Christmas has begun at Disney!

Idiot of the week:

This wasn't actually while I was at work but while we were standing in line at Hollywood Studios to buy food.
Man: (Looking at the menu) What the hell is a chicken curry? (Enough said!!)

I went back into work after my days off last week and it had turned into christams overnight at Epcot! There is the biggest most beautiful tree I have ever seen in the park and there are decorations all aorund out shops. It really does look pretty and i'm loving the christams music, I feel very festive!

There have been lots of birthdays recently in Florida. It was Rachel's 20th birthday last week. The poor girl was working the whole day so we decided to arrange a little suprise! Kirstie and I bought lots of decorations and a cake in the morning and we borrowed Rachel's roomates key so we could let ourselves into the apartment. While she was at work we put up balloons and banners etc. When Rcahel came home from work Beth, Kirstie and I were hiding and we pulled party poppers as she came through the door. She was really shocked but very happy I think. She liked our present too! Because Rachel is the youngest out of us four we feel like she's our little sister and we have to look after her! After she's opened the rest of her presents and had spoken to her family etc. the four of us and some others went out for dinner to celebrate. We went to T-Rex in Downtown Disney which is a dinosaur themed restaurant. It was pretty cool, we were seated in the cave which changed colour throughout the night. Rachel wasn't looking forward to being away from home for her birthday but I think she enjoyed herself in the end!

Three days after Rachel's birthday it was Kirstie's 23rd birthday. Kirstie was also working for it and unfortunately we all were so we couldn't suprise her like we did to Rachel. We did get her a cake and present though. We all went to TGI Fridays in the evening to celebrate and it was delicious! When we got back to Kirstie's apartment we lit the candles on the cake to sing happy birthday, however Rachel had bought re-lightable candles so when Kirstie tried to blow them out they just kept re-lighting. It was hilarious because we all started panicking because -one- it was going to set the fire alarms off and -two- we're not allowed candles of any shape or form in the Commons and could have all been termed if security had turned up! We all ended up outside Kirstie's apartment all trying to blow them out!

I had a really lazy day on my day off, it's the first day since I arrived here that I actually slept in and didn't go anywhere so I felt I deserved it! I got up around half 11 and didn't get dressed until about 2! I spent the afternoon straightening my hair which was soooo nice because I can actually do it now the weather has cooled down! In the evening I had the best night. Beth's ex-boyfriend and his twin brother are visiting so she booked a table at the California Grill which is one of the very posh Disney restaurants at the Contemporary Resort. It was an amazing meal, it was nice to get all dressed up and we also got 50% off with our cast christmas discount! This resort is a Magic Kingdom resort so it overlooks the theme park, they have viewing towers which you can go out to and we were able to watch the Magic Kingdom fireworks from the restaurant, it was fantastic. I had a great night. It made me decide to book a resort restaurant for when my family are here at christams so on our last night we are going to Citricos at the Grand Floridian.

On Monday Rachel and I decided to do some christams shopping. we headed to Epcot first of all so I could get a few bits and take some photos of the stores looking christmassy and then we headed to Downtown Disney to take full advantage of our 50% discount! I managed to buy all my christamas presents in one day which was great! It's so surreal that there are christams bits everywhere and christamas music playing and yet it's sunny outside and we're walking aorund in shorts!

In the evening to make ourselves feel even more festive we went to Hollywood Studios to see The Osbourne Lights. I didn't know what to expect from these but The Osbournes were a family that used to decorate their house with lights every christmas and make them dance to music, until the council put a stop to it and that's when Disney stepped in and bought them from them. All I can say is it is possibly the most amazing and breathtaking thing I have ever seen at Disney World. My explanation and photos just don't do it justice! Basically they decorate some of the streets at Hollywwod Studios with these lights and when I say decorate I mean cover every bit of building from the ground upwards! They have fake snow and then every so often they start the music and the lights dance to it. I can't explain how utterly incredible it is, I actually had goosebumps and tears in my eyes. if you ever come to Disney and only get to do one thing, see the Orbourne Lights.

As if we weren't feeling festive enough, last night we went to Mickey's Very Merry Christmas Party at Magic Kingdom. Like at Halloween they have a special parade and fireworks. Not only that, throughout the park they have places where you can go to get complimentary snacks like hot chocolate and cookies! At the beginning of the night we watched a show on the castle where the Fairy Godmother lit up the castle with glitter, it looked beautiful. Then we watched the fireworks and parade which were fantastic but I was really annoyed with myself because the battery on my camera ran out at the beginning of the parade so I missed loads of photos :-( Lastly we watched another show on the castle which had all the characters singing along, it was so fun. As we left the Magic Kingdom snow fell down on main street and it couldn't have felt more like Christmas!