disney makes it hard to leave

As always, we're heading home from a trip to Disney and we don't want to leave. Discussions about "the next time" occur or that we needed to stay longer. We even talked about joining the Disney Vacation Club. We totally drank the Kool Aid. Every. Damn. Time.

Anyway, we were unexpectedly upgraded to a "concierge" room, which means a special building, free breakfast and munchies, concierge staff devoted to the building, etc. Nice. We wore buttons at the parks with "Happy Anniversary" and got free stuff (mmm...milkshake..) and a lot of congrats. They even had a tiny bottle of champagne and rose in our room on Sunday night! I love attention.

We did Epcot and Disney's Hollywood Studios. We did not make it too the magic kingdom. This made me sad, but I'm happy with our choices. We were going to try to go there Sunday night because they had extended hours to 2a.m., but as we got on the monorail at 9p.m. we were like, "no way, can't walk anymore. So tired." It was a good choice cause we were asleep very soon after getting back to the hotel.

A magic time was had and I think we may need to do this for every anniversary. :-) Oh, and a shout out to the moron's at Orlando airport who don't understand what "experienced traveler" means. It means you know the drill when it comes to taking off shoes, taking out laptops, etc. in order to go through security. It means a FASTER line for those of us who do know. Not having your crap out and then arguing with the TSA about your camera cause you are worried about it going through x-ray automatically means you aren't supposed to be in the "experienced traveler" line. Yeesh. On the other hand, a great big shout out to Orlando airport for having three types of lines for people to go through: family line, no family (forgot what it was called) and experienced traveler. That's a _sweet_ way to do things. It makes those of us behind families who have to get their kids prepared happy and I'm sure it makes those parents happy that they don't have to worry about holding up the line. Win-win.

Posted by jennj at April 30, 2008 08:22 AM