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UPDATE

they have aborted mission on our plane. 

bless united and their text messages. 

picture it:

j and i, sitting on bean bag sacks in terminal a, slumped against the wall and trying to determine if it’s worth fighting it all when we got a text that our gate had been changed. 

i JUMPED up and said, “let’s GO” and we sprinted away. 

like lights turning slowly on in a city, more and more of our fellow passengers received the message. but we were already sprinting away!!!!!

now we have queued up again and wait to get back on the plane. 

at this point i just want to get DOWN there. 

Posted
1 hour ago, SweetPea said:

I got your text just a bit ago and started texting you back, but was afraid I'd wake you

thank you for letting me text you!! everyone else was basically asleep when we were texting; and even though it’s just about 9, i’ve been up for a bit now. 

J is awake too but we’re both like 😣😳😰right now because i don’t think we can go back to sleep. 

i think it will be an early night tonight, even by my standards. 

Posted

okay time for some good news!!!! 

we had made two separate reservations but they couldn’t guarantee that we didn’t have to move until i spoke with the manager this morning. she graciously refunded the daily  resort fee for us because we checked in at 3:50am 😅  i told her we would decline housekeeping to the room as long as we could get a bunch of fresh towels. (you guys know how i am about towels and showers 🤣)

 

the beds are SO NICE. i wish we were sleeping on these beds all week long!!

i think we’ll try to get to the beach and snooze if we can. ☀️🕶️😴

Posted

some food pics for @OCSC Mike (and others). 

our breakfast was all included in our room rate!!

a quick note: sometimes when i book rooms and they have a breakfast included, i am underwhelmed by the spread so i usually pick the non-food rate. its not that it’s bad, but it typically winds up being that i’d rather take the 10-15 pp and put it into groceries from publix where i know we can get what we want and like.  

however, past-ali decided that since we were spending two nights, this night would have the breakfast included so we didn’t have to worry about it. my game plan was - late breakfast, snacks if needed, and early dinner and we would have our meals covered. tbh i think it was only an extra $10 pp with it included.

and it was PHENOMENAL.

by the way — maybe the best avocado toast i ever had. 😍

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there is a nice rooftop pool but limited seats — and we didn’t make it up there til after 11 as we are moving SLOW today — so we trekked over to the beach. it’s windy but better than being at home.

i have my inflatable pillow and my cold brew and my water and life is good. 

if we can catch a couple Z’s, i’d be thrilled. 💚

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20 minutes ago, asquared17 said:

and it was PHENOMENAL.

Current me is thanking past Ali for making that decision because those picture look absolutely delicious.

Current me is also glad that I just ate my lunch before reading this because otherwise I would be starving right now and have to make all of those things to make my belly happy. 

Are those chopped pistachios on there?

Damnit....now I want a pistachio latte...see what I mean!

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Just now, asquared17 said:

Y E S !!!! 🙌🏻🙌🏻🙌🏻🙌🏻

they were SO PERFECT and they put them on the yogurt parfait too!! 

Thought so! I love pistachios on things like that. Adds a nice crunch, and they taste so good. 

Now I'm definitely heading out to get a latte.

Posted

I am so glad you and J are safely there and enjoying something after that ordeal. Those breakfast potatoes are calling to me hard. It is nice to see that the breakfast is a silver lining and that you at least got a little something based off the fact that the flight ruined one of your hotel stays.

I hope the beach is beaching hard today. 

Plus, tomorrow is cruise day in a CLS. Also, you get to see Dan and Raye 💜🥰.

Posted
1 hour ago, GregD said:

Damnit....now I want a pistachio latte...see what I mean!

1 hour ago, GregD said:

Now I'm definitely heading out to get a latte.

25 minutes ago, GregD said:

@asquared17

Even got a little something for @TheBoss518

 

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this was a compelling story from start to finish 🤣 i am glad to have inspired your choices!!!! and @TheBoss518 also gets to benefit 💚

13 minutes ago, Ampurp85 said:

Those breakfast potatoes are calling to me hard

they were DELICIOUS. 

13 minutes ago, Ampurp85 said:

It is nice to see that the breakfast is a silver lining and that you at least got a little something based off the fact that the flight ruined one of your hotel stays.

agreed!! and the hotel is really nice. we are happy, it ticks all of our boxes. it has a lot of fun quirks and character and even though the AC is one of the wall units, its quiet and we never heard it go on or off in the night. 

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around 12:45, we fled the beach after an hour and diverted to el vez to kill some time. my neck has been killing me since i woke up this morning so i thought, what the heck. let me throw some tequila at it and see if it eases up

(i'm not entirely sure that it did, but it certainly tasted great going down.)

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frozen blood orange margarita on tap. (i forgot to ask for salt 😔)

we also tried their verde guacamole in my attempt to avoid onions. 

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spoiler alert…. the onions were in the guac too, but because it took 20+ mins to get said guac, they comped it! 😊 we didn’t even ask!

the crispy ribbons on top are crispy lemon rind!! so unusual and tasty 😛

 

after el vez, we headed back to the rooftop pool to see if we could find any seats with sun. we found a corner tucked away with a loud speaker playing hideaway beach esque music. i definitely caught at least 30-45 mins of sleep — not necessarily continuous, but certainly solid. i no longer feel like my head is going to roll off my body 😂

we got some NICE sun moments which made us happy. 

just made a dinner reservation for later and we’re firming up our plans for the morning. i think tonite will be a much better night 😊

Posted
6 minutes ago, WAAAYTOOO said:

Were you able to do your health questions ?  I can’t get it to work.  It keeps telling me that check in is closed.  Oh well…they will ask me tomorrow in person, I guess.

See you in the Suites preboarding lounge !

yes we did ours around 12 today - i completed mine and j’s. 

YES in the preboarding lounge!! 😍

4 minutes ago, WAAAYTOOO said:

Actually, it tells me that check-in has checked out. 😡

oh no!!!!

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