The musings of a virtual duckling.
♡09/24/2025♡
Earlier this month, I went on a vacation with my bf, Mike, and our friends! We took a trip to Orlando Florida to visit the Disney World parks and also the Universal Studio parks as well. I've been to each respective park's California counterparts (Disney Land and Universal Studios Hollywood.) However, this was my first time visiting their Florida locations so it was quite exciting
This trip has been in the works since early 2024. One of our friends, a self-proclaimed "theme park enthusiast", helped our friend group plan the whole thing. He put in a ton of research and even made a Google doc going over what to know about each park. Another of friend of ours, also just so happened to have parents who owned a timeshare not too far from the area. It was big enough to house all 10 of us O: This diary seems like the perfect place to babble about my time there. This is gonna be a LONG entry so brace yourself for tons of rambling >.>
Before we get to the parks themeselves, we have to start from the beginning of the journey. Firstly, a majority of the group that went on the trip all traveled together by plane! We had a morning flight and landed in Florida around 12pm. It's not too long of a plane ride, only a little over 2 hours. One of the first things I noticed when I got out of the Orlando airport: the HUMIDITY. MAN, it was humid there
I'm not surprised by this fact by any means, but I guess I didn't mentally prepare myself as well as I thought I did -.- I happen to be someone that HATES hot weather and humidity, so I wasn't exactly thrilled about that fact. We then called a couple of Lyfts to take us to the timeshare. We eventually arrived, and were all pretty pleased with the size of it. The best part, however, had to be the fact that there was a balcony with a pretty view of a big pond. Even better than the pond is the fact that there were lots of waterfowl hanging out there! Check this out!!:

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Both were delicious, but I was especially impressed with my mint one. It wasn't your run-of-the-mill mint-chip with that weird green coloring. I could literally taste mint leaves alongside the fresh chocolate. I had realized the ingredients came from a greenhouse that EPCOT has within the park. Many of the restaurants in the different pavilions get ingredients from it. Another fun part of this visit was checking out the aquarium they have (I can't remember which particular section of the park we we were in.) I LOVE aquariums, so it's a given that I'd enjoy this one. The best ride at the park was Guardians of the Galaxy: Cosmic Rewind! For dinner we ate at a fancy outerspace themed restaurant called Space 220. It was quite expensive, and while the food was okay, definitely overhyped and not worth the $80 price tag (yikes!!) I'd say our first theme park day was a success! 

Another highlight of the park was visiting Rafiki’s Planet Watch. It's a research and education center area. Half of our friend group attended while the other half went back to the timeshare to rest. To get to this section of the park, you have to take a train. Once we arrived, we got to see even more animals. Many of which were reptiles and insects that were inside special animal care rooms. There was also a petting zoo with lots of goats and some donkeys as well! They were all super cute. The last thing we did before leaving the park was a live drawing class. We'd receive a paper with some already drawn guidelines and an art teacher would show us how to draw a specific character. For this class, they taught us how to draw Bruce from Finding Nemo. While it was technically freehand drawing, we were all just copying the same strokes the teacher was doing. It's for kids, after all ^^ All the friends I was with for this class happened to be artists as well, so it was fun seeing our drawings together and noticing how we did certain things different from eachother despite copying the teacher's instructions. Once we were done in this area, the park was closing, so we headed out! The rest of the day involved going to Disney Springs, another shopping district similar to CityWalk, and having dinner at a steakhouse called STK. It was delicious!! 

It was scary... I was screaming my head off cuz I HATE drop rides! It wasn't all bad though. Some dude had apparently brought a bag of popcorn onto the ride and, as you can imagine, it got flung all over the place. That part was pretty funny, at least :P We were supposed to eat at a Toy Story themed restaurant later that evening, but we were all still pretty full from lunch and Mike was starting to not feel well. Him and I decided to go back to the timeshare and to get some extra rest (not before stopping to get a lightsaber -.-) I guess the heat and constant walking with minimal breaks were starting to get to us. It wasn't so bad. It was nice to relax in the timeshare. I found out they had Del Taco so I ordered that for dinner instead. I love their trashy tacos and crinkle cut fries -w- No regrets! 

I also got to go on Haunted Mansion. I've been to its California counterpart, so some parts of the ride felt familiar. At some point, the ride stopped in the middle of it and we had to sit there for a few minutes in a barely lit room. Something I haven't mentioned yet is the fact that on some rides, your picture gets taken and it gets sent to an app. We were plesantly surprised to find out that we received photos from Haunted Mansion. What we didn't expect is the fact that it gave us SOMEBODY ELSE'S photo o_O Some grandma and her grandkid were sitting behind us on the ride and we ended up getting their photo instead. I wonder if that means they got me and Mike's pic. Poor souls. We hadn't ate too much for lunch as we were saving our appetite for dinner. We had a reservation for Liberty Tree Tavern, which has Thanksgiving themed cuisine. The food was all-you-can-eat, and man did we eat!! After dinner, we got out just in time to catch a nighttime parade. Earlier in the day, we got to see a parade as well. This one was even bigger and nicer as it had a ton of cool lights. Not long after this, it was time to see the nighttime fireworks. It was quite hectic trying to find a good spot though eventually we found somewhere suffient, though it involved some of us to split up. We eventually regathered and found out they were going to do another nighttime parade before closing. We found a good spot right at the start of the parade route. Not to sound corny, but it certainly did feel magical that night. 

I was able to hang in there at least. I'm glad I did! We ate dinner at an ocean themed restaurant called Atlantic. The inside had a gorgeous ocean theme. We lucked out as well, as the restaurant is right next to the main fountain where they have an evening water and light show before closing. Despite some setbacks, the overall experience could only be described with one word: EPIC! H-hey!! Why are you booing??





♡08/23/2025♡
After years and years of putting it off, I've FINALLY gotten around to putting together a Diary page for my site. Yay!!!
It still needs some work but for now, I'm content. Now I can reward myself for all my hard work by writing an entry. Hmm... Now that I'm actually here. What should I even write about?? o_O. How personal do I truly want to get with these diary entries? I want to be open but not too revealing either. Decisions, decisions. I suppose I should start off with how I'm doing and what's been going on in life. That's what diaries are all about, right? Alright, let's see...
I've been doing just fine. Not amazing, but not too bad either. The world sucks, don't get me wrong. But as for my life in it's current state, I'm grateful that things are okay. Could be better, of course. But they could also be much worse, and I'm extremely grateful that isn't the case. Sometimes things being okay is okay! As for whats been going on in life, not too much at the current moment. However, a couple weeks from now, I'm going on a big vacation with my boyfriend, Mike, and our friends! We'll be visiting Disney World and Universal Studios in Florida. I've been to Disney Land and Universal Studios Hollywood, but never their East Coast counterparts. While I'm not excited to visit a controversial and humid state like Florida, I am excited to go on a big vacation again. My last big vacation was earlier this year when I visited the one and only Japan. I NEED to write a post about my time spent in Japan sometime. In addition to this diary page, I want to make a page for other blog-type posts that have more of a theme. Guess I'll have to jot that in my site's neverending to-do list 

It was a little embarrassing though because I was playing Mario Party and BROKE my joystick on stream while doing a minigame -_-;;; So it affected the other game I streamed that night which was Banjo Tooie. ANYWHO... I streamed from late 2014 till mid 2016.

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