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...
Day 18 Universal Studios

Day 18 Universal Studios

We’ve had terrific weather so far here in Central Florida. If anything, it has been a little too good. We’ve had clear, blue skies every day, with temperatures persistently hovering around 30°C (86°F). That’s near perfect, but a couple of degrees lower would have made...

Day 17 Inflection Point

Today marks an inflection point for this holiday in two ways. Firstly, we have completed our two-week all-access pass to all the Disney parks. Tomorrow marks the beginning of our two-week all-access pass to the Universal theme parks. We’re also now just past the...
Day 16 The big Disney finale

Day 16 The big Disney finale

Over the past two weeks, we’ve visited a Disney theme park no less than nine times, excluding a few trips to Disney Springs. People talk about being inside the Disney bubble, and I can certainly understand this. It can create a false reality, change your behaviour...