Travel

The second day there, we spent at the Magic Kingdom. I think that we were there until about 11pm or so. Left about an hour before they closed. We were all pretty damn tired. The first couple of pics were takien on this little train thing in Tommorowland.

We had lunch at the Liberty Tress Tavern in Frontier Land.

Ruth was her usual charming self.

After lunch we headed for the Swiss Family Treehouse.

Anna pouts whenever we have to do something that she doesn’t like, or isn’t her idea. That is quite often.

A brief stop at a watering hole for Ruth

Then we went through It’s a Small World. Most of us enjoyed it.

The we rode the Mad Hatter’s Tea Party. We all had a good time.

Except for Ruth, who didn’t ride this time.

That was most of the pictures that I took that day, at least the ones that I am going to post.

I love this picture except for the fact that I look like someone just rammed a stick up my ass.

We stayed at the Contemporary Resort, which was right next to the Magic Kingdom. This was pretty cool, as I did not want to walk forever, or have to deal with parking, or have to take an hour just to get to the parks themselves. This was taken at the hotel.

It rained most of the time that we were there, which was almost a blessing in digsuise. It really helped to cool things off, and the lines were not too terribly bad. It certainly didn’t stop us, or alot of other people though. The first day that we were there we went to MGM Studios. Tried to upload this photo while I was there, but had some kind of problem with getting it to show up.

This was also taken at MGM. There was some kind of 3D Muppets show, it was actually pretty cool.

These were also taken at MGM, at the Honey I Shrunk the Kids play area. One of the nice things was that sprinkled throughout all of the parks we would come across play areas for the little ones. It was a nice break for us, and gave Ruth a chance to run around. Hell, both of the other kids enjoyed them as well. The one at MGM was for kids of all ages, some of the stuff Ruth was still too small for.

This one was taken near the Tower of Terror, also at MGM. I hung out with Ruth for awhile so that everyone could go on a couple of rides. This late in the day and she was getting pretty damn tired.

We arrived a couple of hours ago. Had to unload the rental and unpack. Getting ready to have a bite to eat. We somehow managed to get rid of the two oldest kids tonight so all is well and fairly quiet except for the sound of Dora the Explorer. Getting ready to put a stop to that as I want to see the episodes of Lost and Invasion from earlier this week.

Just finished resizing some of the photos and will post a fairly long entry with them later tonight or tommorow.

Today was pretty cool, although it rained most of the day. Kept it a bit cooler, and the Animal Kingdom park was a lot less crowded than it would have been otherwise. Stephanie and the kids are asleep, so that has given me a chance to relax. I did have to spend 30 fucking minutes on the phone with tech support because I could not get back online with the ipaq. Ended up sitting in the lobby and finally was able to connect. I left the phone cable in the room, so had to use their hotspot.
We took a shitload (if you don’t know how much that is, you are not from the south) of pictures. It is a pita to resize them using the fucking stylus, so they will have to wait until I get home this weekend.
We are spending tommorow (our last day) at the Magic Kingdom and will try to finish the stuff that we did not get to do the other day.
More later.

…are killing me. We did the Magic Kingdom today, which was cool. That is the only park I have ever been to, I think that it may be the only one that existed when I came, back in the mid ’70s. Everyone had a great time, particularly the girls. Took a bunch of pics, which I will post once I get home and have the opportunity to resize.
Of course we did not get to see everything that we wanted to, but we are going back to the Magic Kingdom on Friday, and will try to get in the things that we missed today. Originally we were going to drive home Friday evening after spending the day at the park, but as tired as I have been the last couple of nights, I decided to extend our stay until Saturday morning.
I am pretty whipped and the letters are starting to blur, so I think that I will dial in, post this, and pass out.

We are having a pretty good time so far. Went to MGM yesterday. Between that and the drive Monday my ass is whooped. Going to the Magic Kingdom today. Stephanie and the kids let me know that it was open for resort guests until Midnight tonight. Fuck, I need to find someplace to buy cigarettes be ore I kill someone.

I meant to post these the day after I got back in town, but I think that is the day the power kept going out, and my HTPC crashed. I would get halfway through the post and shit would blink off. Hopefully I will get them up now.

Anna usuallly ends up getting buried (or someone has to anyway) whenever we go to the beach.

It was really funny. Ruth had a good time playing in the sand, but I just could not coax her into the water. Once we were at the pool she was jumping in like a fish. Just wanted no part of the ocean.

Took this from the balcony of the hotel. It was pretty cool because you could see the rain moving in very clearly in the distance.

Took this of Anna and Chris on the balcony.

Taking a break at goofy golf.

Ruth and I went outside for a smoke, and I shot this. There was an arcade near the motel, took the kids for a while to let them relax.

Damn, my kids are hams. Always striking the pose.

Damn, it was pretty hot at goofy golf. We went in some kind of maze there as well, and by the time we were finished, we were done. Then drove the five hours home.

I always hate the last day. Still have too much that I want to do, and need to make sure I can get it done and still get to bed early. I usually spend the first couple of days awake by 6am, but by the time my vacation is over, I am having a hard time getting up by 8-9am. Don’t need to wake up at nine tommorow, considering that I have to be at work by 6:30am. That would just make for a real shit day, especially considering that my boss is off tommorow, which pretty much leaves me running the district. Damn.

Stephanie is outside starting to clean the rental. Have to return it this morning, then get Ruth enrolled in a fucking daycare. Have a bunch of yardwork to do, and I have been fooling around with and tweaking my home automation stuff. Running the beta test for Homeseer 2, and there have been some issues with my setup. I just need to finish my coffee and get my ass cracking I suppose. Inertia has sort of set in the last few days.