I'm on my way back home, gonna fly . . . .

Yes, I'm now quoting Partridge Family songs.

It's been a whirlwhind kind of time, the past few days. We did the Magic Kingdom on the 2nd, got there about 8:45 and watched the opening antics with Mickey and gang. Headed into Tomorrowland and did Space Mtn. right away. Kids did some rides there and then in Fantasyland. We headed back to Main Street Bakery to get some breakfast and meet Brynna. We were all wearing our matching t-shirts and had a picture taken in front of the castle. Then we saw Mickey's Philharmagic. Very good 3-d show. Left there into a downpour! And it didn't stop, for hours. What is with this weather? We had some lunch, tacos, and donned our ponchos for the trek back to the resort. We decided we hate the parks in the rain, when nobody leaves.

Of course once we got back to the resort, it stopped raining! We caught a bus around 4:30 and headed to Downtown Disney to catch a taxi to pick up our rental cars. Gary, Mom and I went to Florida Mall to do a bit of shopping and had dinner in the food court.

Yesterday was our day at Universal Studios. This was indeed a long day. We were there right at opening at 9 am and proceeded to Islands of Adventure to ride Spiderman, the Hulk (scariest rollercoaster I've ever been on), and a Cinnabon and then did the rides in Seussland. Did a coaster or two, then the Jurassic Park River Ride. Didn't tell the others that you plummet down a very long plume into the water, was quite funny! Fortunately we didn't get very wet. Hightailed it out around 3 to Universal Studios park and started to work our way around. We did get the Mummy and Jaws in and a few other things here and there before we ran out of time (somewhere between 6 and 7). The heavens opened up just as we were leaving and downpoured, yet again. Tonight we went to Target to look about and had dinner at the Outback, just Gary, Brynna, Sarah and myself.

Today was a sad day, leaving WDW yet again. I got up early with Gary and took him to Epcot for his Segway Around the World tour. He was tied up just over 2.5 hours so I just meandered about a bit, read and was able to videotape him as he rode by. We left the park around 11 and then went back to the resort to get Mom and Brynna and finish packing. Said bye-bye to the Jefferys and went to Downtown Disney to do our last-minute shopping and have lunch at Earl of Sandwich. From there we drove out near the airport to check into our hotel. After leaving Gary there we promptly turned around and went back to MGM. We were to watch Beauty and the Beast as Brynna needed to talk to Jimmy before they went out after he finished work. Very good show. Left Brynna there, who knows if she'll come home tonight considering we're getting up at 3:30 tomorrow morning! Just had an awesome meal and margs at Chilis and now it's time to get ready for bed and it's not even 9 pm. Be home soon!

2007!!!

Wow, hard to believe it's next year already.

Had a pretty good day yesterday, ate way tooooo much!

We went to the Gospel Brunch at House of Blues and it was pretty good food, lots of southern stuff too, awesome desserts. The gospel choir was great. Never listened to a lot of that music before but I quite enjoyed it, lots of hand clapping involved. From there the Jefferys went to Disney Quest and Gary, Brynna and I went to see Eragon. Great movie, love the story.

Back to the resort for a rest, I did laundry while the rest of my family napped. We headed out around 5:30 to MGM where we meandered about until our dinner ressie at 50s Prime Time Cafe. It was a pretty good time, everyone enjoyed our server Cousin Jeff and the food was darn good too, had southern fried chicken and collard greens. After some of us did Star Tours and others did the Great Movie Ride. Then we gathered near the big hat in the plaza where there was a huge stage set up and a dj making the crowd make lots of noise. We hung out there for the countdown and fireworks which were overwhelming. The amount of people there was also overwhelming. We finally headed out about 12:30 and were able to get on a bus almost right away. Traffic really sucked though and it took us a bit longer to get back.

We had a good lie-in today, woke up at 10:30 am. We headed out back to MGM actually about 12ish. Coaster was shutting down for a refurb after today so we wanted to try it one last time. Jimmy managed to backdoor the lot of us (except Nyla and Nana) and then we did Tower of Terror. Had some lunch, walked around some and went back to the resort. Spent a few hours there and then headed out to Pleasure Island. Had some great fish and chips at an Irish pub then spent most of the evening in the Adventurers Club. They put on great little shows in there involving the audience so it was pretty funny. Especially when one of the characters decided to give me a pretty long and squeezy hug! Finished up there around 10 and then back to the resort.

We're getting up rather early tomorrow to do opening at the Magic Kingdom. I'm off for sleep.......