Catch Up!!!!

I have been really poor at keeping this blog up to date since we have been back in the UK. We have been crazy working 2 jobs so we can save enough money to go travelling around the world. Well the flights are booked and we are off on the 2nd Feb 08 for 6mths. We are heading back to America to begin the adventure. We are starting in San Fran/LA for 2weeks then we fly to Cook Islands for 2weeks. We then fly to New Zealand for 1 month and then to Australia for 2.5 mths. We then head to Thailand for 1mth and finally to Africa for 2weeks before we fly home on the 1st August.

Going to be an amazing experience, I am going to do my best to keep this blog updated with our travels.

Just a few of amazing place we are going!!

Enjoying Disney

Last weekend MGM Studios hosted Star Wars Weekend so on our day off Chris and I headed there for the last day. It was packed!!!! We werent to bothered about the rides, Chris wanted to see some stars. We lined up for a picture with Chewbacca, Darth Vader and some other characters which were very scarey!!!!! Chris was very impressed that he saw some of the real characters!!! There was a show with all the characters which was very good. The kids could fight Darth Vader with light savers!!!! wow!!! hehe!


Awww soo cute.
On our next day off we catch the bus to Fort Wilderness Lodge and walked through the woods to the camp ground, there was a storm brewing in the distance. It was cool to be out in the wilderness, the trees were sooo tall. We arrived at the camp ground to find a ranch and their was a black smith redoing the horse shoes. Really cool to watch.
We brought ice creams and sat out on rocking chairs, good way to relax. We walked through the camp ground the VRs are sooo huge and cool.

Brilliant two days off, our last before we go home!!!!! Loved seeing all the Disney resorts and Parks. Very lucky to have them on our door step. Well we only have few days left, looking forward to coming home. We have had the best time and done sooo much.

THE DISNEY CRUISE!!!!!!

WOW WOW WOW!!! What can I say we have had the best 4 days, if anyone gets the chance to go on the Disney Cruise Line then GO. It is amazing!!!!!! We set off on Sunday to the Beach Club Resort where the coach picked us up, to take us to the Port. We were both very excited, really felt like a proper holiday. As we arrived at Port Canival we could see the Ship, think I was jumping around the coach like a little kid.

Disney had their own termial and we checked in and were give our Keys to the world, which means we dont have to have cash with us, charge everything to our account!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! quite scarey when we got the bill at the end!!!!!!!!!!!

We boarded the ship into the lobby which was beauitful, they asked us our name and annouced it to the ship. "Please welcome the Lynes Family". We headed to our rooms where our luggage was waiting for us, no worries about dragging luggage all done for you. Lunch was being served on deck 9 so we checked that out, sooo much food all very yummy!!! After we walked round the rest of the ship, amazing amazing!!! Weather was beauitful too.

There were three pools, one for small children, then the family pool, then the adult pool with the spa, wow wow wow!! There was streams room, saunas, power showers, heated seats. So we made use of that!! My skin never felt better!!! We also treated ourselves to a couples massage, the pictures are later.

The rest of the ship was amazing, our staterooms were brill too, lots of room and was nice to sleep in a proper bed. Before we sailed we had to have a emergery drill, dont you love our lifejackets.

So its time to party DISNEY style, with the sail away party, on deck 9 we all got to together for lots of dancing and all the characters were there. Lots of fun and as we sailed out the ships horn sounded with the "wish upon a star" how disney!!! love it.

The weather was sooo lovely, good way to start the cruise.

Disney Cruise................

Our first night we reserve a table at the top resturant on ship Palo, which cost any extra $10 each, soooo worth it. The serves was great and the food was amazing, as you can see we had to take pictures. Every mouthful jus melted in your mouth. We had to dress up which was nice, the resturant was on the top deck, sooo romantic.

After we wondered around the ship and found the characters in the lobby so had to get lots of pictures. We found a real cool bar where you could play chess and backgammon while watching all the america sports and they even had nibbles layed out. Did they want me to turn into a little piglet!!!!!!

Every night our stateroom host got our rooms ready for us to go to bed, so pulled all the covers back and made a towel animal, sooo cool.

We arrived at Nassau, Bahamas on the Monday, we walked around the town for a bit, went to the straw market and it was crazy with bags and purses. I could have brought sooo much!! but I settled for a gucci purse, yummy. After we headed to the Atlantis hotel which is a huge resort with its own water park, beach, casino, and more and more. You cant get around much of it with out wrist bands so we headed back to the ship to spend the afteroon relaxing.

Worth seeing but very expensive resort, back on board we had lunch and sat out on deck by the pool and caught the sun!!!!

In the evening was the first of our rotation dinning were you eat in different resturants but you have the same server and you sit with the same people. We had two honeymoon couples one for the states and one from the UK. We ate in the Tritions the first night which was themed on the Little Mermaid. The food was out standing, Chris and I had 4 coures, main course being duckling, wow it was so yummy.

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Tuesday morning we arrived at Castaway Cay, Disney own island. It was once a priate island used for smuggling, soo cool. The weather was amazing and have never seen water so clear. Different world. We even meet Jack Sparrow and had our picture with him and Mickey. We headed to the adult beach it was soo quiet.

So perfect the sand, the sea, the weather. I fell asleep in a hamket, snorning away!!!!

We jus chilled out all day and had a few drinks at the bar and we got chatting to the bartender he was from Aus, made me some cocktails and told us the cool things to do when we go travelling. We had a brilliant day, we walked back and brought a few things in the shop. The family beach was packed in kids, sooo many. But all day we wouldnt have own they were on the island.
Back on board the pirate theme was continued with a Pirate night, we dressed up a bit, very funny. We went to the Golden Mickey which was being performed at in the threate it was amazing, felt like you were watching something on boardway, could believe you were on a cruise ship. Tingles all over.

After we headed to the resturant for a yummy dinner, I felt soo stuffed after couldnt move but we all headed up to deck 9 for the pirate party where there was more food served!!! Just could eat anymore!!!!!! Pirate party was good, bit of fightning between Captain hook, but Mickey saves the day, then DISNEY style, there were fireworks off the ship. Which is the only ship in the world that is allowed to do it. Get another good night.

Disney Cruise...............

So the last day was our day at sea, and in the morning we had booked our spa treatment for 8am, nice and early good way to start the day. We had this villa that looked over the ocean, we were speakless. We had a foot soak then we had time in the hot tub, jus Chris and I, so lovely. After we had our treatments, Chris had a full body massage with hot stones and I had a wrap with a half body hot stones. It was amazing, we both had our massages in the same room, so relaxing. Then to finish off we sat outside and we were served green tea with fresh fruit. What can I say WOW WOW!! We felt very lucky. Cost alot but sooo worth every penny. Our consultants even gave us a magical moment cerifiate, as they thought we were a really sweet couple. AWWWWW.

The rest of the day we relaxed by the pool and soaked up the sun. Played cards with our waterproof cards soo cool. Beat Chris at Black Jack, hehe

In the evening we ate at Aminators Plaite so cool, when you sit down all the walls at black and white and as the evening goes the walls start to come to life with colour. Four days have been amazing, we have been spoilt and eaten soooo much. We have enjoyed every minute.

This morning we had to get up at 5am to be a emiation for 6am to get our passorts checked, we watched the sun come up. As you can see from Chris's face we didnt want to leave. Every part was amazing all the shows the resturants the weather, sooo nice to be pampered!!!!!!!

Cocoa Beach

One thing we wanted to do out here was surfing, so we rented a car and were lucky to get a convertiable for the two days. So with the roof down and the wind in our hair we drove to Cocoa beach on the east coast of Florida.

We booked a surf lesson with Ron Johns, we got there a bit early and did a bit of shopping in the Ron Johns shop, could have brought the whole shops and more!!!! Our lesson was for an hour, the sea was pretty rough and we were give safety lessons on rip tides, but I felt safe as we had our instrustor with us. We headed down to the beach carrying our surf beach. (oh we looked soo cool). We got battered by the waves after an hour, but it was brilliant. I stood up the board and Chris even caught a wave all by himself. We both have the bug now.

We stayed the night in Cocoa and headed to the beach the next day we brought a body board and spent the day on the beach soaking up the sun. The waves were still rough, but we managed to catch some waves body boarding. Weather was amazing too, tan is coming along nicely. Now we can go surfing down in cornwall when we get back!

Hurriance season has started yesterday, by the afternoon the heavens opened and it didnt stop raining all night. Not brilliant today either!!!!! Hopefully we will get some good thunderstorms.

Wekiwa Springs

Chris and I managed to get the same days off and we rented a car and visited Wekiwa Springs State Park which is about 40mins away. It was a beauitful day, we first hired two kayaks and spent two hours exploring the rivers. It was amazing, to get right in to the heart of Florida. It was so pretty, so much wildlife so close to you.

Loads of turles and we even saw an alligator!!!! It was soooo close.

It was soo peaceful and relaxing, at some points the river was really narrow and we had to get between the tree that had fallen in to the river.

Wekiwa Springs.....

Also well as the rivers there is a natural spring that you can go swimming in, very refreshing.

We chilled out on the hill enjoyed the sun, for lunch we had a bbq with yummy steaks.

Boys and their fire!!!!!! hehe

Such a beautiful place great way to spend the day, soaking up nature.

Family come to visit

The last two weeks Mum, Dad and Chloe came to see Chris and I. We all had loads of fun, for the first 4 days they were here we headed down to Key West. Dad had hired a HUMMER, oh yes i love hummers. It was sooooo huge, we even had dvd screens in the back of the chairs. On the way down we stopped at the Everglades and went out on a airboat to see the crocos!!! We saw a few and it was cool to glide over the water.


After we walked around the park and saw the crocos up close.
We spent the rest of the afternoon driving down to the keys, it was beauitful. Just islands after islands with bridges running over them. We arrived in evening and checked in to this beauitful suites. They were amazing, was comfortable.

The next morning we rented bikes for two days we were there and we all went exploring, Key West is soooo pretty. The sea is sooo blue and sky was sooo blue. Felt so relaxed and chilled out.

We went to the smallest bar in the world and i had a drink out of a coconut, hummm it was a bit strong!!!!!!!!!

Family come to visit.....................................

We spent the afternoon cylcing around the town and taking in the sights, we went to Ernest Hemmingways house which is beauitful and we climbed Key West lighthouse the views were lovely.

Yet again I hated climbing the stairs but i made it!!!! yeah. In the evening we went out on a Sunset snockel cruise. It was amazing.

Chris and I had brought underwater camera cases so we tested them out and got some cool pictures.
Watching the sun go down while we cruised back in to port was something else, Sunsets are amazing in Florida and being in the southest most point in Florida the sunset was even better.

Family come to Visit........

We all loved our bikes, made it sooo easy to get around town. The second day we cylced to a nearby beach and spent the day there. We hired kyates and Chris and I raced Mum and Chloe along the shore. It was great to be out on the water soaking up the sun.

The collage above with the picture bottom right is a picture of our suite we stayed in sooo nice.
We didnt want to leave Key West, but on the 4th day we travelled back to Orlando and on the way we stopped at Maimi. We drove along South Beach where all the resturants are and stopped and had lunch and dipped our toes in the sea.

So back in Orlando we did DISNEY!!!!! One morning we went to Tyhoon Layoon, it was quiet so we did the rides really quickly. Love this water park as it is soooo relaxing. I fell asleep and chris built a Corna Castle.

Family come to Visit..........

We went to Animal Kingdom on one of our days off, we got their early and we saw sooo many animals.

Chloe hadnt been on Expedtion Everest so we went on it twice hehe. soo good. We watched the parade.
For dinner we went to the Animal Kingom Lodge and went to Boma which was lovely, very yummy steaks. We watched the animals in the lodge, remembered when we stayed there which was soo good.
On our second day off we played crazy golf and then headed to universal to do some shopping and have dinner at Nascar resturant, Yummy.

In the evening we headed to MGM to Watch Fanstamic, was is always a good feel good show and all hadnt watched it was a long time. Good way to finish the day.

Family comes to Visit........

On our last day off we went to Epcot and show Mum the flower and garden festival, soo pretty with all the flowers. We walked around the world taking in the sights rather than taking in the drink!!!!!! hehe

Love all the flowers statues soo good.

Me, Chris and Dad had a go on the the segways, so strange!!! As part of the festival their is a butterfly garden, so pretty. Chris took some lovely pictures.

Oh and a few more pictures of the HUMMER!!! Sooo good to have family here and see more of Florida. Sad to see them go, but we all had fun. xxxxxxxxxxxx

Soaking up Disney!!

Between friends and family coming out, Chris and I had the same days off we went to one of the Disney resorts for the afternoon and watch the magic kingdom fireworks in the evening. We had a lovely dinner and spent the evening chilling out on the hamkets on the beach, what more could you ask for. We watched the sun go down over the wedding chapel and then Wishes started on the castle. It was amazing to see them from a distance.


The next day we headed to MGM and went on Tower of Terror and Rocknroller coaster which i love. We had lunch in the Sci Fi Resturant which is themed on a drive in movie, so you sit a down car and have a burger while old films and shown on the big scence. It feels like it is night time. soo cool.

We finished off the evening by watching Four for a Dollar which Chirs loves. We are very lucky to have these parks on our door step. Good couple of days off