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- Jan 16, 2009
When last we left our gang we were wondering if we would ever make it to the airport and DH was counting the 575 different route choices he would have made differently than the limo driver
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Oh and a bonus photo before we move on... E and Lorelai both independently picked out their PJ's the night before going to Disney! I couldn't have been prouder... and I was a little concerned that they had figured out we were going to Disney!!
Well we finally did make it to Midway Airport and us and our 5,000 suitcases made our way into the airport. Well it felt like 5,000 suitcases! Southwest not charging for luggage is both a blessing and a headache. It was too easy to add another suitcase to our luggage total since we werent going to pay for it anyway! In the end we ended up with 5 suitcases that we checked, 2 small kid carryon suitcases and small bags for DH and I. I need to join overpackers anonymous! I had decided at the last moment NOT to bring my laptop with me. This turned out to be a good decision since my boss tried to rope me into work one day and I was able to honestly say I cant, I dont have my computer!
After making it through the airline rope maze we had a very short wait and before we knew it we were at a ticket counter to check our bags. Now I consider myself to be a tech savvy person and I pick up on things pretty quickly, so as to why the Southwest attendant had to explain to me 5 times how to fold and hold my ticket before DH took them from me and did it for me, I will never know. I still dont know what I was doing incorrectly! Then DH and I handed over our drivers license that is when we heard the words Sir, your license is expired.
Luckily after my heart restarted, I heard DH say he had his state ID as well. No clue why his licenses is expired, he just got it renewed last year, must have been a mix up, and he still hasnt fixed it yet. Now that I am writing about it, I should remind him. That would have been horrible if we had to deal with that issue! Side note: In 2012 we went on vacation with friends to Cancun. I didnt research at all since they had been to this resort 6 times, and I was told to relax! My family made it to airport and was relaxing at the gate when I received a call from my friend who was at the airport, but had just found out that two of her kids passports had expired the day before! Talk about stressful for both me and her!!
We are use to flying out of OHare instead of Midway so security was a breeze! Basically no lines at all and we didnt have to take our shoes off I can almost say that it went very smoothly, but for the gentleman in front of us. I wouldnt even know the words to explain what was going on but both of my kids were in shock when his pants fell down I was too, to be honest!
After security my kids discovered something that Midway has that OHare does not or maybe I have never noticed them. Moving sidewalks!! We used no less than 5 of them, and my kids I am sure used each one at least twice. DH believes that WDW would be wise to invest in moving sidewalks in Epcot!
By the time we made it to our gate we were really only about 30 minutes away from boarding time and every seat was full. Erik and Lorelai went to pick up some food at McDonalds, while E watched the planes out of the window. I was feeling pretty rough, my throat was very sore and I think I was running a fever. I ask Erik to pick me up a hot tea with honey. 15 minutes late I was handed an iced sweet tea from McDonalds not the same. Luckily I was able to find a coffee shop a little ways away and make it back in time to line up for boarding!
Wait why are you two so happy??
Oh yeah! Your going to Disney World!!
This was our first time flying Southwest, so boarding was a bit new to us. After we stood in the wrong line for a few minutes I figured it out and before long we were on the plane with our A39-42 boarding passes. We pretty much had our choice of seats and we chose one set of 3 seats and Erik took the aisle across from us.
The flight was pretty uneventful, although we did hit quite a bit of turbulence about 30 minutes before we landed, it was enough to make me nervous. I caused quite a bit of pressure in the cabin which caused some crying on the plane, and not just from me, there were a lot of little ones on the plane too! Overall we really enjoyed flying Southwest, and bonus! they give you peanuts and Wheat Thins (which by the way DH loved, and made sure he told me several times that I need to buy some of them).
Before we knew it we were landing in Orlando!
We were itching to find our luggage and the Magical Express, but not before a bathroom break, because I dont know what an airplane bathroom looks like and I really dont want to know!! There was a bit of a ruckus in the mens restroom. Apparently a man had a really bad bloody nose and was in a stall and there was blood everywhere. YIKES! Poor guy!
We made our trip on the Faux Rail!
Finally we were on our way to pick up our luggage with a luggage cart because that is a lot of luggage to pull behind you when you have two over-stimulated; Disney obsessed kiddos on your hands! After ending up on the wrong side of the airport (Terminal A Level 1) and taking the elevator back up, hiking back to Terminal B, then going down to level one
we finally were welcomed with the sight of Disney Cast Members!!!
Oh at some point we stopped and took photos of Disney themed walls... because we weren't going to have enough opportunities over the next 9 days!!
We stood off to the side and donned our first Magic Bands of the trip and we were loaded onto our first Disney ride of the trip! The bus was pretty full, but we still waited another 20-30 minutes before we were off.
I am pretty sure we stopped at OKW (Kathy & Mary, I thought of you girls having fun right then!) and maybe SSR? Before POFQ and finally our home for the next two nights POR!!!!
Next up: Check in and our first Disney meal!!!
Oh and a bonus photo before we move on... E and Lorelai both independently picked out their PJ's the night before going to Disney! I couldn't have been prouder... and I was a little concerned that they had figured out we were going to Disney!!
Well we finally did make it to Midway Airport and us and our 5,000 suitcases made our way into the airport. Well it felt like 5,000 suitcases! Southwest not charging for luggage is both a blessing and a headache. It was too easy to add another suitcase to our luggage total since we werent going to pay for it anyway! In the end we ended up with 5 suitcases that we checked, 2 small kid carryon suitcases and small bags for DH and I. I need to join overpackers anonymous! I had decided at the last moment NOT to bring my laptop with me. This turned out to be a good decision since my boss tried to rope me into work one day and I was able to honestly say I cant, I dont have my computer!
After making it through the airline rope maze we had a very short wait and before we knew it we were at a ticket counter to check our bags. Now I consider myself to be a tech savvy person and I pick up on things pretty quickly, so as to why the Southwest attendant had to explain to me 5 times how to fold and hold my ticket before DH took them from me and did it for me, I will never know. I still dont know what I was doing incorrectly! Then DH and I handed over our drivers license that is when we heard the words Sir, your license is expired.
Luckily after my heart restarted, I heard DH say he had his state ID as well. No clue why his licenses is expired, he just got it renewed last year, must have been a mix up, and he still hasnt fixed it yet. Now that I am writing about it, I should remind him. That would have been horrible if we had to deal with that issue! Side note: In 2012 we went on vacation with friends to Cancun. I didnt research at all since they had been to this resort 6 times, and I was told to relax! My family made it to airport and was relaxing at the gate when I received a call from my friend who was at the airport, but had just found out that two of her kids passports had expired the day before! Talk about stressful for both me and her!!
We are use to flying out of OHare instead of Midway so security was a breeze! Basically no lines at all and we didnt have to take our shoes off I can almost say that it went very smoothly, but for the gentleman in front of us. I wouldnt even know the words to explain what was going on but both of my kids were in shock when his pants fell down I was too, to be honest!
After security my kids discovered something that Midway has that OHare does not or maybe I have never noticed them. Moving sidewalks!! We used no less than 5 of them, and my kids I am sure used each one at least twice. DH believes that WDW would be wise to invest in moving sidewalks in Epcot!
By the time we made it to our gate we were really only about 30 minutes away from boarding time and every seat was full. Erik and Lorelai went to pick up some food at McDonalds, while E watched the planes out of the window. I was feeling pretty rough, my throat was very sore and I think I was running a fever. I ask Erik to pick me up a hot tea with honey. 15 minutes late I was handed an iced sweet tea from McDonalds not the same. Luckily I was able to find a coffee shop a little ways away and make it back in time to line up for boarding!
Wait why are you two so happy??
Oh yeah! Your going to Disney World!!
This was our first time flying Southwest, so boarding was a bit new to us. After we stood in the wrong line for a few minutes I figured it out and before long we were on the plane with our A39-42 boarding passes. We pretty much had our choice of seats and we chose one set of 3 seats and Erik took the aisle across from us.
The flight was pretty uneventful, although we did hit quite a bit of turbulence about 30 minutes before we landed, it was enough to make me nervous. I caused quite a bit of pressure in the cabin which caused some crying on the plane, and not just from me, there were a lot of little ones on the plane too! Overall we really enjoyed flying Southwest, and bonus! they give you peanuts and Wheat Thins (which by the way DH loved, and made sure he told me several times that I need to buy some of them).
Before we knew it we were landing in Orlando!
We were itching to find our luggage and the Magical Express, but not before a bathroom break, because I dont know what an airplane bathroom looks like and I really dont want to know!! There was a bit of a ruckus in the mens restroom. Apparently a man had a really bad bloody nose and was in a stall and there was blood everywhere. YIKES! Poor guy!
We made our trip on the Faux Rail!
Finally we were on our way to pick up our luggage with a luggage cart because that is a lot of luggage to pull behind you when you have two over-stimulated; Disney obsessed kiddos on your hands! After ending up on the wrong side of the airport (Terminal A Level 1) and taking the elevator back up, hiking back to Terminal B, then going down to level one
we finally were welcomed with the sight of Disney Cast Members!!!Oh at some point we stopped and took photos of Disney themed walls... because we weren't going to have enough opportunities over the next 9 days!!
We stood off to the side and donned our first Magic Bands of the trip and we were loaded onto our first Disney ride of the trip! The bus was pretty full, but we still waited another 20-30 minutes before we were off.
I am pretty sure we stopped at OKW (Kathy & Mary, I thought of you girls having fun right then!) and maybe SSR? Before POFQ and finally our home for the next two nights POR!!!!
Next up: Check in and our first Disney meal!!!
can't wait for the next instalment!!
Next week should be a bit calmer at work and at home, since the conference here at work will be over and Ethan will be in Wisconsin at camp for a week. I am taking off two days of work next week to take Lorelai to Six Flags with friends (Ethan isn’t a fan, so we are going while he is gone) and then we will drive 6.5 hours to pick up Ethan from camp and spend the weekend in the Wisconsin Dells with three other families, making it where the kids outnumber the parents. 
Thanks for joining in!
we didn't ruin anyone else's flight.
None-the-less I was up bright and early a little before 6am, which is 5am Chicago time! I was very very careful not to wake up the rest of my sleeping family, this was a good choice since this ended up being my only alone morning the entire trip. The curtain between the bathroom and sleeping area was a big plus this morning as I got ready. I loaded up my camera with charged batteries, grabbed my cell phone and some gift cards, whispered my intentions to DH and headed out!! 
No, seriously, the pictures of the resort are fantastic. I bet that it wasn't too terribly bad having to wait two hours for the milk when you can enjoy views like that.
