I'd better stop because we feel we all have undergone enough

[sovay]

In fact, there is free wi-fi at the hotel. It took us seven hours to get here: Boston to Orlando by way of St. Louis, Birmingham, and a surprising quantity of screaming small children. (Who all got on for the last leg of the flight! Why?) It is immaterial; we had a splendid dinner at Emeril's (calamari with garlic-stuffed olives, andouille-crusted redfish for me and a mixed grill plate with short ribs and shrimp and risotto for derspatchel, a chocolate soufflé so decadent it could collapse whole empires single-handed and I'd had no idea Nocello was a thing I liked) and played goofy alien-themed mini golf on the CityWalk and now we are listening to YouTube videos of the dearly departed Adventurers Club and miscellaneous songs off the iPod Rob's just plugged into the bedside clock. I suspect we are not going to remain awake much longer. So far, trip: success.

Comments

[ap-aelfwine.livejournal.com]

I'm delighted you've safely got there.

Sorry about the screaming children. I've cousins in Birmingham, but their kids are all well behaved so I don't think it was any of them, at least.*

I wish you continuing trip success!

*And that's not a place where I've so many cousins that I'd lose track of a few.

[sovay]

I'm delighted you've safely got there.

The chances of falling out of the sky were small, but the danger of committing infanticide was, by the time we landed, higher than ideal.

[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

Now ... you're in Florida why? ("vacation" is an allowable answer, as is, "I'm sorry, that information is only available on a need-to-know basis")

[sovay]

Now ... you're in Florida why?

An imperative need for amusement parks and Rob's mother lives within driving distance.

[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

Such imperatives must not be ignored. Let me lay upon you an additional charge: to enjoy yourself thoroughly. I see that at least as of day one, you seem to be equal to the task.

[ckd]

BOS-STL-BHM-MCO? Where did you find that routing? That's an odd one even by my standards....

[sovay]

BOS-STL-BHM-MCO? Where did you find that routing?

Under the cheapest-ass tickets we could find from a major airline. By a significant percentage. The return trip, we only spend two hours between flights in St. Louis.

[ckd]

If you'd be okay telling me the details (flights, fares) at some point (IOW at your convenience :-), I'm interested in how it wound up being priced for both personal and professional reasons.

[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

BOS-STL-BHM-MCO

BEST POTENTIAL CURSE EVER! You have made me see the possibilities of city codes!

[ckd]

There are plenty of amusing ones, though Fukuoka (Japan) probably wins the "most offensive to Anglophones" award for having exactly the one you think it does.

[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

Hah!

[nineweaving.livejournal.com]

Have splendid adventures!

Nine

[sovay]

Have splendid adventures!

We are.

[kenjari.livejournal.com]

I'm glad you're having a great time (and hopefully enjoying good weather, too), and I hope that things continue along that path.
I suspect there are very few flights to Orlando that don't have an accumulation of screaming children. My sister and I once endured an 21-hour odyssey to Eugene, OR the last segment of which had us sitting behind a family with five young children, all returning from Disneyland. I spent most of that flight contemplating murder.

[sovay]

I'm glad you're having a great time (and hopefully enjoying good weather, too), and I hope that things continue along that path.

We woke up this morning and we can hear coasters. We're happy.

My sister and I once endured an 21-hour odyssey to Eugene, OR

How did that happen?

[kenjari.livejournal.com]

How did that happen?
Flight delays and long layovers, plus the time zone change, so that we got up at something like 4am and arrived at the U of O a little after midnight. And then a freight train went by the dorm at 2 am.

[clarionj.livejournal.com]

Sounds wonderful. :) Enjoy.

[sovay]

Enjoy.

Thank you.

[ashlyme.livejournal.com]

I'm glad that calamari trumps screaming kids! I wish you and Rob carousels.

[sovay]

I'm glad that calamari trumps screaming kids!

Oh, yeah. Even if you can't eat the kids.

I wish you and Rob carousels.

Ironically, the Dr. Seuss-themed carousel shut down for some kind of mechanical problem while we were waiting in line for it! But we got coasters. And things that spin.

[ladymondegreen.livejournal.com]

Hooray for renewing vacation! I hope it's all wonderful from here.

[sovay]

I hope it's all wonderful from here.

Thank you! It has so far been a wonderful day—and it started at nine o'clock! Those two phrases don't usually, as far as my schedule is concerned, go together.

[kdsorceress.livejournal.com]

a chocolate soufflé so decadent it could collapse whole empires single-handed

This is a beautiful and poetic line. It's worth noting that this is what I mean when I say I don't post comments nearly as often as I enjoy your writing, all my comments tend to just be drooling over your turn of phrase.

However, this particular instance does have the secondary goal of being jealous that you have gotten to mini-golf. It has been several years for me, and I miss it.

~Sor

[sovay]

It's worth noting that this is what I mean when I say I don't post comments nearly as often as I enjoy your writing, all my comments tend to just be drooling over your turn of phrase.

Nonetheless, thank you!

However, this particular instance does have the secondary goal of being jealous that you have gotten to mini-golf. It has been several years for me, and I miss it.

It was my first time ever. I sucked much less than I thought I would!