Day 1, Part 1: Will I be Able to Make This Trip?

We’re going to have one last pictureless post here, sorry about this!

Like most trips, the night before the trip I had trouble sleeping.  Normally it’s due to excitement, but this time it was more nerves. 

Not to get too into the weeds, but about a month before the trip I started getting these weird stomach pains that continued to get worse and more constant as time went by. As the trip was getting nearer, I was getting more and more concerned about even going on it since this stomach bug didn’t want to go away!

Fortunately, just before the trip, I started to feel marginally better so started to add a few more items to my diet and didn’t have any issues, phew! 

The day before the trip I was feeling a lot better, although I was still a bit worried about food while on the trip.  But I figured I could find at least some stuff that would be ok on my stomach to eat so decided that we should still go. 

This whole stomach thing in the weeks leading up the trip had me in a bit of a funk, and I was so worried it would flare up again in Disney or on the flight down, so my anxiety was pretty high.  Now, I normally have anxiety flying, I absolutely HATE flying and get myself worked up into a ball of stress beforehand, so adding extra anxiety was, well, unpleasant.  Not to mention, Helene was hitting FL the evening before I flew down, so I was also worried about that. 

And guess what!  Anxiety makes stomach issues worse!  HAAA!  Of course. 

The night before the trip, I went to bed early, but it took like 2-3 hours to actually fall asleep.  Then I woke up around 4:30 to use the bathroom, and couldn’t fall asleep afterwards, so once again starting the trip off with hardly any sleep.  I’m shockingly good at doing this! 

I finally dragged myself out of bed a bit after 6:30 and spent some time cuddling with my dog.  The one thing I hate about travelling (well, the other thing besides flying) is leaving my pets.  I miss those furballs so much while I’m away!

I had some time this morning before I had to leave for the airport.  Instead of booking an early flight, I decided to book a midday one so I could bring my dog into boarding this morning instead of the previous day and save some money. 

I had some breakfast when I got home, double and triple checked I had things set up for my cats and their pet sitter, charged some things again (my stupid watch is only holding a charge for like 12 hours these days, I seriously need a new one), and of course spent some quality time cuddling with my cats. 

Around 9:30 I called for an Uber, and one came within 5 minutes, and about 10 minutes after I was at the airport. 

Checking my bag was quick, and there was only a short line for pre-check this day.

Once through security I did the only logical thing: went to find my gate to make sure it existed. Seriously, doesn’t everyone do this?  I feel like we all do. 

After confirming my gate did in fact exist, I went off to a store to pick up a bottle of water, then found a place to sit and wait for my flight. 

I got to the airport a bit earlier than I should have so had about an hour wait, but it went pretty quick and soon it was time to board!

The flight down was uneventful, thankfully, and took just under 2 hours. 

This flight we flew way out over the Atlantic, which isn’t typical for this flight, usually we’re over land for most of the flight, but I guess we were avoiding the hurricane so flew further east.  The cool thing about this is we flew over Cape Canaveral, so I got a shot of some launch sites as we flew over! 

We landed right at 2:10, and for once it wasn’t a super long taxi to the gate. 

Since I was in row 2, I was off the plane pretty fast, and made my way to baggage claim.  Since I was flying Jetblue we were in terminal C, which is just so much nicer than A and B.  It’s practically empty and so easy to move around.

The only downside to terminal C is the bags seem to take forever to come out.  This day it took about 40 minutes.  Ugh.

The good news is my bag was one of the first to come out, yay!

Bag in hand, I made my way outside to catch an Uber and soon I was on my way to my home for the night, BWV!

The ride over was pretty awesome too, the driver was playing all the 90s/early 2000s hits, got a lot of Savage Garden and Enrique Iglesias on the way over, made my younger self very happy! 

Next up:  The First Hotel of the Trip….BWV!