Today was our travel day to the World. We boarded the Suburban (aka "The Big Beige Burb") at Teresa's place in Hattiesburg around 7am and made it to the World around 8pm. That's including about two hours of non-driving time and a time change, so we made pretty good time actually.
This trip was pretty much like any other road trip to the World with my grandparents. We hit all of our usual "spots" (The Burger King in Mobile, the Florida Welcome Center and the Rest Area on I-10 just past Tallahassee) including dinner in Ocala. This time we went to Outback, which wasn't too bad I have to say. We also had a little bit of drama with a RedBox machine, but I won't get into that.
For the most part, things were pretty calm. Since we left from a different location, we didn't have to pass by the Coast, so we were spared the Katrina and Camille horror stories. We of course we got the run down of the toll road situation (apparently you have to pay a toll to use a toll road... That's why they're called till roads) and we heard the "this used to all be orange groves but the freeze killed them" story for the one hundred millionth time.but all in all every thing went smoothly.
We checked into Pop Century around 8:00. It doesn't seem to be that crowded. Some interesting thing to note...
It looks like they have redecorated the rooms in the preferred rooms in the 60s section. It's really nice. They've included an big screen HD TV, new carpeting and a curtain separating the vanity and the bedroom. Very nice! I'll include some pictures in my picture follow up post after the trip.
Also... $14.45 for the effin' refillable mugs??? They must have lost they're damn minds!!! So totally reusing all mugs and even paper cups at this point. I used to be against that, but to hell with that! They're robbing us blind with that scheme!!! Be prepared for a rant post on this topic in the very near future.
Well that's it for me now... Getting up tomorrow morning for our first day of Park touring at the Magic Kingdom!
2 comments:
Glad the trip was nice. Yep they are killing us on those mugs.
I read an article to that there will be new signs going up. That remembering Walt is a thing of the past and it will now be Disney World not Walt Disney world.
Orange you glad you made it there in one piece?
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