Hello Sunshine State!

19^th June

I landed today. The flight was alright. One of the nicer ones I’ve been on.  It doesn’t feel real. We got to the hotel at about 4:30pm, after a slight panic at the airport. Everything was going swimmingly. Got through customs with ease, baggage was there as soon as I made my way to the conveyor belt, but then we had to put our baggage on another belt because it was too heavy to take upstairs. When we got to the other side of the airport, we had no clue where our luggage was. I had a mini internal freak out but luckily we found it in the end.

The hotel is really nice. I’m staying at the Buena Vista Suites. I have a little sitting room and a separate bedroom both with large flat screen televisions. The bed is comfy too. Oh and the staff are just so friendly.

After freshening up, Siobhan and I caught the free shuttle to Downtown Disney (DTD) and we ate at the Earl of Sandwich. I’ll write a separate post on that, for my food challenge (page still needs to be set up). The sandwich was deeelicious.

I love DTT. I’m going to try and restrain myself on purchasing all the amazing Disney merchandise. I’ve seen so many things I want. At this rate I’ll be starving myself to fund my Disney Merch buying habits. To be fair though, I didn’t buy anything because I’m waiting for the discount perk.

We were pretty tired so we went back to wait for the shuttle. The shuttle took us around all the parks to pick up other guests so it took us about an hour to get back. It actually wasn’t that bad. We got to see a tiny bit of Illuminations.

20^th June

Today I woke up at 4:30am. I think my body is still on UK time. I had a decent night sleep, before the wake up though. It still doesn’t feel real. I feel like I’m just on holiday (or should I say vacation, now that I’m across the pond?).

We went for breakfast at 8am.I had scrambled eggs, pancakes, a weird looking sausage and a slice of orange. It wasn’t too bad. Not a combination I’d usually pick. Then after breakfast settled, we went down to the pool for a bit.

I then went back to my room and skyped with my mum and dad for a bit. It was nice to see them and they seemed a lot happier now that they’ve seen I’m okay. I’m so grateful for skype. It makes communicating so much easier.

After that, we went to Walmart to look for a phone. Talk about completely overwhelming. Everything is so big, I couldn’t really soak it all in, so I’m going to try and write a shopping list before going so I don’t end up buying junk I don’t need. I did buy some cookies and a notebook though.

Back at the hotel, I had a skype session with Catrin and Susan and lazed about for a couple hours before heading out to dinner with Siobhan, Amanda, Meerah and Sarah. We went to an all you can eat buffet. I was overwhelmed yet again. I had some mac and cheese, rice, fried chicken and bbq drumstick. I barely ate it.

Tomorrow we’re heading for Vista Way to check in to housing. I’m quite excited, but equally apprehensive.

I’m also hoping to sort out my phone tomorrow. I hate not being able to use it. Well, I can use it, but with the consequence of extortionate charges.

I’m off to get some much needed sleep.

Night, Night.