On our way to Orlando we stopped at Daytona beach on the east coast. We visited an old lighthouse that we climbed up and got to see a great view of Daytona. Josh is scared of heights and climbing down the lighthouse was a big challenge. Luckily he reached the ground without any major panic attacks. We then headed to the beach to have a couple if hours of chilling before driving to Orlando. This beach was really cool. There was a walkway from the parking lot that led to the beach and on this walkway we got to see a bunch of turtles, one of which were on the actual walkway and panicked a bit when it saw us coming. We could tell he/she contemplated jumping of of the walkway (maybe a meter high) but luckily he/she just tried to hide in his/her shell, hoping we didn't see him/her. Unfortunately, we left our cameras and phones in the van and therefore we don't have any pictures of them. We went to get the camera an hour later but we couldn't see any turtles then. It started raining heavily twice when we were on the beach. Luckily it didn't last too long. The beach was quite big and long and you can even drive on it (!). Pretty cool.
In Orlando we went to Disney world and universal studios over three days. We managed to get really cheap tickets to Universal studios from our hotel, the only thing we had to do first was to go to a sales presentation at a resort called Mystic Dunes. They basically sell timeshare where you, instead of putting your money in a savings account in a bank, put money towards a travel fund and you can go stay anywhere in the world where they have resorts for "free". Basically, you have to put at least 30,000 dollars in the fund within a couple of years in order to stay at the resorts for up to three weeks per year (they then get a huge interest from your money). Even though we were honest from the get go that we were only there for the Universal tickets, our sales guy spoke to us for two hours and tried to convince us to "invest in our future travels". We had read reviews online before we went and found people who warned about this place being a scam and that the sales people had been really unpleasant with them when they didn't want to invest. Our sales guy started off being over the top nice and when Josh confronted him on some things he started to become a bit impatient. After about two hours of sitting through a bull**** presentation and sales pitch the guy went to get the manager who then tried to push us further. Luckily we were prepared and stood our ground saying we did not want to sign off on anything. Eventually they gave up and let us go and get our tickets. In the pictures you can see a happy Josh with the tickets outside of the resort.
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