Disney Day Off!

Here's the video of my apartment here at The Commons. I know I sound a little bit overexcited and hysterical but I had been up for 23 hours straight and hey, it's Florida!!!!

Right, where did I get up to? Oh yes, Thursday morning.

On Thursday, we didn't have to be anywhere until 12.30pm so everyone woke up in their own time and we all ended up drifting round to Tino's and Andy's. For some reason, that seems to be our meeting place! It was Nicola's 22nd birthday and Tino (bless him) had cooked her a cheesecake from scratch. Rhys brought over candles which they put on the cake before sticking it in the fridge. Weirdly enough, the candles wouldn't light! Still, we pretended they were lit and sang "Happy Birthday" and we'd all got her cards and presents.

We headed up to the clubhouse at 12.25pm where we had to sit through more meetings about paperwork. We also had an immigration talk but that had a cute presentation featuring pictures from Toy Story so that was interesting. My God, I'm such a child! We had the opportunity to sign up for Partners which is an american bank. I signed up so my paycheck will automatically go into the bank account and I'll be able to access it by card. It's alot easier than having to take the paycheck to Walmart every week and paying $2 to have it cashed. At the end of all the sessions, we had to pass the "Disney Look" table where a couple of CM's (cast members) checked to make sure you were "Disney Look". I passed with no problem but a couple of the girls were told they were wearing too much makeup.

Once we'd finished all the sessions, we all met up and went out to Downtown Disney to celebrate Nicola's birthday properly. We took the bus that they provide here and headed straight for the Rainforest Cafe. We were given a time to return (8.30pm) so we spent the time checking out the Disney Marketplace. I have seen so much stuff that I want to get with my discount but we don't get our discount cards until Traditions (Saturday). Still, the time flew and we were seated in the Rainforest Cafe. For those of you who have never been to one, it's a themed restuarant. It's like you're sitting in a rainforest and every now and then they're a storm and all the animatronic animals go nuts. The food was quite nice and as it was Nicola's birthday, Lauren told the waitress. She said Nicola could have a free sundae or a volcano (that's a dessert mountain of brownie, ice cream and cream). We went for the volcano becasue it sounded like it was free. Unfortunately, we were charged for it and when we questionned it, the waitress got really snotty. At the end of the meal, we noticed that she'd added $40 to the bill as a tip! That's about £22! Well, being British, we decided not to pay for rubbish service so we took the tip off, left enough to cover the food and scarpered! We didn't get back to The Common's until gone midnight! Still ,it was still a great night out.

It was our day off today but as we haven't got a Disney pass yet, we couldn't go to the parks. Instead, some of us went to Typhoon Lagoon and some went to Wal-Mart and some others went back to Downtown. I love the way we can all do our own thing when we want to but we still get together in the end. I spent the day at Downtown checking out the shops. There's a HUGE Virgin store here and we will eventually get a 15 - 25% discount there! There's also a magic shop and various Disney stuff, it's awesome.

It's Traditions tomorrow and we're all up for 7.30am so I'll sign off here. Thanks for the comments everyone! If you have any questions about what to expect when you get out here, let me know!

Nic's just rang. She's at Tino's with Rhys and they're ordering pizza so I'm signing off here to go and get some pizza with Vikki!

Bye for now!