This will be the first of several long post coming within the next few days.
First of all while on out of town my cell phone was put through the washing machine and no longer works. Therefore until I get my cell phone replaced if anyone needs to get a hold of me they need to call the apartment number and if you do not know the apartment number then click on the comments to the post and ask me to email you the number and also specify what email address you want me to send it to. Ok, now on to my trip to Disney World.
On Wednesday July 14th I had to take Clancy to the Kennel so that way we wouldn't have to drop him off in the morning. Then that night my Sister Cathy and her kids William and Jacqueline got in around 10:30 or so. Everyone was in bed early that night as we knew we had an early start coming the next morning.
Day One, July 15:
That early start did come at 6am in the morning as my sister woke me up. My dad was last to get up but first out the door. By about 6:45am we were out the door and on our way. We took the PS2 and my games with us and William, Jacqueline and I played it in the car the whole way down, except for when Jacqueline watched "Lady and the Tramp 2" a fairly lame movie the first one is much better. About 8:30am or so we stopped in Macon to get some breakfast at Mrs. Winners and we got Chicken and Steak biscuits. From there we drove straight into Florida and arrived in Gainesville, Florida around 12:30pm where we stopped and ate at Steak N' Shake. From there we left and got into Orlando about 2:30pm. My other sister, Jeralyn, her husband, Thomas along with my nieces Jillian and Niki, my nephew Jacob and my Mom where already in Orlando. My mom had been there about 2 weeks and the rest of them got there the night before. In Orlando my parents own to homes. My Uncle Kenny's old house and also the one they bought. Cathy, William, Jacqueline and I stayed at my Uncle Kenny's old house while my Mom, Dad, Jeralyn, Thomas, Jillian, Niki, and Jacob stayed at my parents house. After getting to Orlando we went to my Uncle Kenny's house first so we could drop of our stuff. From there we went to my parents house were we just hung out for a while. Around 5pm or so my Cousin, April, her husband, John, and their daughter, MacKalya, arrived. They came to see all of us and eat dinner with us. We had Chicken Alfredo that my mom had made. After dinner Niki, Thomas, Cathy, William, John, and I all played a game of Phase 10. MacKalya who is 9 helped her dad play. Cathy won the game and I finished in 2nd. Funny part was that both Cathy and I up until the end of the game were in last and second to last place the whole time. By the time the game ended it was 10:00pm so knowing that we had another early morning the next day we broke it off and April, John, and MacKalya all went home. Then Cathy, William, Jacqueline and I all left for the other house. By 11:30 we were all in bed.
Day Two July 16:
The early Morning game again this time at 7am. By 7:30 Cathy, William, Jacqueline and I were on our way to the other house to meet the rest of the crew. By 8:00am we were out the door. We went to a place called 5 & Diner for breakfast. It is a 50s themed restaurant. I had French Toast since I don't like their eggs there. From there it was off to Disney World. This day we were headed to
The Magic Kingdom (map). We arrived sometime between 9:30 and 10am. We rode this golfcart/train type thing (not sure how to describe it) that took us from the parking lot to the ticket counter. My dad bought all the tickets we needed and we headed in. To get to the Magic Kingdom from the ticket counter you have to either take a Ferryboat or the Monorail. The kids wanted to take the Ferryboat so we got in that line and took the boat over. Once over we walked down Main Street that leads you to Cinderella's Castle. On Main Street we stopped at several of the shops to look around. From the shops we continued on and bought some water as we made our way to the Tea Cup ride that Jillian wanted to ride, ride #31 on the map. While most of us were on the Tea Cup ride my dad took Jacqueline to get a singature from Alice (From Alice in Wonderland) as Jacqueline was all about getting signatures. After the Tea Cup ride Jacob decided he wanted to do the race cars so Jacob, Thomas, Niki, and I went to go ride the race cars, ride #39 on map. But the line for the race cars was about an hour and no one wanted to wait that long so we got out of line and decided we wanted to do the Buzz Lightyear ride instead, ride #47 on map. That line had a 45 minute wait which I didn't feel like waiting and having to stand around for that long but the others did so since Niki had her cell phone I went and caught up with my Dad, Mom, Jacqueline and Cathy who were off getting Jacqueline more signatures. William, Jillian and Jeralyn were off getting some drinks. After Jacqueline was done getting her signatures she wanted we met back up with William, Jillian, and Jeralyn and we headed for the Dumbo ride, ride #27 on map. On the way there Niki called us saying they were done with the ride and so we told them to meet us at the Dumbo ride. Jacqueline, Jillian, Cathy and Jeralyn got in line for the Dumbo ride while the rest of us took shelter from the sun under a tent. My dad went up to a concession stand and got some ices for everyone and we got a two cream cheese filled pretzels that were really good. When Niki, Thomas and Jacob met back up with us at the tent they went and got one of the pretzels too. Right as Jacqueline, Jillian, Cathy and Jeralyn get off the dumbo ride the skies open up and it starts to pour and since there was thunder and lightning in the area most of the rides were shut down. So once the rain let up everyone decided we should go ahead and get lunch since it was about 1:30pm. On our way out we stopped in a shop that is inside Cinderella's Castle and I found a really cool Excalber Sword there on sale for $300 but I unfortunately don't have $300 dollars to spend on it. So we made our way out of the park this time taking the monorail back and we got to our cars. From there we went to Downtown Disney to eat at the
Rainforest Cafe (map). The map is a Downtown Disney map. If you have never been to a Rainforest Cafe, #42 on map, to eat before you need to go because it is like no other restaurant you have eaten at before. The whole place is Rainforest themed. They have vines and all hanging down from the ceiling and trees and animals (this one had elephants and gorillas). Everything is fake of course the animals are anamontronic. They have thunderstorms while your eating and in certain place they have rain fall into gutters. This one had several huge fishtanks with fish in them. And yes the fish were real. It also had a large shop connected as well. William, Niki, and I split, or tried to split, a Volcano which is this huge desert with fudge, caramel, brownies and Icecream shaped like a Volcano. We finished eating around 4pm and for the next hour we shopped at some of the stores there in Downtown Disney. I bought and ESPN hat because it was the first one that I saw that had some kind of holes in it so my head could breathe. Main reason I got the hat is because my head was started to become sunburnt so that got the sun off my head. William bought the same kind of ESPN hat I got as well. After finishing our shopping we heading back to the Magic Kingdom this time again taking the Monorail back into the park. We got back to the park around 6:45pm or so. We were going to go ride the Haunted House ride, ride #20 on map, but we made a wrong turn and ended up at Splash Mountain, ride #12 on the map. Cathy had wanted to ride that so she, Jacqueline, Jillian, Jacob and Thomas got on that ride. William and I watched and waited for them to come around on the ride. My mom, dad, Niki, and Jeralyn went to go do more shopping. At 7pm mom, dad, Niki and Jeralyn came up to William and I asking if the others had been on the ride yet which they hadn't. Finally about 15 minutes later we saw them come by as they made there way up to the drop. This was Jacquelines first time riding a ride like that one so I was looking forward to seeing what she thought about it. Appartently it is a fairly long ride as it seemed like it was about 10 minutes before they finally made the plunge. The rest of us went and met them at the exit so we could see what Jacqueline and Jillian thought of the ride and they both loved it. From there since it was about 8:00pm we made our way back over to Main Street for the parade that starts at 9pm. Cathy and I made a detour and got some thing to drink while the rest headed on to find a spot to watch the parade. Thomas and Niki wanted to ride Space Mountian (A roller coaster) so they left a separate direction to go ride it. Cathy and I met back up with the others at about 8:30 and the street was already full of people getting ready to see the parade. Right on time the parade started at 9:00pm and it was decent and lasted about 30 minutes. Since the the Fireworks didn't start until 10:00pm Cathy, William, Jacob and I went to look for some food but found nothing we wanted. So we went back and met up with the rest to watch the fireworks. The Fireworks, althought short, were great better than anything PTC has done. The whole Fireworks show was themed and synchronized which was really cool. Fireworks ended about 10:15pm which I then realized that
Anthelion had called me during the fireworks so I called him back and attempted to talk to him which wasn't easy with all the noise going own around the park. From there we left taking the monorail back again and then got to our cars, where we met back up with Niki and Thomas and then went back to the houses. Once back at the house I got something to eat really quick because I was starving. We didn't get in bed until about 1am and where planning to get up between 8am and 9am to go to Universal Studios.
Day Three and Four I will hopefully post tomorrow.
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