BelleKP
09-11-2009, 06:45 AM
So I couldn't sleep a wink . . . I'm just exhausted, tossing and turning. I dose on and off, but by 5am I decide 'what's the point?' and I get out of bed to get ready to make my ADR's. :surf:
Let's just say, this was probably NOT a good idea!! I decide to take a fellow Intercotee's suggestion (thanks again Sam) and get all my restaurants waiting in tabs so I'll be ready to go when the time comes. But something is not right . . . my Internet is not working!!!!!!!!!!! WHAT!?!?!:eek:
I of course begin to panic right away . . . my DH is away on business, and although I'm pretty computer savy, he does this for a living and it's comforting to have him around to help with stuff like this . . . especially when I'm already panicking. So I begin to go through the process of self diagnosis . . . I restart the computer . . . nothing! I restart the wireless . . . nothing!! I attach a land cable . . . nothing!!!!! :badpc:
Okay now I'm really freaking out! So I pick up the phone to call DH, in Halifax (remember it's 5:30am here now, and therefore 4:30am there!!) . . . the PHONE is DEAD!! :jaw: (A little lapse in my skills here, as we have digital phone, so if the internet isn't working, and it's not the wireless, then our phones are down too . . . I didn't think of this in the moment)
So I quickly go and grab my cell phone . . . . DEAD!!!! I didn't plug it in last night to charge the battery!! :bang: I plug it in immediately, hoping it will have enough power in a few minutes to call DH.
Can anything else go wrong? Meanwhile, throughout all this I continue to try on the computer, and seems as though it's cutting in and out . . . I get as far as getting our first ADR into the cart and it cuts out again.
Now for no explicable reason . . . it starts to work, consistently . . . so with baited breath, I start to open up all my restaurant pages. This is at 5:50am . . . 10 minutes and counting. I decide at this point that I should call DH anyway and have him on standby (although at this point I'm wondering if ADR's are really supposed to be this stressful . . . and maybe I should just go back to bed), so I pick up the phone to call DH . . . his cell is off!! Seriously?!?!?! Seriously!! :shake: I don't have the hotel number as it was a last minute job and really didn't think much of it . . .
So I have to go it alone . . . at 5:55am I hit refresh on my first page and the race is on!!!
And you know what . . .
I GOT EVERY SINGLE ADR WE WANTED!!!
. . . even 'Ohanas!
Here is the list of our ADR's . . .
Kona
Crystal Palace (before park opening :cloud9: )
Spirit of Aloha
Prime Time
Tepan Edo
Boma
Akershus
1900 Park Fare
Chef Mickey's
'Ohanas!!!
I wish I could say I was heading back to bed . . . but it's now 6:30am and the phone lines open at 7 . . . I still have CP Pacakge to book, BBB for DD5 and a Segway tour for DH's birthday present!! Might as well do it all now, before DD 5 months wakes up!!
All's well that ends well! Thank you for reading my tale! Is there a moral? I don't know . . . maybe that some things are just not worth stressing out over! :D
Let's just say, this was probably NOT a good idea!! I decide to take a fellow Intercotee's suggestion (thanks again Sam) and get all my restaurants waiting in tabs so I'll be ready to go when the time comes. But something is not right . . . my Internet is not working!!!!!!!!!!! WHAT!?!?!:eek:
I of course begin to panic right away . . . my DH is away on business, and although I'm pretty computer savy, he does this for a living and it's comforting to have him around to help with stuff like this . . . especially when I'm already panicking. So I begin to go through the process of self diagnosis . . . I restart the computer . . . nothing! I restart the wireless . . . nothing!! I attach a land cable . . . nothing!!!!! :badpc:
Okay now I'm really freaking out! So I pick up the phone to call DH, in Halifax (remember it's 5:30am here now, and therefore 4:30am there!!) . . . the PHONE is DEAD!! :jaw: (A little lapse in my skills here, as we have digital phone, so if the internet isn't working, and it's not the wireless, then our phones are down too . . . I didn't think of this in the moment)
So I quickly go and grab my cell phone . . . . DEAD!!!! I didn't plug it in last night to charge the battery!! :bang: I plug it in immediately, hoping it will have enough power in a few minutes to call DH.
Can anything else go wrong? Meanwhile, throughout all this I continue to try on the computer, and seems as though it's cutting in and out . . . I get as far as getting our first ADR into the cart and it cuts out again.
Now for no explicable reason . . . it starts to work, consistently . . . so with baited breath, I start to open up all my restaurant pages. This is at 5:50am . . . 10 minutes and counting. I decide at this point that I should call DH anyway and have him on standby (although at this point I'm wondering if ADR's are really supposed to be this stressful . . . and maybe I should just go back to bed), so I pick up the phone to call DH . . . his cell is off!! Seriously?!?!?! Seriously!! :shake: I don't have the hotel number as it was a last minute job and really didn't think much of it . . .
So I have to go it alone . . . at 5:55am I hit refresh on my first page and the race is on!!!
And you know what . . .
I GOT EVERY SINGLE ADR WE WANTED!!!
. . . even 'Ohanas!
Here is the list of our ADR's . . .
Kona
Crystal Palace (before park opening :cloud9: )
Spirit of Aloha
Prime Time
Tepan Edo
Boma
Akershus
1900 Park Fare
Chef Mickey's
'Ohanas!!!
I wish I could say I was heading back to bed . . . but it's now 6:30am and the phone lines open at 7 . . . I still have CP Pacakge to book, BBB for DD5 and a Segway tour for DH's birthday present!! Might as well do it all now, before DD 5 months wakes up!!
All's well that ends well! Thank you for reading my tale! Is there a moral? I don't know . . . maybe that some things are just not worth stressing out over! :D