Plenty of updates on the Disneyfront at the moment!
Apologies again for the neglact of my blog, but things have been pretty busy lately!
To begin with, we've had a fair few little catch ups lately! A few of us, Amy, Cory, Jess Airey, and Matt have decided to make a Wednesday night dinner and/or movie a regular thing. A few weeks ago Matt and I headed down to Karingal to meet the others, we had dinner at hogsbreath and then went and saw the new Johnny English movie (which was hilarious!). Last Wednesday we went down to Karingal again, and had dinner at RedFire, and then went for pancakes for dessert afterwards! :)
This week (tonight actually) we either going to Southland or Chadstone for dinner, and possibly a movie, depends on what we feel like! Oh, and as of this week, Liz will be joining us every Wednesday too!
Speaking of Liz, we have our accomodation booked for our first night in Orlando! I know earlier on, I said that Matt and I decided to stay at a Disney Resort, and we decided on
Disney's Pop Century Resort, but since then, we decided to share accomodation with Liz as well, so for the room to work out cheaper, as there's now 3 of us, we're now staying at
Disney's All-Star Sports Resort! Which looks amazing! So now that there's 3 of us, we're all paying $50 for the night. Which is pretty good considering it's a Disney resort!
Okay, accomodation covered, what else .. oh yeah! Flights! I now have a travel buddy! Which is exciting, I don't have to endure the 15 hour flight by myself! His name is Ivan, and he goes to RMIT too! We've met once, but been speaking a bit, hopefully i get to know him a bit better before the flight, considering we requested our seats together! But so far he seems like a really nice guy, so all should be good! And Liz is now on my flight from LAX to Orlando! So we'll get to Orlando together at 6.30am, and then get a complimentary transfer from the airport to the All-Star Sports resort. We decided that we would spend the day shopping, as girls do! But we realised that we'll need some things for out apartments, like bedding and stuff like that. And Orlando is famous for all its outlet malls! So we will be stocking up our new wardrobes!
Oh! We had our Melbourne Meet-up recently! It wasn't as good as expected, because so many people bailed at the last minute! Which was a bit disappointing. But it was still a good day! There was about 10 of us at lunch, and after lunch we went bowling and then some people had to head home, so the few of us that stuck around went and saw a movie to kill some time before we headed to Stalactites for dinner. Which fell through, because they wouldn't seat us without everyone being there, and we were waiting on Jess. Which was rather frustrating, because they let us in last time when we were waiting on people! So anyway, we went for a wander to find somewhere else to eat, and ended up at TacoBills. After dinner, we dropped Luke off at WahWah Lounge, and then decided to have coffee. I almost got us lost, well, I was taking us to a coffee place/bar and I couldn't remember where it was! So we settled for a place at Melbourne Central which ended up being good! All in all, it was a pretty good day, even though so many people bailed!
FINALLY! To the best of news! Finally got around to getting my Visa sorted! So, I've paid my $35 SEVIS fee, completed my online DS-160 application and printed out all my confirmation pages, paid the $14 fee to get a pin to use on the VisaPoint service. Went through the whole process, all the way to the point where I had to book my appointment. And then, on the website it said the closest available date was Dec19th :/ This was very worrying. So Matt and I both sent emails asking what was going on. After waiting a couple stressful days for a reply, worrying that we may not be able to get our Visas intime, we both got replys, saying there was an issue with the website! So, after all the stressing, we both got our interviews booked for Oct26th! Yay!
Okay, so I think that's all I have to say for now!
79 days til Disney!! yeaaahhhhhboy!
abbiej xoxo
