Flew to Florida Saturday morning, having driven to a hotel at newcastle airport straight from Oakwell on Friday, and hadn’t really wanted the pain of looking at tickets etc given I’m still here next Monday and will miss it. What the frig is going on? We’ve sold less than half the allocation and yet if I wanted to book two seats together the only choice is the tier five nose bleed level? I know there’ll be a lot of other threads so apologies for the new one but dear me it seems like bedlam. Oh - and the weather here is pretty sh.it overall. Sunny just now but it’s rained every day so far and yesterday we had a huge electrical storm, we had the kids at magic kingdom and left early as they’d shut all the outdoor attractions (which is nearly everything, all the rides etc), so I genuinely wish I was at home booking train tickets and whinging about ticketmaster. Although I’d have booked at some point yesterday anyway I guess. Trying to figure out how to get an ESPN+ subscription as that’s the only thing carrying the game, it isn’t allowing me to just do it. I’m apparently already registered as I have Disney+ at home and it won’t allow me to subscribe as you can’t have it in the U.K.! I’ll have to register another email address, register myself to the villa address and get another account I guess.
I was in Death Valley last Saturday. One of the hottest and driest places in the world. We drove through a thunderstorm and saw tornados in the distance as we were driving out. Also saw snow every day we were over there on the mountain tops - and sometimes below where we were stood
It will rain (with accompanying lightning) every day in Florida at this time of year, but it should be at basically the exact same time every day so easy enough to plan around. Have fun!
To be fair the weather adds to it. Saw a water spout in the distance and one of the storms was right on us, lightning and the clap of thunder simultaneously happened. Never seen rain like it. Was driving at the time, our rental is a Jeep Grand Wagoneer. Fecking huge, never driven anything like it.
Got caught in one last time I was in Florida. Had to stop at the side of the road as it was 3-4 inches deep across the road and the wipers weren't clearing the windows. 30 minutes later it was bone dry. I just did 3,600 miles in a Nissan Armada. I think I worked out it would have been better for the environment to set fire to it on day 1 rather than drive it so far...
