Thursday's List: Check out of hotel #1, Check into hotel #2 (room not ready), Check into hotel #3 (room ready but none of us are staying in it), wash existing dirty clothes (to prevent clean underwear dilemma), get on internet (because it's now free/included in room rate); make plans for lunch-then change plans four times, go to hotel #2 (because now room is ready and we're staying in it), unload car, park car in next county because that's where self parking is, get map and find room that is apparently located in no-man's land; start process of taking Steve to play golf only to discover once outside that room keys and phone are still in room (but Maribeth is in connecting room so I can bang on her door to let me in and get needed cards), take Steve to golf, call Maribeth to check on Sam/Lynnette/Lindley's flight and find out they're on time only to get call from Maribeth two minutes later that they're actually at 10,000 feet which means they're landing one way or the other, speed to airport stopping long enough in 7-11 parking lot to grab carseat from back and secure it in car, return to speeding to airport while saying mean things about slow dump truck and stupid people who have never driven to the airport and did not realize that there are signs that don't require stopping the car in the middle of the road to read, pick up Sam/Lynnette/Lindley and speed back to hotel because Lindley is first not happy because we cannot stop on the turnpike for her to go the pool (which is actually an alligator-infested swamp) and then to hide her dismay she decides it is nite-nite which means nap which as any parent knows is golden and is never to be ignored, then arrive at hotel trying to explain why I want to valet the car even though the parking tag says "Ogle" and my room key says Steve and I am neither, calling Maribeth to set up crib NOW, get Lindley and Lynnette into elevator and to room, wait for Sam to check in and be confused because LingLing the reception person asked if Sam had checked in online which technically Sam had but because physically it had been done by someone else (me) Sam did not know this thereby confusing both LingLing and Sam and LingLing wanting Sam to sit down to go over packet which if you've been to Disney as many times as we have really isn't necessary, then once the S/L/L group is in the Ogle room yet unpacked in the S/L/L room Maribeth and I return to the other within walking distance room to check facebook in time to wait for Steve to catch a cab back to the hotel to wait for Lindley to wake up so we can go watch for boats and eat dinner then go back to S/L/L room to wait for the Ogles and later Ann and even later Molly to arrive.
Hopefully, LingLing has already gone home by then.
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Today's blessings: Everyone's safe arrival for a weekend of Disney family fun!!
