Wednesday Wackyness

Hi Y'all!!! It's Victoria.

So Wednesday was wacky, wild and long. We had breakfast at the hotel and then left for Gatorland. Sea World was way to expensive so Gatorland for $20 a person was perfect for us!! We drove by tons of really amazing hotels on the way. Most notably the Ritz Carlton and J.W. Marriott whict you can see from like 30 miles away!!!

Gatorland was fabulous! Lots of gators obviously... birds.... snakes.... a petting zoo with baby goats!!!!! They were soooo cute! The baby alligators were adorably too. We watched two shows. One was the Upclose Encounters where they proceeded to bring scary things out of boxes and made the audience hold them. Mostly snakes. The secong show was the Gator Jumparoo show where they make gators jump out of the water for pieces of raw chicken. Chris took some really good photos of both of them. We took the train ride and apparently Indiana Jones was partially shot there. Don't remember which movie but it must have been one with alligators in it. They have an alligator breeding marsh and wherever you looked off into the distance were lots of alligators. Then we decided to try some gator meat. Gator nuggests and Gator ribs. Chris liked it...I couldn't get past the little bones in the ribs. I don't think I would eat Gator again. Maybe I should suggest Gator to our chef for the next menu?

Chris and I had lunch with one of Chris's Internet Gaming friends and his fiancee. His real name is Kenny but his "handle" is Thraggen. We went to an Italian restuarant called Palace Italian Grill. Fantastic food!!! They brought out complimentary bruschetta and roasted peppers then Chris ordered lasagna and I have a proscuitto and mozzarella panini. We had a Lemoncello Tart for dessert and also complimentary glasses of Lemoncello. We had a great time at lunch and we can't wait for them to visit us up in the cold cold north.

So from Lunch we travelled to the Florida Strawberry Festival. All I can say is WOW. Americans know how to throw a Fair!!! We walked around alittle bit and then went to see the Pig Races!!! Robinson's Racing Pigs!!! I got to bet one one pig at her name was Britney Spareribs. They are the cutest things ever!!! We watched them race around a track and then they also raced and swam!!! The last race they brought out baby pigs to race and it seriously was the cutest thing ever!! Yes we have both video and pictures. We walked around the Livestock area and looked at all the crafts. We had some dinner. Polish and Italian sausages on buns and a Blooming onion. Yummy onions. We also had a Strawberry shortcake (minus the whip cream)They had some of the most interesting fried foods!!! They had Fried Twinkies and Oreo's!!!! Next was the concert. We had fairly good seats. He sang a bunch of songs. Some I knew and most I didn't. Yes he sang all the old favourites like Through the years, Islands in the Stream, the Gambler, Lucille etc. The Gambler was funny. There was a big screen and they played clips from the Gambler movie 1-5 and then hesaid coming soon Gambler 6 and they had Coolio and old movie clips of Kenny Rogers superimposed together!!! Then he started trying to RAP!!!! We also saw his twin boys and wife. They came out on stage and Kenny made one of the twins sing the Gambler... Hilarious!!! Overall it was a good concert! I hope some of the pictures turned out.

So we left the Strawberry Festival fully bloated from deep fried food and with alittle bit of a country twang. I bought some strawberries, we are needing some wholesome food after the last few days.

Alright we have to go now.... Driving to St. Augustine today. So that's all from Orlando.

Oh and Sid and Dorothy....no babies just yet...let me concentrate on my apprenticeship for alittle while. Check back with us in a year.

Day 2 done and done

A couple pictures from the wedding

Chris Here

Well here are are at the end of day two. We stopped in at Chili's last night for dinner, I had the baby back ribs(of course) and Victoria had a chicken and shrip fajitas. It was very very good and we were both very full when we left. We started today with a quick breakfast which we ate out on the patio in the beautiful sunshine. Then we jetted off to the Kennedy Space Centre(God love the GPS) It was a full day of riding around on a bus, stopping at all the interesting points on the Island(or at least the ones they took us too). We stopped at the observation Gantry which you could see the vehicle assembly building and the launch pads from. Then we stopped at the apollo visiter center. It was mostly about the moon landing with a replica of the rocket to scale in the building. Last was the international space station centre. All about the space station of course, but you get to see the room with current projects for the station in action. I got several pictures of people actually working on equipment.

So all this took about 4 hours but it was well worth it and lots of fun.

On our way back we decided to stop for dinner at Bahama Breeze. A theme restaurant that was a lot of fun and excellent food. To start we had Fire Jack Shrimp. Then I had Mahi Mahi and Victoria had Jamacian Chicken. Then to finish it all off we had Dulce De Leche Cheesecake.

This has now become our best dinner of the trip. It was simply amazin.

Our after dinner entertainment was A mini putt across the street from our Hotel. Fun as hell. Once I download some of the pictures from our camera I'll post them. But it was the most interesting mini putt either of us had ever seen.

Signing off for tonight. Talk about tomorrow

We're Here!!!!

Hey...

We have arrived in Kissimmee!!! The flight from Buffalo to Charlotte was alittle rough taking off but all was well. When we arrived in Charlotte North Carolina we had lunch at a Carolina Pit BBQ fast food restaurant and it was fantastic!!!! Chris had pulled pork on a bun and I had Smoked Turkey on a bun. We definitely need a restaurant like that in Ontario. Our flight out of Charlotte was an hour late departing but it went alot smoother then the first. When we got to Orlando it was 65 degrees and sunny. We have rented a silver Chevy Impala which Chris says drives like a dream. It's 8:30pm now and we are hungry I think we are going to get fast food. So I am going now... Have to serach the hotel room for cool free stuff. WOOHOO free Coffee!!!

Byees!

Current Itinerary

March 5th

11:40am – Leave from Buffalo on our way to Orlando
3:00pm – Arrive in Orlando
Will be staying at the Lake Suites Hotel in Kissimmee for the first 3 nights.

March 6^th

Visit Cape Canaveral and NASA

March 7^th

Visit Sea World in the morning. Lunch with one of Chris's Internet friends.

In the afternoon we are going to the Florida Strawberry Festival. At 7:30 pm we will be seeing Kenny Rogers live in concert!!!

March 8^th

Head towards St. Augustine.

Currently plan on visiting the Fountain of Youth, Castillo de San Marcos and going on a ghost walk during our stay in St. Augustine.

March 9^th

St. Augustine during the day, head to Tallahassee in the evening

March 10^th

Tallahassee and surrounding area tours. Plantation houses and such. Also several Caves in the area.

March 11^th

Driving tour along the coast on our way to Mobile Alabama, possibly straight through to Baton Rouge if time permits. Probably several stops along the way as we see interesting things.

March 12th

Drive to Baton Rouge if not already there. Go on bayou/air boat tour(s)

March 13

Drive to New Orleans

March 14^th

Dinner at Emeril’s

March 15^th

1:00pm Board plane to Buffalo

6:30pm Arrived in Buffalo