National Lampoon's Spring Break Trip: Part 3 - The Activities

After our first day in Orlando we met up with some good friends, Sara Margaret and Sara McCue for supper. Of course we had a few hiccups on the way to supper. One. We realized that every time we drove the Accord above 60 MPH, the roof made a terrible noise. The car ride is made more enjoyable by all of the many toll stops we come to. At some point, while waiting in line to pay the toll, a kind gentleman in the car next to us tells us that our Turtle car carrier is lifting up and air gets between the Turtle and the roof and hence the noise that we hear. Ugh...what shall we do? Well around this time we also realize that we have gone the wrong direction to meet our friends and of course the next place to turn around is 15 miles up the road. Cool. The plus to this is that there happens to be mechanic station at this rest stop (and of course lots of folks selling Indian River Fruit -- by the way, what is that?!?). Aimee is a trooper and finds a mechanic to help us with our Turtle. It is quite embarrassing explaining that you're a group of college girls on Spring Break with a Turtle car carrier. They took the spare tire and put it in the Turtle. Wow, we are cool.

We finally make it to the correct area where we are meeting our friends and Krissie spots a mall. She needed some more Clinique and with some time to kill, we run in the store. Courtney and Aimee chillax in the car. After KB gets her stuff, she and I realize that we have no idea where Anette is. Then we realize we have no idea what Anette's last name is. We fear having to page her "Anette from Finland, please meet your "friends" by the Clinique counter." After a few minutes of discussing this/laughing at our situation/once again laughing at this trip, we spot Anette, head to the car, and head to supper. I think we ate at Jimmy Buffet's Margaritaville or something quite similar. We sat outside, enjoyed our friends, and good food. I may or may not have started dancing with a random gentleman.

The day of the fight we drove to the beach to celebrate my birthday. Going to the beach and laying out all day there (or at a pool) is basically second nature for Courtney and myself. In fact, we're looking for jobs where we can get paid to get tan and soak up the sun all day long. Please let me know if you're hiring. I digress... While we love it, the other members of our party did not. Aimee is quite the trooper, and despite her lack of love for laying out and fair skin, she toughed it out pretty well. Krissie wanted to play frisbee and apparently wanted us to be boys (again, see the fight). Also, even though she is super pale she adimately tells us that she doesn't burn and hence refuses to wear sunscreen. A few hours later, I adimately tell her, that yes, she does burn and her red skin is all the proof I need. (We still have this fight from time to time and it never ceases to amuse me.) But if Aimee and Krissie are fair skinned, Anette is a ghost. There is not enough SPF to protect her Finnish skin. Even though she put on the highest SPF known to man, to say that she looked like a lobster was an understatement.

The next day was Aimee's birthday (Yes, we are only a day apart. I'd like to say I'm the older and wiser one, but I don't think that's true. Haha.) Her cousin's friend worked at Disney World and could get all of us free passes to Disney -- the park hopper pass so you can do all 4 parks AND this pass that lets you get to the front of the lines at rides. It was awesome! Now if you had one day to do all 4 Disney Parks, how would you get that done? As it turns out, not everyone would do it the same way. Aimee and I thought that we should pick 2 rides at each park, do them, and soak up as many little things as we could in between, then hurry to the next park to fit them all in. Krissie and Anette thought you should take it nice and slow and absorb as much of Disney as you can, taking lots of picutes and the likes. So picture this: Aimee and I literally running around to go from place to place, Krissie and Anette litterally shuffling 10 feet behind us, and Courtney in the middle being the peace keeper. She's basically the Disney World peace keeper.

Anette loved all American trinkets and purchased several bags of Disney pens, shirts, socks, etc...basically anything with "Disney" on it or a Disney character. She couldn't understand why we weren't buying this stuff. Hilarious. She also loved taking pictures of us near signs and things and having us take her picture next to those same signs. My favorite ride was definitely the Rock and Roll rollercoaster. And I think riding Space Mountain was a personal triumph for me because the other time I rode it, I was 6 and cried the entire time. We finished up at Epcot for the fireworks show. And on our way out of the park that night we all kinda apologized to Anette for being caddy and fighting off and on with each other the whole day. It had to have made her feel awkward, right? Apparently it didn't. Her response to our apology, "Ah. No! This has been the best day of my whole life."