Chatterbox: Chirp at Cricket

Here's my journal entry.  I added some pictures!! :D:D:D

Just got back from FLORIDA!!! Since the flight was cancelled on Wednesday because of snow, we flew in on Thursday at 4:30 in the morning, arriving at 11:30 AM.  We had a delicious burrito at an AWESOME restaurant near the airport. (I forgot what it is, but, Allison, figure it out and eat there!!!  YUM!!! J).  We checked in at the hotel, went to our room, and my mom immediately fell asleep.  I watched TV (extremely boring…) for a few HOURS…  Sigh…  The weather was decent, a little colder than I expected Florida to be…  That night, we drove to the Amway Arena and watched the Orlando Magic DESTROY the Cleveland Cavaliers.  It was the best game of the season, and I WAS THERE!!!  Sorry to Ohioans…  I had a BLAST!!!!  Go MAGIC!!  WIN THE FINAL WHATEVER-IT’S-CALLED!!!!!!

The next day, my mom and I drove to Tampa to see the zoo.  It was a BLAST!  They have baby elephants, tigers, orangutans, chimps, mandrills, pumas (she’s not really a baby anymore…), and something else that I somehow forgot what it was…  Allison?  Near the end of the day, my sweatshirt got soaked in heron droppings (I won’t go into detail, or the Admin will zap it).  Even though I bought a new sweatshirt and t-shirt, my hair stunk for the rest of the day.  Oh well!  We saw manatees!  They are such beautiful creatures!  The baby tigers and their mommy are pure white!  The cubs are 3 ½ months old and were completely crazy!  They kept play attacking each other and their mom!!  They were SOOO cute!!!!! 

On Saturday, we went to Disneyworld Magic Kingdom.  Pure fun!!!!  We got in all of the rides I wanted to go on, except for the, ohhhh, what’s it called???  Uhhhh….  *opens internet* *Googles “Disneyworld map”* *searches map for a loooong time* *finally finds the name* *faints from exhaustion* *wakes up to tell you the name* Wait.  I forgot it!  Wait a minute!  Big Thunder Mountain Railroad!  There!  I said it!  And we didn’t get to go on Snow White's Scary Adventures, which really disappointed me, because I have great memories of Mom, Angel (my cousin), Aunt Janet, (obviously my aunt), and I screaming the entire way, just for fun!  It was closed yesterday.  Maybe next time it’ll be open and our relatives will be with us!  We’ll have to see!

Today (Sunday), we, sigh, flew home…  WAAAAAAAA! L L L Allison, I couldn’t stop thinking, “Oh!  I can’t believe it!  I’m in the same city as one of my Chatterbox friends!!!!  I hope I see her!”  I’m sorry I didn’t see you… L We did tour many of the neighborhoods, though, including my parents' old house in a thuggish neighborhood and a wicked rich neighborhood.  Maybe I’ll see you another time!!! Oh!  Allison, do you like the Magic????  I’m a complete Magic freak and LOVE them!!!!  I’m soooo glad I got to go to the game on Thursday!!!! J

The pics are in backwards order, so sorry!!! :(

#1. Cinderella's Castle at night! :D

#2. A hidden Mickey! (they hide Mickey heads all over the park!  This was the only one I could find....)

#3. Where we got stuck on the Pirates of the Carribean ride. (We actually got stuck for ten minutes.  The announcer told us not to panic.  They had people climb out of a door in the wall and fix it.  It ruined the effect.... :D:D:D)

#4. A giraffe

#5. The elephant and his mommy

#6. The giraffe and a zebra

# 7. An impala and kudus (they're similar to bongos!!!!!)

#8. A few of the many parakeets in the parakeet room

#9. Two parakeets that happened to look particularly like Buddy and B.B.

#10. A scary bird that I'm convinced wanted to kill me (seriously! it kept flying right at me!!!!

#11. Baby tiger (sorry it's blurry!)

#12. The mommy tiger licking the baby to death :)

#13. A cute little birdy

#14. Riding the monorail from the terminal to the baggage claim (sooo much bigger than Portland!!!!)

Gracias!!!!