Day 22 Halloween with Dave and Jennifer

We had arranged to drive up to St. Augustine and Jacksonville this weekend to spend time with Dave and Jennifer, as well as Carlos and Kristy. Our plans were still somewhat tentative, but our theme park schedule isn’t set in stone, so we really have no reason to...

Day 21 Escaping with Sandy

NOTE: For the next several days, I’ve taken a break from my blog writing, so the following few blog entries, including this one, will be written well after the fact and will likely be less verbose and more summarised. We spent quality time with good friends in Saint...
Day 20 Halloween Horror Nights – Jae edition

Day 20 Halloween Horror Nights – Jae edition

While I have lots of friends who love me dearly, at home, it’s not often that there is a day that is solely about me. I grew up in a house with an Autistic brother, meaning a lot of the attention went to him. Anything we wanted to do, Mum and Dad had to calculate and...
Day 20 Halloween Horror Nights – Jae edition

Day 20 Halloween Horror Nights

Hot on the heels of two intense back-to-back days of theme park trekking, we had a blissfully quiet day planned for today. At least, that was the case for Sandy and Joey. Jae and I had a date tonight with all the ghosts and ghouls from Universal’s Halloween Horror...
Day 19 Universal Islands of Adventure

Day 19 Universal Islands of Adventure

A conscious decision I made early on, when I was planning this holiday, was to make it a lengthy one. One of the principal reasons for this was the foreknowledge that theme-park-trekking would be an arduous, energy-zapping activity. It’s a lot of fun, to be sure, but...