Chimaera got the jump on us and
left at noon to head down to Orlando. There were
some changes to the itinerary for Day one. Paranoiabunny
ended up leaving New York early and got a bus
to Jacksonville rather than Orlando. Gambler and
Twister headed over and picked them up then went
down to Orlando by way of Daytona, FL. Once we
got to Orlando we got checked in and contacted
Chimaera to work out the details.
We got to Daytona too late to actually
go into the Daytona USA attraction. However, Gambler
and Twister have been in this attraction several times
and highly recommend it to NASCAR fans.
Gambler Twister and Paranoiabunny went up to I-Drive
(International Drive) and cruised through a few of
the top attractions. Knowing paranoiabunny's son's
interest in cars, we went to Race Rock Cafe to check
out the BigFoot truck on exhibit there. Tonka monster
truck was also on exhibit this day.
After visiting International Drive
for a while, our group split up for the rest of the
day. Chimaera, Gambler and Twister headed to Universal
Studios as Paranoiabunny and son headed off for their
own adventure.
On day three, we hooked back up as
a group and went out to Lake Eola by way of Orange
Blossom Trail and Church Street Station. Hung out
there and had some ice creams then took off for a
"Disney Adventure".
Our Disney Adventure was not the
typical trip to the parks....We got past the Disney
security by saying we were going there to visit someone
staying at the Contemporary Hotel. When we got to
security at the contemporary gate, we made up a guest
name that we were going in to visit. They let us through
so we went on in. The contemporary hotel is the one
that has a monorail that passes through the lobby.
We went upstairs to the 4th floor monorail station
where we got a pressed penny, and caught the monorail
once around the cycle stopping at: Transportation
Hub, Polynesian village, Grand Floridian, Magic Kingdom
and back to the contemporary, then rode it on to the
transportation hub and switched monorail trains to
the Epcot train. We rode that route twice and got
off at Epcot the second time around to take some pictures.
Then back onto the train to the Contemporary hotel
where we made a hasty retreat off Disney property
and back to our hotels. We got to see the fireworks
at Epcot, and Magic Kingdom from the Monorail and
saw the parade of lights on the water outside the
Magic Kingdom.
Gambler, Twister and Paranoiabunny
stopped of at Chimaeras hotel then headed back to
Gambler and Twister's house. We stopped in Gainesville
to let Paranoiabunny's son check out the Toys-R-Us
and then went to the mall to let them experience American
mall shopping. Then off to the house.
