- A boot store selling cowboy-esque boots only, with a buy two pairs for a free third pair offer. None of that felt normal??
- McDonalds only has a 'vegetable wrap' (lettuce in a wrap) for vegetarians. They also get very confused when you ask if they have a vegetarian burger or option. Also - the interior was biker themed.
- Lots and lots of people using wheelchairs and electric scooters because of their weight.
- The shops are mostly outlets and sell kinda crap stuff that isn't actually cheaper, nor worth buying.
- The American Apparel staff were awful and long and ironically, more like British staff.
- Our all nighter in the lobby with our friend. He approached us, somewhat tipsy, at the end of the day so we could read a text for him. He was clearly a little drunk but hilarious and talkative and i have absolutely no doubt in my mind that everything he told us was true (also he sobered up pretty quick). Ex army, divorced wife (fidelity), welsh but lives in the states three miles from his two daughters. Absolutely minted, post divorce. When he found out we had no money or tobacco, he got hotel staff to drive us all to Walgreens. There he got us 200 Marlboro cigarettes, the hotel guy - Gary - a Mountain Dew and generous tip, expecting nothing in return. Afterwards we sat on the balcony and had a long conversation till the sun rose again. In the morning he even offered a coffee when he got one- wonderful wonderful wonderful human being. But we never learnt his name.
- Gary, the night shift hotel guy as mentioned before. My favourite guy who always stopped us to have a little chat, and gave us a hug when we went over to say our final goodbye.
- Having butterbeer EVERY day, frozen and chilled. It was the life.
- Grace not bringing ANY dollars or tobacco or ID, and somehow expecting us to have cigarettes?!!!???¿
- Refusing to take the blame or responsibility... Fuuucking hell it's not rocket science, we're both legally allowed to smoke for fuck sake.
- Our plans to get the passport and tobacco without her parents finding out.
- Even though they know we both smoke. Again, it was kinda ridiculous.
- Her Mum finding us smoking at the bar after all of that.. Wwe were by the pool, as were they, so we really were asking for it. I'm not actually bothered about her mum knowing or seeing, I just feel v guilty since they paid for most of my shit and I pay them back by smoking on the holiday? Especially since last year they went and Grace didn't smoke (on the holiday at least), so that doesn't exactly put me in a great light. However, even if I didn't smoke, Grace would have either killed me in her suffering or just found a way of getting cigarettes.
- Grace is 18 and didn't bring ID, money, her purse, even her house keys. Why? Because her parents had money and look after her passport. Her reliance and dependence on her parents actually scares me a little.
- She tried to guilt trip me into joining her in the pool by saying things like 'this is why you're here, for me' and 'my parents paid for this'. Fuck you motherfuckin fuck shit wankerjsushsjsbe- I don't like seeing myself in a swimsuit, all the swimsuits I brought I didn't like and were old, my skin is fair so it burns quickly in pools, my hair would go from pink to green with the chlorine, pools are busy and I don't like people, etc etc. A simple 'I really don't want to go in the pool' should have sufficed.
- She also bought up my scars whilst we were sitting in a crowd of thousands of people, very hot, my body squished from the people in front and behind me (all of them very capable of hearing), with my arms and legs bare. Yes, she waited till i was pretty vulnerable, crowded with a lot of people, then pointed at my arm scars and said what's this? very loudly and kind of like I was a fucking idiot. What is it? It's clearly none of your business fucker :))) they weren't cuts or even fresh scars, they are old and I only just started showing them. I'm clearly in no danger, and if you really needed to ask, have some sensitivity and figure out when the best time to do it is. AKA, not in Disneyworld with quite literally thousands of people sitting around you.
- I promise this is the last florida observation that's just me bitching about Grace, but the fact that she copied me a lot. You name it; clothes, drinks, even food. Three times a pattern, and she did it everyday at the very least for two weeks.
- The staff at disney have to smile, that is their job, and aircrafts cannot go above disneyworld - as if they even own the sky.
- We made friends from Utah; newly-weds Lexi and Easton. we swapped numbers, Lexi and I swooned over television and books, and we got very strong suggestions to go to a uni in Utah since the film there is v v good.
jul 21 2014 ∞
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