Wednesday 28 August 2013

Florida - A is for Atlantis, Apollo and Astronauts

A is for Atlantis....


How does a huge piece of high tech industrial machinery get to look so graceful?



Look - bits of it are even quilted!!


What a good job all these bits can be recycled to the private sector to service the trips to the international space station...



I hope its easier to float through the space station than it is to crawl through it!!

And to think it all started with "simple" rockets...

 

"simple" but positively Hugemongous.....




Half way along ....and its still HUGE!!


Who knows, one day maybe we'll all get to take a walk "out there"







Saturday 24 August 2013

Florida - D is for Dad and his boys

Dads.......they're just big versions of little boys right?


In oh....so many ways....

 







I didn't get left behind taking photos all the time - honest!

No hint of competition between them to land the shuttle safely...

 


Perfect seating - no fighting over who's driving this one home!

 




Like father ...like sons....


But only the best dads manage to stay smiling when their family conspire with the waitress to get the whole of Hard Rock Orlando singing "Happy Birthday" to them!


Thursday 22 August 2013

Florida - I is for ice cream

For the record, I'd just like to state that I didn't ONLY eat cake and ice cream in Florida....

 
 
 

 
 


 

 

 
 

 
 

But it was a close run thing....


Thank heavens I had a little help!



Tuesday 20 August 2013

Florida - R is for rides - lots of them!!!

Lets face it I've been mucking about with the beginning of this series of blogs.  We all know Florida is for theme parks and rides are the core of the theme park experience...

There are some really big scary ones we couldn't pluck up the courage for at all...


There are cute ones ...

 

 

There are deceptively high ones disguised as far away landmarks...



Some rides try your patience as you seem to wait "for evah!!!" in line...

 

Some rides hide in Castles....


Some in ancient mythological structures....


Some are way less subtle...


You just know...you really just KNOW that you are going to get wet...

 

Some of them involve you killing aliens ......a task taken WAY TOO seriously by some family members

 



Its great when the whole family agree on the very best roller coaster in all of Florida...


But its even cooler when you get to design your own ride....

 

 




(even if we did terrify our passengers!)



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