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Published: December 25th 2005
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Amy, Myself & Kylie
We WERE heading out for a big night!! Anyways, we left Pensacola on route to Orlando where we were due to stay 3 nights and 2 days.
We had lunch at Tallahassee, stopped at Walmart and it was raining.
It was a 9.5hr trip so we were glad to have a break to see the USS Alabama.
We arrived at our hotel, the Days Inn Suites in Old Town.
Nat and I went to the Laundromat and met 2 locals there, we chatted for a bit and tried to find out the best things to do and places to go. They worked at Wide World of Sport and they told us that they played baseball for the Braves - Nat goes to me ‘yeah right’ and when we were looking through the brochure later it showed ‘Wide World of Sports - Home of where the Braves play!! Oops!!
Jordan ordered pizza and stuff so we all went to his room and ate before retiring back to our rooms.
The following day Nat, Kylie, Amy and I decided to go outlet shopping. We headed out to the Belz factory and festival outlets. We shopped and shopped but to no avail really. I only managed
to come home with a US $10 pair of jeans from ‘University Sports’ and a pair of heels which I really liked and are really comfy!
We had lunch at the Caddy shack - based on the Bill Murray film.
Nat and I went to Flippers Pizzeria. We asked them for red sauce pasta and hadn’t been able to find it on any menus since we’d been travelling which we thought was really weird since they seemed to have everything else… The lady there told us that it’s called ‘Marinara’ and Nat asked her for it ‘without the seafood’ and the lady looked at us like we were crazy, it turns out that in America what we call ‘Nepolitana’ is their ‘Marinara’ and our ‘Marinara’ is their ‘Seafood Sauce’ - makes perfect sense!!
Got changed then headed out for the first ‘Contiki Semi Annual Mini Golf Championship Classic’. The course was cool, pirate themed. I’ve only played mini golf once and I now know I completely suck! Had a couple of good shots but many more bad ones!!! Hehe!
Nat and I went and got changed whilst everyone else went to dinner as we were keen
to go to Pleasure Island - same deal as Pensacola with this one paying $20 entry and you could go into 20 clubs in the one spot but everyone else was being big pikers so we decided to go to Jordan's room for the Sangria - it was nice - then it went all down hill from there doing all sorts of drinking games! It was a massive night and I don’t even remember going back to my room….
The following day Nat and I caught the shuttle to Disneyworld’s Epcot since Nat wanted to see that… although we were both feeling a little second hand.
When we arrived we had to catch the monorail to Epcot. It’s so massive, Disneyworld has its own dedicated motorway type things and major signs - it really is huge, I think they said the park is set on 300 acres.
It was so damn hot and Nat and I were there for hours. There is no way you could do another section of Disney in the one day. We were so sure that we were going to be completely fried but we weren’t so we figure even though the sun
wasn’t so hot, it doesn’t seem to have the same burning abilities as the sun over home.
Started the ‘Worlds’ tour and Canada was first stop. There were 9 screen spanning 360 degree and it showed footage on all of them but we had to stand and the footage of flying through the hills in the Rockies was making me feel sick and Nat didn’t want to stay so we left and then I came the closest I’ve been all trip to being really sick!! Not cool at all!!
Went up to get Japanese, I smelt the food and felt sick again and there were no bathrooms around in Japan so I had to walk back to Morocco to find some!!!
We decided to go to a better Japanese Restaurant - Teppanyaki. It was soooo good, the steak was the nicest I’ve had on the whole trip and the chef was excellent!
Nat and I were bad tourists and we really couldn’t be bothered going to some parts of the ‘Worlds’ since we’ve both been to a lot of them for real between us and didn’t see the point. We were still feeling a bit second
hand and definitely didn’t feel like doing the rides!
Nat was so enthusiastic about Mickey it was contagious!!
I’m not a massive Disney fan, there were professional photographers there who give you photo pass cards and you can view them at the park and order or just check and email them to people for free on the net which was pretty cool. Nat had a picture taken with Mickey!
We had a pretty quiet night, consisting of dinner with Trav and Mark, went to a games parlour, had ice-cream and retired to bed making it another alcohol free day, our 2nd since the tour started!!
The following day we boarded the bus to head off but it feels weird to have lost those people who were only doing the Southern trip and not the Grand Southern… it’s like loosing part of the family!!
We stopped in at the Kennedy Space Centre along the way which we toured for 5hrs. We saw the Saturn V Rocket and heard/watched some history of the Apollo moon landing and flights and viewed the space shuttle launch pads. We were lucky enough to see a full space shuttle which is
due to be launched between June 13th & 31st, which is strapped into launch pad B!! I heard one other Contiki group stayed an extra day once and saw the launch - that would have been cool! There is a massive process in preparing for a ‘Mission’. They say the process goes from landing to launch and not the other way around.
We saw the massive gantry’s that they put the completed shuttles on and it takes 8 hours or so to move them to the launch pads. Each cleat weighs 1 ton and there are 4 trucks attached to it.
We saw how the mission control base would have looked years ago too, very cool!!
We left there and then went to Walmart and used the self scanning lane where you check through your own items - so we got to see what it would have been like to be a checkout chic… might have to change careers when I return home!!
We got some rain today which I’m sure will cool things down a bit…
As I said, know there is other cool stuff I was going to tell you but I just can't remember at this stage...
Still haven't rebooked my flights to Egypt, but I'm sure it's going to all work out fine....
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