And another couple of weeks have flown on by

Once again, sorry, I forgot to update/have been a bit busy/couldnt be bothered. But whats been going on recently? I have 3 days left of work at Soarin which to be honest Im pretty gutted about. I decided on moving because there didnt seem to be any cool people coming in and because I would have gotten really bored staying there until January. But now cool people have popped up out of nowhere and I dont want to leave!! Im moving to the Towers gift shops which are these two matching gift shops at the edge of world show case. I get to wear a shirt with flags all over it and white shorts up to my waist with the shirt tucked in. I am also going to have to become the proud owner of a pair of white shoes. Ugh. In other news, My family is currently at the Niagara Falls but they are slowly making their way down here. So excited! Honestly cant wait to see them! Pretty sure everyone over here has heard enough about it to last them a life time! Yesterday three of the guys from work - Jeremy, Michael and Greg- went to Mickeys Retreat and played tennis. It was so much fun, felt really good to be doing something outside lol. Except that we were dumb/keen enough to do it in the middle of the day so it was REALLY hot and muggy outside. We were all so gross and sweaty by the end of it. Was fun though! I had quite a productive day actually, I made brownies and I did my laundry and I tidied my room a wee bit and I did my assignment for class and I read some Harry Potter. Then I went to work which, because we were all working so late, we had all decided to bring cakes. Thats what I made brownies for. So we had a LOT of cake. We were all on a huge sugar rush but then around 11pm we all crashed pretty hard lol. Wasnt maybe the smartest idea of all time. Was good while it lasted though!!! And today me and 5 of the other girls from work are going to Beaches and Cream which is an icecream parlour kind of place. They make whats called the Kitchen Sink which is a scoop of every kind of icecream and all of the toppings in a bowl shaped like a sink. Its HUGE. Noone ever finishes it but we think we are up to the challenge!!! So thats in an hour or so. Im still in bed :). Oh!! I didnt tell you about Harry Potter! Universal Studios has opened a new area called the Wizarding World of Harry Potter. Its all themed and set up like Hogwarts and Hogsmeade. The day it opened my room mates waited 8 hours to get in. Just to get in, thats not for the rides or anything. It is so amazing. I got Butterbeer and ate at the 3 broomsticks and saw Ollivanders and Zonkos. The new ride they made for it is incredible. Its inside Hogwarts castle and the queue goes through Hogwarts which is awesome. THere are moving paintings and everything. The ride itself is insane, I dont even know how to start to explain it... You sit on a bench and fly all over the place, past dementors and a basilisk and through a quidditch game. But that makes it sound lame. I just cant explain it properly. AAAAAmazing. Yesterday it was raining really hard so I wore a rain coat to work. I took it off when I got on the bus then when I got off the bus I put it back on. Only thing was that I put in on inside out. All the rain ended up on the inside. But yeah thats pretty much everything for the last few days! 4th of July on Sunday so thats going to be fun. Even though I wont see the fireworks or anything. I kinda really want to see the fireworks!! Oh well. Im going to do somehting productive now. Bye!

TOY STORY 3

OH MY GOSH! We went to Toy Story 3 last night after work. 11.30pm showing. We got there at about 10.15 so we had time to go get Ghiradellis beforehand which was fantastic. I love icecream so much :). Then to the movie. It was fantastic fantastic fantastic! So so so good! Loved it loved it loved it. I cried lol. So did all of the other girls with us and a couple of the guys. The guy sitting in front of me, Vincent, has the funniest laugh ever. He sounds like a 40 year old woman. And he laughs at everything. So I was cracking up the whole way through just at him! Some of the others went to Hollywood this morning. I couldnt go because I had class. Yeah did I tell you I picked up a class? Creativity and Innovation. Its a college level class (kinda) and at the end you get a mousters degree. lol. It sounds like fun though. This morning was the first class and it was really good, the lecturer teacher whatchamacallim is funny as anything... Same kind of sense of humour as Dad lol. Good to be made to think again lol. Anyways, everyone else went to Hollywood. And they got to see Lots'o'huggin bear. Apparently he actually does smell like strawberries! I want to go hug him. And tell him off for being evil. Um. Oh and the other night I went to see Chicago! It was so good! THey had the band all up in the back centre of the stage, the whole thing was kind of set up as a jazz bar or something. It was fantastic- if you could get over the kinda dodge costumes lol. Anyways thats about it for the last few days. I got 6 hours sleep last night because I got home from the movies at 2am and had class at 9am. And now its 11pm and I have church in the morning. My sleep patterns are so bad! Oh well! At least I didnt totally give in to being stupid and go to Rachels to play wii. There is an epic thunderstorm happening at the moment. Huge lightning and massive as claps of thunder. Nothing out of the ordinary though, they happen at least every week or so here!
So yeah Im off to bed. Good night!
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Whoops

So I totally forgot that I said I would update and tell you alllll about my adventures in Michigan. Here we go. I hope youre excited. Its pretty epic. We caught a train from Chicago to Grand Rapids. The train took 4 hours. It was really reaaaaaaaaaaaaally REEEEEEEEAAAAAAAALLY slow. I probably could have crawled quicker than that train went. Rebecca was complaining about it the whole way. I was quite happy drawing a picture. I think Rebecca probably thinks Im about 4 years old.. you know, give me some crayons and a cardboard box and Im happy for hours... Anyways we got there and Brittany and Bonnie picked us up. Apparently Bonnie was so excited our train was coming in that she started running towards the tracks and Brittany had to actually grab her so that she didnt die. Lol funny little korean child. We drove back to Brittanys and ate cake that Bonnie had made then went to bed. I was sleeping on the couch downstairs because Brits room isnt that big and there were three of them in there already lol. I think I had the most comfortable spot to be honest!! The next day we got up pretty late and went for a swim in the pool. Bonnie went down the slide into the deep end and kinda didnt mention she couldnt swim so she couldnt touch the ground and was thrashing around and drowning for ages before we decided we should probably go get her. Whoops. She wasnt too happy with us! After that she refused to let go of her little orange floaty thing. The weather packed it in after that so we went out for lunch with Brittanys mum and then to the movies to see Letters to Juliet. Ended up wandering around the mall for ages- they all insisted on looking in all the makeup shops, kinda wanted to shoot them. I got hungry so I bought a pretzel. Then we went home and watched Dear John because it was still rainy and gross. The next day it was really nice again so we drove about 40 minutes to the sanddunes and rolled down them and got sand in our ears. We walked down the beach and such and did the running away from the waves thing. Good day all up. When we got home we blobbed for a bit then went out for tea to one of those japanese places where they cook in front of you and throw food at you. I think my eyebrows got singed, the fire went a bit bigger than it was supposed to and I was a wee bit closer than I should have been. It was really good though! After that we were really really really full but we went for a walk through the city and along the river and saw the fish ladder. Lol, yes. The fish ladder. Apparently all the salmon swim downstream and cant get back up the little water fall thing so they made a ladder. Its pretty much just steps but apparently at the right time of year there are fish all over it. After that lovely little adventure we went home and made smores the american way with graham crackers and massive big marshmallows. :) Only the fire wouldnt catch properly so we went through an entire bottle of kerosene. They were good though. Bonnie ate 6. And then we went to bed and then got up and then went to the airport and then caught the plane and then caught the shuttle and then went back to our apartments and slept for a long long time. The end. :)

Chicago!

Ok! So yes, I know its been a wee while too long. My bad. At the urging of my parents- who Im pretty sure are about the only ones who read this anyway- I am going to update you now! I got home last night from an epic adventure with Rebecca, Bonnie and Brittany. Me and Rebecca flew to Chicago last Friday at 10 am ish. That was super fun seeing as I finished work at 12.15, got home at 1.15am, got to bed at about 2 and had to be up at 6.30 to pack!! I functioned reasonably well for the rest of the day considering my very limited sleep. So yeah we flew into Chicago and after much deliberation and confused-ness caught the train into the CBD. Luckily the train stopped about a block from the hostel we were staying at. Unfortunately we walked in the wrong direction so the one block became about 10 or so. With our bags. Awesome. We dumped all of our stuff then went for a wander to Millenium park which was awesome, there are huge big sculptures and stuff. There is one called cloud gate, I think its pretty famous. Its shaped kinda like a bean and its made of reflective steel or aluminium or something so it reflects the skyline in a crazy mirror kinda thing. It was amazing, you could walk under it and photo bomb other peoples photos really easily :). After that we started walking to the John Hancock tower but gave up because of rain and went inside the art gallery instead. It was crazy, there was so many pieces in there that I had studied! Picasso and Gris and Braque and Kandinsky and Hopper and Brancussi and Mondrian and that one with the American Gothic man and woman with the pitchfork. It was awesome. Except that by about half the way around it I was getting really hungry which isnt good because then I get grumpy. Soooo we caught the train to this super cool diner with waiters and waitresses yelling at each other and singing and dancing to 50s music. They got up on the tables and lipsynced at one point. The food was good in a heart attack waiting to happen kinda way. Rebecca gave her number to the waiter. I laughed. Caught the bus home and slept so so so so well!! The next day- Saturday- was really gross and rainy. We were going to do a walking tour but that failed because of the rain so we went shopping instead. Didn't really see anything of interest though, except for a whole lot of really artsy kinda shops that we wanted to buy everything from. I bought an umbrella because it was really really rainy! I didnt really think that purchase through though, its kinda not exactly compact which made carrying it aroung a wee bit annoying. I managed to stab both myself and Bex with it. The handle is also entirely metal which means if I use it in Florida Ill probably be struck by lightning and die. Oh well lol, it made me feel very Mary Poppins like while I was carrying it!! After we went shopping the rain stopped for a while so we did a walking tour of historic architecture. It was pretty fantastic, saw lots of buildings we wouldnt have looked at twice but that were actually amazing if you looked at them properly. One of the things I liked most about Chicago was the diversity of the buildings. Most cities all of the skyscrapers and other buildings look the same but in Chicago they were all totally different. There were all sorts of different influences chucked all in together. It was really interesting to look at. Um. After that we went to Pizzeria Uno for tea and got deep dish chicago pizza which was so so good! Yummmm. We were both feeling kinda ickyy by then because we had forgotten to drink anything all day so we tried to rehydrate all at once. Not a smart idea because we then went to Billy Elliot the Musical and as epically awesome as it was, I needed to pee the entire second half. Billy Elliot was amazing though. Absolutely amazing! Loved it. Loved it. Loved it. We got our seats for $25 which we thought was a good deal, they were limited view but you only missed one corner of the stage which nothing happened in anyways. Went home, went to bed. Sunday we started by going up the Sears tower. Except that now its the Willis tower. But all good, its the tallest building in the states. We stood on the little glass plate things and looked dooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooown to the little people underneath us. It was pretty cool, but maybe not worth the $15 or whatever it was to get up there. The sky tower is fairly similar. Not as tall, but similar. After that we walked around the water front to Navy Pier which is the really really super touristy bit of the city. Ate Chicago style hotdogs for lunch then went to the circus! After that we caught a bus to try and go to the zoo but we epic failed because we got lost then it started to rain. Again. So we wandered back to the train station again, back to the hostel and ate our left over pizza for tea. THEN, and thats in capitals because this was EPIC, we went to the cheesecake factory for dessert. OH MY GOSH. It was so so so so good. I got raspberry truffle and Rebecca got tiramisu and we ate half of each and felt sick but it was so amazingly awesome tasting. Then we walked home and went to bed. Wow Im doing pretty well remembering what happened on each day huh? Monday we checked out of the hostel and left all of our stuff there while we went to Oak Park which is the suburb that Ernest Hemingway and Frank Lloyd Wright were from. It was pretty. Kinda similar to the art gallery/ Hagley kinda area of Chch. Then we got our gear and caught the train to Michigan to meet Brittany and Bonnie who had spent the last 2 days driving the distance we flew in 2 hours. Bahaha. Did all kinds of fun stuff there too but Ill leave that for another day because my fingers hurt. Bye!

14 hour days are FUN! :S

Yeah so overtime always sounds like such a good idea when you first request it. Then you see your schedule and go eargh. Then you work it and pretty much die. That was my experience yesterday, minus the dying part. Im still alive. Just so you know. I worked from 8.45 am to 11.30pm. It actually wasnt too bad, I wanted to kill people less than I did at the end of my 8 hour day a few days ago. Me and Nick had the same shift. We supported each other through our hardships and I fed him chocolate. Anyways enough about my ridiculous shift yesterday. Other than work I havent been doing a lot. Ive spent a fair bit of time at the Christian and Johns apartment recently, kinda nice to get out of Vista. Um. I really cant think of anything of interest to write in here. I walked into a door yesterday, it hit me right in the middle of the forehead and REALLY hurt. Um. Im going to Chicago next week with Rebecca. Um. Yeah its raining which is making my fingers lethargic so byebye

HI!

Well the last time I tried updating this the internet cut out and wouldnt save my awesomely massive post. Thats why there hasnt been anything on here for a wee while. And, just because Im paranoid, this post is going to be very short and to the point.

Not a lot as been happening around here recently. It was Johns birthday the other day so we went to laser tag last night. Insanely intense laser tag. With HUGE big military style guns. Dont ask me what kind they were but im pretty sure they were modelled off real ones. The first round I had a really big one, maybe a sniper rifle or something? But it was really big and heavy and I couldnt figure out how to look through the scope and pull the trigger at the same time so I used a little machine gun kinda thing for the other rounds which worked out a bit better. I didnt survive a lot longer but at least I wasnt hurting myself!! Everyone else there was really hard out into it it was funny... we just failed :). It was fun though! Today I went to Bonnies and helped her make sushi. That was pretty exciting. Then she made korean pancakes which were pancakes with cinnamon syrupy stuff in the middle. So good! :) And now Im off to get ready for work. Lameness, most of the cool people have gone which is lame. I cant wait for the new CPs to come, new people! But yeah I should offskis and get ready for work! Hope you guys are having good times- but not toooo good times or Ill get jealous.
Kristy

DAYTONA BEACH!

Ok so the last week or so has been fantabulous. On... Thursday? Yeah. Thursday. We all went out to TGI Fridays after work to say good bye to the CPs who are leaving this week. So so sad, both of my favourites are leaving. Funny thing was, most of the people who are leaving didnt come. Thats ok though, the rest of us had fun. Everyones cars were full on the way there so me Rebecca and Bonnie walked from Vista. It was pretty funny times, none of the flashy man walk now thingymajigs were working so we kinda just... ran. Wasn't the best. But yeah that was a good night. Ate waaaaaaaaaaay too much. Got an entree of fried mozzarella. Yes. Deep fried cheese. Awesome ay? So I got home from that at about 1 am. I then got up at 6am to pack for Daytona. The taxi came and got us at 6.45am and drove us to the greyhound station which happened to be in this really really dodgy area of down town Orlando. We were pretty scared lol. Sat there for about an hour waiting for the bus and generally trying not to fall asleep. Once we arrived at Daytona we did all the usual finding our hotel, getting settled in kinda stuff, blobbed on the beach for a while then we decided we wanted lunch. We went to this really really cute 50s diner. Just like in the movies!! From there we taxied to a chocolate factory which did a tour and let us sample the chocolate which was EPIC as... sooo good. The next day we went to Ponce Outlet to go parasailing. I wasnt planning on going- was running a bit low on money- but the others all wanted to so I tagged along and went on the boat. Thing was, the guy was talking to me and asked why I wasnt going so I told him. He ended up letting me go for free! I was like MEAN. It was sooo much fun, we went at 1000 feet- around 300m. Could see heaps, blue sky, blue water, white sand... gorgeousness. They dipped us in the water a few times as well which was awesome seeing as I was fully clothed... haha. Dont think the others were hugely impressed that I got to go for free but oh well. Um what else did we do that day? Oh. Stacey wanted a tattoo and Jackie wanted her nose pierced so they went and did that. The others all hung around and watched but I wasnt really too keen on staying there- was kinda dingy and it was soooo nice outside- so I walked home along the beach. It took about an hour and a quarter which would have been fine except that I wasnt wearing sun screen. I now have some really epic tan/burn lines. Third day we tried to go to IHOP for breakfast but failed so we tried the diner and failed so we ended up going to a burger place. Now, I ordered a grilled chicken sandwich. The lady misheard me and thought I said grilled cheese. I said that was fine and Id eat whatever. She puts a burger down, it gets passed down to me so I figure hey, this must be for me. I took a bite. Then I get told its not mine, it was Sarahs. So I passed it to Sarah and said "Sorry, I took a bite". That would be reasonably ok back home right? You wouldnt do it to a random but anyone you know, whatever, its only a bite. But apparently the rest of the world, not so much...... They gave me crap the rest of the day. Hung out on the beach for a few hours. I went swimming and wave jumping and stuff but the others were boring and stayed on the beach. Turns out I was swimming in a rip. oops. After that we taxied- again- to the Nascar Speedway. That was pretty cool, saw the race track and stuff. From there we walked to the mall. Which was shut. We still had about 4 hours until we had to be at the bus station- and really really didnt want to get there early because that bus station was just so DODGE!! So we stole a couple of trolleys and put all our stuff in them- I should probably mention we had to check out of the hotel at 11 am so we had been dragging all our stuff around all day- and wandered around various shops. Eventually we got sick of that so we pushed our trusty trolleys to Olive Garden where we spent a ridiculously long time deciding what we wanted to eat and doing everything else as slowly as possible. It was really good food. After about 2 hours we kinda sensed the poor waiter wanted us to leave so he could get new people and more tips so, very reluctantly, we gathered all our stuff that was piled around the table and loaded up the trolleys again. We still had a couple of hours so we went to Dennys- we spent a LOT of time in restaurants- parked our trolleys under a street light so we could keep an eye on them and ordered icecream sundaes. Eventually we decided to brave the bus station. So so so dodge! No other word describes it quite right. Im pretty sure everyone else on that bus was transporting drugs and/or homeless. We all had to split up too because the bus was almost full and there were only scattered empty seats. Finally we got home and, very thankful for Vista security, went home and to bed. The end.


That was a pretty long post huh? Well its not the end. I still have to tell you all about today! Haha. So today Rebecca me and one of her friends went horse riding at Fort Wilderness! Random much lol. It was pretty cool except I wanted a pretty horse and got an ugly one :). But at least it was well behaved and my helmet went unused!! After that we wanted to go swimming so we caught a guest bus to Blizzard Beach. My first time at Blizzard! I love the concept, its all set up like a ski village. So yeah just hung out in the pool and went down a couple of slides and stuff. We were only there for an hour ish though. Didnt see any snakes in the lazy river which was a good start! Um yuppyyup I think thats around about it now. You can all go back to your lame as lives and leave me to my fantastically exciting one! :)
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