I'm here..ready to roll
That sounds like a pretty smooth travel day. Looking forward to the Fantasy.
Checking in as well! Looking forward to the trip.
Looking forward to your report, love reading about your adventures!
Excited to hopefully stay up-to-date on one of your trip reports instead of reading everything all at once towards the end
My experiences at Bonefish down here have been really hit or miss. The location nearest to my parents' house in Orlando is great, but the one by me in Tampa is just... bad. Cold food. Waiting 45 min at the restaurant past our pickup time for takeout. Rude servers. DBF had a piece of fried fish there once that had no fish in it. Needless to say we have stopped trying to go to this one. Glad y'all enjoyed your meal there though!
So happy to be here! I have been lurking on your trip reports for ages, but I'm going to speak up to say "Hi" this time!!! Love your TR's so much, and hope to have a real life Fran and Alison spotting on one of my cruises or Disney vaycays someday! You are an excellent writer/ trip reporter and reading about your adventures with Fran always gets me through my missing Disney blues! Thanks for writing!
I made it!
That was huge change on the luggage policy! Every time I fly it seems like something has gone up or they are charging more for something. And always searching my bags. Do they open all of your suitcases? Never had the do it going out of Spokane. But I've had my bags searched flying out of John Wayne, Orlando and Dulles in DC.
Home from Beauty and the Beast and a new TR from Alison! Oh yeah! Heading to bed but will comment tomorrow!
I, too, have just arrived home from Beauty and the Beast (loved it!!) and am ready and waiting for your next installment
I am here and am looking forward to reading all about your take on the Fantasy!
I don't want to imagine what a nightmare it would have been if you had forgotten those pills! Dinner looked good and I am impressed that you managed to go out. I was thinking of you that evening eating dinner at the Wilderness Lodge.
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That lasagna looks nasty - no wonder you didn't enjoy it! Sorry they changed the bag policy on you without letting you know!
Glad you enjoyed Bonefish. We haven't been there in years (so many better seafood options around here) but we used to enjoy when we were in Georgia.
Haven't even read... just place holding!
Can't wait to hear about this trip.
I would have asked for an extra sundae to make up for that meal - yeech!
Sorry you had to dump all of your beverages, but that was a crazy amount of money!
Glad you were able to get out to the restaurant.
Though I can't look at pictures at work, I am still following along.
I LOL'd at the line: "In our previously great country we've seen 23 states together." Though it's not really a laughing matter, I suppose.
Same here!
Can't wait to read about your trip. I love all your trip reports.
I'm here!
But I must come back to read.
I'm here, too!
Of course she still needed to give me a bunch more clothes and things, but finally at around 10PM, I loaded the suitcases into the car. By 11:15 I was going to bed. I did actually get to sleep that night! Almost six hours!
Luckily we didn't encounter traffic and were only a few minutes late for our desired arrival time.
Evidently they had changed the rules. They wanted us to pay $150 to check this third bag.
I'm here! Sorry I am late, blaming it on work being outragous because so many people are sick. Needless to say I am on sickleave too - at least for tomorrow (headcold). So time to catch up here and anywhere else.
Going back to read now.
I'm here reading along. I can't wait to see the ship!
Hola! I'm here. Thank you for the bat signal.
Looooove the nostalgia pics of you and Fran- so fun.
My friend is a manager at a Bonefish Grill. Never been there, looks okay.
That lasagna does look a little iffy. I agree Fran's white bread sandwich with Fritos sounds better. Who doesn't love Fritos?! The sundaes however look devine.
Can't wait to see you in two weeks. Joshua and I arrive the night of 4/1; let's plan!
I'm in! Will be back later to comment.
So it starts.
The last trip.
If you haven't been following along, this is our last trip we're going to take until we finally get our a$$es out of our old house.
Our first trip together was to the Riverwalk in San Antonio TX.
We've been to Canada, Mexico, New Zealand and even the 24th Century.
By 11:15 I was going to bed. I did actually get to sleep that night! Almost six hours!
We got our act together 45 minutes later than our target leaving time, (we build in 30 minutes to run late) and made it to the freeway when she asked, “Did you pack my arthritis pills?”
“Oh my god I forgot!” I gasped.
Evidently they had changed the rules. They wanted us to pay $150 to check this third bag. Fran said, “So we'll carry it on.” Except that it had a bottle of wine, two Mtn Dews, and three bottles of water. Well you can't carry that stuff on. We reasoned it out and even at Disney’s inflated prices we couldn't justify paying $150 for about $12 worth of beverages, so the ticketing agent lucked out. She could have a party that night. With our now lighter bag, we headed to security.
They brought lunch. I had picked the Lasagne over the Greek Salad, not so sure I chose wisely. It was pretty gross.
Checking in.
Well done on being so organized and getting some sleep.
That sounds like a minor miracle.
What a pain that they changed the rules. $150 seems to be a lot to check an extra bag.
Yay another trip report!
I'm a long time lurker here and have enjoyed all your trip reports. Please finish up cleaning out your old apartment so you can rent it out and plan more trips and write more reports. We'd all really miss them, and you and Fran. Looking forward to reading this one. You're a very good writer and photographer.
And, I can so relate to your trying to clean out your apartment, etc. I'm trying to go through things that I don't use or need anymore, mostly in my basement, and I swear I have a half a basement full of Disney stuff. I don't know if I'll ever to get rid of the things (i.e.: pins) that I don't necessarily want anymore. I keep finding so much old Disney memorabilia that I treasure and will never get rid of, though!
I have some friends on the Fantasy this week on the Star Wars Cruise. Wish I could have joined them!
You keep saying that...
We'll be seeing that in less than a month!
But what kinds of gift shops do they have in the 24th century?
$150?? That's just plain robbery. No wonder everybody hates airlines.
Is it supposed to be...orange?
Man, you weren't kidding about the packing struggles.
We'll be there all week with a few beach days thrown in. We won't arrive to So Cal on 4/1 until about 7 pm I think. Our APs are good until the day we leave 4/8.
Great travel day, sorry about having to go back to the house for the arthritis pills, thank goodness Fran thought about it though!
$150 for another bag that's beyond ridiculous. Glad all your drinks weren't lost though.
That lasagna looks not too bad to me looks like a Michelina's frozen lasagna.
The room looks nice and spacious. Nice to go out for dinner, it looks
I'm finally here! Subbing to watch. Will be back to read and catch up soon.
Long time lurker, first time commenter. Love your reports...all of them - DL, WDW and DCL. You've done a lot of things that are on my Disney bucket list!