Life's about experiences. These are mine.
Despite still suffering from jetlag Mat and I got out of bed early this morning to drive to the NEC in Birmingham for Gadget Show Live. We are both fans of the show and of gadgets in general so we were looking forward to finding out what was on offer. What it turned out to …
This post is a round up of all we did while in Florida 2009. Included are the day by day posts along with the general posts written while we were out in Orlando. I have put these into categories and have also provided links to the websites of the attractions, shops and restaurants we visited …
The following are some photos that didn’t make it into the one of the daily posts but I still thought were worth putting up. The villa we stayed in is owned by a British couple who have kindly provided two clocks to show the time in the US and the UK, as seen above. Unfortunately …
For our last full day we had saved a visit to our favourite park – Disney’s Hollywood Studios. We had decided to try and do all the things that there hadn’t been time to do on our last visit. This included the new Toy Story Midway Mania! which is a series of simple arcade style …
Continue reading “USA ‘09 – DAY 14 – DISNEY HOLLYWOOD STUDIOS”
The last day before we get the flight back home this afternoon. Keen to eek out the most of our holiday we pack up and leave the house early for a goodbye Perkins breakfast. The intension being that we won’t be needing to eat again until we get on the plane. Breakfast out of the …
Bok Tower Gardens sounds like it should be another theme park but in this case it is as the name suggests – it is a garden with a tower. Actually, that’s doing it an injustice as it is a really relaxing place and the gardens are beautiful. Also, unusually for Florida, most of which is …
For those that think that it’s sunshine 24/7 here in Florida today would have been a real wake up call. Being America the rain, like everything else here, was big (and wet!) However, being plucky Brits and undeterred by a bit of rain we ploughed on regardless and went to Magic Kingdom. The advantage was, …
We went to Universal again today so instead of telling you about the Simpsons ride once more I thought I would post some miscellanea. First up – coupons. Unless you like throwing money away, in which case skip this section, before going to pretty much any attraction other than the major theme parks don’t go …
Continue reading “USA ‘09 – DAY 11 – COUPONS, PARKING & WATER PARKS”
And now, as they say, for something completely different. This morning Helen and I left the boys in bed and went off for an air boat ride at Boggy Creek. This is as far removed from Disney as you can possibly get and the closest to the real Florida as you are likely to get. …
Another day, another park. Today was the turn of EPCOT. EPCOT is a little unusual compared to the other Disney parks in that while it has the traditional rides it also has what it calls its World Showcase. This contains distinctive buildings and themes from a dozen countries around the world. For example Italy has …