Orlando
Travel Blogs from Orlando, United States
We are home and we are surprised
We made it back home to find out that while we were away that Cory's sister had moved into our house with her dog. So after more than 40 hours of airports, planes and lines we had to drive across town and pick up her second vehicle which she is planning ...
Disney World & One Mighty Weekend
Four days of partying and dancing at the One Mighty Weekend Party at Disney and Universal Orlando. We met up with a few friends for this annual event, we were here for the 2007 weekend and wanted to go again... all I can say is it was ONE ...
So far.... Not so good.
We were packing and getting ready for our departure early tomorrow and as I always do, I checked our flights. That is when I found out that our flight had been canceled. We dialed the 800 number. After navigating the phone tree and waiting on ...
Murder at JFK
... up with tears. He was counting on us to be his parents and walk him through everything. Now we were leaving him in the Orlando airport to fend for himself. I left him with strict instructions not to have another drink because he needed to be sober to ...
Time to move on!
... nbsp; Charles Kuralt Yup! I've been in Florida for over 5 weeks. 4 of those in Orlando. It's time to move on. It's starting to feel like I have moss growing on me. Tomorrow I hit ...
Visiting Mickey
Finally after all the planning and looking forward to it, we were going to Disney World. We decided to visit two parks over two days and settled on Magic Kingdom, the obviously well known park, and the Epcot centre. The first day we were up ...
Not Much Going On
... Airport to get our flight south to Orlando. We were looking forward to some sun and warmer weather. Arriving in Orlando we asked about getting public transport out to the Legacy Grand Hotel in Kissimmee (what a great name for a suburb ...
Home sweet home
This was it! We got up early this morning. Poor Paulie didn't sleep at all. He coughed all night. I am glad that we are getting him home. I am also glad that this didn't happen to him at the beginning of the trip like it did in Istanbul a couple of years ...
Magic Kingdom–The Kids Save the Day
If we only knew the day ahead we would have rejoiced at our lucky stars - however we didn't...so we won't. We had early kitchen duty at the Empire's Crystal Palace. We woke up early to do the customary morning ritual: Imperial coffee in the Imperial mug ...
Leaving Sunny Florida
... I am so good about checking things but we have been so busy crazy lately that somehow I made a huge mistake. The flight back to the states gets into Panama on March 7th at 5:46 pm and doesn't fly back in until March 8th at 10 am. Opps. I ...
EPCOT – Attempting to Catch a Turtle
We believe that this was the day that the kids finally realized their Imperial slave role…because that's the only way we can explain their behavior…or maybe it's because they’re just kids. After the morning ritual of getting Imperial ...
Walt Disney World Resort (World/US&C)
My DH, two kids and I went to WDW for the first time in June (23-28) 2006. We enjoy visiting Disney places, and we had all been looking forward to seeing what WDW had to offer. It did not disappoint! DH was attending a conference, but he did ...
Saying goodbye to family Cameron, and deets :-(
With tears in our eyes we said goodbye to the safety and security (ahem) of the US and climbed onto Air Salvadorīs chicken ...
Hollywood Studios - Darth Children
After the excitement, exhilaration and nervousness of the soothsayer's words it was difficult to sleep. Isabella and I woke up early for the Imperial morning routine (coffee, mug, animals etc.). While we were out we happened upon an Imperial employee who ...
Magic Kingdom-Veni,Vidi,Vici or Huey Dewey & Louie
Woke up exhausted after difficult day yesterday, but felt a freedom I haven't felt in five, or even six days. Started the now all too familiar morning ritual of Imperial coffee (which tasted sweeter), in the Imperial mug (which seemed cleaner) and ...
Home is where the mutt is
If Phileas Fogg were alive to today he still would not believe it. "Around the world in just one day, it's not possible", he would say. "Oh but it is Phileas dear chap. And not only can you travel it, you can buy the t-shirt". I can see him now, twisting ...
Disney’s Animal Kingdom…Hakuna Matata
Getting anxious about our Imperial assignments has played its toll on us – and we woke up early the next morning. After the morning ritual of drinking the Imperial coffee... in the Imperial mug... while watching Imperial zebras, giraffes, ...
Motel rooms in the USA
For those of you who have not been in a motel room in the States yet: they are difficult to describe. If you say: they are veeeeery spacious, always have 2 queen size or one king size bed, a TV (nobody can live without a TV in the States, luckily we did ...
Arrival in the States
We just arrived in Orlando. We are waiting for our luggage. And waiting. And waiting. Feel it coming? No luggage! How can they lose luggage on a straight flight, checked in more then 2 hours up front? Well they can. They even managed to check our ...
Magic Kingdom…A Cinderella Story
Woke up early in the morning, and went to fill our Imperial mugs with deliciously hot Imperial coffee. As what to become my official Imperial morning routine, I went on the Lodge's patio and drank my coffee while watching the wildlife (giraffes, ...
Going Home – A Day of Boasting
... on the bus…she was a bit upset but not as much as Darth Jacamo who decided that each and every passenger at Orlando’s airport should hear the "Tale of the Missing Ears"…only that he’s two…so everyone probably thought he was ...
Animal Kingdom Again
We didn't get to do Animal Kingdom justice so we decided to visit again on our last day. The children were getting tired and the morning was another late start, but eventually we got there. We managed to convince the children to have another ...
What a Rush!
Boy, was I in for a disappointment when I pulled into the parking garage for Universal Studios. Both parks close at 6. Since it was already 2:30, I decided to go to the Islands of Adventure, amusement park, instead of the Universal ...
Make absolutely sure that you have a fork!
We spent the morning in Epcot, lunch at the Wilderness Lodge, and back to Epcot to finish out the ...
City of Lake City and return home
... City of Lake City. Kind of unusual for a town name, oh well. This is a cute town. About 140 miles north of Orlando. It was a nice drive. They have a little main street that they are trying to revitalize. They are the county seat for the county ...
Boston to Orlando, Flordia
... the flight and had a whole row to ourselves and it was a good flight which we watch a movie and had a little sleep. Arrived into Orlando at 5.20pm pick up our bags and then went and tried to find our Rental Car Company, which ended up not even being to ...
Disney World
Was up and ready for a fun day at Disney World, both Graeme and I were pumped so we jumped in the car and drove 30 minutes to get to the park then paid the $10 to get into the park with a car. Then we jumped on the mono-rail and arrived at Disney World's ...
Anxiously awaiting a new adventure
As I remember, I was very exciting about going to a lush tropical island in the Grenedines. Little did I know what was in store for me. I imagined sitting by the pool with little umbrella drinks and walking on sandy beaches at sunset. Well.... Little ...
Back in the air!
Well, off I go again. Just a short couple of weeks. I am sure a nice respite for my co-workers! Just think, no more 12 days of Dianne's birthday. No more football tossing. No more interruptions! Just because my holiday is over doesn't mean the fun ...

