Day 24 - February 3, 2009

I had a total blast today. I had to wake up early for my 8 am class but the teacher was entertaining and I think I will learn a good bit, including how to write a resume so I'm pretty excited about that. So I got back to the apartment right after, ate some lunch, and decided that just because no one else was off of work, I wasnt going to waste the blue skies. So I got in my car and went on an adventure by myself. First I had to go by the hotels since Jon and his family is coming in 10 days. To get the discounted room rates, you have to go to the hotel 10 days before and show your company id. So I went by Jon's hotel first, Coronado Springs. Its a moderate value resort but man was I impressed. It's got like a Mexican vibe to it with bright colors and whatnot. It was very, very nice. So I showed my id there and then went down the road to Animal Kingdom Lodge. It is the most beautiful hotel I have ever seen in my entire life. It totally blew me away. Wow. I will definitely take pictures of both of the hotels when they get there. I know that the lobby's of hotels are usually nicer than the rooms, but I'm still optimistic. They should be great hotels and I got good deals on them. So after I got them discounted rooms, I went to the Animal Kingdom by myself. I had a ton of fun. I'm usually not one to go off by myself but it was great. I got to walk as slow as I wanted and take all the time I needed to look at the backwards knees of flamingos :). I went on the safari twice to try to get on Roxy's but it never worked out. The 2nd time I went on it I saw the lion and the lioness!!!!! It was SO cool and thats pretty rare! I've been on the safari probably 5 times now and I have only seen the lioness 1 time and never the lion. I was very excited. After the failed safari's haha, I went on the roller coaster Expedition Everest.........SEVEN TIMES!!!! I just got in the single rider line and didnt have to wait at all! It was so much fun, I didnt have anything else to do, and I enjoyed it. I learned the ride pretty well so I just took crazy pictures when I knew the cameras were coming up. It was great. After that roller coaster I decided to go on this Kali River Rapid's water ride. I was going to leave right after so I didnt care much that I would get wet and be cold. It was fun, there were barely any people on the ride and I walked right on. I didnt get too wet so it was alot of fun. I left right after and went home, crashed on the couch for a little while, then Roxy got home. She had an awesome day too. She met Joey Fatone from N'SYNC haha! Not that she is a fan of N'SYNC but its fun to be star struck haha. Apparently I JUST missed him. Oh well haha. So far we have heard that Rihanna and Beyonce have been in the parks. My roommate Courtney saw the back of Rihanna's head haha. Supposedly celebrity sightings are pretty common. We went to eat pizza last night then met up with a bunch of people to go see the movie Taken. I thought it was going to be stupid but it really picked up in the middle. It was hilarious though becuase all the boys we were with (about 5) were ALL on the edge of their seats, literally, with their heads in their hands. It was SO funny. It's a total boy movie but we had fun. As we were leaving the movies we saw the Oscar Meyer Weiner Mobile!!!!!! It was serioulsy the most fun I've had since I've been here. Roxy said it was her best day ever as well haha. Hopefully those days are more frequent :)