Sassy Bitches Take on the World - Girls Trip May 2023

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Sassy Bitches Take on the World!

May 2023

Lisa 53

Olivia 32

We have talked about taking a girl's trip for a very long time! We took one back when Olivia was eleven years old and Owen was a baby. And we always said we'd do it again but it never happened. I would feel bad to leave Owen out normally but he bought a house the month of our trip and was just moving in and getting settled so that really took a lot of the guilt of that away.

We had a lot of planning drama with the trip mostly due to leaving the kids at home. Olivia thought she had Brooke scheduled to babysit on her regular days and we were leaving on the trip on a Tuesday evening so they would just go to her house WTF that week and we'd fly home that weekend. However, Brooke wanted that week off to go on vacation too. That left us in a mess and finally we figured it all out. Brookes parents would take one day, Pam would take one day and Alan would work from home one day and have the Elders what them in the morning and he would watch them in the afternoon. Then Tim had the evenings and the weekend until we got back on Sunday.

One other problem we ended up having was Kevins T-ball! We thought the season didn't end until mid June but it ended the last week of May when we were gone! So, we missed TWO games (something we also weren't expecting and the final game too where they give out the medals.

All the moms Olivia knew told her to not worry about missing it because the medal ceremony is only a minute long and maybe not even that. Turns out Tim, the coach gave out the medals inside the dugout so no one really saw it very well at all. We will correct that next year if he coaches again.

We had also switched weeks at some point to go the end of May VS beginning of June in an effort NOT to miss the end of Tball and that didn't work out. What are the chances that not one single game was rained out!

Tuesday May 23rd

Ok, so after all the drama leading up to it, we finally were set to go. Alan is driving us to the airport and Kacie and Owen are riding down with us because they are going shopping at IKEA after they drop us off.

Olivia has teachers institute today (students last day was yesterday) from 8-1 and Alan worked from home this morning. At 1:00pm we drove over and picked up Owen and Kacie and then went and sat and waited in Olivia's driveway for her to arrive. Oh, also I had Kevin and Todd this morning and so at noon I took them over to the Elders after I had fed them lunch. Tim will pick them up after work before the Tball game. Actually, I think he just picked up Kevin and GMA watched Todd while they were all at the game since Alan, Owen, Kacie and even Pam weren't going to be at this game tonight to look after Todd.

We pulled out of Lib's driveway at 1:15 and got dropped at the airport door at 3:00 this is the best way to fly! Just get dropped at the door.

We got checked in and got rid of our send through bags and then went through security and we were sitting in a restaurant ordering food at 3:30!

I was starved because I hadn't eaten lunch. We split a sandwich and an order of nachos and Olivia had a drink. We spent $54 and I paid because she's going to pay for the uber when we arrive tonight. Also, Tim called her right after we ordered which I had been worried he would do nonstop the whole trip. He does it a lot when he watches the kids. Two calls so far and we aren't even on a plane yet) And she had talked to him about this before we left letting him know she will panic when she sees a call because he should only call if it's an emergency.

Well, the emergency today was that Kevin didn't want to go to his Tball game and Tim wanted her to talk to him. LOL

Ok, crisis averted we boarded and landed on time but it was storming pretty bad in Orlando and apparently all over because it was a very bumpy flight We had to sit on the plane and wait about 5 minutes before we could pull up to the gate to exit because it was lightening so bad the workers couldn't be outside to direct the pilot.

Once we got down to baggage claim there were people everywhere!! And they made an announcement that luggage cannot be unloaded from planes until the lightening is a certain distance away. I sat down on the corner of a seating area and the woman next to me said she had been waiting an HOUR! OMG! I forgot to mention we had a late flight already landing around 9pm.

Luckily, we only waited about 20 minutes for luggage and then we got our uber which we waited about 10-15 minutes for. He was very nice and friendly and it was still raining out. We arrived at the Beach Club at 9:48pm.

Ok, the Beach Club lets talk about it for a minute. This was pricey but we were splitting the cost of it and I went back and forth in my mind of if we should or shouldn't but #1 what are the chances this trip will ever happen again? #2 it's the end of May and this weekend coming up is Memorial Weekend so it will be HOT! We have never been to Disney at this time of year and we expect to MELT and spend a lot of time in the pool so the convince of this hotel and pool can't be beat. We are also planning to spend a lot of time at Epcot this trip to for Flower and Garden festival etc. So, we threw caution and good judgement to the wind and stayed at the Beach Club and we had ZERO regrets. The trip would have been good at Pop too but this was amazing and we really took advantage of our hotel.