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The last couple of days have been spent mainly driving around, shopping a little (in Wal-Mart, Sofie found Hannah Montana heaven.....) and eating in more or less shabby roadside diners. We´ve been avoiding highways to get the scenic route, which is nice, but it also means that when you need a motel of a kind, you sometimes have to be patient, cause the distances -like everything else over here - are huge. Thursday evening we finally found a motel - even a bit more shabby than the last one :-). We moved one of the beds closer to the wall, and out under the bed rolled old pill-glasses, a huge dead cockroach amongst other garbage :-)
Friday after breakfast and a dip in the pool, we left off for Disney World. It was only a half hour drive, since we had driven a lot further thursday than planned, in search of a motel.
In Disney, we met up with some family as planned, waited by the poolside cafe for a couple of hours for our rooms to be ready. In the afternoon we got the rooms - a whole different standard then uptil now :-)
The four of us have a huge apartment - two bedrooms, two bathrooms, kitchen/diningroom, livingroom and a lakewiev balcony - complete with washingmaschine, dryer, 3 flatscreen tv´s and so on.... This is definetly not the standard we will keep the rest of the trip, but for the next week, we´ll enjoy the luxury :-)
After settling in, and for some of us, a dip in the pool (myself, i had me a quick nap instead :-) ) we drove to the supermarket, shopped for some breakfast and drinks and so on, and then drove to downtown disney, had a stroll there and looked for a restaurant, which turned out to be a bit more difficoult a task than first assumed....with a billion people everywhere, and a saturday evening in downtown disney, there was a waiting time for about an hour everywhere. Well, there was nothing to do but wait, so at 21.30 , we finally got our food. Normally, not a problem, but since we still struggle a bit with jetlag, and haven´t been able to keep ourselves awake after around 20.30 in the evenings yet - this was a struggle. The kids ended up falling asleep in the restaurant, and food wasn´t exactly enjoyed... :-)
Still, the good thing is, we slept til´ 7.15 this morning :-)
Now we´re off to universal studios
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Finn Kristiansen Hej Jesica Jeg synes ikke mit egnelsk er så godt så det bliver på dansk. Håber det er ok. Jeg har gmet din blog så jeg kan fælge jeres rejse. Jeg kan forstå at i er på en lang rejse hilken lyder som super dejligt. 6 måneder. Jeg håber I får en god rejse med masser af oplevelser. Jeg gemmer din blog på min computer så jeg kan følge dig og din familie. Hygge hejsa.
Jan Nielsen Hi family T&C Hope you will survive the monsters under the beds. And they will probably not be the last you see ;) Enjoy the luxury, you diserve it.
Helle Kære alle 4 Der er altid spændende at logge ind på jeres side, og se at I er så flittige til at sende billeder og beskrivelser hjem til os, der må nøjes med kulde og efterårets komme: Hyggelig fætter og sengekammerat I sådan finder på jeres motel - har I checket skabet - måske gemmer det skeletter ? ;o)) Disney World i 6 dage, det lyder som et eventyr for børnene og de voksne barnlige sjæle. I morgen står den på missefodring - for første gang for mit vedkommende. En dag på job og så ellers efterårsferie til næste onsdag - skønt ;o))) Hyg jer og væbn jer med en sko af en vis herrestørrelse, hvis der skulle dukke andre krabater op. Knus fra Helle
jessica @Finn: Dansk fungerer fint :-). Vi må bare tage hensyn til de mange nationaliteter der følger bloggen - derfor engelsk :-) @Jan: Good practice for Asia I think....as long as they stay under the bed in stead of IN the bed, i´m cool with cockroaches :-) @Helle: Ja 6 dage med disney bliver nok både eventyrligt og udfodrende :-) Håber både I og misserne har det godt - I må nyde efterårsferien - kom i tanker om at vi aldrig nåede at få bon bon land billetterne brugt.....knus