Guess where I am..... :p

The story so far.....

So far things are going pretty well down this way. After a brilliant going away party on Saturday which was accompanied by a majestic Hannah Montana cake it was soon time to go. Following a breakfast burger at Frankie and Bennys it was time to say my goodbyes and head through to security. Luckily a group of ICPers were on hand to bring some sparkle to the wait for the jet and it was nice to see some familiar faces :D. The flight went well and I even managed to watch Slumdog Millionaire! I was sitting next to a fellow ICPer who was doing QS F+B so it was good to have a little chat with him and because we were at the back quite a few people came to have a chat there so it was rather nice to have a back of the plane crew for a time.

Once we arrived at the airport we waited for immigration which went smoothly and went to get the coach. An hour later we were on our way and by the time we reached Vista it was 7pm (our flight landed at 3.25pm!). I shall never understand how it took 20 minutes for one person to get off but somethings I guess we just arent supposed to understand ;). After registering we received some information from Disney including maps and itineraries. Unfortunately (I thought at the time!) I was assigned to Chatham Square and the majority of my friends were in Vista. However, CS is lovely and new :D and have since found out is housing quite a few ICPers :D.

So I arrived at my apartment at 8.30pm (having been up since 3.30am UK time!) to meet my new housemates. At this point three were in - Joyce (my roommate), Jayne and Ashley all of which are absolute sweethearts. They are all American and are on the college program so they will be here until January. After watching a bit of Moulin Rouge we went to Wallmart for the bits and bob shop :D.

By the time we got back I met my other American housemates and another girl arrived (Caroline from france) and Amy from England but by this time it was midnight and I just had to get to bed.

My first proper day in Florida has been great. I had a nice breakfast and managed to get in touch with the most important of people (oh the powers of lovely skype - nice seeing you M+D!) After having a wander around the Chatham complex (during which I found the pool) it was time to head to the induction where we had our housing welcome session, generally a list of dos and don'ts whilst at Disney. It was nice to meet a few new people and chat to others who had also arrived yesterday. Once at Vista it was time for the inspection both of documents and the disney look. Luckily I passed both although am still unsure whether I look a. extremely cheesy in my ID or b. super cheesy in my ID :D.

Although we planned to go to the Studios in the afternoon we found out that we weren't allowed to gain access even with CPCM so instead headed for Downtown Disney. After getting our pics taken by DisneyPhotoPress we were pretty pleased with the results :p and continued to casually window shop before heading to the capital of America - MaccyDs hehe.

Later we spent sometime poolside and managed the Alphabet Ball Pass (with a little help from random ICPers) and after obligatory blogging are now rather tired, time for bed methinks - although perhalps a little watch of ENews before hand....................?

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