Vacation Happenings - Whew!

Well, we survived Orlando. Anyone preparing to go, should start working out in a major way.

We left home on Monday morning, it's about an 8 hour drive from SC to Orlando. It was a good trip.

We arrived Monday night, and had dinner at Olive Garden, YUM! We stayed at the Embassy Suites by Universal Studios.

Tuesday we headed for Universal Studios. It was Marc and the boys first visit to an Amusement Park. They were all very excited.

We caught this pic right after entering the park.

Our first greeting to Universal Studios was this guy...



Josh was so excited to see Curious George, it was our first of many experiences of chasing him through a crowd of people!!!

The very first ride we went on was the Jimmy Neutron ride through the Nick shows. It was awesome we were on a rocket with Jimmy and flew through Sponge Bob, Fairly OddParents and many others that I don't remember right now!!!


Don't be surprised in December if you see this photo again!!!


Later we were in line waiting and waiting for the Earthquake ride (Josh did not like the ride) when we spotted this...

Our sons do not know the meaning of the word stranger and this was no exception to the rule - Josh helping folks understand the whole Universal Studios park. The 3 of them spent about 20 minutes going over the map, with Josh giving them a big "You are welcome" at the end.

This was fun..

Then we hopped on over to Islands of Adventure. Where we experienced Suess Land. It was incredible. The boys and I rode '1Fish 2Fish Red Fish Blue Fish' then we all rode the Suess Land Trolley, then the Cat in the Hat ride. I loved Suess Land. This pic doesn't do it any justice...

We were totally exhausted leaving Universal - we spent about 11 hours there. Oh yeah, if you go to Universal and actually drive yourself - pay the $5 for the preferred parking!!! When we finally got back to our van - there were only about 20 cars parked further from the main entrance than us! The walk back to the car was awful. ;-)

Wednesday we decided we need to recooperate from Tuesday so that we could to go Disney Magic Kingdom on Thursday. We had moved to a new hotel - the one where we actually had the 'deal'. We were at the Hilton in Downtown Disney. It was an incredible room. Wednesday we went exploring Downtown Disney - it's mainly shops but they were fun shops..

Janci, this one is just for you.. the boys as captain Jack



We actually took a nap on Wed, and then went back to Downtown Disney where we went to Disney Quest, it's a 5 story arcade with many virtual reality games. It was so fun, we wish we would have spent all day there...


Ok, I'm afraid that blogger is going to freak out on me and not let me save this. So, I'm going to put Magic Kingdom in a new post!!!!