My Trip To Walt Disney World

The latest news i guess would have to be what happened this week. Do you know what it was? Oh come on take a guess??...hehe

I went to Walt Disney World in Florida!! Woohoo!!
You'll find all the details about my trip below

First of all I should mention my trip would not of been possible if it hadn't have been for the Sunshine Foundation of Canada. I was one of the ones who went on their Dreamlift this year. I would just like to take this opprunity to THANK the Sunshine Foundation, all the volunteers, the sponsers who helped make this all possible, the volunteers who accompanied us in Florida and also to MCTV (Andrew and Jazz) who went along with us and helped to make this trip even more special by putting some of us on the news.

Okay now for all the details about my trip!
First of all we booked into our hotel on Wednesday afternoon. We stayed at the Ramada Hotel in Sudbury. Then we checked out our room and unloaded our car. We had to park on the roof of the hotel! that was kind of cool. When we where trying to figure out how to get back into the hotel from on the roof we found an entrance to get into the shopping mall from there....so that was another cool discovery....its very hand too!
The hotel has a pool, whirlpool, exercise room and Arcade room. We got to use the pool abit and the exercise room.
Then their was a meeting at 7-9pm that night about our trip...and thats when we got to meet our volunteer who would be accompaning us....My volunteer was Chantal.(Each volunteer had 2 children with them)
At the meeting we also all got a backpack with all kinds of neat stuff in it, pens, crayons, pins from the police department and the Mine in Sudbury, activity books, a pair of binoculars, autography books etc.

Thursday Morning Oct. 28/99

We had to be at the Sudbury Airport for 5:30am. At the airport we got our Sunshine dreamlift t-shirts, caps and spending money to spend at Disney. We got to meet Safety Bear and have our picture taken with him. We also got to meet the Sunshine bear.
Just before we headed out to board the plane they took a picture of us with the Sunshine Bear and our Volunteer
We started to board the plane (the 707 out of Ottawa. First Air) around 6am i guess it was. We where in the air at 7am. We had breakfast on the plane at 7:30am
We arrived at the Orlando Florida Airport at 9:30am where we got greeted by the Sheriff Department and each one of us kids had one of them each accompany us to Disney and help us around the park. The one i went with was Liz. So we had 5 people in a group (the volunteer who accompanied us on the plane, and 2 from the sheriff department, one to each kid.)
We got alittle bag from our volunteers from Florida with some soveniours from Florida.

Our buses to take us to Disney arrived at about 10am....(there was 4 of them) we started boarding and we left for Disney at 11am. We where police escorted...there where about 5 motorcycles in front of our buses to stop traffic so we could get through.
It took us an hour to get to Disney from the Airport so we arrived at 12pm.
We started to see the attractions around 1pm after we had lunch (we ate at the Plaza Pavilion) and had washroom breaks.
I can't quite remember now what attractions we did in the order we did them.. But we seen Minnie Mouse's house and then we went and meet Minnie and Pluto and had our pictures taken with them.
We also seen pooh, eeyore and tigger and had our pictures taken with them also.
The rides we did where Haunted Castle, Splash Mountain, Pirates of the Caribean, Space Mountain, Small World, Winnie the Pooh, Peter Pan and the Jungle Safrie.
Its really hard to describe the rides, you really have to see it to know what a person was talking about and even then its hard to describe.
We had to meet back with everyone at the main gate at 6pm but before we did that we went shopping for soveniours.
We meet everyone back at the gates at 6pm.....our buses arrived at around 7pm...we where at the Airport at 8pm and we started to board. The plane took off at 9pm and we had supper in the plane at 9:30pm. Looking over Orlando at night with all the lights was just beautiful! We arrived back at Sudbury Airport at 11:30pm. We got alittle teddy bear and the picture that was taken just as we where leaveing to get on the plane in the morning (I was in the picture with Sunshine Bear and Chantal)

NOTE: I'll try to put some pictures from my trip up here as soon as i get them developed.