Great update! Yeah, traveling by train is fun, but sleeping in a chair isn't exactly the most comfortable.
Sleeping in that is probably a whole lot more comfortable than I was in the car! It took us 25 hrs and that's because we hit lots of holiday weekend traffic. It was not funny!
Leo the Cheeto
Being on the train overnight sounds like quite the adventure. I think it would have made me nervous to watch the 24 episode with the train blowing up while on a train, too.
Love the update, I liked seeing other parts of the train! Why were the other cars so gross? Ugh that would bother me, luckily you guys got a nice, clean car!
I probably wouldn't have slept much either, I really can't sleep well sitting up, and I get woken up by every little noise.
Yay, you're finally in Orlando!
RACHEL!!!!
I'm here and signed up! Brb to catch up!
Yay! Funny thing is I actually just clicked on your TR to catch up!
Haha, what wonderful timing!
Yay, you started!
Glad you had a good train ride. The scenery to Orlando looks much more exciting than the scenery to Grand Forks North Dakota! Which is the last train ride I was on and I hated it!
Can't wait to hear about your trip!
I'm all caught up!
Woooow, what a ride! I recently took a really long ride from Toronto to Montreal on a cramped little bus, but it costs twice as much to take the train! But also 4 times as fast!
You updates really make me want to go on a train ride. I've never taken a ride on a real one, and yours just seem so nice. So those power outlets weren't with every seat right? I didn't see the ones on Dani's side.
Mmm, nature valley granola bars. My favourite is the fruit and nut.
You guys are SO FREAKIN AWESOME, naming a cheeto. When we're on long rides like this, Andrew almost always falls asleep the first 10 minutes and I'm just left awake, listening to my ipod. I wish we could have crazy naming advantures like you and Weird too.
[Here we are in Philly, I think.
Woo hoo, you made it to Orlando!!! Can't wait for more!
Oooh, so I now had two updates to read after my night shift! And my first sleep deprived comment has to do with a pic youtook on the train where you can see all the pine trees through the window. It totally made me think of all the Hogwarts train rides in the movies. You always see forests and trees in the movie. I would have pretended I was on my way to Hogwarts for some part of the train ride!
Next - ew, creeper story. I would have been totally freaked out. I would have made one of the guys move over next to me and woken up everyone as a heads up to the creepiness.
Can't wait to see how you make out with pins. I may have to keep that in mind for our next trip, whenever that is as DD totally got into pin trading this time around. It was so cute to watch!
Hi! I just found your report yesterday and I love it. I have never read a TR where people took Amtrak to WDW, it's really interesting! You guys seem like you are having a blast and you haven't even gotten there yet.
I am also preparing for my first-and-only trip to WDW as an engaged lady congrats on your engagement!!
Yes, that's Philly - in fact that's my office building, where I'm sitting right now! All DISers should wave to me when they come through on Amtrak on the way to Florida (while I'm stuck at work!)
Also I totally know what SNL sketch you were talking about (sadly it's no more, since Jenny Slate was let go last season). It was so hilarious!
I can't believe that the guy was trying to steal Nikki's stuff! Like you said, I bet nobody in the car would have cared if she had screamed and yelled at the guy. You could have all taken him down.
Good idea about taking pictures of the rental car, especially since it had a few scratches on the back.
Looking forward to seeing what you bought at the outlet.
Hooray for making it to Orlando!
Wow all those traffic lights are so confusing lol. I've never seen that many before!
Looking forward to your time at the outlet (and possibly shopping pics? hehe )
I bet it was really nice to get off the train and back on solid ground. That's so creepy, having someone trying to take things. Too bad they didn't catch the guy.
I think rental cars are hard to spot, too. It's nice to bring a Mickey antenna topper, so it stands out, but a lot of the new cars don't have antennas anymore.