Leaving New York
Our
main entrance and lobby to our hotel would be something special I think with
escalators and pretty chandeliers but this is the view we had as the entrance
is under renovation!
Here we are going on
the PATH to head to Newark airport. It
is funny everywhere else we would have said no thanks but a guy offered to help
us through the turnstiles with our cases, thank you kind man xx
So we head down the
escalator towards our platform for our train and don’t realise there are two
trains that use this same track I think you know what happens next….. We jump on the first train that comes and
then 5 minutes later realise woops, wrong train so we go back to the start
again and then get on the right train!
We land at Newark train station and then the plan was to go on the
airtrack to Newark airport but the airtrack line is under renovations so they
are directing us to the bus service.
Well thankfully we left in plenty of time to catch our aeroplane. We head down into the bus station and see a
bus with Newark airport on it but the doors are closed so Colin taps on the
doors but the lady bus driver does not in the slightest look impressed with Colin,
hilarious seeing her facial expressions!!
So she tells him to go to platform 3a for the airport bus so that is
just what we do. The funny thing was
that within a few minutes the not so friendly lady bus driver drives the bus to
platform 3a ha ha!! We get the bus for
$3 to the airport, bargain but this is not a designated airport bus this is a
regular bus so there isn’t anywhere for the suitcases and the bus is busy! So Amy and I go to the back of the bus with
our hand luggage and leave Colin at the front with the suitcases. Each stop we make through the suburb of
Newark there are more and more people getting on, this bus must be full
capacity but then ………
Amy and I are in
stitches at the back of the bus as now there isn’t enough room down the front
of the bus for the suitcases so Colin has one of the cases on his lap. I am sure Colin is enjoying this ride to the
airport ha ha!!! NOT!!!!!
So
we head into the airport and see there are no check-in staff only self-service
check outs so here we go, scan passports, print our boarding cards and print
off baggage labels. There is a guy
behind the counter throwing and I mean throwing the bags onto the carousel once
they have been labelled, all done!! Now
to go through security!
Amy
has been badgering us since we got to the airport to set up Yorkie’s seat so
here she is. Amy packed this seat for
her build-a-bear and it has been sitting in her suitcase since we left Isle of
Man but here we go Yorkie looks comfy don’t you think!! Amy says Yorkie likes her seat but is getting
nervous about flying!
Amy
keen to pull her suitcase now she has Yorkie on it!!
Grabbed
lunch before we head on the aeroplane, yummy!
Our
flight on United Airlines
Think
we might be at United terminal with all these aircrafts sitting outside!
Orlando
boarding, woop woop!!! All very excited
now, apart from Yorkie as Amy tells me she is nervous flying for the first time,
sweet xxx
Jemima
has been ditched for Yorkie, poor Jemima is in the suitcase L
Do
you think this would be Colin’s tipple???
We sat on the tarmac
for an hour due to minor technical difficulties but then we got going,
hooray!!!
Bridges in sight over
the wing!
Bye
Bye New York, Amy is getting soooo excited about Orlando!!!!
Yorkie
isn’t sure of the noise of flying but I am sure she will be fine it is only a 2
hour 45 minute flight! Amy manages to
get an hour sleep as we have had jam packed days in New York with lots of
walking and late nights batteries need recharging for more excitement!!
Arriving in Orlando xx
Amy nearly squeezed
our hands and arms off when we landed with her excited squeezometer that she
does when she is excited!!! Here we are
we have made it to the terminal building but we need to take the train to the
baggage collection point, this airport is absolutely massive!!
Had
to get a sign to prove that we are here, reality check we are in
ORLANDO!!!!
Wow Despicable Me
picture at Universal, oh Amy we are going there, woop woop!! Let’s go and get the hire car
We had a guy who was
very obnoxious as we didn’t want to upgrade from the car that we had paid for
with a Cherokee big yute thing, why would we need one of those?! He was trying to tell us that we wouldn’t fit
our suitcases and the three of us in the car that we ordered, ofcourse we will
Marty! He then wanted to sell us a tank
of petrol which he said would cost $3.27 from him but $5 at the petrol
stations, so we ended It was really funny as we didn’t get our car keys we got
directed to the car park to where the cars were. So you look for the sign of the class of
vehicle you have paid for and then all cars have their keys in them so you pick
a car, drive off and then get to the barrier where they scan the barcode of
your paperwork and the car together then it is ‘Have a nice day!’ Hooray!!!
We
have chosen the silver Ford Escape
Getting loaded up, we
took Amy’s booster seat with us so Amy is all sorted :O)
Really
weird as they don’t have number plates on the front of the car
Our number plate
So we start driving
and the drive from the airport is only supposed to take half an hour so happy
days arrive at 7.32pm, perfect! But then
we do a few turns and we end up in a little lane and the satnav says that we
are at our destination, eh don’t think so!
So we reset the satnav and enter the address again and it now says we
are 40 minutes away from Kissimmee, oh what not sure what happened but we have come
the completely wrong direction L So we go along our merry way again and we
check every sign post to make sure the satnav is working correctly. We are blaming our guy Marty from the car
hire as he didn’t like us for not upgrading our car for the satnav not working! Ha ha, anyway eventually we end up close to
our house and pick up a few groceries for the morning! Now it is really late but we are all getting
excited to see the house that we have rented for the 2 weeks JJJ
Here
we are, we open the front door and we are met with this view! WOW! Living room, formal dining area leading onto ……
Family
sitting room leading onto …..
Kitchen
with breakfast bar and informal dining area
Kitchen
Bit
dark but this is the pool
Amy
has 6 bedrooms to choose from so she is darting about the house, giggling and
keeps on shouting ‘I feel like I am going to burst with excitement!’ She is close to tears with joy, lovely to see
she is so happy and appreciative of the house!
This is Amy’s bed for the 2 weeks!
We
haven’t had any tea so we are having girlie Nutella spread on toast before bed, yummy!!
Excited to be able to unpack our clothes and things for 2 weeks, cook and wash our clothes in a washing machine!
Night night everyone, we have parks to explore tomorrow!!
