Disney World/Kennedy Space Center

Welcome to my last night in Florida. It's been a LOT of fun and it's been fun seeing Jamie and all that.

Yesterday Jamie and I went to Disney World (pictures). It was fun, but it wasn't the same as Animal Kingdom. We're just gettin' too old. :P It was hot! Probably hotter than Animal Kingdom, but we weren't in the sun as much. We stood in line for many of the rides, but the longest was the Jungle Cruise. It said a 40 minute wait. Well, someone screwed up the fastpass line and the "normal" line and we stood, stuck, for about 20 minutes while the fastpass people zoomed along. FINALLY they fixed it and we sped up some. So we stood in line for about an hour (give or take a few minutes). Our jungle cruise guy kept making bad puns and we were a roll-your-eyes group. We hardly laughed. :P We hardly even played INTO his jokes. It was sad. We went on Splash Mountain. That wait said 90 minutes and we were on and off the ride in about 80 minutes. It was nice, though, because it was underneath a canopy of trees. We were going to go on POTC (next to Jungle Cruise), but the line was outside the building and Jamie and I couldn't fathom waiting the 40 minutes in line for it OUTSIDE with no shade over us. We went back after Splash Mountain and the wait said 50 minutes, but it took us about 30 minutes. We sort of rushed in and RIGHT when we got "stopped" by the line of people in front, a LOT of people came in after us. So we missed the rush! PotC was fun because of the new Jack Sparrow installments (3 of them). It was also different (for me) because when you enter it has this project/steam (looks like water) entrance and it had Davy Jones saying something to us (couldn't hear it or wasn't paying attention). It was pretty neat. Unbeknownst to me, there WAS a small drop and it scared the daylights out of me. Totally wasn't prepared for it.

We went on the carousel, tea cups, NASCAR ride, Buzz Lightyear ride, Peter Pan, Stitch thingy, and the train. Jamie said we went on the Peter Pan ride for our Senior trip to Disneyland, but I don't remember that at ALL. We were laughing and talking about that Senior trip where I fell asleep on Main Street. :P It was fun. The tea cups was hilarious because we were spinning really fast and when they stopped us it was a jolt. It sort of felt like when a cartoon character stops really suddenly and their eyeballs bounce around in their heads. That's what it felt like. When we stopped and looked around everyone around us was looking at us like we were insane or really good about how fast we were turning. Jamie and I walked around a bit like we were drunk. :P It was insanely funny. The Buzz Lightyear ride was fun because you get a controller to spin around in circles, but a "gun" to shoot the targets. Jamie CREAMED me, but I was controlling the spinning and my thumb started to really hurt midway through the ride. :)

We left RIGHT before the fireworks, I was tired and so was she and we were just sitting on a bench on Main street at 9:15pm and we had about a 45 minute drive home. So we left. We saw the VERY beginning and tail end of the new lights parade too. We mostly spent it on the train around the park. It started to rain while we were there too! It only lasted for about an hour, but it was nice to walk in the rain. It did thunder and lightning a bit, but only a bit.

Today we went to Kennedy Space Center (pictures). We only went to the visitor area. The ticket is good for 2 days (within 7 days), but I'm leaving tomorrow and we got a late start so we didn't make it to the Hall of Fame area. We went on the tour. Took us a bit more than 3 hours! That was neat. Jamie wasn't impressed, but I liked it. We went on the new "space launch" ride. That was not what I expected, but fun none-the-less. Jamie and I laughed saying our cheeks hurt by the end. It was a fun simulator ride. We didn't have much time to look around, though, so we didn't. I didn't find the mars rock to touch (bummed) and the moon rock you could touch was GONE! I was bummed to say the least. We saw no gators either, which was also a bit sad. They have gator fences since gators can climb over a 6-8' fence. :P The chained linked fences bow out so if they climb over they'd fall down. They also have the biggest runway in the world! From Tuesday, it's 2 more days before the Atlantis lands. It started to rain when we left too. It's not raining now.

We just hung out in her backyard after dinner and such tonight. We found a frog (see KSC pictures) in her backyard and tried to catch that and took its picture. We'll probably head to bed in an hour or so (she's playing Kingdom Hearts while I'm on the computer). Tomorrow I depart back for Monterey, California. I tell you, I will be glad for the weather! I've been doing well, but this heat thing is just - well - weird. :) I depart around 11:15am from Orlando International and arrive back home close to 7:40pm. I'll probably try to be at the airport between 9:00 and 9:30am. Then I have my wait, take off, and my LONG wait in Denver. Hope they have wireless!

For now, laters.