Orlando. Flat as flat can be. We arrived Monday at 9 in the morning. Exhausted from the night before, going on three hours of sleep.
Hey! We can see Universal from our window! Let's go! Let's go! Let's Go!
We start our park adventure at the home of adventure, Islands of Adventure. Shall I say adventure one more time? Adventure!
Hey look! Hulk!
"No way am I riding that"
Oh god! The Geico Gecko followed me!
Our first ride of the trip.
Ten minutes? Less than that! Totally walk on.
And it was very awesome.
Hidden Mickey!
.... Wow... hillarious.... I just love family circus.....
*cough*
Wow, that looks wet.
Over in Jurassic Park, they had a "live" dinosaur. They were really into selling the illusion of it. It was pretty cool.
If it was alive, this would not be a good place to be...
Always a good place to text message.
Wow... that's suprising in a place for kids.
This is a very beautiful park. Very Disney-esk.
Didn't ride the flying unicorn just... cause ten minutes is too long to wait.
But this was a deffinate must-do.
This was a very good ride, both tracks.
Lots of twistyness.
And wow did that line take forever. There was no one in it, yet its like a mile long.
I actually like Fire better than Ice. Really enjoyed Ice twising underneath me on the little camel back.
Father fell asleep while waitng.
Ha! That's really cool.
Living on over at the other park.
Lots of cool stuff here for Halloween Horror Nights.
Oh wow, I look awesome...
Sidenote, get a haircut you damn hippie.
My camera died... then came back on. But did some Men In Black, Jaws, Earthquake, and pretty much everything. By the way, Mummy is really, really awesome.
Once my camera came back on, we had to get on E.T. since it was heartlessly ripped out of the Hollywood park.
Our intergalactic journey on acid was a great trip down memory lane.
This is where you can trade yor old crappy baby for a new cuter baby.
I hopped on Mummy again and father fell asleep.
"Huh? Wha? Can we go now?"
Yes, yes we can.
Well, Universal was fun, but HHN doesn't start until Thursday...
Hmm... what to do, what to do...
Oh, hey great idea!
Magic Kingdom was all decked out for Halloween Time.
Roaming the second happiest place on earth by yourself is actually quite fun. Able to take things at my own pace.
What's first?
Ah, The Haunted Mansion, of course.
I really reall really like all of the new changes to the ride. The sounds in the stretching room are great.
How bout some splash, now?
Brer Ribbit.
Mmmm... wetness.
Wow, I never knew Disney was so dirty....
Stupid Big Thunder was Stupid closed!
Oh my! A bunch of little hidden mickeys everywhere!
Hmmm.... what's going on here?
I then hopped on the lack-luster version of Pirates. Disneyland so has them beat on this one.
You aint never seen a ride like me! Oh wait... yes we have. It's 200 feet that way.
Pretty...
One thing MK has over DL is size. Everything is so much bigger here. And suprisngly more beautiful.
Hidden Mickey?!
M.I.L.F.! It still cracks me up.
Time to ride the side I didn't last time on the bigger (and not as good) Space Mountain.
20 Minutes? This is my lucky week.
After a kiddie coaster
and finding out I can't walk through the castle...
I walked around a bit taking pictures...
until I came upon the infamous....
DoleWhip.
After all the hype, I didn't think it'd live up.... but it certainly did. My tastebuds melted with the ice cream.
I decided it was time to check out my other options. 190 bucks for a two day park hopper and I wasn't about to let that go to waste.
"Well, sir, there's nothing on earth like a genuine, bona fide, electrified, six-car Monorail!"
See? It's got one rail.
Hello, Epcot. How are you?
You know, Spaceship Earth kind of looks like a hidden mickey with those clouds in the back there.
Oh, by the way, Spaceship Earth... Thanks for being closed...
Went to Test Track first.
Thank God for single rider. Jealous, That Guy?
Since I no one would ride with me last time, I didn't ride this
But now I don't care. I'm riding anyway....
It's a blury Lt. Dan!
Beverly= horrible! Started out smelling tarty. Took a drink. No taste... then WHAM! I nearly fell to the floor.
That Fanta, however, was pretty good. This is a good place to get a free drink.
It made me have the ability to fly, and I flew over SSE.
Last time I was here all of the water was drained out
It looks alot better now.
I gotta say... this is one trippy ride.
I walked around World Showcase for a bit, letting in the sights, sounds, and smells from other countries.
Great stuff... but I better get a move on if I'm going to hit the other two parks.
Totty?
Totty!!
Not-so-hidden Mickey.
Good ol' Totty. I really love this ride.
Didn't spend much time at this park. I did, however, check out this coast's Star Tours... cause it used to be one of my favorites at Disneyland.
It was pretty much the same, although I liked somethings about the queue... like this
and these guys
but its all pretty much the same
Sweetums! My favorite Muppet!
Maniacal.
This is really a beautiful park. Too bad it lacks in attractions.
However, the attractions it does have, are superb.
Some sort of primate!
These folks were filiming something. They were ceratinly an interesting group of characters.
Weee Everest!
Wee Steam!
Wee unneccesary first lift hill.
This is my braingasm face.
One side open, guess I'll have to come back tomorrow.
dinosaur. SPONSERED BY MCDONALDS!
I brought home a little friend from our time continum treck.
Hey! Hey stork! Hey! Give me a baby! I know you have some!
Animal Kingdom closed, so I went back for some more Epcottings.
I got some free drinks and knocked the beverly out of peoples hands.
Also, did Mission: Space a few more times
Tried out some of the lesser-known Epcot rides
This one you can eat next to. Just like the Blue Bayou at Disneyland.
I waited around until Illuminations.
Which was totally awesome!
Then went home for sleepage.
Interesting side note, our hotel actually had a thirteenth floor!
Mmmm... sleep was good. Wait... screw sleep. I have a WDW ticket!
Still no lines.
There's totally no one here.
Mansion again!
This was great! I didn't even know she moved until I payed attention this time.
I was pretty much the only one in line.
Hinges are creeking and the chambers are doorless.
So, hurry back we would like your company.
Grrrrr.....
Kaboom!
Hidden... Mick...ey?
Time for a little more Splash.
Brer Handicapped?
Even the seats or supirior on this version.
Although.... water is still wet no matter which bi-coastal theme park you're at.
Zip-a-dee-effing-doo-da. I found my laughing place, Uncle Remus, it's right here!
Okay... This is one of my favorite shows here. I really, really enjoy it and wish Disneyland would get it as well.
How bout some random pictures?
Hahahahaha!
They died playing this game. Just goes to show you that you can't really lose until you give up.
I was told to try the Dolewhip float.
It gave me brainfreeze.
But other than that, I liked just the ice cream better.
Mouth POV
So much bigger than Disneyland... and still inferior.
I then went back to DAK to get that other side of that kind of lame spinning coaster.
And of course to ride Everest.
Oh and they got single rider going now!
Wooo!
This is the line for the Nemo show.
Here's that lame coaster. Got the other side.
I really don't care for these coasters. Bummer. I usually have fun on any coaster.
As I walked back, the Nemo line was moving and I decided to hop in and watch.
The show was okay... Kind of cheesy. The acting was good, but it's very... theatre-like over acting. But other people seem to really like it, which is what matters.
One compaint, though... They have you sit in these uncomfortable seats for 40 minutes.
Before.
After.
Monorail, sweet Monorail.
Yeeeeee Haaaaaa!
I had to leave soon, so I walked around Magic Kingdom to end my night.
I rode the Haunted Mansion several times, saw Philharmagic again, then went to the hotel.
During the night we had gone from our hotel to a timeshare located closer to Universal.
Spacious.
And right out side was Fun Spot. Looked kind of lame, but the go-karts looked great!
And look! Universal is close enough to walk to!
Cici's! Hahahaha!
Attractions... Up?
Nothing is this way.
Prices at Citywalk are a bit crazy...
This costs 10 bucks.
We began our frightful day at IOA to check out what we were too tired to check out before.
Yes. We are awesome.
Yes. I do need a haircut.
Gwar!
I missed it last time, so I had to get on it.
This says 5 minutes, I swear. And it was less than that.
Incredible Hulk is fun, but far from incredible. Too short, honestly.
Still, very fun.
The attention to detail in Spider-man is.... disgusting...
Look! I'm in 3-D! Whoooooooaaaaaa.
Apparently, it rained HARD when we were on spider man.
Let's go get drenched on Dudley Doo-right.
One of my favorite rides.... only lesser. It's deffinately not as cool as CA's.
Still soaked, we went over to Universal Studios.
They were setting up the metal detectors.
Emmet Brown and I had a nice talk. I told him I had just gone to see the dinosaurs two days earlier. He was interested.
Holy crap.
Very cool.
One of the houses... one of the better ones, too.
Don't dream it. Be it.
I'm REALLY suprised they serve alcohol during this event.
Kid, these are the twins. Wyllnk and Bob.
Who needs the Kwik-E-Mart... I dooooooo.
More HHN stuff.
Look at all those people waiting.
The park closed and waited for people to shuffle on out. We waited by the front gates.
It takes forever for people to actually leave the park, but once they did, we were let into Horror Nights.
Lots of clowns here.
Even ones on motor bikes.
It's Jack!
We checked out the Nightmare on Elm Street house first.
Man, lines are gonna be really bad tonight.
Haha, they're serving shots.... get it?
I found this amusing.
Yay 3-D.
Yay rat lady!
Who's cruel and awesome joke was it to put The Thing house
In the Barney section?!
Now that's scary.
We did the time warp again.
This becomes a very adult park after dark.
It was dissapointing that there were alot of people, who probably didn't understand, leaving the show. Oh well.
Ohhhh scaryness.
Wow, it's really foggy here.
I liked her. She seemed funny.
75 minutes!!?!?!?? It was ten earlier!!
It is so incredibly packed here.
I will swallow your soul.
I enjoyed HHN. Personally, I think things are on par at our Fright Fest. However, Universal deffinately has the "Wow! What a budget!" factor going for them. But as far as performers and how they transform their park, it's on the level with SFGAm.
Oh God no! It's here too!
This concludes my epic journey around Orlando. It's a great way to end the season... but I think I may have one more trip in me.
I leave you with this humorous picture.
The End.
