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Day Six – Saturday, January 21 – Going Home
I was up at 4:15 and had the coffee on. When the wake-up call
came, it was just some music – no Mickey telling me to get
moving or there’s big doin’s today. I wonder if they
knew we were leaving.
We got showered, packed up the personal stuff, and were outside
with our luggage at 6:30 . At 6:50 , exactly on schedule, the ME
bus pulled up. We boarded, made one stop at the Caribbean Beach
Resort (picked up 2 groups) and were on our way to MCO at 7:05
, arriving at about 7:30 . Along the way, we were treated to several
Donald Duck cartoons. From my one experience, I’d have to
say ME was a big success.
At the airport, we saw no Sky Caps outside so we went up to Level
1 and used a kiosk to check our bags. From there it was back to
McD’s for breakfast (didn’t this trip start there?)
and to the gate.
Our flight left on time and, once airborne, the pilot informed
us it would be a bit bumpy landing in Albany . We landed about
a half hour early and the last 20 minutes were pretty rocky. The
reason was high winds in the area. I called Stephen and he was
en route – not expecting us to be landing for another 20
minutes. He picked us up out front and we were home in 20 minutes.
We landed at around 12:00 . The Goergens left at noon and would
be landing in the 2:30-3:00 area. I was at home and stepped outside
at around 2:00 and the winds, all of a sudden, picked up significantly.
I found out later that we had sustained wind speeds of 25-35 mph
with gusts of 60 mph. A while later Wayne called and said their
landing was a thrill ride.
Another trip in the books.
Summary
There’s never very much about a WDW trip that I don’t
like. I’ve seen others list their Less-Than-Magical Moments
but we don’t seem to have any. The only things I didn’t
care for was some obnoxious behavior by other guests but we really
only saw a very few instances of that. I’m not too crazy
about the Capri pants on men but that’s another issue entirely.
What was good about the trip? Where do I start? My favorite attractions:
Soarin’, Mickey’s Philharmagic, Wishes, IROE… did ‘em
all a few times. We enjoyed LeCellier (although it may be a while
before we go for dinner again – and we won’t order
the Prime Rib). We also enjoyed Mama Melrose’s – a
fine place as long as you’re not expecting gourmet cuisine.
We really, really liked ‘Ohana and will definitely be back
there again.
The Boardwalk is our favorite resort for lots of reasons. Using
our points, we could stay at OKW, Saratoga Springs , etc. We just
don’t want to. I think we may try the Beach Club Villas on
one of our next few trips. It’s location will match the BW
and it’ll be something new.
These last 2 trips have been 4 and 5 nights respectively. I’m
not sure if I prefer fewer but longer trips to shorter, more frequent
ones. I’d probably like to have both. As of today, we’re
planning our next trip for January 2007. It will include our three
kids, our son-in-law, and our grandson – I can’t wait
to spoil him rotten. We’re thinking about 8 nights / 9 days
which would be our longest vacation ever. I’m also trying
to talk Barb into a short (long weekend) trip in November 2006
but I’m not sure that will work for us.
Thanks to all for reading. If you have any questions or comments,
email me at srusso@nycap.rr.com but
please, please, please put ‘Trip Report’ in the subject
line or I’ll never see it.
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