Hey, y'all, arrived back safe and sound (not gonna mention "sane" in there....travel with a 2.75-year-old is....interesting. But, on the plus side, she LOVES roller-coasters and airplanes!). I'll be posting some pics over on my thread in the Photos section, as soon as the wife finishes uploading the most embarrassing pics on our blog (
The Lowry Place). I will say, however, that the number of American tourists in Orlando at this time of year seemed to be greatly outnumbered by the number of European/Indian (not so many Asians, oddly enough) tourists. We shared the hotel pool/hot tub with a couple of Scottish kids our first day (still not sure if their parents fully understood the significance of the "cute" little bunny with the bent ear that was plastered all over the pool floats they were using. Or...maybe they were...), talked to a couple of Londoners while trying to convince the kiddo to take a nap in her stroller in the middle of the Hogwarts area of Universal Studio's "Islands of Adventure", felt quite thin while wandering around Acquatica (Sea World's water park, complete with dolphins) and comfortable enough to go swimming shirtless (most DEFINITELY not the chubbiest guy there!), and capped the whole ordea....er....experience with a trip to a nearby Air Museum on Wed, where we were treated to a Storch wandering/moseying/drifting/hovering overhead. I mean...one always "knew" that the wide wingspan helped the aircraft maintain lift at low speeds, but to actually "understand" one has to see it. I swear the pilot stopped and threw the thing in reverse at one point. Now....how Skortzeny managed to cram the pilot (from the photos, probably not a very small, skinny guy), himself (6-foot 5 or something tall) and Mussolini (6-foot 5 or something wide) into one of those things, I'll never know. Although rumor has it that several tubes of KY were involved. Oh, and the museum has a V-1. FRIKKIN SWEET!!!!!!!
Okay, the wif' is yellin at me, time to run post-vacation errands. Apparently the expiration date on milk does not acknowledge the concept of vacation. Will post pics later.