**This post is part of a Flashback Friday series. I will be posting photos from the trips I took as a kid accompanied by the journal entries I kept while traveling**
March 19, 2002
Here We Come
1:14 PM (In the Car)
We just left from school. Our plane should take off at about 6:30 PM from Minneapolis to Chicago, and 8:30 from Chicago to Orlando. We should get there at 11:30 PM in Minnesota and 12:30 AM in Florida.
5:42 PM (@ Minneapolis International Airport)
Oh great, now our plane is in a holding pattern. In other words, there are too many planes landing now and it cannot land until 6:00 PM. We cannot take off until 6:45 PM It will be my third time in Chicago. It is so boring waiting here. We had White Castle before. We got here at around 4:10 PM Well our plane just landed early by 10 minutes (we think its ours anyway). I have been writing for ten minutes now. I hope we leave soon. This will by my 6th or 7th plane ride. I can't wait till we'll actually be on the plane. Now our schedule is all messed up.
7:33 PM (On the airplane to Chicago)
Well we finally took off an hour after we were suppose to. I have not been on a plane since June 2000. That was in second grade. Now I am in fourth.
March 20, 2002
5:45 PM (@ the resort)
We arrived at around 12:40 AM. We got up at 7 AM this morning and went to Epcot. We went to "Honey, I Shrunk the Audience," and "Food Rocks." Those were both shows. We went on some rides too. We went on Test Track, a boat ride, and that's all. We went to the Mexico part, the Norway part, the Germany part, and the China part.
10:40 PM (@ the resort)
We went to Spaceship Earth. That told a story about the future while you slowly rode through the gigantic Epcot ball. I went to the France part after. At 9 PM Epcot time, they had really cool fireworks. Tomorrow we're going to Magic Kingdom.
March 21, 2002
8:00 AM (In the van)
We are going to Magic Kingdom. I can't wait. We are hoping to go to Big Thunder Mountain Railroad then Space Mountain.
9:43 PM (@ the resort)
We went to Magic Kingdom today. I went on Thunder Mountain, then Splash Mountain and more. It's pretty hot down here. I am so glad I am not in Minnesota.
March 22, 2002
9:45 PM (@ the resort)
We went to MGM Studios today. First, I went on the Tower of Terror. You went on an elevator in an old hotel called The Hollywood Tower Hotel. The legend is that one Halloween night lightening hit the hotel. A whole section of the hotel disappeared. So did an elevator carrying 5 people. No one ever saw them again. The end. The ride was you sat in a big elevator and a strap comes over you. First the elevator takes you on a short tour of the hotel. Then POW! the cables snap and the elevator falls 8 stories. Then you go up 13 stories, 9 down... You do that for awhile. You never know how many times you will go up and down. I did not think it was very scary. Next i went on Rock'n'Roller Coaster. It is very cool. You go upside down three times! You are suppose to be late for an Aerosmith concert. Your limo goes from 0 to 60 miles per hour in the first 3 seconds of the ride.
I also went on The Great Movie Ride. That ride went through a bunch of different movie scenes such as The Wizard of Oz, Mary Poppins, Alien, and Fantasia. It was very fun. The cool one was the one where someone was robbing a bank. We also went to the Playhouse Disney Live. It was actually pretty neat. You got to watch Bear in the Big Blue House, Rolie Polie, Olie, Pooh, and Stanley. We also went on Backlot Tour. That showed special effects, like how they happen and stuff like that. You got to ride a tram over a bridge and once you got up there, the bridge would rock. Soon, water started to pour down like a hurricane and I got wet. I loved that ride.
My family and I went to Jim Henson's Muppet Vision 3D. That was really cool. You wore special glasses. It's like you can reach out and touch them. Sometimes people in the costumes would come out and say things like when one of the characters ran away. We also went to Star Tours. Now that was awesome. The pilot is Captain Rex. It is his first job and he cannot seem to control the plane. you go through giant ice crystals when you're up in space. It seems like you're really moving but you're not. It is a virtual reality type of thing.
I went to the Indiana Jones Epic Stunt Spectacular. I thought that was the best. They showed how they made the movies like how to make it look like you punched someone but you really didn't. We were going to go to the Toy Story Pizza Planet Arcade, but the pizza was too expensive. We went to Sounds Dangerous starring Drew Carey. It was a movie where you wear headphones. It is dark almost the whole time. We went to Fantasmic firework show at night.
March 23, 2002
8:33 AM (In the van)
We got up early this morning to go to Kennedy Space Center. That's where rockets blast off. Then, later we are going to the beach. I am going to collect shells.
4:27 PM (In the van)
We went to Kennedy Space Center today. It was awesome. I got a squishy thing, and glow in the dark nail polish. We also went to the beach. I collected shells. My family (well most of it) went in the water with clothes on. I was all sandy. We saw a lot, I mean A LOT of police cars with their sirens on go by. We even saw a bomb squad go by. We might watch the news tonight to see what happened. The salt water tasted very very very very very very very salty. It is GROSS.
March 24, 2002
7:42 AM (In the van)
Well we are going to the Gulf of Mexico. We are going to Tampa Bay first because we're visiting some friends: Rick, Helen, Michael, Danielle, and one more we don't remember seeing. They are going there too.
5:30 PM
That was really fun. I got sun burnt a lot though. Ouch.
March 25, 2002
7:29 AM (In the van)
We are going to Animal Kingdom today. I can't wait.
March 27, 2002
9:10 AM (@ Chicago Airport)
Animal Kingdom was okay, but I did not really like it. Yesterday we just stayed at the resort and swam. Helen and Michael came over. There was a thunderstorm and all the lightening went straight down. It was warm though. We went shopping too. I got a blue t-shirt and shorts. The shirt says Florida across the top. I got a Florida magnet. I also got a notebook that says Florida and has dolphins on it. The palm trees are neat.
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