Day four - five

Yesterday we spent between breakfast, blizzard beach, and dinner. Breakfast was with Chef Mickey and dinner was at rain forest cafe. Blizzard beach was okay but an awful lot of work get there, get ready, wait in lines, and then get to dinner in time. And it poured again at Disney springs! Food was good though.

Today was breakfast in "the" castle at magic kingdom. Annie liked the food but wasn't entirely impressed with it in general. We did some rides including the seven dwarves mine rude which was good but short. Annie didn't do space mountain but the rest of us did, even Brian. Lunch on the go and dinner at Be Our Guest. It's was a late lunch so almost ask the dinners and desserts came back in boxes.

Annie sure or a tin of work into this trip!

Disney day three

Didn't sleep great due to kids needing help and a very late swim at 10:30. Nice sunny weather so far. Signed up for Jedi training, had breakfast at a cafe, and then watched the first order March! Potty break and then toy story.
That was a fun game! Rush through wake Disney museum, then star tours simulator ride, then literally run to the Jedi academy check in. But as usual we were early. So a pity break, may and I held slots at the Jedi show and around noon, dark clouds started rolling in. Sweet!
Kids show for postponed so we went to the star wars theatre, then muppets 3D. Then a nice Italian lunch, and the Indians Jones stunt show. After some stress around doing tower of terror or Jedi training, and a potty break, we are doing Jedi. Tower is next.

Disney day two

Animal kingdom. The threat of rain was ever present but it was just a couple spots and the cloud cover was perfect thanks to hurricane Hermine. Everest was so good we did it three times! The Kali rapids was short and not that exciting though it's good if you want to get wet. We cancelled our breakfast, did the safari which was cool, and lunch at the Tusker buffet was fantastic. We switched up or dinner because when we arrived it looked very fancy and they were a double charge restaurant. We had pizza instead and they messed up or order but we got an extra water and iced tea out of it 😀

Disney day one

EPCOT is the experimental prototype community of tomorrow. The day started with a Norwegian breakfast, and the first ride we did was frozen. I absolutely loved it. Everyone else did too. Not very exciting, but the great atmosphere and great. We got to do space mission twice, we did spaceship earth, we did Nemo and friends which was not that exciting, and we ended the day with the test track which was great. The Japanese lunch wasn't great - Tappan Edo - because it was so loud. The Italian food was good, but there server has no clue about the dining plan and screwed up or order twice so it took two hours for us to finish and get it out there. The different countries were cool but we didn't get to do many of them; the Canada ride was closed.

PBL in Orlando recap

Orlando was actually a blast! Thursday & Friday I did the institute for leaders. Didn't go out Wednesday night because I was tired, but Paul snored so badly I woke up and still didn't get enough sleep.So I went out every other night - why not? Jen Friedburg had broken up with her boyfriend and I tried to hang around with her as much as possible. On Thursday we all went to the Dance Hall on the Boardwalk. Had a spitting incident with ice & Paula. Or maybe that was Friday. Also went to the House of Blues on Pleasure Island. Got Eric a t-shirt. Place was cool. Went to Comedy Club one night but left early. It was very good, though. Monday night (our last) we went back to the Dance Hall and just sat outside due to the crowd. They were doing swing-era music though and people were having a blast. It was nice to see.

We went to Animal Kingdom on Sunday. The Bug Show (3D) was a blast. Took the Safari ride which was okay. Bird show was wonderful. They brought out a live bald eagle. It gave me goosebumps. We heard the boat ride was stupid so we didn't go. The dinosaur ride was cool - we went on it twice. Then we went to MGM and the Great Movie ride - not so great. But the Tower of Terror was worth the price of admission all by itself. Drop, up, Drop, up, Drop. We rode that twice also.

The convention was okay. Lots of stupid stuff also. But Paul, Paula, and myself won 1st place for Business Decision Making. Top 3 were us, U of Florida, and U of Kentucky. I'll never forget that moment.

I met Sarah Pike from Arizona. She's the new Southwest Region National VP.

PBL for SUNYIT in Orlando, FL

In Orlando, FL (Disney) as part of the PBL team of SUNIT. Here with Paula Pindle, Paul Becker, Colleen Tanner, Jenn Friedberg.

Tonight I had stuffed lobster at Harry's in the Dolphin hotel. We stayed in a Hilton our 1st night due to overbooking. Paul did something I'll never forget - he asked the clerks at Dolphin check-in what they could do to compensate us for the inconvenience. The clerk looked taken aback and then saw Paul was serious. Next thing I know the clerk is handing Paul vouchers for us to eat at Harry's. The entree alone was $38!!! We also tried Alligator tail. Both were amazing.

Animal kingdom - safari ride, bug show, bird show, dinosaur ride.
MGM - movie ride wasn't that good. Tower of Terror was awesome!