A couple days ago I got back from a family vacation to Universal Studios, Orlando. We were there for six days, Mom, Pop, my 3 brothers, Missy, and me. We stayed at the Hard Rock Hotel, right on the Universal property. The advantage of that is that your room key allows you to cut all the lines in the 2 parks. It was really worth it. Without waiting in any lines, I can definately say there was no bad part of the trip.

Five points, refers to a little game my brothers and I had going. We'd give each other made up point any time one of us said or did something really stupid. We weren't really keeping track but quite a number of points were given out. Some of the more memorable awards were for artificial water, the distribution ride, January following September, and others.

Missy is just the cutest. She wasn't the best at all times, but she makes things fun. She really talks a lot now, and is almost a whole real person. We had a lot of fun, even jumping on the trampoline with her before we left. I'm sorry that I'm leaving and won't see her more often. I can't wait to see what she'll be like a year from now.

We spent most of our days on the trip either at one of the two Universal parks or at the pool. Most evening we were at the hotel or CityWalk. One night we went out to eat at a fondue restaurant, something I didn't think I'd like but I did (it wasn't even mostly about cheese). Another night we went to SkyVenture, the vertical wind tunnel, the sky-diving-like experience that I did with Desney and Jason last time I was in Orlando. That's where most of my pictures are from.

One of our favorite attractions was the Men In Black ride. Like the Buzz Lightyear ride at Disney, it is a standard car-on-a-track dark ride, except that you have a gun and you shoot aliens. Because we had Express Passes, we would run around doing it again and again going for highers score. Although we did it more times then we could count, we only lost (your car of 6 people compete against another) our first time. At the end of the trip, my high score was 555,000 and Alex's was 551,000.

Of course we did Spiderman many times (it rules). I didn't go on Doctor Doom's Fear Fall, Ripsaw Falls, or Jurassic Park because they all involve just falling, but I was talked into both Dueling Dragons and Hulk, but I'll talk more about that in another entry.