Friday, December 1
On Em’s bucket list was spending her birthday in the Magic Kingdom. She was able to cross that off her list last year when we spent a whirlwind 48 hours in the world. As a teacher Em’s vacation time is limited ~ but when I realized her birthday would fall over a weekend again, I floated the idea of another birthday trip. It took about two seconds for Em to cry “Yes!” and she immediately reached out to her favorite sub, who agreed to cover her class.
Fortunately I booked our room before Pop Warner and the Cheerleaders snatched them all (which was the problem we ran into last year.) POFQ was my first choice so I booked it.....at least I thought I had. Stitch ate the page and we were switched to POR. No big deal ~ we like POR too.
A week later it was announced that POR was going to become one of the four “dog friendly” resorts. While we were not happy with this change, we weren’t going to spend much time at the resort and the odds were in our favor we wouldn’t be assigned a “dog friendly” building.
Em originally was going to work a half day and so we had an evening flight out of Atlanta. Then her sub decided she wanted to work a full day, which freed Em up to leave earlier. I switched our flight to afternoon which gave us the opportunity to attend MVMCP for the first time. The birthday weekend would begin with a PAR-TAY!!
We typically have TSA pre-check when flying out of Atlanta. Not today. But the line moved quickly and at the end was an agent wishing everyone Happy Holidays (really!) and handing out complimentary luggage tags.
(We southerners are a friendly folk!)
We got to our gate an hour before our departure.
Despite checking in
exactly 24 hours in advance, Em and I were near the bottom of the B boarding group. We did find seats together towards the back of the aircraft. As our plane left the gate the flight attendant began the safety spiel, which I typically tune out. But she had such a calm, gentle tone that I was drawn to listen.
“Because we don’t trust you, we are now walking through the cabin to check if your seat belts are fastened and your trays are in the upright and locked position.”
“In case of a loss of cabin pressure ~ which won’t happen, otherwise we wouldn’t have come to work ~ oxygen masks will drop down in front of you. Stop screaming and secure your mask by the rubber band.”
I bet she moonlights at the Improv!
And she was right....no loss of cabin pressure. The only loss we experienced was the WiFi connection in the middle of an episode of
The Middle (oh the irony!) Otherwise a non-eventful flight (jealous
@Mr Ferret 88?)
Just before landing we put on our Merry Bands.
Here we come!
