Disney World – Getting There

Well, we are back and recuperating from our Disney World vacation. Let me share with you!

We will start at the Quad Cities airport. We arrived Saturday at 9:30am and waited patiently for our flight. It was announced, we boarded, and all was happy. Do you see how happy we look here?

Well, some fiendish person announced that there was mechanical difficulty, no biggie, and the airport mechanic will simply replace the module. Alas, The airport mechanic was not able to fix the problem, so we were asked to deplane. The airline would fly up their own mechanic on the next flight from Atlanta. Poo.

So, we left the airplane and the girls continue to run around and amuse themselves. We were now booked on a 5:45pm flight. At 5:30pm we saw the luggage cart being pulled up to the airplane. No can fix. It was announced some lucky people would be going to Atlanta, then Orlando on a flight leaving momentarily. Some others would be bumped to the next day and going at 6:00am in the morning. Oh please, not us, I thought.

Yes, us. Alaina started crying immediately “Why us? Why did this have to happen to us?” I tried to hold everything together while Kevin waited in a long line for hotel vouchers, dinner vouchers, free round-trip vouchers, describe our luggage so they could fetch it for us, and rebook us. We waited. And waited. And waited.

Kevin, in his wisdom, realized that after the day we had getting up at 4:00am the next morning would ruin us. So he booked us on a 12:30pm flight instead. Good man. He also had us bumped up to First Class. Ah, wonderful man. First Class:

I told the girls we would pretend Saturday never happened. Our vacation would begin Sunday morning.