and says, "Okay, the Steelers are now a pack of Lorna Doones!" Guy and I thought that was just hilarious. Neither snack really moved much on takeoff, surprisingly, but it was a fun idea. We also played sports trivia, "find the item in your purse," and even gambled by entering dollar bills with our seat numbers written on them into a plane-wide raffle for the whole shebang. Upon deboarding, one of the ladies even sang us a pleasant song she called "Peanuts" to the tune of "Fever." It was definitely the most memorable flight I've had!
When we arrived in Orlando, the weather was sunny but chilly, and we decided to get checked in at the hotel and take a nap before going to the park for our dinner that evening. I napped just a little too long and made it difficult for us to make it to our reserved time at Cinderella's Royal Table at 6:30 (we didn't realize how slow the transportation system would be), but we made it and waited about 15 minutes to be seated anyway.
Inside the castle, it was basically just a normal restaurant atmosphere with lots of screaming children, topped off by plastic swords and wands being flung all over the place (waiters were giving them out to the "princesses" and "pirates" at the tables). Our food was delicious, and we ended our mealtime with a performance by the Fairy Godmother. It was a good start to our first night on vacation. Our meal was over right around the time of Wishes, the fireworks presentation in the Magic Kingdom, but we were stuck smack-dab in front of the castle because we had just come out of it after eating dinner, so we couldn't see much at all. Still, though, we enjoyed the atmosphere and headed back to our hotel to get some shuteye before the big game the next day!
More on Day Two later.
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Reading this made me think of eating a cupcake. Don't ask why.
SNACK ATTACK MOTHER #$%^ER!
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