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Last February, I went to Florida with my mom and friend...on a train. My mom decided that she doesn't like to go on planes anymore, so we took a train...for 21 HOURS! I thought it was going to be absolute torture, I mean, how do you sit on a train for 21 hours...trying to keep yourself entertained. We got on the trian at 3:15. The first few hours went by pretty quickly, i must admit, but after that felt like it was taking forever! The time was 6:30. We decided to go into the dining cart and have some dinner. The motion made me a little naucheous but i was alright. We brought the food back to our seats and ate it there...not to big of a selection if you ask me: bagels, pizza, drinks, and some other appitizing stuff. We ate and then it was around 7:30. My friend and I were __so tired__ from the long train ride, and getting up early that morning, so we decided that we would take a nap, or sleep for the night. We both fell asleep around 8, and woke up thinking it was morning. Nope, it was 10:00. Now that we slept, we were **so awake**, so we took some pictures, had a snack and just talked and listened to music. Around 12, we went to sleep again, only for me to get woken up again...because my friend got her ring stuck on her finger. I got her, her lotion and it slipped off. We went back to sleep about 2 hours later, and the next time we woke up...it was 9:30 the next morning.

We got to Florida around 11:30 the next morning. The train ride wasn't as bad as I predicted it would have been. We had alot of fun in Florida and didn't want to go back to the //cold New York//. We got to Florida on Monday, and left on Saturday. We got back home Sunday morning, only to step out into 30 degree weather in the city.

The train ride home was a little rough. We were tired, and cranky from it being delayed for an over an hour, and didn't want to go home to the cold. We slept alot, listening to some more music and just hung out. The only scary part we can admit to, was there being a drunk guy on the train--->making it a little uncomfortable for us to sleep at night, without worrying. The next morning, we got back into New York around 12:45. It was a nice, long trip with a 21 hour train ride !