Clodagh was born! Arriving in Orlando...DC11!

April 7th, 2011

Clodagh was born today at 3:04am PST!!! SOOOOOO EXCITING I'M AN AUNTIE!!! She is beautiful, healthy and incredible :)

We left Alabama pretty early as we were really excited to get to Orlando!! We headed south east and found this

Yay!!!

We stopped in Tallahassee to take a look around Florida State University (Go Seminoles!) which was beautiful! The campus was gorgeous and even though we just drove around it had a really good feel. 

 

Pretty Florida Swamps

Then since we made my stop in Tallahassee we headed down to Gator Country for Ashley's stop in Gainesville! 

It was also a pretty campus and had some really cool trees with some moss type stuff hanging off of them (they're the spooky looking trees around the Hollywood Tower Hotel at Hollywood Studios!).  

Then we made our way closer and closer to Orlando! I was super excited when I saw this billboard:

and eventually this sign:

YAY!! We made it!!!

We rolled up to our friends Kristin and Oscar's house around 5pm! Kristin was actually napping when we first knocked, but Ashley awoke her with her fantastic doorbell skills and we hung out by the pool for a while meeting and remeeting their other roommates! Then we ventured down to Downtown Disney and walked around, then found the most delicious slushie drinks at the Hole in the Wall outdoor pub and watched the Magic Kingdom fireworks over the trees from a bench in the evening heat. It was amazing.  Then we picked up Oscar from work and got to see some other familiar faces which was fun :) Then we headed back and crashed!

Disney Challenge Day 11: Favourite Love Song

This one is easy...

I'm not going to analyse it, or think to hard about it. This song and scene are so nice and it's my favourite love song. Although Beauty and the Beast is of course amazing and Belle Notte from Lady and the Tramp. I'm going to throw this video up as well:

and this one from Enchanted is nice as well:

Yikes!

So I am totally failing at updating while driving down, however I have kept a journal by hand and will upload pictures and type it up when I return home! This is just a quick update that we are currently in Dothan, Alabama right by the Georgia/Florida borders and are super pumped for tomorrow when we'll arrive in Orlando!!!!

GKTW + Disney Challenge Day 2!

Today was a really emotional day for me. I work at a country club currently doing banquets mainly, and today we had a funeral for a 3 year old boy, Matthew, who had Leigh's Disease. Leigh's disease is a rare inherited neurometabolic disorder that affects the central nervous system. There were only 2 children with Leigh's in Canada, and both have since passed away. Obviously I did not know Matthew, but setting up the room with him artwork, pictures and teddy bears was very hard. In every single picture this blue eyed blondie had the largest grin, and from the stories told by his family and friends he was a incredible sweet, loving, playful, mischievous boy. When putting out the teddy bears I noticed one looked very familiar, and then it clicked! It was Duffy! Looking again the tell tale Mickey prints were on the bottom of his feet. Matthew had, through the Make A Wish Foundation gone to Disney World! Which also means he most likely stayed at the Give Kids the World Village. It's all I've been thinking about all day since. The Village does incredible things for terminally ill kids who make it their wish to visit Central Florida. I am so, so excited to get down to Florida so that I can volunteer here. If you are on the program, on a summer program, waited listed for a program, applying for a program, thinking about applying for a program, or anything else like that, please consider sparing some of your time. Through Disney you can volunteer at numerous different places depending on what you're interested in. We get to work at the most incredible place in the world, with free entrance to parks and with Central Florida and beyond as our playgrounds. We are given such a huge opportunity through working for Disney, especially on this program, please, take even just one day out from parks, and beaches, and pools and all that stuff that is so much fun and volunteer. You will make a gigantic impact, and create a ripple that will grow into a wave. It will be worth it.

Now on a lighter note....

DISNEY CHALLENGE DAY 2: FAVOURITE DISNEY PRINCESS

Belle from Beauty and the Beast!

Belle is beautiful, intelligent and has dreams and ambitions. She's not only with being the status quo and she wants adventure in the great wide somewhere! Belle sees inner beauty or ugliness and doesn't base her opinions on outer appearances. She also kinda seems kinda geeky, which I think is cool. Plus she gets to rock that gold dress! Belle is by far my favourite princess! I turn into a 5 year old when I see her at the parks! It's so exciting!