Homestead Studio Suites Lake Mary/Northpoint Center

... the local weather with my cousin Maureen that lives in the Orlando area I was more convinced that I made the right decission, but then my cousin Maureen suggested I still go but stay at her place, which is what we ended up doing, and I am glad I did because my kids and I had a great weekend and I got to spend some time with my cousin Maureen that I very much enjoyed.

Rebecca, Christopher and I ...

... delayed for over three hours. i still kept my hopes high of our trip going good.I have always loved being in the airport observing people and trying to understand the objective of each ones presence there. Not to forget the multiple shops and eat-outs.So we finally din't realize the passing of time until before we were boarding and were on our way to Orlando.

It was mid November for us at Maryland and we were ...

Today we went for a drive and visited a walmart store - we found some good bargains on t-shirts etc. One interesting thing is that Ipods and other electronics now cost about the same as in the UK. bought a card reader for $13 only to find where I'd hidden mine when we got back to the hotel. so I now have two....

we had the great joy of seeing 3 juvenile alligators in a ...

... a few days between us. Michelle will begin her journey on September 30th, arriving on the Ice on October 6th. Aaron will follow by departing on October 3rd and arriving on the Ice on October 10th. Our flight itinerary is the same as last season: Fly from Orlando, FL to Denver, CO; stay for a few days of orientation; fly to LA then on to Auckland, NZ and finally into Christchurch, NZ where we will spend a few days getting our ECW Gear, and then it's on to the C-17 cargo ...

... reputation, Seaworld was above the 'zoo' label. You know when you've had a couple of drinks, when you express wishes that you would otherwise have reservations on ? Well, at supper last night we saw that there was a 'shark tank experience', well I mean, you can't pass that up can you ? Now in the daylight it was time to be brave, check in and get changed into a wetsuit. As you entered the cage, which was at one side of the aquarium above an underwater tunnel that visitors were ...

... the rides that I didn't like in 2005. I remember crying hysterically just being on line for it in 1992 so I didn't go on it then, and we didn't have time to go on it in 2001. So 2005 was the first ride for all of us (except for my dad who had gotten to go on it in 1992 while my mom waited with Mike and I in the gift shop) and to me it was just a waste. Nothing happened and it didn't live up to the hype. This time, though, I LOVED it! The renovations were ...

... stories to become a part of. I first looking in the Fiction section to see if they had the books I wanted but I only saw newer books such as "Memoirs of a Geisha" and "The Da Vinci Code." I wasn't interested in anything I saw so I looked in the Social Sciences section. There were absolutely no psychology books, though; there were only a lot of self-help books and biographies. It was weird since the Social Sciences are revolved around psychology. I was about ...

... They give you a HUGE plate of them for only $8 and we still haven't found nachos anywhere else that can compare. Mom and I had been watching a special on different beach foods on the Travel Channel a few weeks before we left for Florida and they did a whole segment on the Conch Fritters in Key West. Since Margaritaville is a mix of Caribbean and Key West cuisine we had to try the Conch Fritters and they were delicious! They were ...

... places to stay on our next year's vacation. I didn't even know where we were going, and the book only listed hotels, so it didn't really help. I worked on my trip report notes and took a shower at 12:00 before getting ready. At 1:30 I listened to Disney music on my MP3 player and hung out in my room for a little while. I then went downstairs and had a waffle for lunch and watched the Yankee game. Afterwards I watched some video from the day before ...

I'm finally here in Orlando. I check in with the apartment manager and get the keys to my new place. It already dark, but I decide to empty out the car before driving around for dinner and to get my bearings (grocery store, gas station, drug store, restaurant rows, etc).