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I have decided to write about something that happened last year. Why? Because I feel the story needs to be told. Or because I wanted to do another journal entry and I couldn’t think of something I could write about.

My dad decided to take me, my brother, and one of my friends on a trip to Florida last summer. Why did he invite my friend? I have no idea. I think it was so that I would have someone to talk to when I was bored or something, but I think she would agree with me if I said it was so we could get away incase of alligator attack.

Now, the reason we went to Florida was mostly because my dad wanted to go to Disney and we haven’t gone on a vacation anywhere since I was four years old (which for me wasn’t nice when school started every year. Teacher: "Okay class, you’re going to tell me what you did this summer! Mike, you’re first." Mike: "I WENT TO 6 DIFFERENT STATES AND OVER 100 TOURIST ATTRACTIONS!" Teacher: -insert my name-, you next!" Me: "I stayed home and watched TV. Then I went outside. stare " wink .

So after a few hours of preparation, another hour of getting on the plane, and two and a half more hours of flight, we arrived at some airport in Florida. Now, I am mentioning the airport because it was almost literally made of money. The floor was made of gold tiles, the walls were marble, and I’m sure if I had eaten something that was being sold there it would have been platinum coated. There was also a monorail to take you to the baggage claim. I’m not kidding. Where I'm from, the airport looks like it hasn't been cleaned since 1983, and the closest thing we have to a monorail is the chain of cars outside beeping at each other because nobody moves.

Then we got on a bus that was supposed to take us to our hotel. While on the bus we had to watch a video about how we were going to a Disney hotel and basically explaining all the stuff we knew already (Video: "Your going to get hungry eventually, so why not go eat in the food court/cafeteria! We have dozens of foods to choose from! But remember not to eat before you go on a rollercoaster!" Goofy: *Throws up* eek ).

We then arrive at the hotel and drop our bags off. We were immediately going somewhere, and that place was....Wal-Mart. Yes, we are in Florida and the first thing we do is go to a Wal-Mart. My dad then proceeded to buy over 200 dollars worth of random souvenirs that he would have otherwise never spent in his lifetime had these items not said Disney on them.

After loading up a taxi and putting all the junk we bought in the hotel room, we were off to Epcot. If you don’t know what Epcot is, its Disney plus technology plus the world. The world part of it consists of a large circular walkway that has several "countries" spanning across it. These are meant as something people are supposed to approach and take part in. However, my dad just stared at them and took pictures. They also had food that are cultural and are found in the individual countries, but we weren’t allowed to eat on this trip unless it was lunch or dinner time. I have never wanted pastry so badly.

Now, don’t get me wrong, Epcot WOULD have been fine. Except I had terrible jet-lag were there. And at the moment it really started to give me a headache we went into this short movie-like thing called "Honey I Shrunk the Audience". It is something that little kids would be very afraid of, and we just had to be sitting next to about five young children between the ages of 3 and 8. And lets just say that they don’t need help blowing out the candles on their birthday cakes. I can still hear their screaming. crying

We finally get to the hotel room again because we are all really tired. Now, remember when I said there were four of us? Well there were only two beds. And they weren’t that big. Every night, my friend would kick me in her sleep. She told me I had permission to hit her back, but every time I did it seemed to start a sleep fight and she would kick me even more.

Now, I’m not going to tell you every detail about what else happened or you may be reading this all day. So here are a few key points I would like to tell you:

-On the second day we found a person dressed as Buzz Lightyear. I then found out that my friend has a small fear of BL, and we made her take a picture with him. We then realized that there is a picture of him in our hotel room that actually stares at the bed her and I had to share. Her: gonk

-For some reason they had attractions from other Disneys imported, and one of them was the "Coronation of Cinderella Celebration", which was a staged show in which they crown Cinderella. It occurs...8 times a day. And there are speakers for that show that go halfway to the next section of the park, so anyone unfortunate enough to be close to it more than once has to suffer.

-Every night, there is a fireworks show at Epcot, The Magic Kingdom, AND Disney MGM (the three parks in Florida). And while they are nice to see, they emit enough smoke to kill the entire population of New York and is probably the reason why its so hot in Florida. Its not the fact that its to the south, its because there are several fewer layers of O-Zone above the state.

-My friend didn’t want to be in any more pictures after four days. My dad asked her why during one of the dinners we had at some fancy restaurant while also filming her. After she answered I said that if she wasn’t going to be in more pictures my dad would punish her by making her take a picture with every human being in the park while dressed as one of the princesses. I didn’t think this was that funny, but it made her spit out the water she was drinking all over the rest of our appetizer. This moment was also caught on film.

-At one point we were inside some place where they had people dressed as Mickey, Minnie, Donald, Goofy, and Pluto. In the middle of my dad taking pictures (you probably figured out by now that he is camera obsessed), someone came out and said that they need to take a break. The characters went into a room, followed by some other people. Obviously they were switching who wears the costumes. We saw the people who walked in and figured out who was going to be who when they came back out. There was a tall guy, so that was probably Goofy. There was a short woman who was most likely Donald. The last three were two women and a man who were all about the same height. We thought that the guy was probably Mickey and the others were Pluto and Minnie. But when they came out, we noticed that Minnie had larger legs than the two women and also seemed a little buff. Male Minnie deeply scared my friend.

-Theres a ride called the "great movie ride" or something like that in which you see the history of movies in a small ride sort of thing. Each group of people is led by a guide who basically tells you everything about whats going on around you. Before we got on the ride, we were basically the last in line and there was only one row of seats left, and they were the handicapped ones. They didnt want to put us in our own car (since each one can seat like 30 people), so the guide we had said "Its ok, if anyone asks we can always say that they are secret ninjas we hired to protect the wheelchair seat.". He also looked like one of my friend's teachers.

-There was another ride that is suposed to be like you are on a tour cruise going through rivers in different jungles. This one also had a guide, and ours made many puns. For example: "These are our alligators. The one on the left is Charlie and the one on the right is Ginger. Now, Charlie is great, but be carefull because Ginger snaps......get it?....Ginger.......snaps......". The best part of this ride however was the end. There was someone on the "dock" area who was going to take over for our guide when our ride was finished. Her name was Jenny, which I knew because it said so on her name tag. Our guide then said "Thank you for touring with us, my name is Maria and have a great day. And if you had any problems with your trip, remember that my name is Jenny." They then looked at eachother and Maria laughed, but Jenny kind of looked in shock.

So that’s basically all I have to share. If you don’t like it, you’re going to get a visit from Male Minnie tonight.










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