It’s Christmas Day! – Merry Christmas!!

Well, it’s finally Christmas!No more sleeps until we leave! It’s been a crazy day opening presents from Father Christmas, pack, quick visit to Uncle Tom, Tameryn and Yin and then rushing to do some last minute packing and then the wait – waiting to get dropped off at the airport, waiting to board the plane and then waiting for the plane to get there!

What a journey it has been so far! We left home at 3:30pm on Christmas day and waited 3 hours at the airport. The boys were so excited at the airport and were really hyperactive – I was so worried about the flight and got so worked up before we even got on the plane. We then flew for 20 hours to Atlanta. It is a damn long flight! But the boys were absolute angels – we hardly knew they were there!

Demi-Leigh on the other hand was quite a handful. She got really overtired and then couldn’t sleep and just cried for about an hour and a half which felt like half the night. She eventually fell asleep and then we all slept. The plane was only 50% full so we all had lots of space to stretch out and sleep.

We arrived at Atlanta airport at 8am in the morning (their time which was about 2pm SA time) we then flew to Orlando at 11am but by then the children were exhausted and really irritable. So were we by then. Once we arrived at Orlando, we had to wait 2 hours to get a car from Alamo – what a nightmare!! After all that traveling, we just wanted to get to the hotel and had to wait!

Anyway, we finally got a car and then had a hair-raising trip to the hotel. Try driving in a new country after 30 hours of travelling and hardly any sleep and on the wrong side of the road!!!

We arrived at our hotel and it was fantastic! Driving in just brought back all the memories of when we were here 14 years ago with my family! It was so special! We are staying at Orange Lake which is one of the biggest  resorts in the world now!

It really is a wonderful place especially for families! We quickly unpacked and then went shopping for some groceries – by this time we were exhausted but were trying to stay awake as it was only 4pm. We went to bed at 7pm and woke up at 4am – guess the body clocks are still adjusting….