Homewood Suites Lake Mary

... all day Saturday at the Magic Kingdom (a big THANK YOU to my friend Cynthia) and although it drizzled on us from 9:30am till around noon the weather then cleared up and we had a great day. We did ALLOT. Rebecca and Chris amazed me because we walked and walked and walked and they pulled through it, and we did allot of rides.Rebecca's favorite was Stitch's Great Escape, while Christopher enjoyed the ...

... winter and hence clothed accordingly.On arriving at Orlando a warmer place , people kept giving us glances and some even smiled to ask where we were coming from which ,immedietly made us remove all the extra clothing we were wearing.I was glad to be here and waiting to take in some sun in the latter pat of our trip to Florida.We stayed at a place called Kissimmi , where the Disney World was situated.A small ...

... 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...

... for our flight to McMurdo Station. Several of our friends are already on the Ice so we are sure to have a 'welcome committee' when we arrive! We are excited about this season for many reasons. One of those being that we have new positions! Michelle will be a VMF Work Order Scheduler (VMF WOS) which basically means maintaining the database for the heavy equipment mechanic shop. Aaron will be a Painter this year and will have the opportunity to work with the Carpenter ...

... through and could see you, you were fitted with a helmet that air passed through and you looked out at the passing sharks as the cage moved the full length of the tank and back again.. An exhilarating experience and I got some great photos of the cage as..... what, oh Yes - it was Norah inside the cage and amongst the sharks!!!! Respect for the girl or what ?????? We watched a dolphin show that was well presented and then went to see "Shamu' - the killer whale show ...

... They really livened up the entire ride. I love the waterfall special effect with Davy Jones right at the beginning of the ride... how cool is that?! And the Johnny Depp animatronic looked just like Johnny Depp. I thought it was the coolest thing ever and we all really loved it! After the ride we decided to just walk around and see what we wanted to do. Mike wanted to go on Big Thunder Mountain Railroad so we backtracked to Frontierland and saw that the line ...

... go back to the Fiction section to just pick out something that looked interesting when I found the Literature section and they had the types of books I had wanted. I really like the classics and I want to read as many of them as possible. They had a ton of Charles Dickens books but they didn't have "Great Expectations" which is what I had really wanted. I asked the girl at the counter if they had it and she went into the back to look. While she was gone dad ...

... spicy and didn't even taste like fish; they tasted like less greasy Hush Puppies. For our entrees mom and I shared a crab cake sandwich, Michael got a grilled chicken sandwich, and dad got the Cheeseburger in Paradise. The food was all absolutely delicious, and the bill came to only $60 with dad's 10% discount. That was a GREAT price for the amount of food we had! My favorite part of Margaritaville, besides the food, was the atmosphere ...

... our video camera. At 3:15 I took some more trip report notes and read more of "Gone With the Wind." It was a very relaxing afternoon. At 5:30 we ordered the 5-5-5 deal from Domino's again. We ordered a mushroom pie, a pineapple pie, and a plain pie but instead of plain they brought us sausage. We didn't feel like sending it back, though, so we just ate the sausage. Whoever didn't want it could just take it off. The pineapple was absolutely ...

Relocated from Wash DC & Maryland. Yep, me and my american born cousins played hide and seek around the White house (w/o the blockage now present all over ) and Lincoln Memorial these years. They were 12ish, I was 20, the only legal driver and we all tried to sit on Mr. Lincoln leg many times..... Oh ! how the world has changed !!!