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Cameras and Weather

Murray-Mint — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 17:46:21 +0000

Here’s some free and simple advice for everyone. If you have a digital camera that isn’t waterproof, don’t get caught in a rainstorm with it. After a couple of days of trying to get it to dry out, I’ve had no luck.

Photos from Seaworld on Day 2 are on a normal camera which I’ll get developed at some point. Meanwhile, my photos from Day 5 are of the Electric Water Parade. This happens every night at all the hotels around Seven Seas Lagoon.

The plan for the next few days is:

Thursday: Islands of Adventure/Universal
Friday: Behind the scenes tour of Epcot, Hollywood Studios and Magic Kingdom

As for Saturday and Sunday, well I have no idea! We’ve literally done everything else, the parks are just empty!

Kissimmee

Murray-Mint — Sat, 12 Jan 2008 17:49:02 +0000

Well I’m checked in now to the Best Western Lakeside in Kissimmee after a flight that turned up an hour and a half late. Quite uneventful, nothing much happened. The flight was actually empty though! 200 spare seats in Economy, To the extent where some people (Mum included) were led across the 4 seats in the middle, sleeping!

Security at Orlando was fairly quick. Queue at immigration was short but took a long time, and the offsite car rental place was great! Now it’s just getting used to driving on the wrong side of the road! Very unnerving having to be close to the white lines on the left side of the car.

Anyhow, off to Wal-Mart to stock up on supplies! I’ll upload photos in a bit.

Delayed

Murray-Mint — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 17:49:23 +0000

Well it’s fun and entertaining in the departures lounge at Gatwick. The flight has been inexplicably delayed until 11:30, despite this it’s still not boarding yet and the monitors just show it as delayed.

Once I’m on-board it’s free drinks courtesy of Virgin, so I can’t wait! The next post will probably be from the US in about 10-11 hours!

Nearly gone

Murray-Mint — Thu, 10 Jan 2008 17:51:44 +0000

taking off and landing. So close to leaving for a lovely 10 day holiday in Florida!

My plans for checking in online earlier today were thwarted when the Virgin Atlantic website refused to let me check-in. Anyhow, after a 3 hour drive to Gatwick, I decided to take advantage of Twilight Checkin. An entirely empty checkin area at Gatwick, and we were able to get checked in and get our boarding passes within 10 minutes.

All that’s left tomorrow is to go to the terminal and get through security.