Rogueperson

Hello from Port St Lucie. We Started later than I wanted but still on track. We have about two hours to go on our trip and decided to stop for lunch real quick. Unassuming Taco place

Thus ends my Disney Adventure. Today was nearly perfect. The weather was not as humid as I had hardened myself for. It was a warm, but tolerable. I did everything I really wanted to do. The one thing I didn’t was because the lightning pass didn’t work correctly was Tower of Terror. It was late and i had late dinner reservations and tried to do it before dinner. Didn’t have time to rectify it. We were able to visit Olga’s Cantina. Its a little expensive for a bar, but ita Disney. Everything is expensive. It was pretty good. and the DJ I made it back to the Hotel and I’m dead. Tomorrow is drive day as we’re driving to Miami from Orlando. I think we’re going to drop off our luggage before returning the car at the airport. I think someone said you can drop luggage to explore the city before boarding.

Got to ride it!!! Trip is complete!!!

I did, and it said “on file” on my reservation.

Almost lost it here.

Wow. I don’t recognize this place. Its been a while. Incoming photo dump. Its not too terribly crowded.

Words other than Sqeee aren’t available at this time.

1am and I’m finally at the hotel. I am sharing a two bedroom with a friend of mine and her boyfriend. Lots of little hiccups. Getting ready used to a rental. Its a volkswagen Jetta. My first car was a Jetta. Doesn’t feel similar at all. Big peeve. Its got Apple Play. But all the ports are USB C’s. Useless to me as all my lightning cables have USB As. That look way longer than it should. And the worst part is that it was all me. Administratively, i just walked to the parking lot and picked out a car and drove out. That was cool, Alamo. I get to the hotel. Can’t get the lock to my hotel to engage. Go back several times to no avail. Finally woke up my friend. Reason why the lock didn’t work. They engaged the deadbolt 🤬. Had to go to Walgreens because wife didn’t pack any hair products because she didn’t want them to spill in the luggage. Spent over a hundred bucks!!!!! Tired now, but at least i’m in Florida. Its hot here… Early and long day tomorrow. I’m coming for ya…

Boo Hiss. For some reason, my global entry does not have tsa precheck for some reason. Neither of us did. Not sure why as Global entry has the benefits of tsa precheck.. It could be because the airline can randomly dump the info. Fortunately there was no line at all so little delay. Obligatory wing shot. Still “on time” but at 7:38, I doubt we will pull out by 7:45, but they say we might be early so win win.

5pm update. My plane is in the air and scheduled to land on time. My flight is on time!!!! I’m about 15 minutes behind schedule but still within tolerance range. My expected arrival time at airport is 6:10. Plenty of time. Plus we have global entry. This is my wife’s first time using the tsa precheck. I specifically planned her application last year to take advantage of it on this trip. I’ve had it since 2021. Getting the appointment was difficult.

What I’m talking about is status matching. Both Wife and I are Diamond Plus on Royal Caribbean. Because i booked before 12/31/23 (I think thats the terms), i was able to match my status and get DBE. I applied and was approved and its on my addon. However, I did not know I had to do that for wife too as I thought it was per cabin, not per person. I submitted an application on Monday for her.

So this is 17 days worth of stuff! This little gadget is absolutely cool and a total impulse buy. It is a luggage scale. 9 bucks off of amazon. Easily weighed my bag and found it was slightly over 50 pounds.

FREE!!! So I packed my jacket as a just in case and the temps right now dropped to 54. I will probably have to break it out for the trip to the airport. As of now, flight is still on time!!!

Good Morning from Maryland. T - 2 days until boarding. 12 hours until flight time. As of now, on-time departure. Its a 737-800. Hmmmm. Wish me luck… We’re packed and ready to go. I still have to go to work, but i’m leaving early. Dobby is now suspicious.

The last time I was in Disney World was in 2011. I remember coffee being in serious short supply and the best I could get was that nasty Nescafe they were offering. I'm glad they have totally upped the coffee game. Love getting a sneak preview before my entry on Saturday. I just found out that Aerosmith Rockin Roller coaster is down on an extended refurbishment. Booo....Hiss....At least Tower of Terror is up.

T minus 2 days until departure. 4 days until boarding. Slight snag. I didn’t know I had to email Virgin to get my DBE for each of us. I did it for only me thinking it was per cabin, not per person. So if this works, that’s an additional $100 bar tab for my wife as well making the grand total $800.00!!! Considering I don’t drink and I was hard pressed to get my 5 drinks/day on Royal due to my Status, my wife will be pretty happy. I called this morning and they say they received the request and its in progress. Here’s hoping. We started packing. Someone keeps getting in our way. She is appropriately named Punk. She is a recent addition to our family only arriving in January. She has the flower of shame because she was recently spayed last week. Can I tell you that keeping her from jumping is impossible!!!!

You can guess I'm going to try and tag you with a picture of the Oasis from the Scarlet Lady. However, you guys leave at 4:30pm, so you're getting a head start in our race across the Atlantic. I don't think we leave until 6:00pm Not quite what we're doing, but I'm picturing it in my head.

Its very likely you'll just see a couple of threads of "Squeeee!!!!!!!!!"

I'm in that area of Silver Spring where Rockville zip code is across the street from me. I moved from Rockville in 2012 to my own place in Silver Spring. It was a 2 minute drive.

Never. Wife and I are die hard fans. We had planned for a big Disney trip in 2020, but, Covid derailed it and we never rescheduled. Rise of the Resistance IS the plan, among others. The problem is my wife does not really do rides, so most of Disney is kind of lost to her. Me on the other hand, I have no problem with most rides. The ONLY thing that gives me pause to get on a ride is whether or not I will get wet. I can get on the tallest, fastest roller coaster with no hesitation or fear, but "hey, wanna go on splash mountain?" I'm like

About 10 minutes from my house. I've lived in this area all my life.

My gut says that the hour change will be mitigated by the sea days itself. Unless you NEED to be up early, the fact that we don’t have anything pressed to be at least in the morning other then breakfast.

I've never splurged on a suite before. But getting my cabin for $1,850 is amazing. My 14 night to Greenland on Royal was $500.00 more and that did not include gratuities. Plus, the $600.00 bar tab on top of that, and $100-$200 additional with DBE because we were able to carry our status over from Royal. Well, maybe, because I screwed up and only applied for myself thinking it was for the whole cabin. I have already submitted it for my wife, so she should theoretically get it because I booked this before the cut off date. Way before. We shall see on that front.

One of the things I noticed is that Virgin seems to cater more to the short 4-5 day cruise as opposed to the longer ones. There are way more of the 4-5 night ones as oppose to 7-8, much less a 14 nighters like this one. I feel like with what Virgin has to offer, 4-5 seems very rushed. Kind of like seeing how Royal Caribbean is scheduling 3-4 nighters on Allure of the Seas. It feels way too much for the kind of stuff they offer. I'm excited. I got such a deal on this.

Hey Hey Hey!!! Stop stealing my idea!!! Dang, you're already there, that means I'm stealing your idea. I'm kind of doing the same thing as you are. No, I'm not on Oasis...I'm on Scarlet Lady!!!! I'm actually flying out on Friday and just doing Disney/Galaxy's Edge on Saturday before I board on Sunday. I thought about taking the brightliner, but i decided on renting a one way car rental, which ended up being cheaper than the brightliner plus, the rentals have a cruise shuttle from the airport. The idea of trusting a train i've never been on was a little anxiety ridden to me. I too am doing a live thread over there, but I'll keep my eye here just to say hi and wave. We might even be within visual range as we're going the same way. We're in Malaga and Valencia together, I think. @little britain can vouch for me as we were in Greenland together. She really added to my live thread on that cruise catching things that I missed. So we're kind of racing to Barcelona, huh. See you in Malaga maybe, or Valencia? 😄