Hurricane Matthew!

Well!

There may be a chance we won't be flying Tuesday although I am hopeful we will.

Hurricane Matthew is headed to Florida right now after destroying a lot of Haiti and the Bahamas with a death toll of over 100 so far :(

So it goes without saying that my holiday is not important right now.

Obviously I hope everything is fine, that Matthew doesn't cause much damage in Orlando and we get to fly as planned and have power when we're there, of course.

But if not then we have options.

Matthew is the strongest, fastest and worst hurricane Florida has seen for a long time.  It's currently a Category 4 and will hit Orlando at 2am their time so around 7am here tomorrow.  It's expected to last until Friday night/Saturday morning.

It should then hopefully pass and disappear or at least turn into a standard storm by the end of Saturday.

Until Saturday night our holiday is in the air right now.  I've called the travel agent and they've reassured me that if for some reason we cannot fly on Tuesday we have the option to fly the next day, or the day after, or receive a full refund and re book.

The most likely outcome is our flight will be a little delayed as the storm will still be there so our flight will have to be diverted around it, and when we get there there'll be places that are closed, power outages etc so some things we have booked we won't be able to do.

Best case scenario is the hurricane doesn't do as much damage as expected and everything is fine the next day!

Worst case is I have to cancel and book for another time, and tell the kids they're not going on holiday now :(

It's all a waiting game now so I don't want to update the new things I've booked and changed just yet!

Hopefully my next post will be after it's passed and everything is still on, fingers crossed!

Getting the final details sorted!

6 days until we leave for the airport!

I'm more relaxed about flying now and everything being ok hopefully.

Got out ESTA's, API's done, passports, booking confirmation printed as well as travel insurance and care hire.

Got all of our tickets now including Disney, Universal, Seaworld, Discovery Cove, Aquatica, and Halloween Horror Nights!

Kids all booked into Lilo's Clubhouse the night me and Cameron will be going to HHN.

Dine with Shamu and the Superhero breakfast are booked and paid for.

Our other ADR's, after cancelling a few I wasn't REALLY excited about are;

Mythos
Be Our Guest breakfast
Garden Grill
Teppan Edo
Sanaa
T-Rex
Coral Reef
Crystal Palace
'Ohana.

I did have a few more booked originally but I'd either done them before or they weren't making me excited so I'd rather save the money and use it on something that will :D

We also have Discovery Cove booked for the 15th which will be amazing again!  No dophin swim this time but everything else!  Snorkelling with sting ray and tropical fish, right next to sharks.  And seeing otters, sloths and feeding tropical birds, all while eating and drinking as much as we want for free.  Paradise :D

On the spending money side, I haven't managed to save as much as I wanted to but I think we'll be ok.

Especially now I've saved a couple of hundred cancelling some ADR's and I'll be ordering groceries for our room too so we can make things there and take some with us to the parks too :D

I've not even started packing yet! I really need to soon!  I have 3 cakes to finish in time for the weekend so it'll have to be then!

6 more sleeps!!

Kids Surprise boxes ready!

So the big reveal will be next week!  I've told them I've got a little present for them for the plane (to Scotland!) and I'll give it to them next week :D

Inside they have;

Mickey/Minnie ears
An autograph book
Bumbag
Ponchos
Themed top of their favourite character/film
Headphones for the plane
And a sun cap

I have a feeling it still wont be enough so I may have to add a note in there to spell it out for them!!  Or write it on the underside of the lid maybe.

I'll definitely be filming their reaction again!

I've prepped Cameron, who still believes he's in on the secret that we're going to Spain and I've told him all about the presents and to act surprised.  Little does he know he will actually be surprised!!