I made it back from my 1st trip to WDW and what a great time it was!!
Saturday 10/30 - We all got off to the airport with no problems, despite the many bags we brought along!
However, we get to Orlando and are waiting for our luggage... and waiting.... and waiting.... and waiting...
It appears USAIR never put any of our bags on our flight!!!! Grrrrrrrrrr!
The only thing that they would tell us is that the belt broke (BS!) and they are down on staff!! (yeah, cutbacks from their bankruptcy action!). The next message we got was that maybe our bags might be on the next flight in from Philly due to arrive about 3pm or so (we arrived at 1:42pm)... so we wait, wait and wait again... while there are 5 flights coming in on this same carousel. It's almost 3:30 and our bags come up but not quite.... we got 3 out of 6 bags!!! My mom got all her things, and my daughter got her suitcase with her costumes in it. But her and I had no clothes or toiletries items. We wait around again because they said the bags could be coming up on the next flight, and they also suggested that we fill out a lost baggage claim which we did before the 3 bags had arrived.
We did that and waited a little longer till I was extremely fed up and we finally left. I found the Alamo ticket counter, grabbed the last car left and headed out to our hotel (it is now after 5pm and we had PS @ Ohana's @ 6:20pm). I race to the hotel, check in and bring our bags to the room and then head to the Poly for dinner. After taking a couple wrong turns and driving around the parking lot lookin for a space, we run to the podium @ Ohana's and it's a long line and 6:30pm!!
I told 1 of the guys what happened and they said no problem and we were seated after maybe a 10min wait!!!!
The food was all so good (1st meal we had all day and were also exhausted from our escapade at the airport). They had some food to start us out with, some delicious bread, salad, chicken wings, green beans, rice, and I forget what else then they brought out the skewered meats. Everything was good and my mom liked the food too!!! My DD ate the food with no problem too, what a relief!! They later brought out dessert, and I order a special dessert and my daughter did the coconut race and hula hoops.
After dinner, we visited the shops upstairs which had some great merch. then we walked outside towards the beach to catch the fireworks. It was 8:30pm and still warm!!!!
People were still in the pool!!!
We found a beach chair and watched Wishes!!! Even though we couldnt hear the music we had a great view of the fireworks and saw a little show on the water afterwards which was awesome too!!!!
We went back to our hotel and we got the rest of our bags 11:30pm!!!! Finally!!!