17th and 18th December

Hello again! 

We're back in America for Christmas. We flew into Miami on the 17th and Dad drove us to Orlando that evening. Before the flight we went to the Number One lounge, Paul bought Liv and I entry into the lounge. There was a cinema room, buffet, chance to order hot food and lots of space to sit in comfort. 

I had a fruit salad first and Liv went for the potato salad. Then we ordered a beef stew each.

We also ate plenty of desserts, the chocolate brownies were particularly delish. We might have had a couple of plates of those ;).

We went to the gate at 12:15, however, we were delayed leaving by about an hour. 

On the flight I watched Love Actually and listened to a Christmas album. The flight seemed to go quite quickly, although the smell of the plane food seemed to last way too long...

As we landed in Miami, it was dark with the sun setting in the distance, all the lights were on, it's my favourite time to land because from above it looks amazing.

We were home and in bed by about 12:30am- I was shattered. I think I managed to sleep a bit in the car, which just shows how tired I was as I've never really been able to sleep in the car. 

18th December

I woke up pretty early for me on Friday, but had an hour lie in before getting up. For breakfast we had Star Wars Lucky Charms.

After breakfast Liv and I got on the Christmas decorating wagon and put up the Christmas tree:

Liv putting the finishing touches on the tree

It wouldn't be a Florida Christmas without a couple of Santa's getting their sun-game on and a Flamingo with a cocktail all hanging on the tree...

In the afternoon we went to Universal Studios. When I checked the weather I was a little shocked to find it was chillier here than at home, but I persevered with the shorts and only got goose bumps once or twice! We probably stood out as tourists like a sore thumb as there were a fair few people in hoodies, jeans and even one woman in a pair of Ugg boots...

Universal was suitably festive with their Christmas decorations, we particularly liked their giant Christmas tree:

It was also very good for bauble-selfies:

We headed straight for The Mummy, we were practically straight on, the walk round took most of the ten minute wait time. We then headed into Diagon Alley and bought a Frozen Butterbeer and a Fishy Green Ale... We were lucky enough to get a second Butterbeer when they accidentally made us an extra one. The Fishy Green Ale was suitably green and thankfully not fishy! It had tiny purple balls at the bottom which burst with juice when you bite them. I liked the juicy balls but the green stuff tasted a bit iffy... I think I'll stick with the Butterbeer!

We then caught the Hogwarts Express across to Islands of Adventure and headed to watch the Grinchmas show. 

On the way out we headed into the all-year-round Christmas shop and found some funky looking hats:

For dinner we had Chipotle!! And it was as good as ever, definitely worth waiting 3+ months for :)!

By about nine o'clock I was knackered and so it was early to bed for me. 

I'll be back with another update soon.

L

xxx