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So Tal and I went to Walt Disney World in Florida at the end of May.

We flew out of Bellingham to Orlando (connecting in Seattle), and the Disney fun started once we found the Disney Magical Express. We got a little lost in the airport but eventually found the check in and got on the bus and on our way to the Pop Century Resort.

We had 7 nights there, and it didn’t seem like nearly enough. I wish we could have stayed for at least two weeks.

Some of the highlights of our trip included:

• Eating at the Sci-Fi Dine In. A really cool restaurant at the Disney’s Hollywood Studios where you eat in fake cars inside a fake drive-in, and they play movie trailers and cartoons from the 50s and 60s on the movie screen. We had Magical Star cocktails that had cool multi-color glowing ice cubes in them.
• MISSION: Space at Epcot. It is an amazing ride, you are in a giant centrifuge with control stick and a ton of buttons and switches right in front of you. Riding it is as close to actually going into space as I will ever get. The ride is so intense that two people have died on it.
• Royal Andapur Tea Company. Everyday was a really hot in Disney World, but most parks have a ton of shops and places with air conditioning, Disney’s Animal Kingdom is an exception. The first day that we spent there felt extrememly hot and we had a very relaxing break with some ice cold drinks from the Royal Andapur Tea Company. Tal had a frozen chai and I had a frozen strawberry drink, both of which were extremely refreshing.
• Wearing our Heart shirts while watching the fireworks in Epcot. For valentine’s day I bought Tal and I the 8-bit dynamic heart shirts at ThinkGeek. They are basically t-shirts with glowing hearts fully light up when in proximity with another of the shirt. We wore them one evening when we went to watch the Illuminations fireworks show at Epcot, and we must have been asked about the shirts at least a dozen times. They got us a lot of attention. I was more than happy to refer them to Thinkgeek to get their own. ThinkGeek has some of the best customer service of any company I’ve dealt with.
• Crazy thunder storms. While we were there we experienced some strange thunder storms, none of them lasted especially long or anything, but it was weird weather. Tal had packed her jacket-in-a-packet and it sure came in handy. One night just after we came back to our room it really started to just dump rain. Even though it would just pour rain for a while, it was so hot there that any evidence that it had rained would disappear within an hour.

One of the funny things that we came to realise is that we like Disneyland a whole lot more. It’s not that Disney World is bad or anything, it was awesome, but Disneyland is better. Especially food-wise, I definitely prefer to eat at places in Disneyland like the Carnation Cafe and Blue Bayou compared to the places we ate at in Disney World. Next Disney trip for us is definitely back to Disneyland.

But up next is a little road trip down to Seaside, OR.

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