Thursday, September 21, 2006
21st July 2006.... VA-ORL... downtown disney night
sorry for the lack of photos for my travelling... i feel so ashamed to blog this 2 months after the day itself! haha. been busy with 2 mini presentations this week and well.. with work, tuition and school work is just getting busier with projects and projects. sighs!anyhows, i think all my memories and feelings that i've experienced are more or less starting to fade away already with all the stress from school.. which is really bad. haha. but i'll try my best to recall all that i've experienced and felt then.
we left virginia from richmond airport to head for orlando, florida on the 21st july, the next day after our last day of work. i couldn't remember much except that i was super exhausted mentally, physically and emotionally. it was so hard for me to leave because i knew i was gonna leave the place for good. all the memories, all the good times... all the people. i just couldn't put down. sighs. i just didn't wanna go. but i knew i had no choice. i had to. nothing is forever in life. i just need to learn how to let go..
and so we were back in richmond airport again.. 2 months and 21 days later. we were ready (physically) to board our airtran domestic flight for our 1+hr flight to orlando.
our gate to board...
inside the waiting area...
the 10 of us on the same flight to orlando... 
part of the aircraft we were on... and part of richmond airport
the wing of the aircraft... 
last sights of virginia...
and here we go...up in the air... and bye bye virginia...i remembered i cried so badly when the plane took off... i just couldn't control my tears. sighs. the feeling was so different from when i landed there almost 3 months ago. i just didn't know those few weeks made such a big difference to my life.. i just never knew that when i arrived there.
us on board...
there wasn't like a proper meal on board since it was only a short/budget kinda flight...but we had light snacks and drinks.
their own house brand pretzels!
this is so cute!
and then we flew for about an hour plus and finally reached the state of florida!
touching down soon....
and here is orlando airport!
we have finally reached safely... and hundreds of miles away from virginia...
air tran plane...
we are at orlando aiport~!
just stepped out of the plane.. inside the boarding/alighting area.
we had to take a skytrain kinda thing to get out and collect our luggage... it's starting to rain!
inside the train...
and then we reached the other side of the airport.. it's part of a hotel too! wow.
hello mickey! i can just feel disney from inside the aiport!
6 of us were in the same hotel.. and so we shared a cab to travel down to our hotel. it was pretty far.. about a 45 mins drive away. florida is much cleaner, brighter, and nicer than virginia. it looks similar to singapore.. i guess it's nice because it's a tourist attraction which welcomes million of visitors from all over the world every year, unlike virginia.it looks similar to virginia.. but feels different. i guess virginia will always have a special place in my heart after spending almost 3 months of my life there. i still like virginia more because of what it means to me.
anyhows, it was about late afternoon when we finally reached the hotel. no pictures of it unfortunately.. it's too ugly. haha. we went for the cheapest accomodation so it really wasn't anything fantastic... but it was acceptable and err.. live-able. haha.
we rested for a while and decided to head down to... downtown disney where it's supposed more happening at night. it's this place that has lotsa shops and like disney stuff... people go there and club and have fun at night.
downtown disney!
the river/lake/water so pretty!
picture with a big pineaple...? like our durian like that. haha.
the sun's so.... brriiiggghhhhttt!!
i see a disney bus!shots of downtown disney...
us with the waters again...!and then our stomachs growling... well actually it already did when we reached the airport but we spent so much time snapping and snapping when we reached downtown disney... haha so well.. we finally decided it was really time for dinner!
but we still couldn't kick the habit of snapping and snapping even though we have already reached the doorstep of the place that we were gonna have dinner at.
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we love Macdonalds! haha actually we don't.. we were just fascinated with the BIG M. lol.
inside the fastfood restaurant... a macdonald tree made up of cups and... straws?? haha.
we were so hungry we bought BIG MACS!!! but it seriously wasn't that big at all. the ones in singapore are bigger lor... SUPER SIZE ME!! hahaha... frankly the macs in US really ain't that fantastic. i only like wendys there. singapore's macs tastes better!after dinner we continued to walk around and we came to... LEGO stuff!
they are all made of LEGO~!
a dragon in the water made of lego!then we moved on to all the shops which had all the themes of... DISNEY!
me and a big mickey face!
cinderella princess...
i love tigger and pooh!
and i love mickey and miney too!inside the shops... so preeetttyyyyy!!!
all the disney shops... with different characters... some of the shots turned out not as nice because the sun was setting and well.. it wasn't as easy to capture the nice ones because of the lighting...
inside the shops... all the nice figurines...
the five disney princesses...
do you recognize all 5 of them? from top left... belle from beauty and the beast... cinderella... aurora from sleeping beauty... ariel little mermaid... and snow white!
pretty pretty pictures of the interior of the shops...
the seven dwarfs... so pretty!
three little pigs.
mickey and minnie.
donald and daisy!
why is tigger up there?
resting and waiting for the rest... so tired...
we were trying to mimick the poses of the 6 characters on top... haha... can you tell?
oops... i'm sorry i got into your picture.
who's there posing with us?
then we went to planet hollywood, orlando! not to eat.. but just to take a look
inside planet hollywood, orlando...
we ended off with planet hollywood where i wanted to buy a tshirt but i didn't in the end cuz it was too expensive. kinda regretted it cuz i should have asked for kids size which was smaller and cheaper. i knew of their kids size from the NY outlet... but i didn't ask when i was at orlando then.. wasted.finally...! it was time to go back to the hotel to rest and recharge for the next day! it would be a full day ahead at universal requiring ALOT of energy!
i was so tired that i must say i didn't enjoy much. but downtown disney was really pretty. i wished i was in a better state when i was there then.
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