UMTravels

Another forced march day.

• Bags out the door at 6
• In the lobby by 7 (luckily I’d bought food for breakfast the night before)
• By 8 we are on the McKinley Explorer (that would be a train)
• Rest and sight-see for four hours
• Afternoon free.

Picture of said train:

The disasters started before lunch.

Disaster number one — lots of faulty cardkeys, and no ice machines working

Disaster number two – lunch. No, we don’t serve wine. Ross’ comment “An opportunity to sell you something with a high mark-up and they are missing it?”

Disaster number three – dinner. No, the upscale restaurant on the property isn’t open yet for the season despite be told at lunch it would be

Disaster number four – off property choices, pizza, or the quality-lacking salmon bake

Disaster number five – dinner at the café on property. Gee – 4 of the 7 entrees on the menu are sold out at 7pm.Look, now they serve wine!

Disaster number six — wow, now they don’t have any power. Guess we’d better eat what is hot already. Ross went for the buffet – I went with the Prime Rib and the manager competed f glasses of wine (though I’m sure he only meant to comp the first two).

Gee – with no alarm clocks in the room, what do you think the chance of us getting a wake up call promptly at 5am – yes, 5am, for another forced march tomorrow. Will that be tommorrow’s disaster?

The McKinley Chalet Resort certainly isn’t really ready to be open.

Why do I feel a letter coming on…. “As a shareholder of your holding company, Carnival Cruise Lines, I have the following to share with you…..”

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