Florida Day 3: EPCOT

Florida day 2

		Florida Day 2: 17/7/2006 VIEW SLIDE SHOW DOWNLOAD ALL

1st Day in Florida: Orange Lake Resort Kissimmee

Thuis was where we were staying for the two weeks we were goimng to spend in Orlando. First day we just stayed there and recovered our breath. Been on the go since morning and due to time difference it was only a couple of hours later in the day when we arrived after a sixc hour flight. Plus Nat threw up as we landed and we had to get through the airport where we were finger print scanned (shoe bomb checked on way out ... fuck u richard reed) by the cheerful (satire)port entry staff. Then find luggage, find car and finally find resort ... result Knackered but Jesus did we did have a NICE apartment.

Orange Lake Resorts

 8505 W. Irlo Bronson Memorial Hwy.
 Kissimmee, FL 34747-8201

Holidaying In Florida: July – August 2006 A Photographic Recollection

We went to America in July 2006, a first for us all, where we holidayed for a fortnight in Orlando followed by a week in Naples (the richest county in the USA we were told). We stayed a the The Orange Lake Resort Orlando  which was located outside of Orlando but conveniently situated for all the various parks. The only trouble was that all of Orlando looked like all the rest of Orlando; block after block of the same stores connected by what looked like third world wiring. I kept losing track of where I was when we drove along the highways until one passed one of the few unique sites situated here and there. We went everywhere we could, we did all the Disney' Parks and Universal World of Adventure. After two exhausting weeks of this we travelled down to Naples on the Gulf of Mexico for a final week's chill out in a small time-share located on the beach. Here we had the chance to meet some holidaying Americans which was quite a change for Orlando where there wasn't really the opportunity to meet anyone, excepting the nice kids we spoke to whilst queuing to get into Shrek 3D. Once I've found all the missing photos and added them to the stream here i'll try and remember more of what we did.






Video of The Kraken at Seaworld - Nat and I road this one either twice or three times can't recall exactly:

Night before we Fly to Florida

Trip

stuck M25

to0o late for luggage

over night stay in Elizabethan house

 

Rugby

		Rugby Jan 2006 VIEW SLIDE SHOW DOWNLOAD ALL

4 November - My First Night of Nights on Nights!

Tonight I joined the JDM overnight team at BGS. We work four nights on followed by four nights off; yes that does mean you can get 12 days off  every time you book four days holiday. If you want longer it doesn't work out quite so well because to go to 16 days requires you to take 8 days leave although of course this then automatically becomes 20 days because at the end of the 16 days you start your four days off1 Keeping track of holiday, I'm told, can get confusing. As I've just returned from one I think I'll leave this subject now to another day.
The teams is comprised of:
John - The Manager
Starkey
Duncan
Amit
Carol
Jane
Hasmukh
Ash
Bharat
Prash
and
Myself,
We work from 10PM through the night until 8AM next morning dealing, in the main, with overnight emergencies involving water leaks and such like. There are two specialist jobs overnight that we take turns doing. One is known as manuals, the IT system goes off-line after 10PM to update so all calls afterward until 6AM are recorded in ink on manual worksheets. These need to be collected sorted and eventually faxed to the appropriate centre before 7AM. In winter this is apparently a big job. The other special job is dealing with issuing emergency jobs to over night stand by engineers. This can involve a lot of diplomacy if you wish to avoid getting your ear chewed off by an irate engineer. I enjoyed my first night and everyone brokre me in gently. I will shadow the special jobs quite a few times before going solo. The team seem to be a good bunch although I haven't met hasmuhk yet as he is away on holiday.