The last three days in Orlando were spent hanging out with Caity, who's spending the year in the States.
We did the toursity / theme-parky thing:
NASA, Cape Kennedy was cool and informative. Absolutely amazing to think of the ingenuity of that team which landed Apollo 11 on the moon with computers using the crunching power of a modern calculator ... Assuming of course, that they DID land on the moon!
We ALMOST saw the very last shuttle launch. Even the Prez was heading down, but they postponed it at the last moment.
No, these are not alien glasses - but 3D glassses for the excellent iMax docos about space.
Universal Studios world - Here's Caity shamefully pagan in her excitement about Harry Potter world.
One of these is my daughter:
Gee she's got a young looking dad!
We spent some time at Disney World's - EPCOT park, which is sort of a round-the-world theme park, (different to the fantasy park), it's an interesting and pleasant day's meandering. You walk around a mini version of Germany, Japan, Norway and so on. It's fun, but it's a very happy sweet world where national cliches rule supreme - and you are encouraged to buy mementos at each stage!
It's amusing that there's a Morocco-world even though the middle eastern Disney stories like Aladdin are set in Iraq and similarly less idyllic places - Morocco though is safe and sanitised!
Yummy tir-fry for tea at China world:
Yes, but can you name all the Disney princesses?
Nothing like a Lego dragon to wrap up a good time!
