Day 1, Part 1: Travel Day
Ok, one last pictureless post until we get into all the picture fun!
I woke up around 4:30 this morning and quickly got ready to head out. The car I hired arrived about 10 minutes early, but he texted to let me know to take my time, which I definitely did, I woke up with just enough time to make it out the door to meet him right at 5!
It was a quick ride to the airport, I love how close I am to the airport, at that time in the morning it was only like 6 minutes!
The airport was busier than I’m used to at this time of the morning, but I guess we were into the holiday travel season, so not unexpected. I swear everyone has precheck these days, so there was a bit of a line to get through security, but it moved quickly.
I did my usual routine of picking up a bottle of water once through security and running to the bathroom one last time before heading to my gate.
It was only about a 30 minute wait once I made it to my gate, so not too bad of a wait. I really hate just sitting at the airport for hours, so limiting the wait time there is always a win in my book!
Somehow I got very lucky on this flight and ended up having the whole row to myself! Wahoo! The flight also was pretty short, only about an hour and fifty minutes, and it took off a few minutes early. So far this trip was off to a great start! We even ended up landing a bit early at 9:12!
Once we were wheels down in Orlando, I checked my families flight and saw they were right behind us and landed a minute after I did. What perfect timing!
This trip we were all flying Jetblue, so we planned to meet up at the baggage claim in Terminal C. So once off the plane I headed to my baggage claim to get my bag and then planned to go find my family at theirs. I assumed they would be a bit behind me since they landed after me, but as I’m standing there waiting for my luggage, I see this man wildly waving his arms at the next baggage claim and realized that, oh, that’s my dad!
I was a bit surprised they made it there first since we had landed first, but it did take a while for my plane to drive around the airport looking at all the sites before finally making its way to a gate. Good thing for me though, my bag came out first, so I at least won that round!
Once we had all our bags I called for an Uber and got one quickly. I had wanted to order an SUV since we had so much luggage, but the SUV wasn’t an option on the app, so without the option I just crossed my fingers that we’d get a big car.
Well, of course we ended up with a sedan.
It actually worked out though, I was very impressed with the amount of trunk space in that car. Somehow everything fit, although just barely! Once everything was Tetris-ed into the car, we headed off to the Boardwalk.
It was a quick drive over to the Boardwalk and soon we were checking in for our first hotel of the week!
Next up: The Most Awesome Exciting Fabulous Surprise!
