Well the long awaited trip that was cancelled in 2020 because of COVID, finally got to happen. MB Mell and Lola have been planning this for over 2 years and very excited to finally be travelling again.
AA and Lola left at 5 am this morning to catch their flight to Orlando, through Toronto. The flights were pretty uneventful. Slept most of the way to Toronto, ate breakfast during the layover and made it to Orlando without delay or issues.
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| way too early.... |
Lola was pretty excited to see a certain Tail number on a plane in Toronto. It used to be on an Air Canada plane, but AA explained that they reuse numbers when planes go out of service. Now they know what Westjet plane to look for :).
We had wifi on the plane so as we were flying over the coast, we texted to see if our friends could see us. We are pretty sure we flew over them near Daytona Beach ;)
Once we arrived in Orlando, we got our bags and headed into a Lyft to get to our resort hotel, at Universal Studios. The wait was long to check in, but we got our rooms a little early, put our bags in the room and headed out for a snack. We have 5 beds for the 6 of us... no one wants to sleep alone, so there are 2 empty beds currently.
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| AA still not sure where we are going? |
While we waited for our friends to arrive (who drove), AA and Lola headed to City Walk from their hotel. It was a short 15 minute walk along the canal along the Garden. Once they went through security, they headed to find a snack. AA was pretty excited for a Chicago Hotdog, and Lola had some fries and sweet tea! The snack was good. After the snack we walked around a little and then headed back to our hotel. We knew we still had about 1 hour to wait till our friends arrived so we headed to the pool.
They not only gave you towels to use by the pool, but also gave chair covers. The water was warm in the pool, but Lola kept getting splashed by the kids, so they headed to lounge by the pool to get some sun. It was sure warm.
Our friends finally arrived just after 5 pm. We greeted them in the lobby, not sure who was more excited to see who. They came from the beach, so showers and clothes were the next step once we got to the hotel. B and T sure had a lot of stories already to tell Lola as she tried to get them ready to go for supper.
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| Matching Sandal Bunch! |
We had a great supper at Amatista in our hotel. Our waitress was so friendly and wanted to take T home, as he was so polite and cute ordering his meal.
After dinner which we all enjoyed, we headed to Whole foods to get some breakfast food. The traffic was sure backed up, and it took us so long to get there. Stocked up with food and drink, we headed to CVS for a few things, and then back to the hotel. Oh.....forgot to mention the debacle with the key card. We tried to exit the parkade (or parking garage as it is called here). He asked us which key card when we checked in to put the parking on, but obviously didn't work. We were holding up the line to get out of the parking garage for a very long time, we felt bad but there was nothing we could do but wait for someone to answer the call. Lola got that fixed up for the next time.
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| First time in a grocery store in over 2 year.... |
Back at the hotel, the Twinkie's went to bed, and the adults discussed plans for the next day. AA and Lola has been up for a long time today, so early bed time for all of us.
We are all worried about our parents back home with the dead horse creek flooding its banks today, and more water on the way. But hopefully the rain is less intense and the water retreads. Thinking of them during this tough time.
Tomorrow we head to Island of Adventure and Universal Studios.
Night, Lola.
