the rest of the vacation...

The rest of our vacation trip was pretty cool.

We ate breakfast out everyday. Three out of four time we ate at a chain called "Perkins'". Not bad, just typical breakfast stuff.

Sunday we went to Gatorland. Gatorland is a Sea World wannabe that has alligators instead of whales. The main diff between alligators and whales is that alligators are very stupid and dangerous. Alligators only learn one trick. Eating. That's what they do. So once you seen the chomp on something, you're done. Everyone seemed to enjoy it though and Josh got to sit on the back of a gator with his hands around it's jaws. Pretty damn cool.

Monday was my birthday, the second I've spent with these people. We went to NASA. NASA rocks! They have a visitor center area and tours of the complex. Everything at NASA is big. Big buildings, big rockets and big spaces. The best part was the Saturn V rocket they have on display. It's in a building that has moon mission displays but you hardly notice them. You walk in and the only thing you can notice is that they have a Saturn V rocket indoors!!!! After the tours we we're going to watch a launch of a rocket, but it got postponed because of a very strong storm.

Tuesday was kind of fucked. We we're going to go to Universal Studios but Mary's step-mom Sue got an idea for saving some cash off the ticket price. Orlando is full of time shares, and they all want your money so they try different ways to get you to check out their place. One of the ways is that they offer big discounts on park tickets if you sit through one of their sales pitches. Well she got the idea to sit through one of these and we'd end up saving $150 or so. Well we did and it was a bad experience but I'll post that in another update.

Universal has 2 parks in one. One is ride and coasters, the other is less rides and more behind the scenes movie stuff. Mary wanted to ride "The Mummy's Revenge" ride so we went to the one with fewer rides. Parks in the summer are hot, there're a lot of people and lines are long. We waited for almost an hour to ride the Mummy. So that set the tone for the rest of the day. After the park we ate at the Hard Rock there. Josh had a blast looking at all the rock stuff. He had me running around taking pictures of all the guitars.

Wednesday was pretty fun. First we went to the ocean. We were only able stay for an hour, but Josh and I swam anyway. It was fun, just the 2 of us hanging out in the ocean. After that we headed back over to the same area as NASA for air-boat rides. That was about the best time I had in Florida. Cruising around, looking at alligators and other wildlife in their natural habitat. That was the coolest.

We started driving back on Thursday, and got home last night around 9:30. The house looked bigger for some reason.

Now we just want to rest.