Same Day Report, Day One: Travel and Do Some Stuff Day
(Hey, how do you like my fancy-shmancy headings?)
We made it!!! We're here!!! To be honest, the way the day started, I wasn't all that sure we'd make it. Our flight was scheduled to leave Indy at 8:00 this morning. That means, usually, if we leave our house at 6:00, we get to the parking service around 6:30, and to the airport by 6:45 or 7:00. PUH-lenty of time. Usually. Today was not a usual day. We left a tiny bit late, like 8 minutes - nothing to get excited about - but no one had had any breakfast. That was pretty much our original plan because we typically would have plenty of time to get some breakfast after going through security.
Hah.
After waiting for five minutes outside our car (totally out of the ordinary) for the bus to pick us up, and me freezing my parts off
we were on our way. Got to the airport, and the check-in for Southwest was llllllooooooooonnnnnnnnggggggg. Great. And then the line for security was lllllllooooooooonnnnnnnnnggggggg. Suffice it to say, we were walking to our gate when our boarding group was lining up. (For those of you not familiar with Southwest, they assign you a letter and number and you line up accordingly, so there's not that elbow-jostling for position.) So much for breakfast! We were scheduled to have an hour and 15 minutes in Baltimore so I wasn't sweating that either.
And then, when we were pushing off the gate, we stopped way short of where we should have. The captain came over the P.A. system and told us a ground crew member noticed "fluid" coming out of one of the engines. Whee. So, back to the gate we went, to sit and wait for maintenance to take a look. 15 minutes later, the captain comes on again, telling us the maintenance dudes have to fire up the engine, and no one can be on the plane when they do it, we're going to deplane for a few minutes. Long story short, the fortunate part of the mechanical difficulty afforded us time to scoot to a food shop and get something to eat.
Our hour and 15 minutes in Baltimore evaporated into an off-one-plane-and-directly-onto-another experience, but we made the connection, and I had a view of the guys outside and saw that our bags made the connection, too.
So we're here, we spent some time in the MK tonight, which is open until midnight. And I don't think I've ever been here with this many people!!!
So much for thinking we were coming when crowds were low. I hope they're better tomorrow and during the week. The stroller parking outside of Winnie the Pooh was UNBELIEVABLE.
I took a few pics, but truth be told I didn't take many because I got up at 4:45 this morning and I didn't feel like screwing around with them. And, I don't feel like uploading any tonight.
I will take a lot tomorrow, including the Fantasyland Expansion stuff, and show you all that's going on around here. We're scheduled to eat dinner at Mama Melrose tomorrow, and DHS is supposed to be open until 11. We'll see if we make it.
And if anyone is ever wondering, never wear hard-soled sandals your first day. Just sayin'. Please pass the pain meds.
Have a good night, everyone!
Those are old enough that they should be backed up on my computer though. So once that new phone arrives, I shall celebrate by continuing my trip report...from almost a year ago 
