jackieleanne
DIS Veteran
- Joined
- Jun 17, 2008
Hi everyone back from holiday today and between Jonathans Camera and my own as well as those from the photopass cd (before any edits) around 1500 pictures to share with you. So I thought id start my trip report.
Day 1 - The Journey
Me and Jonathan wake up at around 6am cases and hand luggage already packed and only needing to wash and dress before my mum would take us to the airport. We arrived at Manchester Airport at 7 am to find out that the flight had been delayed by 3 hours due to thunderstorms stopping the inbound flight from returning on time
. So having checked in online and with the new security system up in place we was through check in and security within 10 minutes and off to find somewhere to grab breakfast. Jonathan had a full english breakfast and I had sausage and bacon on toast. Then it was time to look around the shops and lose the 6 hours time that would now be spent in the airport. At around 11 I saw the plane come in and told Jonathan how it was our plane so we followed it to the gate, we took pictures and sat around the plane, Because the gate hadn't been put on screen for us yet Jonathan kept saying it may not be our plane but I told him that there wouldn't be more than the one Virgin jumbo departing that day from Manchester. Our plane was the Ladybird here is a picture I took.
At around 12 knowing that I do not like plane food and because we was working up an appetite we went to Burger King however I left most of it as my chicken strips were dry and I was nervous about the flight. At around 1 boarding was finally called, yipee we would finally be on our way to Orlando soon. We should of been nearly half way there by now.
The plane journey there was ok we had mild turbulence for a while but nothing extreme. Me and Jonathan both had beef stew, I thought it was ok for plane food but after the turbulence was feeling a little sick and couldn't stomach eating it all. I watched Prince Caspian and Iron Man the rest of the time I spent looking through our plans, compared to past trips with mum and dad the flight went pretty fast I think thats because I was with Jonathan.
On arrival in Orlando it was just after 6 there time and we had to land through a thunderstorm the pilot did a really good job infact it was the best landing I have experienced. We went over to the far side of immigration after my advice from the dis boards and walked straight through as we got called into the American residents isle we was also lucky as our bags where ready and one of the first off the carousel. We also got brushed past having to have our bags scanned so didnt have to wait in the que for that which was nice as we made it straight up to the monorail bags in hand as we didnt want to put them on a carousel. When we made it to the dollor desks we was in line for about 5 minutes before we got called to the express desk which was empty, the whole process was pretty quick and we was soon sat in our Dodge Caliber, The whole process of landing to leaving the airport took 30 minutes so Jonathan was already impressed with America and we hadnt left the airport. Phew! We decided not to take the interstate while he got used to driving in America and we missed the turning for the toll road luckily we managed to end up on a quiet road that took us the scenic route around all the villas and somehow ended up at Vineland Avenue and on route to the hotel. We was tired and starving by the time we had checked in, we set the bags in the room and Jonathan changed into his shorts before we headed to the food court for hot dogs and chips by the time we had finished our food it was around 8:30 so we unpacked the suitcases and jumped straight in bed to tired to do anything.
Next: Day 2 ~ Hollywood Studios aka MGM
Day 1 - The Journey
Me and Jonathan wake up at around 6am cases and hand luggage already packed and only needing to wash and dress before my mum would take us to the airport. We arrived at Manchester Airport at 7 am to find out that the flight had been delayed by 3 hours due to thunderstorms stopping the inbound flight from returning on time
. So having checked in online and with the new security system up in place we was through check in and security within 10 minutes and off to find somewhere to grab breakfast. Jonathan had a full english breakfast and I had sausage and bacon on toast. Then it was time to look around the shops and lose the 6 hours time that would now be spent in the airport. At around 11 I saw the plane come in and told Jonathan how it was our plane so we followed it to the gate, we took pictures and sat around the plane, Because the gate hadn't been put on screen for us yet Jonathan kept saying it may not be our plane but I told him that there wouldn't be more than the one Virgin jumbo departing that day from Manchester. Our plane was the Ladybird here is a picture I took.
At around 12 knowing that I do not like plane food and because we was working up an appetite we went to Burger King however I left most of it as my chicken strips were dry and I was nervous about the flight. At around 1 boarding was finally called, yipee we would finally be on our way to Orlando soon. We should of been nearly half way there by now.
The plane journey there was ok we had mild turbulence for a while but nothing extreme. Me and Jonathan both had beef stew, I thought it was ok for plane food but after the turbulence was feeling a little sick and couldn't stomach eating it all. I watched Prince Caspian and Iron Man the rest of the time I spent looking through our plans, compared to past trips with mum and dad the flight went pretty fast I think thats because I was with Jonathan.
On arrival in Orlando it was just after 6 there time and we had to land through a thunderstorm the pilot did a really good job infact it was the best landing I have experienced. We went over to the far side of immigration after my advice from the dis boards and walked straight through as we got called into the American residents isle we was also lucky as our bags where ready and one of the first off the carousel. We also got brushed past having to have our bags scanned so didnt have to wait in the que for that which was nice as we made it straight up to the monorail bags in hand as we didnt want to put them on a carousel. When we made it to the dollor desks we was in line for about 5 minutes before we got called to the express desk which was empty, the whole process was pretty quick and we was soon sat in our Dodge Caliber, The whole process of landing to leaving the airport took 30 minutes so Jonathan was already impressed with America and we hadnt left the airport. Phew! We decided not to take the interstate while he got used to driving in America and we missed the turning for the toll road luckily we managed to end up on a quiet road that took us the scenic route around all the villas and somehow ended up at Vineland Avenue and on route to the hotel. We was tired and starving by the time we had checked in, we set the bags in the room and Jonathan changed into his shorts before we headed to the food court for hot dogs and chips by the time we had finished our food it was around 8:30 so we unpacked the suitcases and jumped straight in bed to tired to do anything.
Next: Day 2 ~ Hollywood Studios aka MGM
isneys Hollywood Studios ~ Part 2
I'm going to try and post more later. Its taking forever to load the pictures to photobucket.
To anyone who has not done this ride it is definitely worth doing and it is one of the only rides I would queue for. 
