Trip Report THE ONE WITHOUT a BUDDY

(For those of you just joining us, please go read “THE ONE FOR DINNER” before continuing.)

Hello my fellow Magicians!!!
I have been called the rain goddess, the harbinger of doom and plain ✈️ bad luck.

What kind of drama did I get myself into this time? Well as the name implies, this was a solo trip. Not this guy…
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I narrowly missed some buddies, met some new buddies and reunited with some old buddies. But I know what you are all thinking….how was my flight(s)?

I have eluded to this story in @Tuvalu ’s TR but here it is. We will call it the EPILOGUE and I will try to be brief.

Two weeks after our Dinner trip, Tone and I were set to fly to PBI. We had an 8:50pm flight on Friday night because our youngest had a lacrosse game at 4:00. This would allow is to go to his game then head to the airport. His game of course got pushed back to 5:30. It was pouring and we had to drive to JFK and park so we saw about 5 minutes of the little guys game.
No traffic. 👍
Found parking immediately👍
One person in line in front of us at TSA precheck👍
Flight on time👍
“Let’s sit and have dinner.”
We see an acquaintance in the restaurant. He is on a major morning news show and is good friends with the people I work for therefore, I will not throw him under the bus. But, as we were heading to the gate we stopped by his table to say hi.
“Is your flight delayed?” He asks.
I felt like I had been sucker punched. I deflated. He had just jinxed me. Five minutes later we get the notification we will be delayed 30 minutes.
Thirty minutes is no biggie. We were waiting on our plane. Our plane arrived but then we were told our crew was on an inbound flight that would not be in until 11:45 pm. For those of you struggling with the math that is almost a three hour delay.
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I am afraid our flight attendants will time out. They don’t and we push back about midnight. Then go right back to the gate.
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A woman has decided she is too sick to fly. As the woman sitting next to Tone so eloquently put it, “we have had a three effin hour delay. And NOW your sick?”
And we wait for a new manifest.

We land in West Palm about 3:45am. The rental cars are offsite and do not open until 5am. I look for an Uber to take us to our hotel. $58!
We hem
We haw
We decide we will Uber, use our son’s truck for the day and have him drive us to the airport tonight (because our flight back is tonight-Saturday)
I go back on Uber, $98.
“No way!!!”
We find a bench outside and get comfy.
I call the hotel. The charge has already been put through but I convince the young man to reverse the charge.
At 4:30 the shuttle comes for the car rental place. At 5:00am they open.
We have plans to meet Tone’s brother, wife and two of their kids for breakfast at 8:45. We decide we will drive to my son’s house and crash on their couch (like 14feet long!) for a few hours. We pull into his driveway at 6:00am but are afraid to go inside and wake them. Their game is at noon so we want them to sleep. Instead, we sleep in the car in the driveway until 7:30. Then I sneak inside to use the restroom (my son is in the master BR so has his own) while my son snores on.
We then go to BIL’s hotel to use their shower and eat breakfast.
At breakfast for @MickeyCB
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By 10:30 we are headed to the game.
For @wdisney9000
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Tailgated:
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Took a few pix. The first is from high school. They now play together in college so I had to recreate it:
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Our flight home was delayed, of course. We landed about 1:00am Sunday morning. By 2:00am I was fast asleep.


So how would this flight be???
Stay tuned….
 

Disstevefan1

Well-Known Member
Friday April 8 cont

Lily and I sat for awhile, I was afraid to spill her. Then I noticed I was hungry so off I went.
I ended my search in Italy with the rice balls stuffed with brisket and a glass of Prosecco.
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I missed my dog…
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I was still hungry so I just got a slice and a diet coke.
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@dryerlintfan I ate this while sharing a table, they asked me.

Then I walked toward America and oh my my (if you know). Blue October had just begun so I took a seat in the back with a Bellini and a funnel cake.
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They were really good so I decided to hang around for the second set.
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As soon as it was over I ran to do my Soarin’ LL. I wanted to make it back in time for Blue October’s third set. Yeah, they were that good. I have always heard them on the radio and sang along but seeing them live was completely different. Some bands are worse in concert. This is not one of them. It helps that they have a lot of happy snappy tunes to sing. Disney appropriate😉
They do have this one song, probably their most critically acclaimed, called Hate Me. They sang it and after, the lead singer looks at the audience and dead pans, “well that was happy.”
As I tapped into Soarin’ I got an LL for Spaceship Earth for 8:20. I figured I could end my night with that then exit.

I got a Grande Marnier slushee on my way back from Soarin’

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I hit up the ladies room in America. I had Shirley status but look at this place. People are pigs.
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And I made it to the last set of the evening.
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Beware of EPCOT restrooms. I heard some have peep holes 😆
 

Darstarr

Well-Known Member
Original Poster
In the Parks
No
Saturday April 9, 2022

All that rain the last couple of days and I woke up to this:
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My son had a game later that day about 45 minutes away so I had the morning to kill.
In a perfect world I would have been at the pool with a book but, it was still freezing.
So I walked over to Disney Springs.
So pretty
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There is this family I know through my bosses and work and they are DVC and their home resort is SSR. One of them was telling me that SSR is the only resort on property without palm trees, because Saratoga NY does not have palm trees.
On my walk through Saratoga to DS I saw this:
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Maybe not a tree but a palm something. Right???

And a fountain because I remember someone here being a big fan but I dont remember who. Sorry.
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I got some Goofy’s for the kids. Inventory was low.
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I had a CM with low inventory on her brain cells. I showed her my digital dvc card but she needed me to open it in the app, not the wallet. Then she started complaining about the price of gasoline because her place is being painted and temporarily she had to move but she is an hour away blah blah blah. GIVE ME MY CANDY!!!
Then she went on to complain about the DVC cards again. Finally I said, “read my shirt”.
(I will show you the shirt in a minute)

I couldn't decide between Chicken Guy or Polite Pig. I love the Polite Pig but I hadn't tried Chicken Guy yet.
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(No tables so I sat on a planter ledge)
Well, I should have gone with Polite Pig. It was ok. Nothing earth shattering.

If you know…
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And if you don’t, my MIL collected elephants, trunks up for good luck. I miss my MIL💔

And now, the shirt 9 out of 10 people at Disney Springs loved.
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DryerLintFan

Premium Member
Saturday April 9, 2022

All that rain the last couple of days and I woke up to this:
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My son had a game later that day about 45 minutes away so I had the morning to kill.
In a perfect world I would have been at the pool with a book but, it was still freezing.
So I walked over to Disney Springs.
So pretty
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There is this family I know through my bosses and work and they are DVC and their home resort is SSR. One of them was telling me that SSR is the only resort on property without palm trees, because Saratoga NY does not have palm trees.
On my walk through Saratoga to DS I saw this:
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Maybe not a tree but a palm something. Right???

And a fountain because I remember someone here being a big fan but I dont remember who. Sorry.
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I got some Goofy’s for the kids. Inventory was low.
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I had a CM with low inventory on her brain cells. I showed her my digital dvc card but she needed me to open it in the app, not the wallet. Then she started complaining about the price of gasoline because her place is being painted and temporarily she had to move but she is an hour away blah blah blah. GIVE ME MY CANDY!!!
Then she went on to complain about the DVC cards again. Finally I said, “read my shirt”.
(I will show you the shirt in a minute)

I couldn't decide between Chicken Guy or Polite Pig. I love the Polite Pig but I hadn't tried Chicken Guy yet.
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(No tables so I sat on a planter ledge)
Well, I should have gone with Polite Pig. It was ok. Nothing earth shattering.

If you know…
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And if you don’t, my MIL collected elephants, trunks up for good luck. I miss my MIL💔

And now, the shirt 9 out of 10 people at Disney Springs loved.
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This is a pet peeve of mine. I can absolutely appreciate that the CM was having a hard time, and perhaps could have used a break and some meditation app or something, but they shouldn't have shared any of that with you.
 

MickeyCB

Well-Known Member
I headed towards Spaceship Earth. When I got near Norway I pulled out my phone to double check my LL time and I had this…
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You notice it now says “select experience”. That is all me. I gave them that wording a few years ago.
Enough about me, I stopped in Norway, I knew Frozen wouldn't be one of the “select” replacements but I wanted to talk to the CM about my choices.

She was a nice young girl, she never saw me coming. 😂
Choices were Soarin’,
Me: “I already had an LL for that”
CM: “then you can’t reride”

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Me: “Isn't that closed?”
CM: “I believe so”.

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See above⬆️

Mission Space
Me: no way!

Also me: “so a useless LL?”
CM: “the frozen wait is only forty minutes.”
Me: 🤨
Me again: “oh you are from California! Where about?”
CM: “San Francisco”
Me:
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CM: 🤨
Is this why I got the (in my opinion) wonderful face time personal shopping tour of Creations?! (Still regret not getting the Coach) 🤣
 

ShookieJones

We need time for things to happen.
I took my Lily outside so I could be alone with her. So delicious. Worth the $48. Yes, I left a $15 tip and when I did I said, loudly, this is for that (pointed to 45 cents) and that (pointed to annoying girl).
I can really be a B…
Savage!

Glad it's worth the money. My daughter has been talking about sampling one of these beauties.
 

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