Alright, so I've been home for almost 15 days, and it has just been hectic! But it was a VERY interesting trip, and I'm sure you all would like to know.
So I left on Friday, Mary 27th - my mom took me over to the BTV airport, and I checked in super quick (if you use JetBlue - take advantage of online checkin, makes a world of a differance)! They just took my suitcase, and said have a nice flight. That was quick! So I waited like 45 minutes before I boarded, I waited till the end to get on the flight, and it was a decent flight. Really quick, just to NYC.
When I landed in NYC I had no clue where my next terminal was, well it was the next boarding location over! I just walked about 100' and there was my gate. How nice was that. I only got to read about 2 pages of my book - and BOARDING CALL. Nice. Now, this flight there was some turblance, but I got my drink, and it was FREE!! Ha! They forgot to charge me. How awesome is that?? And I munched on the famous Blue Chips, they are actually quite good.
So I landed at JAX, and wanted to go back home. Why? Cause when I left BTV it was SUNNY - now, JAX was RAINING. Eww... I had to wait about an hour for Ryan to come pick me up, so I just keep reading my book. Then we headed down to beautiful ORLANDO, FLORIDA! We checked into the faboulous Coronado Springs and headed over to Downtown Disney for Dinner. Now, Ryan never being to Disney - had NO CLUE with where everything was and the AMOUNT of space DISNEY takes up. It was cute. We were heading out of Planet Hollywood (which he was so amazed by everything in the restaurant, it was funny!) and he was like, oh all these people are here for the fireworks? No, Ryan - they are here to enjoy Downtown Disney, we are not even close to Magic Kingdom. It was late, and we were tired so after dinner we just headed back to the hotel.
On Saturday, the weather was HOT HOT HOT! But on the first bus ride to EPCOT, we both fell in LOVE with Disney Transportation!! When we arrived at EPCOT, we looked briefly at the lovely flowers before heading in - we can look on the way out, we had to hit rides NOW! So we went to Soarin'. Which, ok I don't like heights (afraid of falling), but this ride was better than I remember! And Ryan seemed to love it too!! Then we went and got a FP for TEST TRACK (YEA!) and ate a little and did some other little rides to pass the time. Overall, we were making REALLY good timing in EPCOT. I did my homework, and it paid off! Finally, TEST TRACK - What can I say? I was nervous at first, but WOW! I want to go back just to ride that ride, over and over again!! It's a MUST for anyone!! You can't describe it, you just can't.
We walked around the world, and Ryan of course wanted a beer - but after seeing the price, opted not to. Then it was time to eat at Le Cellier. Yummy.... let's just say, Disney Dining Plan is AWESOME! $39.99 a day, per person - and we ate that amount in the first meal! And still had a counter service and snack left. Sweet! Our bill was like $90 there. But heck, what did we care?
On the way out we took several pictures of the gorgeous flowers and headed to the Monorail, who can resist a ride on this?? Ok, so we kept "stopping for traffic" along the way, but Ryan was able to see the Disney grounds and the Contemporary Resort (oh I want to stay there one day)!!
Magic Kingdom, was PACKED, I mean PACKED. We did the Carousel of Progress, Stich's (dumb ride), and then headed over via the train to PIRATES. Oh yea!! It got really good now, Johnny D. is in there (animated of course) - but it's good!! Then we wanted to go on the Jungle Cruise - 2 hour wait! Are you nuts? So we opted to share some pinapple float thing. Pretty good. We also walked the Swiss Family Tree House. We walked some more, trying to find something to ride, and went to see Mickey's Pixarmagic! WOW - Awesome 3D Show! I mean this was the BEST one down there (we saw all the 3d shows). Then off to a DISNEY KITCHEN STORE. OMG! How awesome? We only bought a mug, cause everything was kinda pricey. Then while we waited for the parade, we went into the Country Bear Jamboree. Everything else was REALLY LONG LINES. After that, we grabbed our spot for Spectromagic. Very cool - Ryan liked it. Dinner at Casey's (yummy hot dog) and watched the fireworks. At one point, Ryan was like "is that it?" No, Ryan DISNEY has a way better finale then that!! OMG - Words, can't describe this firework show either - it was AWESOME!!
Sunday - RAIN, RAIN GO AWAY. But we headed over to Animal Kingdom, and did alot of stuff, the safari ride is AWESOME in the rain. All the animals were out, it was great. Oh, what happened at Animal Kingdom? My camera didn't want to let me see the 97 pictures I took! Yup, all of them GONE! Great. I had some good ones in there too. Very upset. But we ate at the Flame Tree BBQ, a must while you are there. This was good food. Serioulsy, the DDP has a TON of food.
We headed over to "Hollywood Studios" I still like the name MGM. Did a little walking, lines were crazy again! But we managed to see the Backlot Tour (they cut like 1/2 out and now it sucks!), and an awesome stunt show! Lights, Motor, Action - I mean awesome!! Then we had dinner at the 50's Prime Time Cafe. Another very very good meal. Um.... Mom's PotRoast, wow! Followed by a Brownie Sunday which was made for 4!! It was 2 large brownies and like 6 scoops of ice cream, covered in whip cream and sprinkles, etc. It was good, but we left alot of it on our plate. Then it was time to head home.....
Well to GA anyways. I'll write about that trip later.
