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Hey Julie and everyone....missed y'all on Sunday. I was sitting in the hot tub in the back yard of the Orlando vacation rental, but I was thinking of you and wishing I could be in two places at the same time.
Ironically, I last had Internet access when I was in the middle of the Carribean Sea, Wednesday evening.
Thursday-Sunday were spent at four Disney parks in Orlando. There were highlights. In Rod Hugen style, I shall enumerate a few of them here.
1) I love the thrill rides that play with your powers of perception, rather than just toss and slam you around. Space Mountain in Orlando is still good, but not as thrilling (translate: not as fast) as Space Mountain in Anaheim (since they ramped up the Anaheim ride a few years ago). But there's something eerily cool about barreling into darkness, a simulated outer space. The Tower of Terror is a Twilight-Zone themed ride in the MGM park. We rode it as a family in '95. My father has been swearing ever since then he would not set foot in it again. We think he got up his courage because of my Tim, my brother-in-law, and Tim & Sarah's friend Noah being along for the trip. Tower of Terror messes with several phobias: dark, enclosed space of the elevator, heights/falling (in a simulated freight elevator shaft, no less), fear of the unknown: not knowing when or how often the elevator is going to fall, the worst of all. In '95, the elevator made one little plunge, then, after a doorway opened out onto the park so we could see just how high we were, the doors slammed shut and we made a huge, ten stories or more, plunge in the dark. Now, the elevator goes up and down unpredictably in the dark (ACCK!) and also opens up so you can see how high, followed by more powerful positive and negative g-force lurches up and plunges down. Ah, the quest for the adrenaline rush.
2) I was intrigued by the animals at the animal park. Huge bats slept off of tree limbs in the "Asian" section of the park. Apparently they like cantelope, kale, and, yes, sweet corn. (Ha-ha) In the "African" section of the park, I watched a gorilla eat, throw up, and then continue to eat without missing a beat. The animal park also had amazing plant life: hibiscus and magnolias and other lush, leafy things that thrive in sticky heat.
Lowlights:
1) The aforementioned sticky heat. But I was prepared for it.
2) Seeing several examples of appalling parenting, the last of which was most horrible, and is still haunting me two days later.
3) Paying $2.50 for 24 ounces of water that didn't reek of chlorine.
I'll be home on the 11th, and will certainly check in with y'all before then. So what's going on with the Muse Move? |
