MICKEY'S DREAMERS
WDW or Hawaii? This is the question!
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July 30th Friday Wakeup at 4AM, leaving home, parking the car at a low cost airport parking, shuttle to the airport, check-in, security, breakfast at a Frequent Flyer lounge (we have free airplane tickets from Milan to Miami) where I picked up some (free) Italy-Italy (magazine describing Italian history, geography, traditions
) to gift to some DIS friends . Its 10 AM, boarding time and time to change the time on our watches
oh no! its 4 AM again! 
Ten hours of flight, two hours more spent in an immigration line well finally its time for check-in at Miami International Airport Hotel, a very comfortable hotel just outside the Airport gate inside the Airport really
A quick dinner at Sbarro not because its Italian food but because its the nearest eatery and its time to sleep it was a long day!
But at 11PM we got an announcement the hotel had to be evacuated for security reasons time to evacuate, a few minutes of suspense than we got the green light to go back probably just somebody smoking in a non-smoking room, they said
Starting from midnight there was a conflict between the biological clock of our body (saying its wakeup time!) and the rest of the body, too tired to listen and wake up. At 6 AM an agreement was found and everybody wake up.
Saturday was driving day. We went to AVIS to rent a car. AVIS is quite expensive, but has cars in very good shape and for a long trip we prefer to have safe cars. Near Orlando we made the usual grocery stop and decided to pay a visit to Festival Bay Mall, at the end of International Drive. DH loves surf (at least to see surfers) and purchased a t-shirts at Ron Jon surf shop (is there any sea near Orlando?), while I went to Hilo Hatties, the store of Hawaii (is Orlando near Hawaian islands ????) to purchase a muu-muu (long Hawaiian dress) its just the start of the vacation (to be continued)
Ten hours of flight, two hours more spent in an immigration line well finally its time for check-in at Miami International Airport Hotel, a very comfortable hotel just outside the Airport gate inside the Airport really
A quick dinner at Sbarro not because its Italian food but because its the nearest eatery and its time to sleep it was a long day!
But at 11PM we got an announcement the hotel had to be evacuated for security reasons time to evacuate, a few minutes of suspense than we got the green light to go back probably just somebody smoking in a non-smoking room, they said
Starting from midnight there was a conflict between the biological clock of our body (saying its wakeup time!) and the rest of the body, too tired to listen and wake up. At 6 AM an agreement was found and everybody wake up.
Saturday was driving day. We went to AVIS to rent a car. AVIS is quite expensive, but has cars in very good shape and for a long trip we prefer to have safe cars. Near Orlando we made the usual grocery stop and decided to pay a visit to Festival Bay Mall, at the end of International Drive. DH loves surf (at least to see surfers) and purchased a t-shirts at Ron Jon surf shop (is there any sea near Orlando?), while I went to Hilo Hatties, the store of Hawaii (is Orlando near Hawaian islands ????) to purchase a muu-muu (long Hawaiian dress) its just the start of the vacation (to be continued)
