Monday, November 8, 2010

Florida!

This Summer I got to go to Florida for the very first time. Jason's family went and it was a lot of fun. We spent two weeks in Florida. We went to Universal Studio's, Seaworld, Clear Water, Disney World, Kennedy Space Center, Daytona Beach and Daytona Speed Way. This was the farthest I have ever been and longest I have been away from home.
We stayed at the Hard Rock Hotel for the first few days and got to spend our time at Universal Studios, Island of Adventure, SeaWorld and Busch Gardens. I'm not much of a roller coaster person, so Busch Gardens wasn't one of my favorite places. We went to eat at Emeralds the first night we were there. The most fanciest restaurant I have ever been in. I had a blast at Seaworld, especially getting to see all the sea animals. One of my favorite things I did at Universal Studio's was when we went to the Blues Brothers show and I got to dance with them. I got it on camera and Jason's dad Jon and I sure did look stupid, but we had a lot of fun. Once I finally get the video loaded on my computer I will upload it. The picture below is the only picture I got with my camera. I dropped my camera the first day we got to Florida waiting in line to get our tickets. Way to go me.
This picture below is us standing outside by Dudley Due Rights water ride. That was probably my favorite ride in Island of Adventure. However I did enjoy the Bildge Raps Bargers ( It's like rattle snake rapids, only better, but I'm not sure if it is the right name) and the Jurassic Park ride.
This picture was taken at Clear Water. It was raining the first day we got there and had to wait til it quite raining to go swiming. It was the first time I had ever been to the ocean. (however this was in the Gulf, first time there too) This picture was taken of the sunset the second night we were there.

Next we moved onto Disney World, we spent the majority of the trip there. We went to the Magic Kingdom, Epcot, Typhoon Lagoon, Animal Kingdom and MGM. I got to get my picture taken with lots of the princess and fairies. Got to see the ligth parade at night and the fireworks on the fourth of July at Epcot. The next night we went and saw the ligth show at MGM, which was amazing. I thought it was way better than the fireworks. The picture below is ducks hanging outside our hotel room. I would feed them with Cheetos, Jason and his family didn't like that I kept feeding them to keep them around because they kept trying to come in our room, but I had fun.


This picture here is where Jon and I was learning how to dance. Jon and I were the only two who got into everything. The rest of the group got to enjoy the show by watching.

This picture here is with Tinkerbell. I was going around getting my picture's taken with the princesses and fairies along with their autographs for Tacie. Tinkerbell insisted Jason be in the picture, doesn't he look fabulous.
Here is a picture of us at Epcot with Stitch from Lilo and Stitch. He liked my flowers I had in my hair.
After Disney we went to Kennedy Space Center. I really enjoyed it. I love the whole thought about space. I love going and looking at the stars and the moon and I always get a warm fuzzy feeling when I go lay under the stars. So going to Kennedy was really great for me. I also had a really fun experience leaving my phone at the first stop in the bathroom and realizing I left it there at the second stop which was twenty minutes away. Needless to say it was in the lost and found when we made it back to the main area. The picture below is of the Flay that they have on NASA. It doesn't look that big, but east star on the flay is six feet long. Now that's a big flag. After Kennedy we went to Daytona Beach to finish off our vacation. So in reality this was the first time in the ocean because Clear Water was at the Gulf. Daytona's Beach sand was a lot softer, the water was a little warmer and clear, but it was more crowed.
We went and took a look at Daytona's speed way while we were there. We would have done a real tour, but didn't seem worth it because they were remodeling the race track.

All in all it was a great trip, first time on a plane for four hours, first time getting to see the Gulf of Mexico and the Ocean. First time going to Disneyland, Universal Studio's and basically everything else we did there. Will definitely go back, even if it is to just go sit on the beach. Think that was my favorite thing.