Last Wednesday, I came home from work, threw the dog in the car and took her to the kennel. Then I went to bed early so I could get up at 5:30 Thursday morning, drink my coffee, get dressed, and get to the airport in time for a 9:30 flight. At this point, my caloric intake for the day consisted of two cups of coffee with milk & sweetener.
The flight to Philly was on time leaving and on time landing, but I still had fewer than 30 minutes to get from the terminal in which I arrived to the one from which my plane was departing. I made it and boarded, only to run out of battery life on my netbook. So I tried to nap until we landed in Orlando.
After a difficult experience picking up my brother and nieces at the airport, Mom and Dad asked me to find my own way from the airport to the hotel. Unlike Disney World, Universal Studios does not have a shuttle from the airport to their hotels, but I went with the one they recommended and had a decent ride for less than the cost of a taxi. We were staying at the Cabana Bay Beach Resort at Universal.
When I got to the hotel at 3ish, they told me that since Mom and I forgot to change my initial reservation from starting on 3/16 to starting on 3/17, they rented the room to someone else. Then, they wouldn't let me stay in one of the remaining rooms unless I paid off the balance on both rooms for 3 nights. So I called Mom and had a meltdown on the phone, then went to the restaurant and had an overpriced and misspelled lunch. Ceasar salad, anyone? :-p
By the time the family pulled into the hotel parking lot, overheated and exhausted, I was more or less over my fit of pique, and after we'd all checked in and hauled luggage to our rooms (I shared with Mom & Dad), Dad took a nap and Mom and I went to the pool with Captain Crossword and the princesses. The hotel pools were both very fancy, and the girls had a few rides on the slide before they decided they'd rather play Hop on Pop and try to drown my brother. :-D
After we were all cooled off and calmed down, we went and had dinner at the "diner" in the hotel. It's much too big to be a diner, but it had the decor, there were hamburgers available at the food court, and the four giant TV screens on the walls showed a loop of NBC and Universal logos and TV commercials from the 1950s and 1960s. Mom and I split a Margherita pizza and then my niece and I both had the lemon tart for dessert. Princess STEM loves lemon and lemon flavored things as much as I do (or maybe even more). I had a quick shower and plugged in the netbook and my phone for charging and was out like a light by 10.
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