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….
 

Darstarr

Well-Known Member
Original Poster
In the Parks
No
This is what I did today.
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Can you guess where I am?
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This is a Watermelon margarita and although not as good at The Lily it was tasty!!
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I will give you a hint, when I asked the server if they gave a DVC discount she asked if I had a digital copy of my card. I pulled it up on my apple wallet and she said, “great, thanks.” Total competence!
 

Back!Elbow!Shoulders!

Omnia mutantur, nihil interit
Premium Member
This is what I did today.
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Can you guess where I am?
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This is a Watermelon margarita and although not as good at The Lily it was tasty!!
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I will give you a hint, when I asked the server if they gave a DVC discount she asked if I had a digital copy of my card. I pulled it up on my apple wallet and she said, “great, thanks.” Total competence!

Yay Congrats to your son! And cute dress!
 

erstwo

Well-Known Member
What a great Mother’s Day weekend! Always great to see one of your children hit another milestone! (Well - great and bittersweet! ❤️). Congratulations to you, your husband, and your son! Love the WDWMAGIC meet up photo!
Wishing you a no rain week/ weekend!
 

Darstarr

Well-Known Member
Original Poster
In the Parks
No
What a great Mother’s Day weekend! Always great to see one of your children hit another milestone! (Well - great and bittersweet! ❤️). Congratulations to you, your husband, and your son! Love the WDWMAGIC meet up photo!
Wishing you a no rain week/ weekend!
Thanks so much. It was a fun and long day.
 

BrerWayne

Well-Known Member
This is what I did today.
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Can you guess where I am?
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This is a Watermelon margarita and although not as good at The Lily it was tasty!!
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I will give you a hint, when I asked the server if they gave a DVC discount she asked if I had a digital copy of my card. I pulled it up on my apple wallet and she said, “great, thanks.” Total competence!
Congratulations!!!!
 

lindawdw

Well-Known Member
Just finished up your last 10 posts and laughed out loud once again. 🤣 🤣 Love all the commentary on the guests and CM's that you interacted with along the way and you certainly had some interesting stories told to you. :oops: I'm with you on how the bathrooms used to be so clean in the early days at Disney and if someone dropped a kernel of popcorn on the ground, a custodian would be sweeping it up behind you! How fun that you got the chance to enjoy the Lily margarita from Mexico which was such an incredible presentation! Sorry about the stupid Genie + SE reservation.:rolleyes: I'm with you on the strikeouts and only hope they go back to the old fastpass system one of these days! Congrats to your son on his graduation and it looks like you got to have a nice meal at Vero Beach Disney afterwards? We've visited there a few times when my parents lived in that area. So great to meet up with you at WL!
 

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