Never Too Old For Disney

So early last week we decided on a whim to make a trip over to Orlando for the long memorial day weekend as I had a 4 day weekend and Jo had a 3-dayer and was able to get Fri. off as well. Both of us had been to Disneyland (apparently the inferior of the 2 Disneys in the U.S) but it'd been a while plus it was Jo's b-day weekend. We went w/ Jo's coworker/best friend down here, Brooke, and her fiance James who works for the Dupont company.

DAY 1: Made the 8.5 hr drive to Orlando. Drive time break-down...Josh:6.5hrs, JoAnna:2.0hrs (aka the usual).

DAY 2: We got our tix at 50% off thanks to the Salute To The Military promo by Disney, very nice of them. We started off at Magic Kingdom (the park you most think of when you think Disney World) and had a blast. During Pirates of the Caribbean I had some fond memories of the exact same ride at Disney Land from our 1987 trip and riding it with Lisa and our cousins Aaron, Luke and Jason. (For some reason when we returned we talked ourselves into believing that my uncle Tim's basement was haunted by the characters from the Pirates ride, odd memory).

DAY 3: Epcot Center. For those who haven't been it's mostly a walking tour of select nations from around the globe. We had lunch in China and a beer in Germany. At U.K. we ordered a Scotch Egg (pictured below) upon advice from a co-worker at Keesler. Its a hard boiled egg wrapped in sausage and then deep fried. It was delicious. There was a ride there called Soarin. Thee best ride I've ever been on. It's a very life-like hang-gliding ride thru California around the Golden Gate bridge and thru Yosemite, etc. Very, very fun.

(Norway, the homeland) (Scotch Egg) (China)

Later made it to Hollywood Studios. More rides, more fun.

DAY 4 (aka Jo's b-day): Just as we parked at Blizzard Beach water park we heard a loud thud (like when you hit the release button to open your trunk). Turns out a kid getting out of the car next to us rammed his door into the side of the Caddy and left a nice dent and scratched the paint.

Josh: "Sir, I think your son may have dented my fender."
Wife (in thick British accent): "Georgie! Did you hit this man's cah?"
Little Georgie (again, thick Brit accent): "I didn't moth-ah, I swear."
Wife: "Patrick, did your broth-ah hit this man's cah?"

Anyways, it probably doesn't sound that funny but it was. You had to hear their accents. For the remainder of the day we spoke in Brit accents. Unfortunately for Georgie we had the CSI-like idea of opening his door to see if it matched my new dent. GUILTY. The father was super nice about it and luckily they had insurance w/ the rental co. and we're working it out now. Hopefully I didn't ruin Georgie's big day at the water park. I saw them later inside the park and pretended not to recognize them.

<------We ended the night back at Epcot for the fireworks show, very nice.

.................DAY 5: Josh drives, JoAnna sleeps.