Disney's Amusement Parks

Believe it or not, we stayed five days in Florida in order to visit four out of nine amusement parks. Each day was non-stop activities.

The first activity was to visit the Animal Kingdom. I can promise you this park was far much better than any zoo in California. Personally from my point of views, there were so many amazing improvising animals creatures all over the world at one park. We were able to go all rides including Kali River Rapids- the wettest and wildest ride in Walt Disney World. It was a true business because I got really SOAKED, but felt so good especially during the humidity weather. While we were there, we were fantasized how the workers created the Tree of Life. This man-made tree is 145 feet tall. From far away it looks like any other tree. But when you get up close, you will realize that this is not an ordinary tree. It's covered with 325 animal images! I am pretty sure that Mark Twain would love to live there. Not only fantasizing the tree houses, there were shows such as "Finding the Nemo." This show provided us a rear reflection. David and I could not complain because it was better than not understanding what the show was. Another show we visited was "A Bug's life." We were warned that it would scare us out, but it didn't including our kids. This show made a great place to watch a 3-D movie. We also visited DinoLand U.S.A. I thought it was brilliant when they created a Dino-themed fair and attended the thrilling ride back to the last few minutes of Cretaceous Period. It made look like they lived while riding on a rough ride.

The second activity was going out to Disney Hollywood Studio. This place mainly showed lots of indoor places unlike Universal Studio. While we were there, it poured rainy for at least three minutes then it all dried out. It was weird! There were some good and so-so rides. We especially like the two rides: Star Wars (though I'm not fond of watching Star Wars movies) and dropping 13 feet down from The Hollywood Tower Hotel. The boys were somewhat exciting and scared at the same time. It felt like we were in a Twilight Zone. While we were there, our disappointment was not going to Toy Story Rides. That was the only LONG waiting line while the Hollywood Tower only at least 5 minutes of waiting. Perhaps next time will do. Just before the day had ended, the boys wanted to meet the "UP" from the characters so BADLY, though they have not seen the movie yet. But at the end of the day, I barely could walk because my hips were killing me.

While having sore hips, I managed to go on the third amusement park: Typhoon Lagoon. Boy, I admitted this place is a ten thumb ups! Way much better than the Soak City in California! Wish Disney would have thought about this first before building few Soak City Parks in California. (Note: please ignore Ryan picking his nose.)

After spending the day at Typhoon Lagoon, we returned to our hotel for a couple of hours before going Disney's Downtown. We managed to get in Cirque Du Soleil until 10:30 P.M. There were times I could not watch where I evoked the performed got injured on the show. Nope, they were AMAZING! I honesty would not mind to watch the shows again at another place.

Going all of the four out of nine amusement parks were too much for all of us ! Without having any choice, we had to do this while we were in Orlando, Florida for five days. We honesty would not mind to visit the other amusement parks that we had missed someday in the future-- only when the weather is not too hot and humidity!