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!!
That’s some serious dedication!
Where is your next Rick Springfield concert???
I searched all the GIFs and couldn’t find any of Dr. Noah Drake from General Hospital or from the song, “Don’t Talk to Strangers”. 
That's the last thing you needed to deal with! Have fun in Disney World and I can't wait to follow along with you live TR!!!!