OMG! Disney world what fun-I will get to that in a bit!Chris and I left Sunday the 28th for Florida, the rest of his family was already down there and awaiting us! The weather could have used a bit of improvement but it wasn't bad. I did spend alot of time in jeans and a sweatshirt but I did make it to the beach one day (3 hours) so it wasn't all that bad! :)
For the first few days the fam and I kinda lingered around, Chris and I didn't have a car so we just went with the flow-which sometimes wasn't flowing but we did what we could. I don't remember which day, but one day we (Big Phil, Phil JR, Cody, Chris and I)went to the Yuengling beer factory. It was a nice tour, very laid back and at the end of it you got two free samples. I am not a beer professional but it wasn't bad. Chris loved it that was all he practically drank down there. 
The next day Chris and I went to the beach. We did some shopping a few days before and I found myself a new suit at Target-$8.00 for the whole thing! Awesome! Anyways, the sun was nice, the wind wasn't bad but it only lasted about 3-4 hours. Chris and I packed up and headed back for hoem for some showers and a Pirate Cruise. We went on the sunset pirate cruise, for 2 hours the ship took us out on the water, we saw dolphins, the sunset was covered but none the less gorgeous and it was all the beer you could drink! HELLS YEAH!!!
For New Years Eve the family headed to St. Petersburg for a festival they call First Night, its all non-alcoholic, but the bars that surround it don't follow those rules! The festival though was cool it had a live band, a drumline and fire works at midnight all by the edge of the water! Cody, PHil JR, Chris and I headed for some sight seeing and wound up in a bar called the Havannah or something like that. We stayed there until about 11:30 and booked it back to the rest of the family for the fireworks at midnight-very cool!
Cody, Me and Phil Jr enjoying some vino!New Years day Chris and I packed up and split from the group-we were headed for our Hotel in Orange City-12 miles from our airport but 40 miles from DISNEY WORLD!!!! We rented a car-nice 1210 Malibu really really nice! Of course I got us lost-I wasn't drinving but I got us lost so we were late getting to the hotel so once there we went right to bed because the next day was gonna be busy!!!
01-02-2010
At 8:41am Chris and I crossed the threshhold of Walt Disney World! in 12 hours and 8 minutes we covered three of the four parks and even did the Magic Kingdom twice! We started at the Magic Kingdom. We covered 4 of the 'areas' there, seeing nearly and doing nearly all there was to do at each area. I am NOT a roller coaster fan but I did go on the one next to splash mountain-which I also went on. I was a picture FREAK! But hey I had never gone before so hey live it up right?? From there we went to Epcot, that was really cool to do, kinda futuristick at certain points but not too bad. We had lunch in Japan,
grabbed a couple of beers and a pretzel in Germany, Kissed by the Neptune fountain in Italy and watched some Chinese acrobats in China. After touring the globe we did the Space something or other in the big Epcot globe do-dad. After Epcot we made our way to the Animal Kingdom, we were running out of daylight so we RAN to the Safari ride and caught one of the last busses going through it, you will see that the pictures aren't that great but hey I tried! We went down a water ride at Mount Kilamanjaro-it was starting to get really cold as the sun was setting. And Lastly at the Animal Kingdom, Chris wanted to go to Mount Everest-roller coaster. I was like what the hell-wrong decision! I was nauseated for 1 hour after I got off the damn thing! Augh Sucky! So we went back to the Magic Kingdom, I wanted to get some gifts for my nieces and nephews and Chris wanted to drive a racecar so we did that, took a bunch more pictures of the Castle and called it a day.
grabbed a couple of beers and a pretzel in Germany, Kissed by the Neptune fountain in Italy and watched some Chinese acrobats in China. After touring the globe we did the Space something or other in the big Epcot globe do-dad. After Epcot we made our way to the Animal Kingdom, we were running out of daylight so we RAN to the Safari ride and caught one of the last busses going through it, you will see that the pictures aren't that great but hey I tried! We went down a water ride at Mount Kilamanjaro-it was starting to get really cold as the sun was setting. And Lastly at the Animal Kingdom, Chris wanted to go to Mount Everest-roller coaster. I was like what the hell-wrong decision! I was nauseated for 1 hour after I got off the damn thing! Augh Sucky! So we went back to the Magic Kingdom, I wanted to get some gifts for my nieces and nephews and Chris wanted to drive a racecar so we did that, took a bunch more pictures of the Castle and called it a day. We got back to our car at 8:49pm-temperature: 45 degrees! I waved good bye to Mickie and away we went for a late dinner at Applebees-2 for $20, can't beat it! Then to our hotel for more sleep because our flight was leaving for Grand Rapids at 7:35am! Oh yeah the temperature was 36 degrees!!!!
Home at last, home at last! Until the next vacation! :)
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