Finally, the day Matthew has been dreaming of arrived! We went to his spiritual home, LegoLand. After having been to several other theme parks within the last two weeks LegoLand was compact in comparison, which made it easy to explore in a day. As you might expect, the target audience is younger families, so there were with no truly scary roller coasters; there were only one or two rides that Joe was excluded from by height. There are amazing Lego constru...

Today, we ran in a marathon! Well, sort of. The Disney Marathon was being run today through the Disney Parks. We went to Animal Kingdom and had to dash through breaks in the stream of runners a few times until they all got through this leg of the marathon. No one minded. The kids decided our mid-racer dash counted as "running in a marathon!" It was quite a fun, carnival atmosphere, with the runners, many of them in Disney themed outfits, being cheered by a...

Wonder Works. We had driven past this crazy upside-down building previously (the day we got lost driving to the outlet mall), and decided it was just the place for our Gang of Four to explore on our "quiet day." Inside, after paying the admission price, we tramped up to the next floor where we were met with fun and educational experiments, simulations and games about things like earthquakes, physics, hurricanes, optical illusions, and much more. The next roo...

Another day, another theme park here in Orlando. Today we went all around the world and into the future. We went to Epcot, one of the four Disney theme parks that make up Walt Disney World. Epcot, according to Wikipedia: "EPCOT is an acronym of Experimental Prototype Community of Tomorrow, which was the name originally given by Walt Disney to a conceptual Utopian city of the future that he had wanted to build on the site that is now Walt Disney World." Epcot...

I must admit to never having heard of Busch Gardens prior to our coming to Florida. The theme park tickets we purchased came as a package (Sea World, Busch Gardens, etc) and I really didn't have high hopes for it. We drove a fairly easy and straightforward hour to Tampa from Davenport (where we are staying) and arrived just before the park opened at 9:45 am. We were pleasantly surprised to find this combination of zoo and amusement park to be the best park w...