Greetings from Orlando

May 6, 2008 at 3:53 PM
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I'm alone in my room for the first time since we checked into the Caribbean Beach Resort here at beautiful Walt Disney World in Orlando (see, if you spend a large portion of time here,chances are you start sounding like a walking guide book) on Sunday.

I'm sharing a room with my sister, Kailin and Emily, and they are all swimming. We spent the day at Epcot, and my friend Andrew met us there and he, my sister and I hung out after everyone else left. It was pretty cool, although my stomach is still rebelling over my decision to ride Mission: Space. Anyway, he dropped us off about 20 minutes ago, my sister took the girls swimming, I stripped down to barely decent (I am sunburned, woohoo), put The OC (it's Season 1, Episode 2 -- otherwise known as back when The OC was still good) on SoapNet, cracked open a bottle of ice water, and logged onto my parents' laptop.

We come home tomorrow and I'll be glad to get back to my own place, my own bed, etc. But we've been having an excellent time.

Still, I couldn't wait till tomorrow to check out the first official Twilight trailer, which Erin texted me was available online. (Yay -- I don't have to see Speed Racer anymore.)

One word: chills.

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holy moly and little fishes. i want to see this movie.

first, the book.

Chillllls! It looks so good. I just finished Eclipse and I'm on this Twilight series high. I don't know what I'll do till August, then December.

Awesome trailer!! And awesome vacation, too. I'll be glad to see you back home though, and posting more. :)

Sounds like you are having a blast. Always nice to get back to your own bed though.

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Glad you are enjoying WDW -- did you go on the Twilight Zone Tower of Terror??

Can't believe you're only doing 3 days there. Which parks did you make it to?

You didn't like Mission: Space? We loved it. Luke and I did it twice. It didn't make us sick at all.

I'm glad we're only doing three days. Ava's 2 and didn't get much out of either park, and Kailin and Emily both told me last night they were ready to go home. I couldn't imagine being here any longer with them.

It's not that I didn't like Mission: Space but I don't do well with spinning at all.

Nope, that's at Hollywood Studios. We only did Magic Kingdom and Epcot.

You can just do what I do and reread everything 12 times. :)

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Wow, color me shocked. It's been a while since something I've seen looked that close to something I've read. Okay, I'm picking up Eclipse tonight. :)

ahhh - we did the non-spinning line side.

I was definitely excited to see how faithful the movie version has been to the books.

Well, Andrew told my sister and I it wasn't worth riding if we weren't part of the Orange team. I am still grateful that I didn't KNOW we were spinning until the ride was over, or I would've definitely puked. (He said that's exactly why he didn't tell me.)

Ugh - the green side was great! Shame on Andrew!

Well, he's worked for Disney for a while (he does Adventures By Disney and has the coolest job ever) and he was our unofficial tour guide, so we figured he knew what he was talking about. I'm glad I did orange -- that g-force simulation was so real -- but I'm also glad I didn't know how they achieved those sensations (and the zero gravity one) until afterwards.

spinning? i never liked simulators (only ever been on one, and got awfully seasick from it) . . . now they spin? thanks for the advance warning, if i make it to Disney again.

glad you all are having / had a good time away though! vacations are wonderful, even if just for a few days.

You really can't tell you're spinning because the screen in front of you makes it look like you're just launching straight up into space. But yeah. You're apparently spinning really fast and then when the spinning abruptly stops, that's how they achieve the zero gravity sensation. It is freaky.

Greetings from Orlando

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