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Disworld - Firework - Show is called "Wishes" - No editing, original sound

 

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Disneyworld Electrical Parade - No editing, original sound


Torsdag d. 2 Juli 2015 kl. 04:45 sprang vi ud af sengen, fyldte med liv, energi og spænding, kufferten under armen og så af sted mod nye eventyr! Det vil hvert fald sige, vi kravlede fra sengen og ud i bilen og blev kørt mod eventyret.
Tæt på kl. 07:00 ankom vi til Karup Lufthavn, hvor vi indtog en fantastisk morgenbuffet til den nette sum af 56 kr. per snude. Når vi siger fantastisk, så mener vi det faktisk seriøst, der er ikke tale om verdens største morgenbuffet, men den har alt det rigtige indhold! Vi fløj i et lækkert vejr omkring kl. 08:00 fra Karup Airport med DAT til Kastrup Lufthavn, her ankom vi ved 9 tiden. Vi valgte at tage en taxa ud til et hotel, så vi kunne sove i nogle timer. Dette hotel var det hyggeligste lille badehotel der lagde med en kanon udsigt over Øresund/øresundsbroen.
Retur i lufthavnen fik vi lidt frokost og så hoppede vi ellers spændte på Norwegians nye GIGANTISKE dreamliner mod Fort Lauderdale. Efter 4860 Mil,10 timers flyvning, 2 colaer, 1 pose chips, 1 pose nachos, 1 pakke hubba bubba tyggegummi, 4 film og 23 runder UNOS ankom vi endelig til Fort Lauderdale.
Her ventede vi 2 interessante timer på overhovedet at komme frem til paskontrollen, dette gik til gengæld ret hurtigt, herefter kom vi så i kø i 1½ time til vores baggage + et ekstra checkpoint af pas og baggage, endelig kom vi i kø til vores bil i ½ times tid. Den gode nyhed var, de havde desværre ikke flere ledige Fiat Puntoer, så de var nød til at give os en gratis upgrade til en middleclass bil, dvs. vi har fået en super dejlig sort Dodge, som vi er meget store fans af!
EPISODE: Vi holder med bilen og skal lige igennem sidste udkørselsregistrering, manden kigger længe på Cilles kørekort, spørger et par gange, ”Du er Cecilia?”, og ender med at sige, ”Undskyld, men det er bare fordi, du ligner seriøst en 12-årig”.
. var hvert fald 04:00 dansk tid inden vi kom fra lufthavnen imod Fort Lauderdale, vi skulle så køre til Miami Beach hvor vi havde booket et hotel på Ocean Drive. Lille torn i øjet var dog, vi havde ingen GPS, vidste ikke hvor vi var eller skulle hen, ingen af os kunne læse et vejkort og der var vejarbejde alle steder, samtidigt var det mørkt og der var MASSER traffik på de lækre 5 sporede motorveje der har mange former, afkørsler, broer og andet gøgl/pynt. MEN når vi er sådanne naturtalenter indenfor navigation tog det os kun 2 timer at finde til Ocean Drive(Normalt beregnet tid: 40 min.). På Ocean Drive fandt vi ud af, at parkering er en helt speciel ting der.
Vi kørte så frem og tilbage på Ocean Drive i 1 time og anede ikke lige om bedste idé måske bare var at køre bilen i vandet.
Episode: Cille kører i hysteri ind af en vej der står tydeligt INGEN ADGANG for udvedkommende, for enden af den vej holder politiet så og ser sure ud, Cille vender bilen og kører den anden vej, da de bliver ved at se sure ud, vi skal så gerne ud og køre i modsatte vejbane, problemet er, udkørslen er lige ved et lyskryds, Cille bliver endnu mere sur og kører bare ud og holder på tværs, da der så bliver rødt, dvs. hun spærer vejbanen for de der har fået grønt, første bil der har fået grønt og gerne vil forbi er, surprise, POLITIET……..
Nå men efter en dramatisk time, får vi fat i en valetparker, dvs. sådan en der parkerer sin bil for sig mod et gebyr, der ringer til sit firma, der tilbyder at hvis vi sætter bilen ude foran vores hotel, skal de nok komme og hente den, KØBT! Vi kommer nok i seng lokal tid omkring kl. 01:00(dvs. kl 07:00 i DK).
Næste morgen vågnede vi tidligt og fik handlet lidt vand, morgenmad og andre overlevelsesting(LÆS: DORITOS, POP TARTS SMORSE). Vi nød vores lækre morgenmad, bestående af sandwich på hotellet, vi kørte så til en Best Buy for at få os en GPS og kørte så til Everglades, mere pærcist Shark valley.
Her købte vi et årskort til 80 Dollars der gælder for ALLE nationalparker og købte os også ind på en guidet tur i en åben vogn á 2 timer rundt i Everglades. Turen startede i høj solskin, rundt i parken mens den søde amerikanske guide dame fortalte en masse, eks. hvordan der gemte sig vanvittig mange alligatorer på steder man ikke lige havde forventet, ligesom der også er masser andet dyreliv i Everglades. Vi så en alligatorrede, vi så alligatorbabyer(så søde de var, moren var bare ikke lige så sød). Ligesom hun fortalte en lang historie om hvordan en hanalligator scorer sin hunalligator ved at invitere på skilpaddesuppe og svømmetur, de fik så babyer, og lidt overraskende vender hunnerne faktisk 90 % af gangene tilbage til samme han år efter år, dvs. mange af dem er faktisk partnere for livet. Vi så også lidt specielle fugle, der var bl.a. en fugl som var naturens svar på en fluefisker. Fuglen fangede en flue, pillede vingerne af, smed kroppen af fluen i vandet, når så en fisk kom op for at æde fluen, fløj fuglen ned og spiste fisken og så sin flue til dessert. Rimelig sejt! Men når man er i Everglades er det jo alligatorne de fleste ønsker at høre om og sådan nogle bamser så vi da også. Vi blev nemlig sat i række efter vores guide og fulgte efter ned på et lille stykke land ved siden af noget vand, her vrimlede det så med alligatorer. Vi lærte at de var sorte og hvide, der er forskel på alligatorer og krokodiller og at man skal holde afstand fra dem også på land, man kan ikke svømme fra dem, på land skal man løbe væk fra dem i lige linje og rimelig hurtigt, det hjælper ikke noget at zigzagge eller spille død, hvis muligt og man har en person i nærheden var bedste anbefaling at fælde personen så den kunne være madding og så selv løbe. Men vi overlevede nemt alligatorne, de blev heldigvis i vandet og vi blev på land. Lige som vi kom ind i den dejlige åbne vogn, begyndte der en vaskeægte tropisk storm, eller hvad man skal kalde det. På rekord tid blev vi gennemblødte og der var en kraftig omgang lyn og torden, vi forsøgte at gå ud i regnen og danse regndans, men det regnede det nærmest bare mere af, der må være noget med vores karma. Everglades er nok ikke, ifølge vores smag hvert fald, den flotteste park i verden, men den har en meget interessant historie, lækkert og rigt dyreliv, ligesom at alt det personale vi mødte derinde var yderste behagelige, venlige og hjælpsomme mennesker, er man i Florida er det da klart et must see.
EPISODE: Vi træder ud af bilen i everglades, Cille udbryder, ”Her lugter af rådden mosevand” på FLYDENDE thyborønsk”(Man skulle nok have været der).
Efter Everglades havde vi brug for en lille Siesta, herefter skulle vi ud og have en enkelt, men i USA, hvert fald på Miami Beach er tingene bare større. En drink, er GIGANTISK, minder lidt i størrelse om en halv fodbold fyldt med alkohol.
Dagen ovenpå vores enkelte, startede vi med at bestille en ”lille” drink at skyde dagen i gang på og selvfølgelig lidt spiseligt og herefter tog vi på stranden. Vandet var lækkert, lyseblåt og varmt. Stranden var hvid og for varm.
Efter et par timers stegning, tog vi en gåtur rundt ved Miami Beach og så eks. Art Deco District og sluttede gåturen med en cykeltur langs stranden og lidt i byen. Dette var 4th of July, så der var fest og farver og voldsomt mange mennesker, derfor valgte vi at tage en sandwich på hotellet til aftensmad og så ellers bare nøjes med at gå ud og se det ret flotte fyrværkerishow. Vi måtte gå tidligt i seng, da vi skulle tidligt af sted næste morgen.
Miami/Miami beach er smuk, det er meget klart et ferieområde, der er mange flere dyre og vilde biler end der er almindelige biler, de vælter i porsher, ferraier, store firhjultrækkere og speciallavede biler og motorcykler.
EPISODE: Der er også mange der kommer i flokke med scootere, pludselig kører 10-15 scootere ud foran os i et kryds, Louise udbryder spontant, ”Velkommen til Randers”.
Omkring 5tiden næste morgen pakkede vi sammen, fik vores bil hentet og satte kurs mod Florida Keys, mere præcist Key Largo. Her skulle vi dykke. Planen var et morgendyk og så derefter Key West, men da det er to år tiden vi sidst har dykket, var vi nød til at droppe Key West, da det blev til en heldags ting pga. Scuba Refresher Kursus.
Formiddagen blev brugt på en masse øvelser og opfriskning i poolen. Efter en lille frokost kom vi på båden, hvorfra vi skulle sejle 40 minutter ud for at tage 2 dyk. Det er noget lækkert, okay klart og ret varmt vand, ligesom der både er koraller og fine fisk. Men vi var desværre ikke super heldige med det dyreliv vi så, muligvis fordi vi desværre ikke fik lov at dykke ret dybt, da der var begyndere med på turen, så lidt ærgerligt, men vi skal jo også på vestkysten hvor de har rigt dyreliv bestående af super mange hajer, så må vi jo dykke lidt med dem. Mest specielle ”fisk” vi så var en Baby-stingray, nuttet kreatur alligevel!. Det var dog på trods af de måske lidt skuffende dyk, ubeskrivelig dejligt at få dykket igen, følelsen man får der under vandet er bare noget helt specielt og meget vanedannende. It’s Magical.
EPISODE: Louise spiser Burger King til frokost, båden ud til dykkerstedet vipper, Louise får 1 dyk og må så ned og hilse på Ulrik(LÆS: Ørle, Tømme mavesækken, Kaste op) resten af turen, dvs. ikke noget 2 dyk til Louise. Ligesom ingen Taco Bell til Louise til aftensmad.
Om aftenen prøvede vi vores første AirBNB stay dvs. homestay, altså hvor man lejer et værelse ved en amerikansk familie. Dette var i udkanten af Miami, rigtig dejligt behageligt værelse, super venlig værtfamilie og en god nat.
EPISODE: Louise smadrer sin iPhone som i, den dur ikke mere, derefter vælter hun soya på sin pude så den stinker så meget så hun ikke kan sove med den, for så at hun slutter af med nærmest at brænde sin computer sammen i dynen, hvilket får hende til at hoppe ud af sengen hvor hun taber en tung genstand på sin fod så hun må falde til jorden i smerte, Louise havde en hård aften(+dag). Desuden blev vi begge solbrændt.
Vi er begyndt at vænne os til kørslen på de store veje, eneste kan til tider være at fare vild, vi har eks. været faret vild i ja, et parkeringshus, i 1 time, men til vores forsvar var det også et ENORMT parkeringshus. Vi er ved godt mod, humøret er højt, vi har det sjovt, har sørget for masser hyggelig musik til de lange strækninger, ellers skal vores syge humor nok hjælpe os lidt på vej. Folk er rigtig søde, trafikken er ikke så aggressiv her som hjemme, folk giver meget bedre plads, på trods af det er der dog rigtig mange kors langs vejkanten, de har især i Florida hvad vi kan forstå, utrolig mange traffikulykker. Vi har fået både McDonalds, Burgerking og Tacobell. Ligesom vi har fået lækker Seafood, sandwich og frugt. Her har alle dage været over 30 grader, de har dog også af og til nogle meget voldsomme tordenstorme, på trods af vi jo er i Florida, The Sunshine State.
Vi brugte kun 30 minutter på at tanke første gang, så det er vi selv imponeret over der ikke var sværere for os at forstå. Ellers er amerikanere jo hyggelige, livlige og meget venlige mennesker.
Vi stod så tidligt op den 06. Juli og satte kurs mod Disneyworld, tiden var kommet til det vildeste eventyr! Når man kommer i nærheden af Disney World kommer deres egne flotte og fine veje hele vejen omkring, altså eventyret starter allerede på deres eget motorvejsnet.
Vi havde valgt at besøg Magic Kingdom, da det ligesom er klassikeren og vi ikke havde ret meget tid. Disneyworld er utrolig hurtige og effektive, hvert fald ved vores oplevelse både når det kommer til parkering, shuttles til indgang, monorail til selve parken og igen om aftenen hele vejen tilbage til vores bil, alt gik hurtigt og smertefrit, de vidste tydeligvis hvordan man håndterer en kæmpe menneskeflok. Man kunne skrive i timevis om Disneyworld, farverne, figurerne, forlystelserne, sangene, shows, mad osv.
Den korte version er, vi så en parade da vi kom, super god stemning, derefter prøvede vi en masse forlystelser(varmeste dag, 35 grader). Vi spiste et par gange. Det helt store i Magic Kingdom er deres show om aftenen. De har en kæmpe lang hyldest parade med masser lys og bling hvor alle figurerne vi kender kommer og takker af for aftenen, det er dog vigtigt at få gode pladser, dette lykkedes os ikke i første omgang, men heldigvis kom der en runde mere og der fik vi super pladser. Derudover er der et temashow på slottet med billeder der ligesom lyser op på, sindssygt godt og flot lavet, og der var især høj stemning da ”Let it Go” fra FROST kom derop med musik, der blev mange små pigehjerter knust. Sidst men ikke mindst, er der omkring slottet et VANVITTIGT timet og tilrettelagt fyrværkerishow kaldet wishes, det er virkelig magisk. Disneyworld er magisk. End of story. Hvis i er i Florida, så tag der til. Efter disneyworld kørte vi på næste homestay, hos en sheriff. Heldigvis nåede han aldrig at opdage hvordan vi i virkeligheden var før vi tog af sted igen.
Ellers, STAY TUNED, vi vender frygteligt tilbage med flere historier. Der kommer masser videoer og billeder(bliver lagt længere nede på siden under den engelske tekst), det er bare lige et spørgsmål om at vi har tiden til at sidde stille ved internet længe nok til at få det lagt op.
Giv gerne kommentarer hvis i føler for at sige noget, eller spørge om noget! :-)

Kys og masser kram
Louise og Cecilia

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July 2. at 04:45, we jumped out of bed, filled with life, energi and excitement, the suitcases in our hands and ready to go on adventure, well, or at least we managed to crawl from our beds and to the car, which drove us towards the adventure.Around 07:00 am we arrived at Karup Airport, here we enjoyed their great morning-buffet. When we say great, we are actually serious, they might not have the biggest buffet, but it does include all the important stuff! Around 8am we flew to Copenhagen Airport, where we arrived around 9am. We decided to go to a hotel and get some sleep before our next flight. The hotel we went to was this beautiful little place, it had the most amazing view over the water and the bridge that goes between Denmark and Sweden. Back in the airport we got some lunch, and then got on Norwegians huge new dreamliner airplan towards Fort Lauderdale. After 4860 miles, a 10 hour flight, 2 Sodas, 1 Bag of Potato chips, 1 bag of nachos, 1 package of hubba bubba chewinggum, 4 movies and 23 rounds of cards, we finally arrived. In the airport of Fort Lauderdale we first waited 2 very interesting hours to even get to border security. After having them checking our ESTA and passport, we waited another 1½ hour to get to yet another checkpoint with our baggage, finally we waited ½ an hour to get our car. “Unfortunately” they were out of Eco cars like Fiat Punto, which means they had to give us a free upgrade to this beautiful black dodge, which we are so very much in love with.
MOMENT: On our way through the last checkpoint with the car, the guy who’s there to like ”set us free” keeps looking at Cecilia’s drivers license and asking, “Are you Cecilia?”, he ends up concluding, “Okay, it’s just, you seriously look like a 12-year old…”    
So after being set free with the car, we needed to find… Miami Beach.. Which might not seem like a problem, except, we didn’t have a GPS yet, we had no idea where we were or where we were going, none of us had the ability to read a roadmap. To make it even worse, it seemed that roadwork was everywhere, it was dark and traffic was heavy on the stupid 5 laned, huge, confusing freeways. BUT, since we must be naturals when it comes to navigation(joke), we only spent like .. 2-2,5 hours on finding Miami Beach, for something that is normally a 40 min drive. Anyways, we got to Miami Beach, and then learned, that parking on Ocean Drive(where we had our hotel booked), really wasn’t that simple. For like 1 hour we rode back and forward trying to find a spot with absolutely no luck.
MOMENT: Cille is the driver, getting more and more frustrated, she decides to go down a road that says ”No entrance”, at the end of the road, she finds the police, who doesn’t look that happy about it, she turns the car around, getting back on to ocean drive, seems impossible because of the huge amount of cars that are just everywhere, Cille decides to the just drive out, kindda like to force herself in between some cars, when the light turns red, which means all traffic in the direction she is trying to get in, stops, and she is now blocking all traffic in both directions. This is when people at the opposite site of the cross gets a green light, and guess who turns around the corner wanting to pass, where Cille is blocking the road, the Police… And there weren’t exactly looking thrilled about the situation.. Great way to start our American driving career…

After hugely dramatic 60 minutes, we finally get the attention of a valetparker, the very kind guy calls his valetcompany, who tells us to park our car at the hotel, and then they will send a valetparker there, very kind and effective! Finally at like 1am we get to go to sleep, after more than 24 hours of travelling.

Next morning we woke up early, got to do a little shopping for the essentials like food, water ect. After enjoying our delicious and very creative homemade ham&cheese sandwich at the hotel, we wen’t to Best Buy, got ourselves a GPS, thought it might come in handy. From there we vent to Everglades, more exactly, Shark Valley. Here we got an annual pass for all the national parks, since we are gonna go to quite a lot of them. We also bought seats on a 2 hour “open bus” ride through the everyglades. The tour started out with perfect sunshine, and our very clever and dear guide lady told us plenty of stuff. She told us how many alligators actually would be in places you(or at least we) wouldn’t have expected any alligators to be. She also told us the beautiful story about how the male alligators charmes their females with turtlesoup and more J. Anyways we were told about some of the amazing wildlife, like some really cool birds, you could find in the Everglades, we saw an Alligatornest, babyalligators(SO CUTE!), and how a lot of the female alligators often go back to the same male year after year(Awwwwww!). But when people go to the everglades, it’s often because they wan’t to see those alligators. And of course we also saw some of these  “fuzzy” and heartwarming little creatures. In a line after our guide, we walked on the shore next to some water which was booming with alligators, which were also pretty close to the shore. But it was no problem being that close to them, since our funny guide had already told us that if an alligator where to run after you on ground, push your friend towards the alligator and then run in a STRAIGHT line away, no zig sagging or playing dead. And in water, just face it, they will for sure swim faster than you. Everything went fine, we stayed on ground and the alligators stayed in the water. A thing that didn’t really work out was the whole Sunshine State image. Pretty quickly a lot of dark clouds gathered together around our open bus, and showed us what a real tropical thunderstorm means, we got soaked. We even tried doing a raindance to make it stop, but that just seemed to make it even worse, must be some karma-thing going on there.
Our experience with the everglades is that, it’s not the most beautiful park in the world, it’s a lot of just green, but it is indeed VERY interesting when it comes to its story, its wildlife and every one of the staff members we saw there were all VERY kind, helpful and pleasant people, and we would definitely recommend people to go there, if they were going to Florida anyways.
After our trip to the Everglades we took a little break and then we just wanted to get one drink, though we soon learned, that at Miami Beach, drinks comes In bigger sizes, our drinks was GIGANTIC.

The morning after our ”one drink” evening, we started of the day with another small drink and some brunch to get the day started, and then wen’t to the beach. The water was nice, blue and perfect temperature. The beach was this perfect white sandy one and so pretty to look at, but so hot to walk on. After frying ourselves in the sun for a couple of hours, we took a walk around the area at Miami Beach, looked at things like Art Deco District and in general enjoyed the vibe, since this was the 4^th of july. After the walk we rented bikes and rode along the beach for a couple of hours. At night we saw the beautiful firework before going to sleep.
Miami/Miami Beach is a very beautiful place, though it was clearly a vacation area. At ocean drive you get to see tons of expensive pretty cars, Porsche, Ferrari, Huge pickup trucks and so on, it gave quite the entertainment, and we were VERY pleased that we have decided to put in the money to stay at Ocean Drive. Oh, and then a lot of people, often in group, drive scooters.

Around 5am next morning, we packed our stuff, got the car and headed towards Florida Keys, to be more exact Key Largo. Plan A was taking a morning dive at Key Largo, and then go to Key West, but since we haven’t been diving in the last 2 years, we had to do a refresher course, which would be a full day. Thereby we didn’t get to see Key West unfortunately. First part of the day went on with skills training in the pool, and then in the afternoon we finally went to our divesites, which were a 40 min. boatride from shore.The water was clear enough, it had a great temperature, and plenty of fish and corals. Unfortunately we didn’t get to see the really the great marine life that we know they’ve got, but that might have been because our dives weren’t that deep, since there were beginners coming. No matter what, we got to dive again, which just has the ability to be very addicting and give you the most incredible unexplainable feeling of joy. And we did get to the an adorable little baby-stingray, TOTALLY worth it.

MOMENT: Louise has Burger King for lunch, the boat that takes us to the divesites seem to go up and down and side to side a lot, Louise get’s one dive and must then give in for nature(seasickness). No 2 dive for louise and no Taco Bell for dinner for her as well. Poor thing.

At night we tried our first AirBNB stay at the suburbs of Miami. The room was VERY comfortable, the host was pleasant, friendly and helpful. We had a great night.
MOMENT: Louise ruins her iPhone, Louise drops something heavy on her foot, Louise burns down her computer, Louise poors Soya sauce all over her pillow till it no longer is useable. Louise has a bad sunburn. Louise has had a really bad day. Poor thing.

In general we’ve started to get used to all of these huge roads, we get lost from time to time, even with the GPS, one time we got lost, in a parking facility for like.. 1 hour. But we are doing well, feeling good, feeling happy, having a lot of fun, and of course we make sure to have great mixes of music for the driving part on our roadtrip, and some of America’s wonderfull snacks. People here are so friendly and helpful, and comparing traffic in Denmark and the US, people in the US are much better at giving space, not being aggressive ect., though they do have a lot of accidents, and we do have to pay attention here, especially since we’re not used to it. We’ve enjoyed Mcdonalds, Burgerking, Tacobell, Seafood, Sandwiches, and Fruits. All days have been warm and sunny, just shortly interrupted by thunderstorms. Americans are so cosy, laid back, friendly and open people, they are awesome J
At 6^th of July we got up early and went to Disneyworld. The Magic already started on their freeways in the park, those freeways were so wellmaintained and groomed. We chose to visit Magic Kingdom, since we only had one day. One thing we have to give Disneyworld credit for is their ability to get you very efficient from your car in the parking lot, to ticket service and to the park. They are so very professional at handling these massive amounts of people coming and going at the same time. We could probably talk about Disneyworld for hours, since it is truly amazing. Short story is, we got to see the colors, the known figures, the rides, the songs, the shows, try their food ect. The vibe was great, so was the heat, warmest day so far. Most magical thing in the Magic Kingdom is of course their Electrical night parade, and the light and firework show at the castle. Disney world is just AMAZING, period. If people come to florida, they should go there, if people aren’t planning on going to florida, they should still go there, it’s worth it!
In the evening we stayed with AirBNB again, and once again, the experience was GREAT.
For now, there is not much more to say, but stay tuned, we will be back with more stories from our Roadtrip, there is a long way back before we go home, and hopefully plenty of great stories to tell. There will also be plenty of movies and pictures from the trip, though it might take a while to get it uploaded. If you feel like it give us a comment on the blog, or if you have a questions, feel free to ask.

Hugs’n’Kisses
Louise and Cecilia