Day One in the Books!

So today has been quite a long day. Last night my family and I had the brilliant idea of flying the Red Eye to Orlando, as this would maximize our time spent in Disney World. I had an equally brilliant idea of not sleeping; as I felt this would deter the effects of jet lag. Dumb idea, especially since we pounded the trail today at Disney’s Hollywood studios. However, it was pretty novel flying on the plane for the night as our Delta flight had a moving virtual map of our flight that had such facts as our flight path, speed, altitude, and distance traveled. It was cool seeing us fly over states like Texas and Louisiana—each of them I have yet to visit. I have never been on the East Coast, so its pretty cool to say I’ve now been to Florida! What a traveler I am ☺

Our flight landed quite early this morning, about 6:15 and we were checked in without a room an hour later. We were outside around 6:30, around daybreak, and it was already sticky/muggy/humid whateveryouwannacallit outside. This was just the beginning of things to come.

We got checked into our hotel, the Polynesian Resort around 7:30, and after a quick breakfast at Captain Cook’s, we went out to Hollywood. Before 9:00 in the morning it was already in the 90s and very humid. My all-nighter was already not agreeing with our circumstances.

The Hollywood Studios was… a bit of a letdown. They had a couple cool rides (most notably the Tower of Terror) but there wasn’t too much to do and it was sooo hot! We even watched a couple stunt shows to get out of the sun, but it was still miserable.

The highlight of the day for me was owning on Toy Story Midway Mania, as I had the highest score from anyone in my family. We have the same ride at Disney’s California Adventures and I have the highest score, so I needed to defend my title and did! (picture below as evidence!)



All four of us were pretty miserable, and it took a zany dinner to knock us back on track. We at the 50s Primetime Café, where the waitresses assume the role of 50s mothers (I’m sure ardent feminists would want to boycott this place) and they call the patrons kids and whacked those that were wearing hats or had elbows up on the table.

Well I think this is enough for tonight, I’m thoroughly exhausted and it is only 9:00 Florida time. Yikes!