Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness,
Friday, 26 September 2008
Autumn Poetry
Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness,
Tuesday, 23 September 2008
An Indian Summer
Wednesday, 17 September 2008
The Last Days of Summer
Some of our favourite ways to enjoy the last days of summer ...
A day at the beach ...
pretending to be a pixie!
discovering an inverted rainbow.
Thursday, 4 September 2008
Florida Week 3
The sun returned as tropical storm Fay moved north and we visited Universal's Islands of Adventure.
The Hulk Roller Coaster . . . great fun!
The Jurassic Park ride was very good as was the Duelling Dragons, but the rides are over too quickly!
Fay feeling very hot.
I wasn't expecting to like Universal as much as Disney, but I enjoyed both of the parks and the special effects.
Sadly the holiday was almost over. On our last full day we went to Aquatica, Seaworld's new water park. Jay made me laugh by announcing that it was paradise.
The very active Commerson's Dolphins.
WARNING : This post contains a photo of me in a bikini!
One last look around Downtown Disney . . .
. . . before the night flight home.
We had only been home a short while when I noticed Jay had fallen asleep on the living-room floor!
Wednesday, 3 September 2008
Florida Week 2 Part 2
Hour-glass tree frogs.
Giant Vietnamese Centipede.
Typhoon Lagoon, a Disney Water park.
Jay and Fay on the Lazy River.
OH falling out of his ring and Jay laughing beside him.
Seaworld on a wet and windy day as tropical storm "Fay" hit town.
It had to be called Fay didn't it!
OH was impressed by this sign and insisted on a photo!
Jay loves penguins, he has several soft toy penguins on his bed.
The puffins were so graceful underwater.
The shows were stunning. I had to ask myself how ethical it is to encourage these amazing creatures to perform, but they all seemed happy to cooperate and conservation is important to Seaworld. Still, I couldn't help but feel that they should have been in the wild.
Rescued Manatees.
The next day we finished up the parts of the Disney parks that we had missed.
First Hollywood Studios to see the Indiana Jones and Muppet shows.
Then onto the Magic Kingdom to see the Main Street Parade.
And finally onto Epcot.
Before returning "home" for some Mickey Mouse pasta!