Disney Vacation - the arrival

It seems that it does nothing but rain and rain today. When we were packing the car with our stuff, it was pouring. We get to the parking spot at Lambert – pouring. We get inside Lambert, stops. We get to Cincinnati, no rain. Get to our hotel in Florida, rain. Downpour. It’s been raining since we’ve landed, and this doesn’t bode well for day #1 in the parks.

Our first flight was in a tiny little regional jet – 3 seats across. Joel had to duck in order to walk down the aisle. It was a bumpy flight from St. Louis to Cincinnati, but we made it with minimal markings on my arm from Darcy. Our next flight was much better. We did sit in aisle 37. In case you were wondering, our plane had 38 aisles. Our view was of the lovely pratt and whitney engines. Molly and MacKenzie sat in the 2 seats on the right side of the plane, and Darcy and I resided in 2 of the 3 on the left side of the plain. Loud being that close to the engines, but I got some sleep.

Our arrival into Orlando was interesting. We had to ride a tram-like vehicle to the main terminal, go down 2 floors to walk (it seemed) almost a mile to get to the Magical Express check in counter. This we did. We loaded onto a bus, and stopped at 4 resorts. How, you might ask, did I know that we stopped at four resorts? Simple. We were the 4^th resort, and the only people left on the bus. That was a long ride. Got here, looked at the pool (it’s pretty cool), and then went and ate dinner at the Captain’s Grill, located in the Yacht Club Resort. Pretty good dinner. Then we walked over to the sister resort called the Beach club and got some breakfast foods. We’re not sure yet what Tuesday will bring in place of the parks, but it’ll be fun.

Funny comments:

1. As we were departing from Cincinnati, MacKenzie was complaining about the thing outside her window, and Molly told her it was a jet. Once the plane began to move, MacKenzie was rather concerned that the thing outside her window was still there. She looked at Molly and said, “Molly, I think that thing is attached”.

2. After dinner, we went to the hotel desk to ask about getting a small refrigerator in our room. The poor young lady from Denmark asked “what’s wrong with the one you have?” Evidently we checked into the spy hotel which completely and utterly camouflages things.

Hey! We’ve decided it’s Epcot on Tuesday. Getting up early to get there by park open (9am).

I think this is the end of today’s entry. Goodnight.

Here's MacKenzie on the Magical Express on our way to the resort from the hotel.

Maybe another update tonight when we get back from Epcot's fireworks show.