Still enjoying the sunshine
Author: Adrian
Well we are now 10 days into our break in the USA. The weather has been pretty much wall-to-wall heat, with temperatures hitting 35C each day and it feels it too. They are threatening the weather to get cooler come the weekend, but who knows? We’ve had a good thunderstorm which was preceeded by loads of electrical storms in the skies. Looked awesome but did nothing to break the heat and humidity.
We’ve not blogged as much this holiday, mainly because we’ve done nothing special. We’ve spent much more time in the villa relaxing – chilling by or in the pool. We’ve been shopping to the outlets and Florida Mall, and we’ve wandered in and out of Walt Disney World as the mood has taken us.
Today we went to Sea World. Not been there since January 2008 and since then a new roller coaster has been spawned – Manta. Linda sampled the pleasures this coaster has to offer three times, including a trip on the front. This coaster you lie down on – the seat rotates so you are hanging down with your head facing forwards, it then throws you through a series of twists and turns and some pretty serious G-forces. Sounds delightful, I got some good pictures of it though.
The shows at Sea World haven’t changed much – although we did mourn (make that chuckle at) the passing of the Budweiser Taste Experience. Now Sea World has been sold this show is cancelled it seems, but hey ho – Bud doesn’t have taste anyway.
Thursday promises to be entertaining. In the morning we are booked on the Segway Around the World tour at Epcot. This is a 2 hour tour where we get shown how to ride a Segway two-wheeled personal transport gadget, then get a guided tour of the World Showcase on them. Should be fun! In the evening we are going to the Magic Kingdom for Mickey’s Not So Scary Halloween Party. Again, we’ve never been to one of these evening soiree’s at the Magic Kingdom, so will be another new experience. In between we plan to return to the villa and make use of the pool.
Its 11pm here, and we are sitting under the lanai by the pool. Its gorgeous, but getting late and we have to be up in time tomorrow to get to Epcot. The best pictures we’ve taken so far can be found on Facebook, for those of you without access (where have you been in the social networking revolution?!) you can click here to see them.
