I'm here!

Well ladies and gentlemen, I am HERE! I'm in my room in The Commons (apparently in the part known as the 'ghetto' because it's so far from the clubhouse and bus stop!), with my lovely new roommate Grace. We've only just unpacked because we kept getting sidetracked by the internet, haha.

My journey here was relatively smooth. I met Bryony and Bradley at the airport and our flight to Atlanta was good. I'd never flown Delta before but I was actually quite impressed. Comfy seats, decent choice of films, all right meal, can't really complain.
Our flight arrived early so we didn't have as much of a rush as we were expecting to have when we got to Atlanta, which was good. We all went through immigration with little trouble (Bradley's immigration officer had never done a Q1 visa before so that took a while, but besides that no problems!), but then our plane to Orlando had mechanical difficulties so we had to get off it and get on another one! This meant we were 2 hours late getting into Orlando, but the rest of our arrival group had still waited for us, which was so nice of them!

We all piled into a Mears shuttle and got to Vista Way where we assigned our housing, which turned out really well. The 2 boys were put as roommates, and Grace, Emma, Laura and I were put into an apartment altogether, with Bryony in an apartment just across from us.

We went on a late night shop to Wal-Mart, which basically consisted of us sleepily wandering around as quickly as we could and trying to remember all the necessities. We all wayyy overbought and trying to carry it all was quite tricky! Luckily Ben somehow managed to carry both his and Bradley's stuff so Bradley helped Emma and me with ours.
Back in our rooms, we made our beds then just passed out!

Today we didn't have to be anywhere til 12.50 so we spent most of the morning trying to fix our wifi. Laura and I unplugged every single wire in the vicinity of the modem and the router and somehow this made it work! Success!
Then we went to Vista Way to do loads of paperwork stuff, came back to the Commons for a video presentation on stuff not to do (apparently we can't have toy guns. 5 year olds in the parks can have them, we can't. That's cool), then got the bus to Downtown Disney for some FOOD.

The 7 of us, plus another UK guy called Simon that we'd found, ate in Planet Hollywood. Good times. Honestly felt like SO LONG since we'd have a proper meal! Afterwards we walked through Marketplace (with detours into Ghiradelli and World of Disney, obviously!) to the bus, and went to the Polynesian to watch Wishes on the beach. We couldn't hear the music as well as I'd thought you could, and the Electrical Water Pageant kiiiinda got in the way, but it was a lovely way to end the day so I'm definitely not complaining!

We got a bit lost trying to find the cast member bus stop to get back, and were on the bus for an hour because a road was closed, but eventually made it back here!

This is actually the longest entry I've done, pretty sure. Let's see if I can keep this up ... (don't hold your breath kids!)