Eastgate Inn Kissimmee

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... get soaked') we are alone on this ride as it casually floats through its course and then a sudden drop into more water that splashes around us. We laugh so much it hurts and decide to go again this time we are joined by a brave passanger wearing a rain coat so she doesn't get wet...brave move. Once again we drop into the river of water but unlike last time a huge wave get dumped on guess who... ME! But soren and I can't stop laughing, it ...

... level SiHings. Here at the temple, there is no a/c (school tanks are sold here, no shorts), no heat (school sweaters are sold here), and you train on cement floors in either 2 outdoor training areas or one inner training area. Much fun! Especially when the Florida heat hits 90 degrees and sweat is just dripping out of you while doing the steady Bai Fut Sau (Buddha Hand Breathing). They do bring out the floor mats if needed. This ...

... the only two rides open were Spiderman and The Cat in the Hat, plus the Jurassic Park Discovery Center. We wanted to try to get on SOMETHING but we knew that the two open rides would be packed. Also, on the way in we had seen that half of the park had lost power. None of the rides in Seuss Landing or the Lost Continent had been working, so we were just assuming that the power had come back and The Cat in the Hat was open since it's indoors ...

... been closed while we were there and I really wanted to get a Savannah keychain to add to my collection! All they had were "Proud to Be a Rebel!" and Jesus keychains, though, so this Jew from Brooklyn decided to pass. I also ran back into the bathroom. Yes, fifteen minutes after our last stop. Hey, you can never be too safe! We kept driving and at 11:15 we finally ...

... of 192 by 5:00. Mom and dad didn't want to go back to the house yet so we drove over to a big flea market with over 450 booths.  Mom and dad had already been to the two flea markets that were closer to us, but this one was a few miles away after a good twenty-minute drive.  When we got there we walked inside and saw that none of the buildings were air conditioned.  It was now around a hundred and five degrees out and there was no way we were going to walk ...

... that since we were on Disney property we might as well go to Downtown Disney.  I really wanted to get more into the Disney spirit so we decided to go to the Marketplace.  We eventually wanted to see the West Side, but I wanted to go to some Disney-related stores.  On the way to Downtown Disney from the Animal Kingdom Lodge we passed the big fake Tower of Terror.  This was the first time we passed it and I pointed and said "Look, it's the Tower ...

... Apprentice." They also had other NBC memorabilia, as well as memorabilia and props from Universal films. I loved it! We passed "Twister: Ride It Out" next, and there was only a twenty minute wait so we hopped on line. Well, dad and I did. For some reason mom thought it was a simulator and Mike realized that it was a theater production and wanted to go on something that actually moved, so they didn't come on. I kept ...

Christen was in her "terrible" two's so for the 16 hour drive, Leah had packed a number of gifts wrapped up as presents for her to open and items for her to play with. Well.....after about 2 hours of travel, she had run out of these presents....In a stroke of genius, Leah just began re-gifting, re wrapping the gifts and giving them to ...