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Downtown Disney Trip…

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Eva in her Stroller

Last night Allison, Eva, Marcia, Dan and I went to Downtown Disney for a few hours. After we left IZEA we went to the hotel and then got Dan and Marcia and Allison and Eva settled. We made a quick turn around and headed out to Downtown Disney.

When we got there we started looking for a place to eat. We tried Cap’n Jack’s Restaurant but the wait was 2 /12 hours. And that was at around 4:30pm. So it was busy already. It didn’t look busy though, no line or anything. Must have been many people who made reservations. Well, since we were going to look around anyway I ran over to the pin shop to get a special edition Bike Week 2008 pin and a Leap Day 2008 pin featuring Tinkerbell. This will be Eva’s first pin.

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Dinner was sandwiches at Earl of Sandwich. This worked out very well as they were fairly light, not too expensive, tasty and fast. We also hit some sort of lull in the chaos because we were able to get a seat, place our orders and eat before the crowds got too huge.

After that we walked all over Downtown Disney. We stopped in many different shops and Mimi and Grandpa Dano picked up a few things for Eva. She has some new bibs, socks and a book called the Art of Pooh. Which probably is more for Allison than Eva right now.

We had a great time and I took many photos. The sky was pretty amazing over The Fulton’s Crab House Steamboat.

Here are some more photos.

Sunset Sky at Downtown Disney
Travel

U.S. Scare changes Dividend Miles Program…

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I received an email today from U.S. Scare. It seems that the rising prices of fuel has caused them to cut back on certain things and now instead of getting 500 miles minimum per segment you will receive the actual miles flown. This is an effort to ‘provide valuable benefits to our frequent flyers’. Um, what benefits are they providing us with. It thought that the least they could do was give a minimum of 500 miles per segment flown. Now that is being rescinded as of March 1st. So any tickets purchased after March 1st will earn the actual miles flown.

This personal sucks for me because I fly to and from every Podunk little town in the country because the expense of a direct flight is to high. I enjoyed actually earning something from the airline in the form of frequent flyer miles. Now I will get nothing extra, no little perks like extra miles, because let’s face it there are no perks left on airlines.

Another change to ‘provide valuable benefits to our frequent flyers’ is the assessment of a quick ticketing fee. They state: ‘Members redeeming miles for award travel online within 14-days of departure will be assessed a quick ticketing fee of $50 per ticket.’

So not only do you have to fly a minimum of 25,000 miles on their buses with wings you also have to pay an additional fee to use those miles that you earned in the first place.

The explanation for the changes comes down to this sentence. ‘We’re making these changes to offset record fuel prices and rising airline related expenses while maintaining the benefits you’ve come to expect.’ Here is what I have come to expect from air travel.

  • Cramped outdated planes
  • Dirty crowded planes
  • Less flights
  • Late flights
  • Canceled flights
  • Surly crew
  • Samsonite Apes tossing luggage
  • Increased fees
  • Decreased service
  • No customer service
  • No accountability

So, thanks U.S. Scare for making sure that you continue to ‘provide valuable benefits to our frequent flyers’. Really means a lot, like a kick in the nuts means a lot.