Days Inn Orlando Convention Center/International Drive

The idea was to go camping this weekend in Orlando. My cousin Dougie's two boys are in the cub scouts and had a camping outing scheduled at Fort Wilderness (http://disneyworld.disney.go.com/resor ts/campsites-at-fort-wilderness-resort/ ). Dougie invited me to join them with Rebecca and Christopher, which I decided would be a great idea considering that Rebecca and Christopher had never been camping yet ...

We all have grown up fantasies and Fairy tales and always wondered how it would be to be in a fairy land or the Magic World. My dreams seemed to have come true , only a bit late in life! Well i am walking into the third decade in my life but still excited about going to the Disney World Orlando.

Our trip starts with a jinx , first with the shuttle breaking down on the way to the airport and second with our flight ...

... stream - see video below. Julie stood next to a huge stuffed alligator in a gift shop on international drive (see picture).

In the afternoon went to wet n wild and had another go on some rides. I carefully stayed out of the sun to give the sunburn chance to heal.

all told a lazy day .... but a nice one. Also had some chocolate covered pretzels... yum yum...

... waited... then removed my warm sake from the microwave:) IMHO it tastes MUCH better heated.

If this was not your pleasure, there was Japanese beer (Sapporo, & Kirin), sweet plum wine, juice, water, and of course, tea (what Japan party would be complete without tea!).

Then there was the food... sushi, gyoza (dumplings), seaweed salad, and little candies for afterwards. Sorry, no takoyaki or okonomiyaki:( Complimentary chopsticks were provided as ...

... if you have some such examples, please bring them to my attention - I always enjoy a good laugh!:)

OK, now on to the foto gallery for a little diversion...

P.S. Be sure to read the captions for details, plus my own humorous comments:)

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... We decided to go to the pool and swim for a while before dinner since we were already drenched. There weren’t many people at the pool other than a group of people who had imbibed in what appeared to be a large amount of spirits. They were loud and obnoxious and even entertained the whole pool area by singing God Bless America. It was quite a show.

We had a 7:50 dinner reservation at Kouzzina by Cat Cora at the ...

Here are some other notes about Costa Rica: Food: It was basically OK, but nothing to write home about. They eat rice & beans mixed together at all 3 meals and refer to it as "gallo pinto". The food lacks a little in spice. One thing that is amusing is that beer and soda costs the same in CR! The steaks are rather tough and fatty. We wanted to try iguana but had no luck in locating it. People: They ...

... for the ride!  :-) 30 minutes or so to get to Sanford. Park in the short-term parking and race to the terminal. It's practically empty ... I regret not studying the map online a wee bit better ... no baggage going around the carousels ... the arrivals board still shows the flight as scheduled to arrival at 7:10pm ... it's now later than that ... we follow signs for Departures to see if there's anyone there who could tell us if the plane arrived. Ticketed passengers only past that ...

... hoped! After Mike went back to bed dad remembered to tell me that he had left the little video tape with our video from Epcot, Animal Kingdom and the Magic Kingdom in his pants pocket and it had gone through the washing machine... WHAT?! I was so upset. Our video of the Festival Of the Lion King, Illuminations, and SpectroMagic were all on there! He said that it should work once it dried out and that I shouldn't touch it, but I've never been one to just take ...

... them.  Anyway, met a couple of  DJs at the school's internet broadcasting station called: The Knightcast.  I dropped off the S. Fla underground CD package with them.  It seemed like they were interested in what I was doing, but you never really know.  I've learned that most people are more interested in what they are doing then what you are doing.  It's hard to make an impact.  After all, what have I done so far?  Drove from Miami to Orlando ...