I wish it had been day lightwhen we arrived, because the resort is supposed to be quite beautiful.

First time EVER we left for a week's vacation alone and didn't have to worry about a kids' whereabouts while we were gone.  Or the dog's whereabouts for that matter.  We will fly into Orlando, pick up a rental car and then head to Disney's Kidani Village resort near Animal Kingdom (Scott's birthday present to me a savannah view and I'm hoping to have my morning coffee on the balcony looking eyeball to eyeball at a giraffe…).  We'll spend three nights there, we'll see Jake for dinner wine country tour packages Wednesday night, then Jake will join us on Friday and get us into the parks with his Magical Cast Member Pass.  Friday wine country tour packages we will move to our Hilton timeshare at Seaworld.  Saturday is our first ever (and last) parents weekend at UCF, we are looking forward to tailgaiting with Jake's Christian fraternity and going to the football game.
We have an uneventful wine country tour packages trip to Midway, except Scott observed we both had African Safari type outfits on; he had a khaki animal/fish print shirt on and I was all in kahki too, only my shirt looked even more like a safari shirt. Totally appropriate for checking into an Animal Kingdom resort!  Scott found a highly recommended park and ride on 47 th .  Have to say they were Johnny on the Spot getting wine country tour packages us to the airport from our car.  It was just about noon when we started through the security line.  I had my stuff spread out into 5 bins and was kind of hovering beside them, the iPad was in the last bin and the man standing behind me had his hand resting on the bin.  Scott was next in line to walk through the Magic Door when the security agent there held his hand up to indicate stop, and explained that we were stopping for a ceremony to honor those who lost their lives on 9/11. So we all stopped, stood with our hand over our hearts and sang the National Anthem barefoot facing an honor guard standing at attention in front of us.  About 100 or so uniformed wine country tour packages police and fire fighters wine country tour packages had filed in and stood at attention for the ceremony.  The guy behind me with his hand on my iPad bin started mumbling; turns out he was just really nervous about missing his flight.  Donning our shoes and gathering our possessions we were through security.  We had lunch at Harry Caray's then headed to our gate only to find that our flight had been delayed.  We ended up leaving at 2:45 instad of 2:30 and even though we had a stop in Nashville where everyone but three of us got off and 55 came on board, we were still landing in Orlando right on time.
The Thrify Rental Car desk had a long line, it was the only line in the entire airport, the place was pretty empty.  Thrifty should be renamed wine country tour packages "Pokey".  Anyway, wine country tour packages Scott declines every possible add on they could make us pay for, read us the warnings not one but twice about how much fines are if we don't pay a toll, he signed multiple documents stating that he agreed to whatever they warned us about, and then we are finally in the mid-size SUV aisle picking out a vehicle.  We have a choice of two Jeep Liberty's both with black seats, and a white Ford Escape wine country tour packages with a light interior.  We go with that one.  But we discover that the passenger side rear door has a very bad scrapey sound when it is opened and closed, like it has been hit and not repaired properly.  We note it on our contract, just in case.  And we are off!  Scott comments wine country tour packages that the vehicle reminds him of the one in the famous OJ Simpson chase footage.  We are hungry and thirsty, especially Scott.  Perhaps that is why he accidently got into a Sun Pass lane and blew through a required toll.  We can almost hear the Thrifty agent saying "I told you so" because we didn't sign up for the toll package he was trying to sell us and we refused to buy.  We stop at a Winn Dixie so Scott can get their special lemon cookies that he loves.  Except they have stopped making them.  This is something that could potentially ruin our trip. He pulls it together, we get a minimal amount of food and head to the resort.
I wish it had been day lightwhen we arrived, wine country tour packages because the resort is supposed to be quite beautiful.  And because it was hard to find.  We get to the Animal Kingdom Resort, are told "Welcome wine country tour packages Home" because it is a Disney Vacation Club resort and they assume that everyone coming in is a DVC owner.  Only we rented someone else's points to get here but they don't know that, so we are greeted as owners and we just say hello! right back at em.  I thought they were supposed to say "Jambo!" which means welcome home in African but oh well.  We are given directions at the gate that Kidani Village is ahead "at the end of the road". wine country tour packages We start off "down the road" and travel for a really long time without seeing anything but access roads.  When we thought we had missed it, there it was, truly at the end of the road, past the construction and detour signs.  Beautiful lobby, nice easy check-in, off-season and not a lot of people.  Scott had been able to do an online check-in and requested wine country tour packages a 3 rd floor room overlooking Sunset Savannah.  We are in the wing close to the pool but quite a hike to anything else (at lest it looks like that from the map).  We grab a frozen pizza from the little gift shop place and then we have to backtrack down the dark road, find the Rafiki self-parking area which is under the resort.  We take everything up in the Rafiki wine country tour packages elevator and find our unit.
Wow.   It is beautiful.  We have a one-bedroom unit with a huge balcony overlooking a very promising savannah.  The colors are warm and rich, albeit a tad dark.  We have two bathrooms, one of which is cavernous with an enormous Jacuzzi tub and an equally enormous glassed in shower.  While the pizza is baking we track down Jake and plan an early dinner with him on Wednesday. wine country tour packages We check up on all our social networking (hotmail, gmail, twitter, facebook, etc. etc.) and unpack a little. wine country tour packages That is when I discovered that my bottle of liquid wine country tour packages soap came open and filled the inside of my brand new never been used before toiletry kit, and everything in it is now coated with a slick film of liquid soap.  I unloaded every single item (man that thing can hold a lot!), washed off everything, and then started cleaning up the kit.  It is a big kit, that zips, folds, unfolds, wraps, lots of zippered and netted compartments.  I have soap suds up to my elbows, I mean everywhere.  It will take a lot of rinsing to get the soap out of this baby.  I finally just hang it over the tub and will tackle it again tomorrow.
We watched a documentary about 9/11, actually wine country tour packages several really good ones, on the History channel.  No decision is actually made about our plans tomorrow, beyond me hoping to get up close and personal with a giraffe while I am having my morning coffee.  All this traveling wears us out and we head to bed.  Jambo!