...no, we aren't heading to Oz (although how cool would THAT be?), but we begin our journey today to Orlando, where there will be lots of wizards and muggles at the Wizarding World of Harry Potter. Oh, and this little theme park(s) called Disney World as well. Our flight leaves at 9:05AM tomorrow morning, from Sea-Tac, so we are on our way to Seattle this afternoon. We are staying at the Red Lion Inn, a perfectly comfortable-but-cheap hotel, which also includes parking for the car for the two weeks. Anything to avoid paying SeaTac's parking rates. We'd need to take out another mortgage to afford those.
So, I present to you:
Orlando Vacation Blog 3: The Return of the King
Presented to you in Mind-Blowing 3-D!
This is our third trip to Orlando, but the first time we've been able to procure direct flights so that's exciting......it's bad enough I have to spend 5.5 hours on a plane without also having to get off that plane, spend a couple hours in another airport, and get on another plane. Faithful readers may also recall that our last trip home from Orlando included stops in Atlanta (sleeping in the airport overnight), Cincinnati and Minneapolis, all due to us missing our connection in Atlanta due to weather. Fun times.
We know that we are flying First Class on the way home, as that was all that was actually available, but we are scheduled to fly Coach on the way down (oh, the horror!!), so we're hoping for an upgrade. I will check us in online in about an hour and hopefully they will have some FC upgrades available. We'll see. I haven't actually flown Coach in a long time, probably since the last Orlando trip, and I'd just as soon not have to go back to that at this point!
Monday night we are starting the trip off in style, at the only Five Diamond restaurant in all of Florida, Victoria & Albert's, which is in the Grand Floridian Hotel. Personalized menus (in fact they phoned yesterday to ask about dietary restrictions, etc), a waiter for each of us, and best of all, NO FREAKING KIDS!! That's right, this restaurant doesn't allow anyone under 12! Love it!!!!!! Wish that Disney had more spots like that but this is a good start.
No luck on the upgrade unfortunately, we will have to actually fly Coach. Barf.
Leg 1 of the trip is over, we have arrived in Seattle. Had a very mediocre lunch at Bob's and we are planning on having dinner at the hotel restaurant so I'm not very hopeful that it will be much better. Oh well, many good meals await us for the next two weeks!
I wasn't wrong about dinner. We figured we would order something they couldn't screw up, so we started with nachos. They were perfectly fine, if unspectacular. Tracey had meatloaf for her main course which was just average. I ordered Cajun chicken fettuccini, and it was the spiciest thing I have ever eaten. I had about three bites and sent it back. They must have dumped a whole bottle of cayenne in that mofo. Awful. Tracey said it was the first time she had ever seen me sweat while eating. Gross.
Back up to the room, going to take a sleeping pill and get to bed early. It is already 10:30 PM in Orlando so we might as well try to get acclimated as soon as possible and lessen the jet lag!
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