Grocery Bingo

Kate, Emily and I went to grocery bingo last night. We spent 2 and a half hours out there and we all came home empty handed :( 

Finger-Tip bingo cards! How cool

Disney Internship Flag

I had planned to go to Blizzard Beach today but once again the weather is stormy - I'm starting to think I'm never going to get to these waterparks! So I now plan to bake some delicious food and play the Sims 3. Maybe even watch a movie or something. Just relax my knee a bit today.

Memorial Day

Memorial Day long weekend + Star Wars Weekends = total chaos! It also doesn't help that annual passholders have no block out dates this year.

I worked 14 hours yesterday, and Muppet Vision 3D ended up getting up to a 30 minute wait time. It wasn't even this bad during Spring Break!

Gave away my midnight shift today as my knee is totally ruined. Got up out of bed this morning and my leg just gave out completely. So I am very thankful for the new guy taking my shift!

I'm looking forward to just relaxing and spending the day with Kate, we plan to have tea at Sweet Tomatoes as I have coupons!! And we are going to do some shopping because of the big sales here in America for Memorial Weekend. Only America would have big sales for the fallen soliders!

I think tomorrow I will try and use the crockpot for the first time - very excited!

Olivia's

I am incredibly sore and tired after yesterday. Lisa and I were originally meant to go to a water park before our free entry expires but it decided it would storm all day, again. We ended up agreeing on resort hopping between Old Key West and Saratoga Springs. First we had lunch at Olivia's Cafe at Old Key West 

Inside decor at the Cafe

Omega 3 Mixed Berry Smoothie

Pressed Cuban sandwich and coleslaw

As soon as we had finished our lunch the storm had began again so we hired out some board games at Vista Way. We had just started playing The Game of Life when Lisa got a phone call saying everyone in their apartment had to pack and move again. So we spend the rest of the day moving everything from one apartment to another (3rd floor this time!) at Chatham. We made tea together which is always fun! 

Game of Life

What I decided to wear while moving!

Mixed roasted squash, pasta salad and grilled pork for tea 

Sadness

Unfortunately I have had to self terminate my program. My knee has made walking an everyday struggle and I need it operated on urgently. I am beyond sad right now. I managed to find a flight on the 22nd of August for only $900 which is ridiculously good! 

I'm excited to be heading home but at the same time I am devastated to be leaving this experience much earlier than I planned. 

STAR WARS

Yesterday marked the beginning of Star Wars weekends! I am pretty excited about these weekends and will be trying to spend as much time looking at everything as possible (although working every day does make this kinda hard). I met Darth Vader, Darth Maul, Queen Amidala, R2D2, C-3P0 and some monster thing. It did take awhile to try and track characters down as Hollywood Studios was pretty darn packed!  I plan to head on in again next Friday to try and meet the rest of the characters and really look at all the different merchandise they have on offer. 

Muppets birthday

A MASSIVE HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO MUPPET VISION 3D! 

1900 Park Fare

Today is Kate's birthday so we went to 1900 Park Fare at the Grand Floridian to celebrate it as well as an early celebration for Rachel's at the end of this week. It is a character buffet dining experience. 

Entrance to the dining room

 It's called the Supercalifragilistic character breakfast - think English characters. Tigger, Pooh Bear, Alice, Mad Hatter (he wasn't there this morning :( ), Mary Poppins and Bert. It was a great way to celebrate their birthdays. Next time I would love to go in my pajamas, seems so much funnier!  

Tigger

Alice

Mary and Bert

Pooh Bear

Hugs all around

texmex goodness!

Once again I was caught in a random storm here in Orlando. Woke up to a beautiful sunny morning and by 3pm that afternoon it was bucketing down with lightning and thunder. Moral of the story? ALWAYS PREPARE FOR WET WEATHER! 

After work I went and hung out with Lisa (she extended till August WHOOOO) she has moved closer to me over in Chatham! We decided to go out to tea and went to this cool texmex restaurant called Chuy's 

Free tortilla chips with salsa and some creamy dip

Ladies room sign - super adorable!

Chile con queso, nachos, deluxe quesadillas,

chicken flautas, guacamole & sour cream

Homemade tortilla bowl with fresh, mixed salad

greens, tomatoes, cheese, guacamole & fajita beef

Lisa and I shared the appetizer platter and a taco salad - we ended up having to take the salad home as we were full from the platter! It was very well priced and the food was lovely.

Kinda sucked a lot not being back home with my mum and my family for mother's day but that's going to happen a lot this year - missing quite a few big things and will just have to make up for it next year. 

Yak and Yeti

Had an amazing time at Animal Kingdom today with Angie. I can now see why so many people list the Festival of the Lion King as their favourite thing to do there. It was incredible. Finding Nemo: the Musical not so much. 

Finally got to see some more rarer animals while on the safari - Lioness and the White Rhino 

Lioness enjoying the afternoon sun

Almost extinct white rhino

I found kangaroos while exploring the park and got overly excited (I do not regret this as guests then started asking me questions about them!)

We went to the Yak and Yeti for lunch and I just know I'll have to go back before I leave. The food was amazing. Service was pretty good as well for it being run by an outside provider (Disney doesn't actually own the resturant) 

Spiced Chai Tea

Maple Tamarind Chicken - Seared chicken breast, Indonesian tamarind glaze, coconut ginger rice, baby bok choy, shiitake mushroom stir fry

I got to walk all the way around the Tree of Life and look at all the animal carvings. It truly is beautiful. So much detail and hard work went into making it, you can really tell. I also got to ride DINOSAUR for the first time, I can now completely understand why children are frightened off it! It was alright. 

Sweetums

TODAY WAS STAR WARS LIMITED TIME MAGIC AT HOLLYWOOD STUDIOS! I finished work at 6:30 so I hurried on over to try and meet Darth Vader but his line was shut with a two hour wait left :( So I made do with a Stormtrooper 

My awesome star wars shirt 

The park was super hectic today, so one can only imagine what Star Wars Weekends are going to be like!

One of my favourite things about Muppert*Vision 3D is Sweetums. 

My Sweetums and me!

The weather has still been disgusting. Non stop storm for the past 5 days. I feel like people lose their marbles when it starts raining hard. Silly guests. 

Shitty everything

So the weather here has been terrible! Stormy with lightening and thunder and massive wind. Apparently there is a hurricane off the coast of Miami. Yesterday when I got off the bus after work it decided to start bucketing down right then and there! 

Drowned rat after the rain fall 

Bad weather 

I really need to change how I see myself. I can't keep hating myself and putting myself down every single day otherwise I will lose the ones I love and adore. I'm hoping that maybe being here will help my body issues. I've put on 3 kilos while I've been here which I am unimpressed with but my BMI is still within the healthy range so I guess it isn't too bad but I do need to re-lose that weight

Trying to like myself is hard

Tonight I finally got to make a nice home cooked meal. I made a frozen banana smoothie and whole wheat gnocchi with home made bolognese. It was amazing and now I have the next four days worth of food! 

Tonights amazing tea