WOW!! Its has been a LONG time since i was here!!! Hopefully i will post more often. Last weekend was the 5th anniversary of the Disney princess half marathon and i was in Orlando to enjoy every minute of it!! Getting down to Orlando was NOT easy. There was a winter advisory lurking over the that weekend. Thursday morning i woke up early to check into my flight that was going to leave Friday morning. By Thursday afternoon my flight was CANCELLED!!!! At this point i was freaking out and about ready to drive down to Orlando myself. Jay kept me calm and since he flies more than i do he got on the phone with the airline to set up new arrangements. After a few phone calls and lots of tears (from me) the new flight plans were set but not in stone since the weather was still going to be an issue.
So after working on Thursday i picked up mom and went to my house to finish packing and try to get a little sleep, Friday was going to be a LONG day. The alarm went off just after midnight mom and I had to get ready, pick up Michelle and meet Jay at bourbon at 2am so he could drive us to Milwaukee to catch a 6:30 am flight. What should have been a 90 minute or so drive took 2.5 hours because of the snow storm with blizzard like conditions. The whole drive i was checking the website in fear that my flight would be delayed or cancelled!!!!!! We made it to the airport with the flight still departing on time!!!!!
We checked our bags and made it through security with enough time before we boarded our flight (still on time) for a little breakfast. Our flight boarded on time and i thought all my worries gone, WRONG. The plane needed to be de-iced which takes about 30 minutes and they were about half way done with the plane in front of ours. That's now about a 40 minute delay PANIC is now setting in because with the new flight arrangements we had a short layover in Atlanta before making it down to Orlando. After our plane was de-iced the airport was shut down to plow my plane is now almost an hour late taking off and I'm going to have to run to my connecting flight in Atlanta.
Thank goodness when we landed in Atlanta we found our connecting flight was slightly delayed but i still sprinted to the next gate because we needed to make that flight. Poor mom was trying to keep up but waved me on figuring as long as i made it i could tell them to wait for her. When we made it to the gate we found out we had maybe a 20 minute cushion before that flight boarded so much needed potty breaks were in order. Nervousness makes me go even more often. We boarded the Atlanta flight and i could finally relax because i knew i was going to made it to Orlando in time for the fit for a princess expo and i needed some retail therapy after this day!!!!
Stay tuned for more of my Disney princess weekend........
