Wednesday, November 12, 2008

Day 1: 11/2/08

Flight was at 11am. We were at the airport at 8:30. Jon set a wake up call for 7 and a shuttle to the airport for 8am. I forgot all about daylight savings time and was up an hour earlier. I wasn't tired, very excited. They had a really nice breakfast at the hotel.
Side track-it took me 15 min to wash my hair-conditioner, shampoo, shampoo, and conditioner again. Then another 20 min of picking out the knots.
Our seats on the 3 hour non-stop flight to Orlando were right behind first class. Plenty of leg room, but the seats still lacked butt room. Being that close to first class I saw the differences. They were served ice water pre-flight, unlimited alcohol, and a 3 course meal! I brought my Ipod to listen on the plane-completely dead. We arrived early. Got our bags quickly and intact. Hand picked our car-a gray Aveo. Jon's driving, of course, directions are supplied by the Garmin that Margaret provided-works great! Arrived at the hotel-OMG!! Words cannot describe-I took tons of pictures of the rooms.

We were going to go to Sea World for 1/2 a day, but ended up soaking in this awesome room. Then we were hungry, we hadn't eaten since breakfast at the hotel. It was now around 6pm. Using the yellow pages and Garmin, we found a Japanese restaurant called KOBE. Very similar to Benihana. There was an hour wait for the dinner show, so we went to the sushi bar. There was only one guy working there and he was swamped with orders. The dinner table ended up being ready before our sushi was, so we waited for the next table. All good things come to those who wait. I should have that saying etched somewhere. Food was great and there were people at our table with great conversation. One lady was staying at the same hotel as us. There was a family of 5 from France too. So diverse here. After dinner we set the Garmin to find a Target, but drove past a Wal-Mart. Jon doesn't like Wal-Mart but since it was right there we went in and bought food and other non-food items for the week. $60 later we had breakfast and lunch for the week. Plan was to eat dinner out only. Back to the hotel. Drew a bath in the hot tub. A little too hot because it actually felt like a hot tub. We went to bed early.

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