Sunday, July 24, 2005
July 21, Thursday...
We headed off to WDW's MGM Studios. Ahhhh, at last a professional, well managed, clean, and very well designed theme park!
I was back in FastPass supreme leader form. We hit the FastPass lanes at the Rockin' Roller Coaster and then jumped in the Standby Line. We waited about 45 minutes and then we rode the coaster. It was Jennifer's and Gina's first time. What a thrill. We then got back on with the FastPasses. This time Gina and Nick rode in the front row!!! See photo above...since WDW wanted $24 more to let me have this photo, I decided to take a photo of the screen showing my front row, brave, little ones!
We then did the Tower of Terror. Tony and I went first. Nick was a bit uneasy about doing this ride... Tony and I must have hit one of the most lame drop sequences of the 33 pre-programmed random sequences. We weren't that thrilled. In fact, the ride photo showed me leaning casually on my armrest as we were dropping! With that experience, I convinced Nick to take the ride by telling him that they must have changed it from when we rode it last - two years ago. He was happy he rode it but I don't know if he had the same drop as I did...
The car stunt show was new for us and was enjoyable. We then did Star Tours - don't know how many times I've done that same ride in my lifetime!!! Unfortunately, this is when Jennifer lost her Maui Jim sunglasses - the best damn set of sunglasses on the planet, and the most freakin' expensive. No luck in finding them... We took in Raiders of the Lost Ark and then did some shopping before kicking out of there around 7PM.
A quick dinner at Giordanno's and then back to the condo for a swim. We packed our bags and took in a DVD before hitting the sack...
July 22, Friday...
We got on the road around 8:45AM and headed north. I decided not to stay until Tuesday - the anticipated next launch date for the shuttle. It seemed a bit too risky considering the impending weather in the Atlantic Tropics Region (www.weather.com)...
We stopped in Georgia for lunch and made Jen's week by stopping at Chic-filet! We then stopped in South Carolina for an icecream break, lotto ticket purchase, and some explosive entertainment. You gotta love SC!
We pulled in the driveway, 924.9 miles, at 11:35PM...
Well, that's it folks. What a trip!!! I'll be adding more photos as they become available...
