Misadventures in Orlando, Florida

When we arrived in Orlando the first thing we did was call our hotel for a shuttle to come pick us up.  This went pretty smoothly, we didn't have to wait for the shuttle for to long.  We got to the hotel, checked in and went to our room.  I opened the door and there was only one bed (not even a queen so there was no way that Amber and I could have both slept in it), we went back up to the front desk and changed rooms.

The following day we headed to Islands of Adventure.  We had to arrange for the shuttle at our hotel to take us, they ended up charging us forty dollars round trip.  We weren't happy about it but really didn't have any other options so we just paid the money.  

Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry

Amber and me in front of the Hogwarts Express

Eating lunch at the Three Broomsticks

Me and Cyclops

At the end of the day, we were stranded because the shuttle never came to pick us up.  There were several taxis around so we decided that we better just take one back to the hotel--there went another thirty dollars.  The driver told us to just tell our hotel what happened and ask for our money back.  The hotel didn't seem to surprised when we told them no one had shown up.

The next night we decided to go to the Florida Mall to get some food.  The mall was about three miles away from our hotel so we decided that we would take the bus but the bus stop was not where it was supposed to be.  Justin, the guy at the front desk, offered to get the shuttle to take us and told us which bus to take to return.  After we ate and were ready to leave the mall we somehow got on the wrong bus and ended up at the bus station.  It was about eleven pm, no buses were running and we were once again stranded; but this time we were in the middle of Orlando and had no way to get back.  We called our hotel to get the number of a taxi service and had to call them to come pick us up.


By the time we got back to our hotel, Amber and I had had it with Florida.  So far we had been stranded twice and everything seemed to be going wrong.  We weren't sure that we wanted to take the chance the next day and go to Universal Studios even though we already bought tickets.


However when we woke up the next day, we wanted to go to Universal Studios.  We had Justin call a taxi for us.  We made arrangements with the woman who drove us to come pick us up later that day after the park closed and crossed our fingers that she would be there.  She was!  

"Roads?  Where we're going, we don't need roads."

Me and Curious George

We were both looking forward to getting to our cruise ship the next day and from there we knew everything would go smoothly.