OhioStateBuckeye
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- Sep 7, 2007
Travelling through hyperspace aint like dustin crops, boy!
-Han Solo, A New Hope
Welcome to my trip report!!
Here is the link to the pre-trip report if you want to get some background:
http://www.disboards.com/showthread.php?t=3224742
Why should you read this?
Oh I dunno....
How about 2 Star Wars weekends!
1 24 hour day at MK!
2 days at Universal!
and hey...I'm not gonna give away all the good stuff now.
Otherwise I'll make the intros short because I want to get the boring travel day out of the way so we can get to the good stuff!!
Here is the itinerary:
Beach Club from Thursday May 15-Monday May 19
All Star Movies from Monday May 19-Sunday May 25
My BF's sister (Stephanie) and mom (Sylvia) will be joining us for most of the trip until Saturday morning.
Here we are at the after party of the Tower of Terror 10 Mile last October.
Brian is the only guy, his sister Stephanie is to the immediate right of Lotso and her friend won't be joining us on this trip. His mom didn't make it into this picture. I am the one who Lotso has his grubby paw over my face. He wasn't pleased with me because I kept telling Stephanie and Mary that he was a very bad bear (they'd never seen the movie and thought he looked cute). Truth hurts, doesn't it Lotso?
Our Southwest flight left Columbus at 515 and was scheduled to arrive at Orlando at 725.
We arrived at the airport pretty early for us (we're always late) so we had plenty of time to park the car at the green lot. There was no line at the boarding pass counter and a small line at security.
The Columbus airport is doing a new thing where you don't have to take shoes off or take laptops out of bags, I love it.
We were quickly through to our gate to discover our flight had been delayed
We got some appetizers to share at Chili's and then I got some Jeni's ice cream from a vending machine. If your not from Columbus, Jeni's is a local ice cream place that has exploded in popularity. There are some pretty interesting, unique flavors like salty caramel (that seems to be the favorite). I, however, have really never gotten into the Jeni's craze. I guess my taste buds are just pretty low brow, but it just tastes like regular ice cream to me. I got one from the vending machine thinking I'd give it another chance.
Our plane finally boarded about an hour late.
We got decent seats about halfway back and I had my usual window seat. Nothing better than looking out of a plane window.
I had saved my ice cream to eat on the plane and was a little sad to discover that I still didn't taste the greatness everyone else spoke of. Oh well.
The flight was uneventful, except when the lid popped off my ice cream container (it was shoved in the pocket under the tray table) and made a super loud noise and spew ice cream droplets all over me.
After that excitement we landed...and sat on the tarmac for half an hour. Talk about excrutiating. Disney so close yet so far. Orlando had been having really bad storms all that afternoon, so I think they just had too many planes lined up for gates.
We had FP for Soarin from 8-9 at Epcot and all my hopes of making it on time were slowly slipping away.By the time we made it to the gate and were able to make it to the Magical Express we knew we wouldn't be riding Soarin tonight, I think it was already close to 9 at that point.
We were on a bus within 5 minutes. I've only seen the bus video once, a long time ago, but I didn't like this one. It was like a huge FP+ commercial with some awful woman who was a Stacy wannabe. She was not nearly as good as Stacy. I did appreciate that before and after the video we got to watch random Disney cartoons and little behind the scenes videos and such (I guess they are available as video blogs on
Disney's website).
Beach Club was the third stop! We were so excited to get off the bus and explore the resort. Stephanie texted us our room number, 3617. Which I still remember to this day because of some dumb statement I made up...'I am not 36 or 17 years old'. Which is sooo stupid because I'm also not a lot of other ages, yet somehow it did the trick.
We were pretty tired when we got to the room but Stephanie had presents for me from Disney outlet shopping they'd done the day before!!
She got me the electrical parade train vinylmation for only $8!!
Then I got the Rescue Rangers Disney afternoon pack and the Fantasia Dinosaurs for $12. I also got a surprise gift!!
The splash mountain picture frame I'd been eying on our December trip!! I was pretty excited to get this as I didn't even know anyone listened when I pointed out something I want (it happens a lot).
Anyway we tried to get settled down because we had a very big, and early, day ahead of us in the morning.
Donald tried out the bed.
We set our alarms for 5 am and fell asleep so we could get our 4 hours of beauty rest.
Coming up on the next installment:
Which celebrity are we waking up at 5 am to see?
Ahmed Best (Jar Jar)
Peter Mayhew (Chewbacca)
Vanessa Marshall (voice of Hera Syndulla on Disney's new SW series, Rebels)
James Arnold Taylor (voice of Obi Wan on the Clone Wars series)
or
Ashley Eckstein (voice of Ahsoka on the Clone Wars series).
Will we fulfill our character photo wishlist??
-Jedi Mickey
-Leia Minnie
-R2MK
-Stormtrooper Donald
-Darth Goofy
-Greedo
-Darth Vader
-Boba Fett
-Stormtroopers
-Jawas
-Jango Fett
-Darth Maul
-Gamorrean Guard
-Zam Wessel
-Aurra Sing
-Tusken Raider
-Clonetroopers
-Ahsoka
-Asajj Ventress
-Captain Cody
-COmmander Rex
-Anakin Skywalker
-Mace Windu
-Kit Fisto
-Shaak Ti
-R2
-3PO
-Luke Skywalker
-Princess Leia
-Cantina Band
-Padme
-Han Solo
You'll have to tune in next time to find out...
-Han Solo, A New Hope
Welcome to my trip report!!
Here is the link to the pre-trip report if you want to get some background:
http://www.disboards.com/showthread.php?t=3224742
Why should you read this?
Oh I dunno....
How about 2 Star Wars weekends!
1 24 hour day at MK!
2 days at Universal!
and hey...I'm not gonna give away all the good stuff now.
Otherwise I'll make the intros short because I want to get the boring travel day out of the way so we can get to the good stuff!!
Here is the itinerary:
Beach Club from Thursday May 15-Monday May 19
All Star Movies from Monday May 19-Sunday May 25
My BF's sister (Stephanie) and mom (Sylvia) will be joining us for most of the trip until Saturday morning.
Here we are at the after party of the Tower of Terror 10 Mile last October.
Brian is the only guy, his sister Stephanie is to the immediate right of Lotso and her friend won't be joining us on this trip. His mom didn't make it into this picture. I am the one who Lotso has his grubby paw over my face. He wasn't pleased with me because I kept telling Stephanie and Mary that he was a very bad bear (they'd never seen the movie and thought he looked cute). Truth hurts, doesn't it Lotso?
Our Southwest flight left Columbus at 515 and was scheduled to arrive at Orlando at 725.
We arrived at the airport pretty early for us (we're always late) so we had plenty of time to park the car at the green lot. There was no line at the boarding pass counter and a small line at security.
The Columbus airport is doing a new thing where you don't have to take shoes off or take laptops out of bags, I love it.
We were quickly through to our gate to discover our flight had been delayed
We got some appetizers to share at Chili's and then I got some Jeni's ice cream from a vending machine. If your not from Columbus, Jeni's is a local ice cream place that has exploded in popularity. There are some pretty interesting, unique flavors like salty caramel (that seems to be the favorite). I, however, have really never gotten into the Jeni's craze. I guess my taste buds are just pretty low brow, but it just tastes like regular ice cream to me. I got one from the vending machine thinking I'd give it another chance.
Our plane finally boarded about an hour late.
We got decent seats about halfway back and I had my usual window seat. Nothing better than looking out of a plane window.
I had saved my ice cream to eat on the plane and was a little sad to discover that I still didn't taste the greatness everyone else spoke of. Oh well.
The flight was uneventful, except when the lid popped off my ice cream container (it was shoved in the pocket under the tray table) and made a super loud noise and spew ice cream droplets all over me.
After that excitement we landed...and sat on the tarmac for half an hour. Talk about excrutiating. Disney so close yet so far. Orlando had been having really bad storms all that afternoon, so I think they just had too many planes lined up for gates.
We had FP for Soarin from 8-9 at Epcot and all my hopes of making it on time were slowly slipping away.By the time we made it to the gate and were able to make it to the Magical Express we knew we wouldn't be riding Soarin tonight, I think it was already close to 9 at that point.
We were on a bus within 5 minutes. I've only seen the bus video once, a long time ago, but I didn't like this one. It was like a huge FP+ commercial with some awful woman who was a Stacy wannabe. She was not nearly as good as Stacy. I did appreciate that before and after the video we got to watch random Disney cartoons and little behind the scenes videos and such (I guess they are available as video blogs on
Disney's website).
Beach Club was the third stop! We were so excited to get off the bus and explore the resort. Stephanie texted us our room number, 3617. Which I still remember to this day because of some dumb statement I made up...'I am not 36 or 17 years old'. Which is sooo stupid because I'm also not a lot of other ages, yet somehow it did the trick.
We were pretty tired when we got to the room but Stephanie had presents for me from Disney outlet shopping they'd done the day before!!
She got me the electrical parade train vinylmation for only $8!!
Then I got the Rescue Rangers Disney afternoon pack and the Fantasia Dinosaurs for $12. I also got a surprise gift!!
The splash mountain picture frame I'd been eying on our December trip!! I was pretty excited to get this as I didn't even know anyone listened when I pointed out something I want (it happens a lot).
Anyway we tried to get settled down because we had a very big, and early, day ahead of us in the morning.
Donald tried out the bed.
We set our alarms for 5 am and fell asleep so we could get our 4 hours of beauty rest.
Coming up on the next installment:
Which celebrity are we waking up at 5 am to see?
Ahmed Best (Jar Jar)
Peter Mayhew (Chewbacca)
Vanessa Marshall (voice of Hera Syndulla on Disney's new SW series, Rebels)
James Arnold Taylor (voice of Obi Wan on the Clone Wars series)
or
Ashley Eckstein (voice of Ahsoka on the Clone Wars series).
Will we fulfill our character photo wishlist??
-Jedi Mickey
-Leia Minnie
-R2MK
-Stormtrooper Donald
-Darth Goofy
-Greedo
-Darth Vader
-Boba Fett
-Stormtroopers
-Jawas
-Jango Fett
-Darth Maul
-Gamorrean Guard
-Zam Wessel
-Aurra Sing
-Tusken Raider
-Clonetroopers
-Ahsoka
-Asajj Ventress
-Captain Cody
-COmmander Rex
-Anakin Skywalker
-Mace Windu
-Kit Fisto
-Shaak Ti
-R2
-3PO
-Luke Skywalker
-Princess Leia
-Cantina Band
-Padme
-Han Solo
You'll have to tune in next time to find out...