I should probably start with our trip to Florida itself. We drove to Las Vegas early on Saturdat the 8th of May. Just me and Mike. We were able to meet with Donna at the Southwest Airlines ticketing counter for just a few brief minutes. She was kind enough to bring us some chocolate. From Germany! Really good stuff. And it was fun to see her for just a minute. She , her girls, and Robert are going to get to visit with Mom and Dad in Cedar City for Mother's Day weekend. I won't be there. :-(. But we did visit and had an early Mother's Day the previous Sunday and have a nice turkey dinner with Mom and Dad.
Back to our Florida vacation! We flew out of Las Vegas, flew Southwest and got to sit together on the second flight, but not the first. We had one stop in Milwaukee, and arrived in Orlando in the early evening. We had a car reserved. The line for our car reservation was behind about three hundred other people! It was absurd. Needless to say, we did not stay in a 2 hour PLUS line just to be told there were no cars. Mike was proactive and went and found another rental agency. Now, if I could just get my money back from the reservation Priceline / Budget rentals. Their site clearly states no refunds, but we would have been happy to give them our business. Having a 3-hour line is not good customer service. We shall see.
The hotel we are staying at is the Parc Soleil Hilton vacation Club. We did manage to find it with a little help from out Google Lady on my phone. It is gorgeous. Mostly, the air conditioning is glorious.:-)
We spent our first day at Disney Hollywood Studios. We got the best parking spot possible in the open lot. I mean, right on the end, closest to the sidewalk! We were ecstatic. We got Mike a electric scooter for him to ride around the park and save steps. We headed first to the Tower of Terror and had a long 40 minute wait in line. But it is a moving line, and he was able to stay in his scooter for most of it. This is Disney. The lines are long, they're inside, there are fans, some of it is air conditioned. And Mike loves to visit with people in the lines. The people behind us we're college students and she had not been on this ride before. She was really scared about going on it, so Mike just encouraged her to continue to be scared. Haha. But we all enjoyed it.
Disney has done a good job socially distancing people. I think the cars on those Elevator Shaft rides held fewer people than the ones in Disneyland California overall. But with social distancing, there were even fewer! I think we only had five to seven people on that entire car. It could probably do 24 at full capacity.
We wandered around, we rode roller coasters, we experienced the new Star Wars area. I cannot remember what it is called, but it is really cool. We ate our lunch there. It was hot, over ninety degrees outside, but we were surprised that there is a cooling breeze! I expected it to be very hot and muggy. It is hot, and it is muggy, but the breeze definitely helps. And being at inside lines that are air conditioning. We also decided to take a little rest and watched a silly 3D Muppet Movie, just to wait for lunch and enjoy the air conditioning and sit comfortably. We did not get to get into the Star Wars rise of the resistance experience/attraction. There were only two slots for virtual lines, and I missed them both. But it's okay! We got to see and do a lot of stuff, and we had a lot of fun. I think we are easing into it gradually.
We left the park today before we were totally exhausted and worn out. Our feet weren't aching, but we were getting tired, so it was time to go. Then we enjoyed air conditioning comfort in a grocery store, stopping to pick up items that we will need for our meals here in our room. And our room is lovely! We have a one bedroom suite at this Hilton, there are pools, hot tubs, we have a full kitchen. And I think we are going to enjoy ourselves here!
You cant really tell, but we got to park on the end of a row, right by the sidewalk. It's the little things.
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