To Disney Day 1 – I’m Sitting in a Cramped Van

As I type this we’ve been through eleven hours driving down from around Toronto, Ontario. We’ve been through the states of New York, Pennsylvania, Maryland, and Virginia, and we will be stopping in North Carolina tonight for blessed sleep and rest away from this cursed cramped vehicle.

A Quick List of Achievements Today:

• I wrote Chapters 19 and 20 of How to Be a Hero
  
• I wrote Chapter 3 of Tahu vs. Tahu
  
• I refined the Season 4 finale of Tahu vs. Tahu
  

In the next four hours I’ll probably work on the *classified* for the *classified* of *classified* that might be publicly announced in the next few months.

For lunch we went to Taco Bell, and I was saddened to see that American Taco Bells evidently do not have the “build a box” menu option that Canadian Taco Bells have. However, I got to try a Dorito Taco and I must say, that was awesome.

I just finished having McDonalds for dinner- I was surprised to see that many of the items were far cheaper than in Canada. For example, we have a $1.39 value menu in Canada, but here in the States it is just $1. Also, the pies are like forty cents cheaper, and that is delicious. However, I got a McChicken meal (in Canada we have a bigger McChicken and the one I got is a Junior Chicken) and, to be frank, was disappointed. Reasons:

• The chicken wasn’t spicy- not at all! In Canada all Junior Chicken sandwiches are spicy to a certain degree, which causes it to burn ever so slightly going down your throat. It is perfect with the mayonnaise within the sandwich, and without it the sandwich feels incomplete.
  
• The buns were different- they were bigger and more chewy than in Canada, and I felt like that got in the way of my getting to the juicy stuff, which is of course the patty, lettuce, and mayonnaise.
  
• The fries were pretty bad overall- this one I’m willing to consider just blaming the restaurant we went to, but they still can’t match anything I’ve ever had in Canada. In Canada the fries have far more salt than what I got today, which causes them to be practically melting with flavour. In addition, they tasted rather stale and several fries were either overcooked or looked like they were going bad.
  

However, this trip to McDonalds was not completely in vain, for I did discover that America has a bacon McDouble. Also, you guys have Powerade instead of Frutopia, and maybe it’s just me, but I find that to be awesome.

You guys probably won’t be reading this until after I return, but if that’s so a warning now: unless Disney wears me down more than I think it will, I am going to be spamming my blog with these things. xD

Turns out after this I had to sit for six hours failing to sleep while my parents did an awful job of finding the place we stayed at.