"What do you think about San Diego?" "San Diego is too far of a flight for a couple of days, don't you think so?" "What about New Mexico?" "You and dad don't hike, what else are we going to do?" "How about Disney World?" "Haven't been since, gosh, I was 4. And I'll be down in Atlanta beforehand. Easiest for me to get there as well" "So Disney then?" "F**k it, let's do it!" This is part of the phone conversation I had with my mother about a month before we headed down to Walk Disney World. Back when I was [View Full Entry]

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Today we meet to begin the real planning of the trip. That's right.. shannon leaves in 4 days to travel abroad and we dont even know where we are staying when we get there. However, here is what we do know: Shannon starts in Israel until the 1st of September and continues to Greece until the 5th of September. Mel and Shannon meet in London on the 5th. From there.. not much. England to Spain Spain to France France to Amsterdam Amsterdam to Belgium Belgium to Switzerland Switzerland to Germany (for Oktoberfest!) Germany to Italy. Mel and Shannon part ways on [View Full Entry]

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One of our shortest train journeys (a mere 6 hours!), marked the end of our time with Amtrak. Whilst the 30-day pass has been very good to us, carrying us from L.A. all the way to Florida, I think both of us will be happy if we never set foot inside an Amtrak train again! Especially if it's an overnight train and we have coach class tickets! We got to our hotel on the first day and I was pleasantly surprised, Cat had spent the previous evening reading me less than flattering online reviews of the place! But it turned out [View Full Entry]

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Orlando, the home of theme parks. Fun at Disney World and Universal Studios ensues. [View Full Entry]

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god we are sick of theme parks! the boys as well!! having a rest day today which has been lovely!!! last couple of days we have covered seaworld wonderworks ripleys believe it or not hawaiian adventure golf universal studios universals island of adventure and Dev and I need new feet!!! The killer whales at seaworld were awesome but other than that it wasnt as good as the gold coasts!! and the sharks were tiny eeny weeny sharks lol wonderworks and ripleys were cool and the mini golf was fun universal was great as it was last time in california. the rides [View Full Entry]

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Hallo allemaal, this is the final call for flight USA_2008.... :-) In Orlando hadden we twee volle dagen... (de aankomst dag niet meegerekend, toen zijn we 's middags nog even snel naar een Outlet geweest . Het was lastig kiezen naar welke pretparken te gaan... De keuze is enorm en we hadden er ook al een aantal gezien in het verleden.... Voor de eerste dag kozen we Seaworld. Altijd ongelooflijk mooie dolfijnen/orca shows, en veel te zien... Dat zat wel goed... De tweede dag was lastiger... De waterparken vielen af vanwege mijn ooronsteking. Disney klinkt altijd toch wat kinder [View Full Entry]

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Tiden går fort når man... jobber?? :P Har vært utrolig trøtt i det siste og det kan være mange årsaker til det, men en av dem er kanskje fordi det har blitt en del jobbing og lite søvn.. anyways, har også fått en liten forfremmelse i restauranten, som jeg liker å kalle det;) Jeg skrev jo om de forskjellige oppgavene som finnes i restauranten og som jeg har fått opplæring i, noe som alle i food and beverage får opplæring i. For i tillegg til å greete gjester, seate dem og busse bord er det noe som heter assignor. Assignoren går [View Full Entry]

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well my feet need a vacation!!!! sheeesh... did Universal Studios Islands of Adventure yesterday and was a blast.. didnt rain till really late afternoon so did the whole lot. spent money on express passes which gives you quick access to each ride once. well worth the money... or if you like standing in a line fo 45 to120 minutes go for it!! spiderman 3d was amazing and great, dev and james went on the hulk coaster... no thanks lol... then james went on the duelling dragons.. we all had fun on jurassic park ride and the flume and a few others. [View Full Entry]

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Hallo allemaal, groetjes vanuit een zeer warm Orlando!!! wat ik steeds vergeet te zeggen: Iedereen heel erg bedankt voor de leuke reacties en emails! Iedere keer weer leuk om te lezen dat jullie meeleven :) Maar goed, even bijpraten: Na onze binnenlandse vlucht kwamen we aan in Miami. Jacinta's koffer had de rare wissel goed doorstaan en lag netjes op de lopende band... Mijn koffer bleek toch naar Washington gegaan te zijn!!! (oorspronkelijke vlucht). De volgende dag rond 18:00 werd hij gelukkig alsnog naar het hotel gebracht! Wel lastig hoor om een hele dag bijv. ongeschoren rond [View Full Entry]

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Had a biiiig day yesterday! left here at 8-30 and drove down to Tampa Bay to Busch Gardens adventure park.. finally got Dylan to go on rollercoasters then couldnt get him off!!! it is an exellent park with animals and rides in an african settings. Dev and I went on a few roller coasters and the boys went on all of them a couple of times! had a blast. There bird aviary is awesome and you can hand feed most of the birds, saw silverback gorillas and a baby, chimps , rhinos and heaps of other animals. it was a great [View Full Entry]

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