Over the years we've(E, J & myself) have done quite a few last minute trips to Disney. Not really out of the ordinary for us, esp. years ago before J was in school. It was pretty easy to just pick up & go with not much notice. Now, in present times it's not so easy, esp. when we were going to have already been there less than 2 weeks prior to this trip(J's birthday trip).
So, I might as well get the big disappointment out of the way now. J was not with us on this trip.
You have JSR to thank for that. He had already missed 2 days of school a few weeks prior for his birthday trip & dad didn't want him to miss another day for this one.
And, even though this was a super short(48 hours) trip he was missed tremendously!!
Here's who you will see
I'm pretty sure you know everyone but just in case--our niece-H, our friend-S, the person that wanted to go on this trip more than any of us-R, E & myself.
And, the star of this TR(hey, someone had to try to take J's place!!)
2 weeks before the birthday trip R told me that Rick Springfield was going to be playing at Flower & Garden. I knew that & I also knew(b/c he's played there for years) that one day I would end up having to go there to see him. Now, before you get the wrong idea, I'm not the Rick Springfield fan, R is!! I do like his music, he does put on a great show & contrary to what most people believe he does have a lot more hits than just "Jessie's Girl" & "Don't Talk to Strangers". However, R is the big fan-not me. I ended up liking his music b/c of R. Would I fly to Disney for 2 nights to see him perform after I had just been there 2 weeks prior? Absolutely not!! But, when R offered to pay for the room & my flight I totally changed my mind!!
We booked a Lion King Suite at AoA. I told him we had to call E to see if she & J wanted to come. As I said earlier J couldn't but E was on board. I talked to H and told her we still had room so she decided to come also. E mentioned it to S & he decided to come too!! Big mistake though-he booked a Lion King Suite also. All that room for one person!! We should have thought to tell him to get a Little Mermaid room.
We originally were going to fly down Sunday late afternoon after I got done working. We were to return Tuesday morning b/c I had to work the late shift that day. Then we decided b/c it was such a short trip that we would take the 5:00am flight on Sunday-let me tell you, I'm getting way too old for that(says the girl who's doing it again in October). I asked my boss for Sunday off & we were good to go.
You know what that meant--an extra night of Rick Springfield shows!!
After getting up at the ungodly hour of 1:30(is that even healthy?) here we were at 8:00am!!
And by 8:30 we were here!!
Funny how we can't make it to a park this early when we're already on property yet we can flying from Pittsburgh!!
We were all starving b/c nothing was open in the Pittsburgh airport before we took off so we made a reservation here on our way to AK.
My breakfast. It was good but the service was so slow!! We were all getting aggravated!!
R's breakfast.
H, S & I rode EE while E & R sat by "what once was Rivers of Light" and had some Safari Ambers.
Then we decided to catch FotLK. I love this show!!
Then it was time to head out!! It was a quick but fun visit to AK!!
So, I might as well get the big disappointment out of the way now. J was not with us on this trip.
You have JSR to thank for that. He had already missed 2 days of school a few weeks prior for his birthday trip & dad didn't want him to miss another day for this one.
And, even though this was a super short(48 hours) trip he was missed tremendously!!Here's who you will see
I'm pretty sure you know everyone but just in case--our niece-H, our friend-S, the person that wanted to go on this trip more than any of us-R, E & myself.
And, the star of this TR(hey, someone had to try to take J's place!!)
2 weeks before the birthday trip R told me that Rick Springfield was going to be playing at Flower & Garden. I knew that & I also knew(b/c he's played there for years) that one day I would end up having to go there to see him. Now, before you get the wrong idea, I'm not the Rick Springfield fan, R is!! I do like his music, he does put on a great show & contrary to what most people believe he does have a lot more hits than just "Jessie's Girl" & "Don't Talk to Strangers". However, R is the big fan-not me. I ended up liking his music b/c of R. Would I fly to Disney for 2 nights to see him perform after I had just been there 2 weeks prior? Absolutely not!! But, when R offered to pay for the room & my flight I totally changed my mind!!
We booked a Lion King Suite at AoA. I told him we had to call E to see if she & J wanted to come. As I said earlier J couldn't but E was on board. I talked to H and told her we still had room so she decided to come also. E mentioned it to S & he decided to come too!! Big mistake though-he booked a Lion King Suite also. All that room for one person!! We should have thought to tell him to get a Little Mermaid room.
We originally were going to fly down Sunday late afternoon after I got done working. We were to return Tuesday morning b/c I had to work the late shift that day. Then we decided b/c it was such a short trip that we would take the 5:00am flight on Sunday-let me tell you, I'm getting way too old for that(says the girl who's doing it again in October). I asked my boss for Sunday off & we were good to go.
You know what that meant--an extra night of Rick Springfield shows!!
After getting up at the ungodly hour of 1:30(is that even healthy?) here we were at 8:00am!!
And by 8:30 we were here!!
Funny how we can't make it to a park this early when we're already on property yet we can flying from Pittsburgh!!
We were all starving b/c nothing was open in the Pittsburgh airport before we took off so we made a reservation here on our way to AK.
My breakfast. It was good but the service was so slow!! We were all getting aggravated!!
R's breakfast.
H, S & I rode EE while E & R sat by "what once was Rivers of Light" and had some Safari Ambers.
Then we decided to catch FotLK. I love this show!!
Then it was time to head out!! It was a quick but fun visit to AK!!
