Bloody hell this holiday has flown, but what an amazing time we’ve had…A brilliant first 3 days at Universal (Horror nights seems so long ago), and then Disney for the rest…brilliant…and so many memories made ❤️
Anyways, lie in this morning…we needed to take full advantage of the remaining time in the hotel…think ross from friends, but without stealing all the salt and batteries (we were already borderline on the case weight limits…only 23kg for us peasants).
Quick recheck and shuffle around of the bags…how the hell have they gained weight overnight?…mind you I think I’ve steadily done the same so I should have expected it. I think we’re finally set, cases are closed and locked, if they’re over fuck it (but damn I’ll be sad if I have to pay extra 😂).
Little check in on Deb and Chris to see how they’re getting on…full on panic mode!! After 2 weeks of Debs smugly telling me not to buy too much because we’d be massively overweight, what’s this? Oh yeah, Deb and Chris’ cases are so borderline that they’ve utilised every inch of hand luggage…I didn’t laugh, I swear 🙄
Final farewell walk around Art of Animation…I bloody hated this hotel on first day (most likely because of the anticipated world famous small rooms), but I love it now and will miss it (and the late night photoshoots Grayson made us do). Pancakes for breakfast before we were kicked out of our room…legged it back to the hotel on the countdown to check out…made it just in time, and made sure to keep the door on the latch so we didn’t get locked out…sneaky buggers we are, we needed one last ceremonial farewell breakfast in the room (to be fair it was our only breakfast in the room).
Now for some fun…luggage Tetris…we struggled fitting everything in the cars on arrival, how the hell were we gonna do this now?…well, we’re clearly seasoned pros because we pissed it (again not literally Grayson). Stressful morning, but was a piece of cake compared to later on.
Airport please drive…oh wait that’s me…ok cool, pit stop first though…one last Crumbl Cookies (been offered complimentary shares in this place as a frequent flyer). Just the 2 cookies today though, back to the reality that calories will start counting from tomorrow.
Airport then, let’s avoid the tolls this time (one huge bill will be enough thank you)…passed a load of toll roads…collective fuck you to them as we pass…ace.
Car drop off…nice and easy, wish I could say the same for unloading the car…bloody hell these cases are heavy, are we sure they’re only 23kg??? Too late now, grin and bear it…ok let’s go!! Fortunately we procured the services of the airport bell hop who transported us and the cases to our check in desk…thank god for him, I could see myself playing donkey and being loaded up to carry them to within and inch of my life…my hero.
Check in then? Nope, we’d been dragged to the airport way before our allowed check in time…No idea who’s bright idea that was 🙄…never mind, here now, and we’d met up with Deb and Chris, and apparently the cases and bags had now bred…where the hell did they all come from? How the hell are we getting these on the plane?
Check in time finally and all hands on deck…millions of cases, bags and the kids…wait a minute, we’re a man down? Yep, Jordan decided to go for a stroll and check out the shops…nice one…cue the stress and arguments as we bundled all these cases to the check in desk (Grayson literally bundling a case over to thunderous laughter…‘it’s not funny’…yes it is kid, we can’t all be wrong).
Jordan turns up in the nick of time and it’s time for the moment of truth…let’s play a game of how much of a fine we’re all getting for overweight baggage…we all watch with baited breath as almost every case is almost a kg overweight…fuck!!
Say nothing, maybe he hasn’t noticed…yep he had…it’s cool though, he only marks Deb and Chris’ cases as heavy…to say I was smug is a massive understatement, and I was keen to let Deb know…until he also labelled all my cases (apart from Grays)…fuck, fuck, fuck…I had flashbacks to a Florida family holiday years ago when Grandma June had to fork out hundreds at the airport. Now is the time I both lost and gained some respect for Deb (I guess my respect level ended at an equilibrium)…Deb produced the slimiest display of niceness I have ever seen in an attempt to void any potential fees…bloody hell something worked (not sure if it was the pleasant nature, or that he thought she was overly creepy…either way, it’s a win for us all)…success!!!
Ok, that was stress number 2…can we beat that? Of course we can. Bit of food and some more shopping (Panda Express orange chicken and walnut shrimp…bloody marvellous) and on through security…here we go.
First we got ushered through a random gate, where for some reason we got grouped in with some humanitarian group…thought we have inadvertently been inducted into a cult…they must have seen the kids and rejected us though because we were soon being corralled through the security checks. My god these people hate people…not the most pleasant…rushed us through…phones, bags, wallets, shoes, belts, pants all in the trays please…well maybe not pants, but that didn’t stop Grayson.
Wait, where’s Loo Loo gone? Quick stop her…she was legging it through the security gates without us…I thought the security guards were gonna take her out…they went mental…she’s only a kid mun, not like we’re smuggling anything in her nappy 🙄
Safely passed through and reloaded…gagging for a Starbucks…’Dean there’s no time, we’re boarding now’…‘I’ll be raging if we’re waiting then’…I was raging, 30 mins later and we were finally being called on. Quick pics of the kids with the plane…they love it (and I hate it, but brave face an all).
After calling what felt like everyone else before us, we were finally boarding, and Chris, ever determined to show the premium passengers that boarding first was not that great, decided to pile most of his baggage on a few unsuspecting passengers as he boarded…yeah, balls to you and your champagne, have a bag to the face instead…fuck you guys, from all in economy.
Get to our seats, and they’re already taken…WTF…Virgin proper screwing us mun…thankfully they were in the wrong seats and we quickly moved them on (bloody Llanelli people…Jordan had bonded with them a few days previous in a gang war with rival hotel guests so all was good).
Grayson finds a games console handset in our seats…brilliant, maybe there’s mario kart (spoiler…all the games were shit)…’Ahhh Grayson I love you buddy’…’yeah? And I love Mariokart’…thanks buddy.
Ever keen to mess about and take advantage of the inflight technology, Jordan then decides to send Paige abusive messages…Knob, Eat a Dick…wait, where are you sending them? Oh yeah, the wrong seats…nice one Jo.
Take off and Alaska again not keen on being restrained for take off starts kicking off…my god this is gonna be eventful…at least Gray is being good though…for now.
Middle seats…means we spend the whole flight being a throughway to anyone who wants to cross aisles…let the games begin…to cross, you have to dodge all the shit we left in the way, including our legs and children…dare you accept? You think that would put people off, but it seemed like a challenge most would accept…nightmare mun.
Best get some rest, got a 3hr drive the other side and it’ll be early morning when we land…time to don our neck pillows with built in hoods…sleeping like a Sith Lord.
Most uncomfortable flight ever, Alaska barely settled and I didn’t manage to sleep at all…ah well, breakfast time…coffee please…apparently Alaska disagreed with my choice as the next thing I knew, my coffee was off my lap and onto my lovely white slip ons…thanks Loo, they needed a bit a jazzing up.
Captain announcement…different landing than usual, and a bit of holding in the air…safe to say my fear of flying was back and I was slightly bricking it…rougher descent than usual, but safely on the ground…thank god.
Funny looks off customs due to my passport pic…I thought I looked decent and baggage claim…the cases may or may not have gone to Manchester…yet to see and then on to the long journey home.
I’ve had the most amazing holiday, making lifelong memories with my awesome family. Thanks so much to Jordan, Paige, Deb, Chris and my 2 beautiful children for making it so special…Orlando, it’s been a blast!!!
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