Day 1 (Thurs May 17th): Departure!
Everything turned out really smoothly on our departure day. We left our house for the drive to my parents place around 9:30 am, where we were meeting them, my brother and Melissa, my grandmother, and my aunt. We were all flying together.
Since Mike and I drive a Mini Cooper S, we obviously were not taking our car to the airport (lol) so we took my parents 2 cars, and Mike drove us to Buffalo.
Mike in the car, on the way to Buffalo
Me in the car
My brother Nick and his GF Melissa in the car
In case you are wondering, often times people who live in the area between Toronto and Niagara will fly out of Buffalo instead of Toronto, because it is soooo much cheaper. It's a long story as to the reason why, but Pearson (Toronto airport) is the most heavily taxed in the world and that sends rates soaring. Buffalo is only an hour and a half drive from us, so when going to WDW we usually fly out of there.
Of course my bag was overweight (how it could it not be, going for 2 weeks and a wedding!) so after sucking up that $65 charge we were on our way.
We flew AirTran and everything was fine. We arrived in Orlando 2.5 hours later around 5:30.
Mike and I were staying at the Beach Club for the first 5 nights of the trip. We chose this because we wanted that time before the wedding mostly to ourselves and because of it's proximity to the Boardwalk where we were marrying. So we took the magical Express to the Beach Club and the rest of my family was off to the Coronado Springs.
We just unpacked, relaxed, and got re-acquanited with Stacey on our first night. We were so tired and fell asleep pretty early.
Highlight of the day: Uncrustables sandwiches! We don't have these in Canada and Mike and i got addicted to them on our last trip. Yum!