where was i?
oh yes, recaping our very brief disney trip. it was way too short. luckily, the way my summer schedule works out, i will have a four week break in between summer classes and the fall, hopefully, i can squeeze something in that’s a bit longer and a bit more relaxing.
my favorite ride in all of the magic kingdom is Dinosaur. found in Animal Kingdom, i just find this ride really fun and if you aren’t careful, you can get a good case of whip lash. basically, the premise of the ride is that you are sent back in time to capture a certain species of dinosaur except really some hooligan scientist accidently timed your trip to coincide with an asteroid hitting the earth, so you have to go, capture the dinosaur and make it back to present time before everything on earth blows up. was stressful. plus you have a giant attackosaurous chasing you the entire time.
standing in line for another hour…grr…
OMG! i swear to G that this thing almost killed the living bedazzler out of me.
and then this thing, this attackosaurous, stuck his damn head through the wall and tried to gobble up a five year old in front of me. i may or may not have been pushing the crying toddler towards the gaping jaws.
AAAAAIIIEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!
mikey closed his eyes during the entire ride.
so after leaving the animal kingdom we headed on over to epcot. as dated as epcot sometimes feels, i think it’s my second favorite park out of the four. i think last time i wrote that i liked it because all the rides are slow and you learn something so it’s not unlike being pushed around a museum in a wheel chair.
spaceship earth never fails to stop me in my tracks. i could stare at it all day.
here’s mikey pretending to hold spaceship earth in the palm of his hand:
i think it looks like he’s fondling it.
spaceship earth is great because it’s a slow moving ride that takes you through the history of communication–and i really dig that 70′s black chick working in the lab with the fro. plus, there’s an interactive element to it that uses your picture and tells you, based on some questions, how your future might look:
mikey and i are apparently going to live inside our Wii because we look exactly like our Mii characters.
mikey was dying to go on Soarin’ and i just about died in the hour and forty five minute wait. it’s a hang gliding simulation. it involves heights, moving seats, and near 3D images. barf.
we should have listened to the people coming out of the ride passing by those of us still in line who said “it’s not that great”.
another shot of epcot. it’s the annual Epcot flower and shrub show time of year so their landscaping was looking extra pretty:
so our final day in orlando was spent at the airport renting a car so that we could drive down to palm beach to A) visit his sister and B) fly out of the palm beach airport since that was our itinerary. for only the second time in our history as B-friends, i let mikey drive. we really were just going down the florida turnpike (very very boring) so i figured he can do it. of course he was bored the whole way since there really is nothing to see. i on the other hand, scanned the swamps and marshes alongside the highway for signs of alligators. i have never seen one on any of my trips to florida, like a gator in it’s natural habitat. luckily i saw one just floating on the surface of a mucky marsh.
once in palm beach, we went out to eat with his sister, her husband and their two kids at this joint:
and that was about all of palm beach i saw. since the kids had school and spring break was not until next week (when we were actually supposed to be there), we just went back to the house, played Wii bowling (hello 4 year old nephew kicking everyone’s ass–REMATCH next time i’m there). actually, the 4 year old only beat mikey, but his six year old niece beat me.
and that’s just something i don’t handle well.
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