WALT DISNEY: Day 1
Day 1: Getting there and a knife
Any time that I can get a late day flight out of our home town, I'm going to take it! I just hate feeling rushed in the early morning and then factor in that it is frigid out enough to make a snowman's carrot nose break off at the slightest gust of wind. Warming up a car and defrosting can take a considerable amount of your "rushed" morning and again, I don't like rushed. Those are my requirements of flight and then Sakari's requirements consists of only 1 flight and no plane change. It's so hard to please everyone at the same time.
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We always try to arrive at the airport at least 1 1/2 hours ahead of time. This gives us time to park the car at the furthest lot and shuttle over to the airport, check in our luggage, and time for me to waddle over to security. Our flight was to leave at 3:35pm, which means boarding at 3:05pm.
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We were the only one's on the shuttle and they had plastic barriers to make sure no icky germs were coming my way.
I also keep forgetting that we are in the middle of a pandemic, which means not many people are traveling and the airports are very "light" these days. I made the mistake of buying the "early bird check in" on our last vacation in July and swore I wouldn't do it again, but here I am, with my early bird check in that I paid $30 pp. Here is the airport:
We had a total of 21 people on the plane (this includes us)....go figure. Also, a day before our flight I received an email stating that we had earned the A-Lister status, which gives everyone in our party priority boarding. So, I guess I wasted quite a bit of money this time around trying to get a good seat. We had an arrival time in Florida of 5:50pm and all I could do was think about warmer weather. I must have checked the weather 5x a day the week before we left. I'm including a picture of what we had to look forward to. We boarded our plane, picked out our 1st class seats among the rows and rows of empty seats and settled in for our long 2 hour and 15 minute flight.Â
As we neared the end of our flight, it was awesome to see the sunset in the distance. Sakari is a big sunset fan and she did a time-lapse of us above the clouds with the sunset coming down.