It’s TIME!!! No, not for annual passes…I already bought those last week. It’s time for our second trip of four planned for 2023. And we bought Universal Annual Passes several months ago, when Disney still hadn’t decided they needed to bring theirs back yet. So dual passes make for an awesome trip!
My sister is my travelling buddy. We are two forty somethings who love to be childish and eat SO MUCH FOOD for a week. My kids don’t like that I leave them at home all the time but school comes first. And they got to come a couple years ago for a Christmas trip. That was awesome! We will be staying at Pop Century the entire week. Admittedly, we’ve not stayed here before but I’m intrigued. And we drive a rental everywhere…to make travels easy.
I will try to make it as live as possible, but I haven’t done a trip report on the past couple of trips for a reason. I love putting my phone in my pocket and never getting it back out again. Yes, that means we don’t do Genie+ but who needs it?
This is our fourth Flower & Garden Festival in the past 5 years and we are big foodies so you’ll be seeing a ton of food picks. Here’s the plan for the week:
Saturday 4/29
6:45 AM CDT flight from the brand new KCI terminal (just opened about a month ago)
12:45 EST land in MCO
Straight to MK where we hope that I was strategic enough to grab a late afternoon VQ for Tron at the airport that morning (I’m really good at getting early morning VQ but can I delay it just long enough to hit that sweet spot?)
Tron (if successful) with an ADR at Tony’s @ 3:15 and staying as long as we can possibly stay awake
Sunday 4/30
Ohana Bfast @ 8:25 am
Universal Parks for the day
Boma dinner @ 7:40 pm
Monday 5/1 & Tuesday 5/2
All the Epcot we can handle
Food from everywhere around the park and festival
Behind the Seeds Tour @ 4:30 pm on Tuesday
Wednesday 5/3
Topolinos Bfast @ 7:50 am
Universal Parks for the day
After Hours at HS
Hollywood Brown Derby @ 7:40 pm
Stay til they kick us out at 1 am
Thursday 5/4 (May the Fourth Be With You)
Universal Parks for the day
Ohana Dinner @ 8:05 pm
Friday 5/5 (Cinco de Mayo)
Epcot…again!!!
More foods and festival
Spice Road Table @ 1:00 pm
Avoid the Mexico Pavilion like the plague
Saturday 5/6
Early morning at MK hoping for another shot at Tron before…
Homecomin’ @ 11:30 am for brunch (always have to have a brunch)
Springs until we leave for airport
I didn’t overdo it, did I? I’m pretty sure we’re going to be dead by the time this is over, but hey, why not? Now to start the packing I haven’t even started yet. As they say, “Much to do, and less time to do it in.” And if you can name that movie quote (not Disney), you win!
So there’s a lot of drama going on with the baggage loading on this plane. Luggage was strewn everywhere at one point, the older lady was mad at the guy, and one other lady came by only to walk away with her head shaking. I making up my own soap opera here for entertainment.
So craziest thing…we had to stop in the middle of the taxiway because the lady directly in front of me refused to “hold it” until we got to the gate. Flight attendants didn’t stop her and just let her go. We couldn’t move again until she sat back down. Ugh!
Our last trip, we got to MCO early, but they didn’t have a gate ready yet. So we had to sit and wait. Half the plane took the announcement to remain seated as an invitation to line up at the restrooms.
I hope that woman had a true emergency or a condition that just did not permit her to wait. I have compassion for those situations. If not, that’s the type of entitled behavior I cannot stand.
Her reaction to the entire situation said probably not but I won’t assume. Just crazy… we’ve never had our plane stopped for a passenger’s behavior before. New experiences every day
