Dec 8th (official arrival)
We arrived at MCO around 6am. While leaving our plane we had to deal with someone who was a complete jerk-off on the plane. You know the type--someone who believes that they own the plane. Well, this guy start cursing and complaining of the fact that everyone was "being slow as hell." At this point, others started to chime in (including me), that there were children on the flight so he should watch his language, and others wanted to get off the plane just as bad as him. (I told the guy he was acting like a tool and should relax.) At this point, the guy stormed off the plane. We ran into this guy later, getting our luggage and for some reason he was acting fine--but his wife sure looked embarrased.
Our driver [Sunray Trasnportation] was there to met us immediately, we grabbed our luggage and he picked us up in a nice SUV. We had one of the co-owners as our driver. He was great! We would highly recommend Sunray Transportation, and we'll be definately be using them again. He made everything quick and painless, and he was early every time. We stopped at a grocery store (Albertson's--which was the only store open at this time), and we picked up some last minute items and headed towards POP. We we arrived at POP, I believe it was around 7:30am to 8am.
We left POP by 2pm to head towards the GF for our 3:30pm photo session at the GF. We took the monerail from MK, and we arrived around 2:45pm or earlier at the GF. The resort is absolutely beautiful. The one thing my DH noticed that their bathrooms was one of the most
dirtiest he's ever seen. He was pretty shocked by this. We explored the resort, and purchased our treats at the gingerbread store, and did our photo session. The photographer was very nice, but the pictures didn't turn out as well as I hoped it would be. DH and I looked worn out (which we were.)
After the photo session, we decided to go to DTD and try to change our tickets for Cirque du Soleil for another evening. While waiting for the bus for DTD, I called POP to check if our room was ready and it finally was (thank god.) We had plan to see it 6pm that night, but DH and I were definately not up for it. We took the bus to DTD from the GF. While walking alone, I recieved a call from The Dining Room at Wolfgang Puck's wanted to change our reservation to the WP Cafe section since they forgot they booked the entire restaurant to a wedding party and completely forgot. I decided to change the reservation (in case if we weren't able to change our tickets at Cirque de Soleil.) After much walking, we approuched the front desk of Cirque du Soleil and asked if we could change our tickets for another night. The CM could tell how exhausted we were, and were able to change our tickets without issue. I had picked out really nice seats, and unfortuately we couldn't get the seating we wanted. We still got great seats, but I'll go into that another time. From there, DH and I decided to skip our late ADR at WP Cafe and just eat at the WP Express and head back to POP since our room was ready.
We arrived at POP around 6pm to check into our room. Our room was 2303 (50's section, building B, third floor, facing the bowling pin pool.) If you walked down the hall, there was a very nice view of SSE. We checked into our rooms but our bags weren't there (which they told me on the phone our luggage would be there.)
Here is our room.
We called the front desk and the person was shocked since they though our luggage would have been there by now. They told it should be there shortly. 45 minutes later our luggage wasn't there. We called the front desk and they told us we should have our luggage next. Ten minutes later our luggage had arrived. We took a shower and finally crashed for our first day into the parks--MK!!!