I managed to leave work about an hour early so that I could get home and get a few hours of sleep before the drive.
Im too excited to sleep!
My parents and sisters were riding in another vehicle and would be making the drive with us
Good plan. Otherwise it would have been like Barrys last trip where someone would have to be stuffed into the back along with the luggage.
Likely you.
BiL had some work obligations over the weekend, so he was going to be taking a flight scheduled to land in Orlando at 11 pm on Sunday.
And miss all that scenic darkness!!!
The nerve!
As I had hoped, everyone slept in the cars, so we were about 5 hours from home before we finally had to make our first stop and get gas. We made it another 5 hours before stopping again for some breakfast. It was great that we had 2/3 of the drive out of the way before everyone started to wake up.
Excellent. With very small youngens along, that was actually mighty fine planning.
Dont get used to the compliments
They wont be showing up very often
We ended up stopping for breakfast at a Mc Donalds somewhere south of Macon, GA.
Some Macon Bacon?
My mom caught this picture of us driving past the famous sign
thats kind of cool! Usually you end up with a picture of someone elses car going under it.
That is really cool! Your mom done good.
See now, her
I can compliment as often as possible.
Just surviving the ordeal of raising you elevates her to sainthood in the first place.
We had done online check-in, so I went to that counter with my parents behind me and was working with the CM to get us all checked in. Well, the next thing I know, another CM calls my parents over to another station, and confusion ensues,
El Centro
we have a problem
I ended up running back and forth, talking to the CM they were with, and the one I was with and got everyone on the same page. By this time it was after 3, and I just wanted to get my room. The CM I dealt with was very nice, so I feel bad about being a little short, but Id been up all night and wasnt exactly the most cheerful person.
before I could even open my mouth to say anything she said even though check-in time is 3, the room may not be ready until 5.
Whoa
Remind me not to get there right at check-in time.
Apparently you need to either be earlier or later on the arrival time.
We drove around to get to our building, and had to use our RFID room card at the gate to get through. I waved my card by the reader, tapped it on the reader, held my breath, crossed my fingers, closed my eyes, said several four letter words, and finally got the gate to open after probably 8 or 10 tries. When we got to the room, I had to try it repeatedly there too.
All part of my cunning plan.
It took a good bit of bribery and general underhandedness to insure that youd be the one to receive a faulty RFID card.
Bwwwaaaahaahaahaaaa!
I made the 1.78 mile hike back and forth between the parking lot and our room several times to haul all of our stuff in.
That I actually believe. Weve stayed at CSR once. Its very nice to be sure, but its big and everything is a long walk away from nearly everything else.
I did find out that our double stroller can haul a lot of baby food, formula and luggage.
Necessity may be the mother of invention
but laziness is most certainly the father.
Nice job of bein lazy.
Id have done the same (I guar-on-tee)
I did like the feature of the sliding doors near the sink area so that I could get ready in the morning without waking everyone else, but as Ive seen others mention, they arent the best idea with a toddler around. DS was constantly opening and closing them all week. I
My, how rapidly that moved from feature to headache
We had a beautiful view right outside our front door and just a short little walk over to the Dig Site and the bridge to walk to El Centro. Well, thats nice! At least were close to the pool and playground areas. Im sure well love this location
Ummmm
That sounds just a might ominous.
Pretty pictures though.
There, thats better. Just take a deep breath, relax and enjoy the scenery!
Because you wont like me when Im mad
We have a whole week of Disney magic ahead of us!
Yes you do, sir.
And thats the important key to this story.
Try as I might to give you a hard time through out this here TR (and be assured, I will), in the end you win, because I dont have a trip of any length planned to get back down there for quite some time to come. Paint me as green as the hulk with envy. You described a fairly rough day, but its a great start to the TR itself.
Nice work. Im looking forward to hearing more, sir.
I don't have any pictures of my van driving into WDW. Mostly because of all of the advanced cloaking features I've installed make it very difficult to photograph.
Wait
I just saw a quote from one of the other readers that would make for perfect commentary right about here.
This one
Did they have a McPlayland? Otherwise it's not a great McDonald's.
Become quite the connoisseur on this topic, have we
We want to see Andy SMASH!
Ask and ye shall receive
Did you also find that they'll hold Disney bath robes, towels, and anything else that isn't bolted down in the room?
Uh, yeah, me neither.
I wonder how many Rob has though.
Just what exactly are you insinuating here sir?
Why, I am deeply insulted.
That was for the CMs reading along
truth: Its quite the collection.
Hay like I said
its going to be a while before I can get back down there.
A little bit of magic around the house seemed like just the upgrade needed.