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Sushi dinner at 2am

Just got in from having a Japanese dinner at the equivalent of 3am UK time. Managed to stay awake pretty easily and get down to some pigging out on the first night of our holidays. Went to Rangetsu on International Drive for some Japanese food, which is only a short walk from our residence at the Hilton Embassy Suites.

For just under $120, (£60) we had a couple of cocktails, 2 large bottles of Sapporo, pickled veg and seafood, edamame, mixed tempura plus I had sushi/sashimi combo as a main and Angela ordered a steak dinner after talking about getting a Chirashi rice dinner. Unfortuantely they brought the raw seafood chirashi rice dish instead.

Angea asked them to stir fry the raw food up and stick it back on top of the rice. Would have been embarassing but it was their fault. The embarassing bit of the day was when the sniffer dog hunted down Angela's apples just before immigration. Hmmm, on the spot fine was on the cards.

It was a fairly large glass fronted building with a huge multi tiered koi pond with waterfalls.

Service was typically good.

Touch down in Orlando

We have safely arrived in Orlando.

Got to Gatwick in good time and started to queue up. Was told our flight was delayed by about an hour and a half. They offered us the earlier plane taking off in about 50 minutes and be upgraded to Premium Economy on Virgin. Ah great we thought, trying not to break out into cheesy smiles, having just checked in bag in they said that someone else has taken the other place. So we could have the one in each class or two in economy.

Well, I couldn't really let Ange stay in Economy by herself could I. The sacrifices I make! Damn.

So much for the glass of champagne Mrs Virgin co-ordinator. Probably a cunning ploy to release two seats for the later flight.