Jordanovichy
Credit Whore 2016
I wasn't going to write this until I got home but I'm writing a diary thing anyway to help me with this when I get home so I might as well start now. (Plus I need LOG points 
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Back in February 2013 ATTACKHAMMER's dad asked if I wanted to go on their biannual holiday to Florida and experience Walt Disney World and the surrounding parks. Naturally I said yes. The following 518 days consisted of me spamming my Twitter and Facebook accounts with countdowns to Thursday 17th July 2014. Yes, I annoyed people, especially those CFers lucky enough to be my friend/follower but it was worth it. So here it goes...
Thursday 17th July: Day 0, The Journey
I have never been out of Europe before, let alone gone on a 9 hour flight before so in a way this was quite a big deal for me but I was so looking forward to it. As my dad is a taxi driver he arranged for an eight seater taxi to take me and the Maycocks down to Gatwick so at 4:30am the taxi arrived at mine, we then went off to pick the Maycocks up. It was very early so there was no traffic, once at Gatwick we sailed through check in, bag drop and security meaning we had quite a bit of time to kill before our 11:15 flight. We went to Frankie and Bennies and had a full english
I also took a pre-flight selfie
We then went for a look round the duty frees and chilled out. We went for a wander to find our Virgin Atlantic Boeing 747
I believe our plane was a couple behind this but they're all much of a muchness
We boarded on time but there was a little faff as someone had to be taken off the plane as s/he was taken ill. Not long after take off we were treated to food. I had chilli con carne. It was so tasty.
I had Dan's salad as it's healthy and he don't like that **** :lol:
The inflight entertainment was so fab. You could play head to head against other fliers on the plane, I played chess with Dan but we drew
There was also Who Wants to be a Millionaire, my personal best was $64,000. The questions were generally impossible. Whilst on the plane I read about the second Malaysian Airline to crash which was interesting to read whilst on a plane
Getting there!
The air hostess bought round fab FABs. They were so fab. Have a selfie:
Dinner was served, a weird cheese and tomato sandwich with 'plane crisps'. The sandwich was pretty mank as the picture shows
As we got to the Floridian coast I saw the VAB at Kennedy Space Centre
As we started to descend through the Floridian afternoon storms some turbulence happened, which at one point caused the plane to lurch forward and several people (including myself) screamed. That was not fun. Not long after we had landed.
ORLANDO
There was some rain as we were landing but meh. As I'm not a relation to the Maycock's I had to go through American immigration as a separate party, this was a bit of a faff as I've never had to go through immigration alone in an EU country let alone the notoriously strict American Immigration. Mr. Stephen (Dan's dad, this is what I shall be calling him from now on) was next to me but as he had 4 people to sort out he took longer.
We grabbed our bags and made it through the terminal. Mr. Stephen and Angela (Dan's mum) went off to sort out the hire care, a GMC Yukon. It was so huge. As we stepped out of the nice cool air conditioned airport the heat hits you like a brick wall, it isn't a great experience. I took a rather sweaty selfie once we were in the car and ready to find our villa.
Over the next hour or so we got to our villa and unpacked. We went to Chillies for tea
I had a pretty impressive four burger meal, when in Rome!
I couldn't manage it sadly. We went to Publixs, the American version of Tesco before finally getting back to the villa and hitting the sack. It was gone 11:30pm in America by the time we got to bed, which was 4:30 in the UK meaning we'd been up for around 25 hours, not great fun.
I know this first part hasn't been the most exciting but when I get the chance day one will be up and we went to Seaworld Orlando, home to Manta, one of my most anticipated coasters of the trip. Thanks for reading.
)Back in February 2013 ATTACKHAMMER's dad asked if I wanted to go on their biannual holiday to Florida and experience Walt Disney World and the surrounding parks. Naturally I said yes. The following 518 days consisted of me spamming my Twitter and Facebook accounts with countdowns to Thursday 17th July 2014. Yes, I annoyed people, especially those CFers lucky enough to be my friend/follower but it was worth it. So here it goes...
Thursday 17th July: Day 0, The Journey
I have never been out of Europe before, let alone gone on a 9 hour flight before so in a way this was quite a big deal for me but I was so looking forward to it. As my dad is a taxi driver he arranged for an eight seater taxi to take me and the Maycocks down to Gatwick so at 4:30am the taxi arrived at mine, we then went off to pick the Maycocks up. It was very early so there was no traffic, once at Gatwick we sailed through check in, bag drop and security meaning we had quite a bit of time to kill before our 11:15 flight. We went to Frankie and Bennies and had a full english
I also took a pre-flight selfie
We then went for a look round the duty frees and chilled out. We went for a wander to find our Virgin Atlantic Boeing 747
I believe our plane was a couple behind this but they're all much of a muchness
We boarded on time but there was a little faff as someone had to be taken off the plane as s/he was taken ill. Not long after take off we were treated to food. I had chilli con carne. It was so tasty.
I had Dan's salad as it's healthy and he don't like that **** :lol:
The inflight entertainment was so fab. You could play head to head against other fliers on the plane, I played chess with Dan but we drew
There was also Who Wants to be a Millionaire, my personal best was $64,000. The questions were generally impossible. Whilst on the plane I read about the second Malaysian Airline to crash which was interesting to read whilst on a plane
Getting there!
The air hostess bought round fab FABs. They were so fab. Have a selfie:
Dinner was served, a weird cheese and tomato sandwich with 'plane crisps'. The sandwich was pretty mank as the picture shows
As we got to the Floridian coast I saw the VAB at Kennedy Space Centre
As we started to descend through the Floridian afternoon storms some turbulence happened, which at one point caused the plane to lurch forward and several people (including myself) screamed. That was not fun. Not long after we had landed.
ORLANDO
There was some rain as we were landing but meh. As I'm not a relation to the Maycock's I had to go through American immigration as a separate party, this was a bit of a faff as I've never had to go through immigration alone in an EU country let alone the notoriously strict American Immigration. Mr. Stephen (Dan's dad, this is what I shall be calling him from now on) was next to me but as he had 4 people to sort out he took longer.
We grabbed our bags and made it through the terminal. Mr. Stephen and Angela (Dan's mum) went off to sort out the hire care, a GMC Yukon. It was so huge. As we stepped out of the nice cool air conditioned airport the heat hits you like a brick wall, it isn't a great experience. I took a rather sweaty selfie once we were in the car and ready to find our villa.
Over the next hour or so we got to our villa and unpacked. We went to Chillies for tea
I had a pretty impressive four burger meal, when in Rome!
I couldn't manage it sadly. We went to Publixs, the American version of Tesco before finally getting back to the villa and hitting the sack. It was gone 11:30pm in America by the time we got to bed, which was 4:30 in the UK meaning we'd been up for around 25 hours, not great fun.
I know this first part hasn't been the most exciting but when I get the chance day one will be up and we went to Seaworld Orlando, home to Manta, one of my most anticipated coasters of the trip. Thanks for reading.
