First resort stay, new camera, graduation celebration September 2012 TR!

Finally, I'm making time to start my trip report! I've had such a hectic life since I got back from my trip. If you read my PTR you know that I graduated nursing school in August, so when I got home I had to study for my state boards to get my nursing license since I was taking the test 10 days after we came home. Well, I passed and I am officially an RN! That high didn't last long because the day after I found out I got my license, my cat got hit by a car :( I was devastated, I still can't look at pictures of him :'( Anyways, a couple days later, my grandma went into the hospital and spent about a month there. So between all that and looking for jobs (and getting rejected), I just haven't had time to start on my TR. Well now that cooler weather is here, I'm longing for Florida... so on to the TR!

When: September 20 - October 1
Where: Art of Animation (TLM) and Coronado Springs.
Who: Me (Kelly) and my Mom.

Please take it easy on me, this is my first TR and I am not a writer! Lol! Hopefully I will be able to make this interesting ;) The good news is that I got a new camera (Nikon D3100) about a month before my trip and I took *drumroll please* over 3000 photos! Lol, I think I went a little over board. I think all the pictures in my first post are from my iPhone 4s.

My luggage, all carry on.
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Haha, I always watch my old Walt Disney World vacation planning kits before heading down to Florida. It gets me in the mood!
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We left the house around 8:30am, we stopped at Bob Evans to get some breakfast, and headed to the airport. We were all checked in and waiting for our flight by 11:20 (yes, I wrote times down! lol!). We boarded our 12:30 flight. I got a window seat! Score!

Waiting for take-off.
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Once on the plane, we left about 10-15 late. That was annoying, I just wanted to get down there!

Pictures from up in the air! I'm obsessed with the clouds. I love the sky from the ground, but it's even cooler up in the air!

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My snack: pretzels and Sprite!
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I think I saw about every kind of cloud there is! I love how you could tell what state you were flying over: red soil in Georgia, nothing but lakes in Florida.

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Finally, we landed! The clouds got much heavier once we got in Florida which meant turbulence! It wasn't that bad, but definitely not my favorite thing. The pilot said there was 60-80 mile/hr head winds, so it slowed the plane down substantially, making us about 15 minutes late landing. By 3PM we were on the ground!

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The Orlando airport is huge compared to the airport we flew out of. In no time at all, we were one the airport "monorail"!

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Palm trees!

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tropicalsmile

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CONT...

We rented a car from the airport, so no DME for us. We got our car and and were headed to the AoA by 3:55PM. It was soooo hot, my weather app said it was 86 degrees and muggy (yuck!).

Our first "Disney World" traffic sign!

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By 4:18, we're officially here!!

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20 minutes later, we are at our home for the night... AoA!!

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monkeysammich

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I'm looking forward to this one... we're staying at AoA at the end of december and I'd like to see your thoughts.

Also, I always forget that people consider 86 hot. That's beautiful spring weather! I may be spoiled from living in Florida my whole life...
 

tropicalsmile

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Great start! Can't wait to read more.
Thanks!

Awesome pics! Can't wait to see more! :)
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Thank you, glad you like them :)

I'm looking forward to this one... we're staying at AoA at the end of december and I'd like to see your thoughts.

Also, I always forget that people consider 86 hot. That's beautiful spring weather! I may be spoiled from living in Florida my whole life...

We only stayed there a day, but I loved it :)
Yeah, I don't consider 86 to be that hot, but add the mugginess to it and I think it can be miserable! It didn't help that the warm and muggy weather back home had been gone for a good month before we left!

Excellent start! Waiting for updates :)
Thank you!
 

tropicalsmile

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It's been a couple of days. My notes from the trip mysteriously disappeared off of my phone, so I had to go to the Apple store so they could help me retrieve them :p

Finally, we're in the amazing lobby at AoA! I don't know why, but these are the only pictures I got of this part of the lobby. I wish I would have taken more, it's stunning!

Warning, the next couple of posts will have a lot of AoA pictures -- don't want to spoil anything for anybody!

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So after we checked in we drove over to the King Triton building in the Little Mermaid section! We got to our room, opened the door and... this!

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I loved the bathroom!

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The design on the table was really cool.

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Up next... exploring the Art of Animation and Pop Century resorts!
 

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