The bad news is that our trip was over. We had a flight out at 7am from MCO! Flight times were not ideal but since it was summer time I knew that it wouldn't really matter to us. We had 3 choices, leave at 7am and have about 4 hours and a half hours travel time. Leave at 9am and have almost 11 hours travel time, or leave at 9 pm and have around 8 hours travel time. To me it was no option. We are morning people anyways and any time you have kiddos the lowest travel time is ideal.
I had talked to Tony Hinds, our driver the day before and he said that the security delays in the airport were awful so we left our hotel at 3:30am! EEK!
I had done 95% of the packing the day before while the kids played in the pool with Sam so we didn't need to much prep time in the morning.
Sam and the kids ran down to get a luggage cart while I finished all of the last minute packing. They all mentioned how pretty Cabana Bay was in the dark. I was afraid that the kids would be hard to get up but they were troopers. The pic above was taken when they got back with the cart.
We hung out in the lobby waiting for our ride and took a few more pics around the dark empty hotel.
One last look at the wonderful lazy river.
They were pretty spunky for before dawn!
Mr. Hinds is always on time and I will brag on his service one more time!
We had an uneventful ride to MCO where we checked our bags and got in the most horrible line for security. We were crammed in line like cattle for what seemed like forever. B's carry-on got flagged for a search. I was kind of embarrassed when they opened it and all that it contained was stuffed animals and fudge that we bought to give Grandad as a gift and a few other items that we didn't want lost or squished. The fudge which was bought in cubes in a box apparently looks like C4 on the scanner.
I was glad that we got to the airport so very early. I hate to worry about being late...I am never late!
I will share the airport muffins that we bought as a warning to others. Only 2 places were open before 7am. One was McDonalds and the other wasn't a chain. The McDs was totally cram packed so we grabbed muffins from the other place.
One was apple and the other was chocolate chip.....neither was eatable. They were raw in the middle but somehow managed to be dry and tasteless. We tossed these.
We had an uneventful flight to Dallas and then another back to Amarillo. An hour and a half more in the car and we were home.
Neither kiddo napped, lol, but they did go to bed early that night.