Your Weekly Dose of Florida

So I am still finishing up my first little bear - hopefully pics later today...

Thought I would give ya some more pics from the land of Disney!

So after we finished at the Magic Kingdom, Bob and I buzzed over to Universal Studio's Islands of Adventure (IOA) . It was a day FILLED with lots and lots of some of the best rollercoasters I have been on in a long time. And I have been on many!!!! (hence the nickname - coaster girl)

We started off at the Hulk...launches you over 150 ft in the air and reaches speeds over 67 mph. Quite the ride. They don't even let you carry anything with you - there are lockers outside the ride you have to use for even a fanny pack.

After a disappointing trip on Dr Dooms Freefall - we headed over to Dudley Do-Right's Ripsaw Falls. Yeah - a water flume ride. This is the first one that sends you UNDER the water ....

yup. UNDER. No one warns you of that.

See the log - yeah - it is going under the water - Bob and I were SOAKED when we got off the ride. Good thing it was so hot and sunny that day.

Here we are as we enter the Jurassic Park section of IOA. (we were dripping wet at this point) We jumped onto the River Adventure...yeah - another water ride - we figured - well - might as well get really wet.....

We then buzzed over to ride the Dueling Dragons - Fire and Ice. They are a pair of dragons (rollercoasters) who are in the midst of a fight. During the aerial "combat" between dragons (the suspended coasters) there are three times that you come within 18 inches of the lunatics ..I mean people riding the other rollercoaster. EIGHTEEN INCHES! you can hear them breathing (or not....) Each dragon's 2-minute and 25-second flight includes several inversions, including a zero-g roll, a Cobra roll, two corkscrews, and two vertical loops. I highly recommend that you ride Fire first. A much better ride. They even built in a short cut so after finishing one coaster you can get right back on .... better than drugs or alcohol. Even Bob was a bit woozy after that trip.

Seuss Landing was very cool. Sam I Am gave me a hug, there was a Mary,Thing 1 & Thing 2 sandwich was created at one point - I hope Thing 1 was a boy - he kinda pinched my hiney while we took the picture... - this will most likely be my holiday card picture, and I got to ride the.......

We went ‘round and ‘round and up and down with a menagerie of colorful Seussian creatures, including Dog-alopes, Aqua-Mop Tops, Cowfish, and more. We could even interact with our mounts, causing the heads to turn, ears to waggle, or eyes to blink.

But boy was I worn out at the end of the day.....the last picture of the day said it all.........

The bear is almost done - just sewing up the parts and putting him together.....don't know his name just yet - stay tuned .....