Trip Report Me, Mickey and Medicare!!

Welp, the time has come. You know how the decades are the big birthdays? There is one I have found that seems important to celebrate at the half decade. Yep, 65! I decided if I was going to have to start carrying around a Medicare card that I was going to have a go big or go home party. And I did in one of my favorite places ever, Disney!
As one family member rudely said when I told them of my plans, see my jaw not on the floor. :rolleyes:

Whatever. With fairly short notice, maybe a month or less I decided that I was going to go visit Seth. I moved to Sacramento this year and to say it was stressful is the understatement of the century. My daughter and family were going to Texas for Thanksgiving and with my birthday only a few days before I decided to treat myself. I asked Seth if he minded hanging out with me if he could get off of work and he said sure and was able to get the days.

So, the particulars were-dates, Nov. 20-Nov. 25.
For the first time ever I stayed off site at the Tuscany Hilton as I am saving our DVC points to use in March because the whole family will be going again and staying at the new Poly Towers. (And that takes a whole bunch of points.):oops:
It was just Seth and me.
When I was trying to think of a name for this TR I asked Seth his opinion and he said he didn't mind if only I was in the title as long as he was in the report!😁

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I was going to start the report with travel day but it seems all of the pictures that I thought I downloaded have disappeared!
So I will have to use the only photo I can find for this first post, a fairly blurry photopass pic, to start the report off and I will be back as soon as I find the gazillion lost pics!
 

MickeyCB

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I hope you had a great birthday trip! 🩷
You be number 1!!
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I’d been waiting for this TR 😘
And so excited you're here!!
You go girl!! Looking forward to your TR! :happy:
Glad you're tagging along!
Here!! Can’t wait!!
So glad you're here and can I say how much I miss not being able to drive a little ways and see you!:(
Did I know about this in advance?

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(Which also corresponds to my place. 😉)
5th, 5th is good!:)
Looking forward to seeing more!
Finally found the pics, I think! Fingers crossed.
Hope you had a great Birthday trip!!!
It was great fun!
 

MickeyCB

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Looking forward to reading about your adventures 😀
I promise to start hopefully tonight!
Been so looking forward to this report 😊
Aww you're sweet and glad you are tagging along!
What a great way to celebrate! Happy belated birthday!
It was fun, and thanks!
Happy to follow along!
Glad you are!
Medicare never looked so good! 😊
Aww thanks, it's a little weird/scary, you know?
It's really good to see you. I've missed your posts.


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Hi Zip, glad you're here!
Following and I'm looking forward to hearing all about it
Glad to have along for the ride!
Yiiippppeee!!!! So so nice to see your smiling face and I cannot wait to hear all about it!
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Fun! And I promise to start tonight if the photos don't disappear again!
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I'm here!!!
Yay!!
 

MickeyCB

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Original Poster
NOV. 20-TRAVEL DAY
Okkie dokie, let's hopefully get on with the show!
I left off with pretty much nothing because despite loading around 400 pics or so onto my computer all but 10 or so disappeared!

I booked this trip less than a month out and as I am leaving from Sacramento now it is much more annoying. No more 2 hour directs from Pittsburgh!
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Anyway, I booked to connect through Denver and then a few days later I was thinking, you know, it's November. Maybe Denver isn't such a hot idea so I changed to go through LAX. (I know, everyone thought I was nuts but I was pretty sure there wouldn't be snow there.)
But, what to my wandering eyes should appear? On the radar they were showing a hurricane in the gulf that would maybe impact Florida on Wednesday, my arrival day. Seriously?!

So I crossed my fingers and headed for the airport in the morning for a 7 am flight. I cut myself a little short thinking it's such a small airport and on the way there I missed a turnoff and ended up going about 10 miles in the wrong direction! (I still use my GPS to find the bank out here!) I started to sweat a little, but did make it in, found ground floor parking right across from the check in area, and had 45 minutes to spare! Whew!

One thing I didn't mention was I completely forgot you can book LL's ahead of arrival now, 3 days with AP, and so the night before I was scrambling to book some and really, learn how to use the system at the same time. Tiers, how to change, etc. I mentioned this to Seth and he was so excited to ride Tiana's but it was the one I couldn't get. But, after refreshing multiple times the day before and day of...score!

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So, I got to the airport on time. Had an uneventful flight to LAX and my new gate was only 2 away, same concourse! And only an hour in between flights. The travel gods are cooperating!
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Seth thinks I'm nuts when I asked him about the storm, and even sent a doppler pic showing Orlando getting hit as my flight is supposed to land. Mom, he says, I have no idea what you're talking about.
Our flight took off with no difficulties and landed even a little ahead of schedule with no rain in site.🤷‍♀️

As he lives in Orlando he picked me up at the airport. There was a pretty big delay in bags getting to the luggage area, which was just as well because the airport traffic was bananas as it was cranking up for the Thanksgiving influx.

We arrived at my hotel early evening and check in was easy. I had a very nice one bedroom at the Tuscany. It is a time share but rents rooms as Disney does.
(I was going to show pictures of the hotel but see below, I am having technical difficulties.)
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I need help from the Magic family here and I apologize for the stop and start of this TR. I can't continue because of the following.
When I open the file/folder on my computer that contains this trips photos, I only see a few pics. There is a drop down box on the right lower corner that has "custom files'" When I change it to "all files", all of my photos are visible but when I try to use the "attach files" in the TR, I see the following notice.
"The uploaded file does not have an allowed extension. The following extensions are allowed.jpg, jpeg, png.pdf.gif"
It allowed the image of my LL's as I added above, it allows me to add GIFs but none of my other photos.
I can't show you a photo of the problem because, well you get it.

Can someone help me out here? Thanks, in advance and again, please hang with me as I really would like to get this report rolling.
 

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