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I definitely forgot to finish up this tale of adventure, but luckily nothing really happened that was too crazy.

On Friday, we went to Cirque du Soleil, and watched some people flip around. It was good, if you ever get a chance to see it, go for it.

On Saturday we started home, but stopped for one night in Ft. Walton Beach, FL to go to…the beach. I got super sunburned.

And on Sunday we drove home for somewhere around 14 hours or something. Yeah. That was great. The End.

Hopefully I’ll get some pictures and video up soon.

Today while at Disney today I found this poor girl selling balloons. I couldn’t resist taking a few pictures of her (she’s also a cutie, so that helps). I hope Valerie has a better day tomorrow.

Today we went to the Magic Kingdom. We’ve been there before and nothing really has changed, so this post will not be that exciting.

The only ride we were excited about was the Pirates of the Caribbean ride that they just redid. Turns out all they did was add the likeness of Johnny Depp to a few choice mannequins and that’s it. It was as not that interesting. So now I guess the ride is trying to mimic the movie rather than the other way around? At least the line was only ten minutes long and totally indoors.

The best new attraction at the park is a Monsters Inc. Laugh Floor…thing. I forget the actual name, but it’s basically stand up comedy from Mike from Monsters Inc. and some others. Surprisingly, it was hilarious. The “stage” was just a projected screen in the front of the room, but it had live people do the voices of the monsters who were not Mike, so they could interact with the audience. You could even text message a joke for them to use in the show (they didn’t take mine, those jerks). It was great, A+.

After about five hours of walking around cramped spaces (cramped because of a million people), we gave up and headed home to rest where I am now. We’re about to play a rousing game of Skip-Bo, so WATCH OUT.

Tomorrow we’re going to see Cirque du Soleil; it should be epic.

Today we went BACK to Universal Studios’ Islands of Adventure. Their deals were the best: you can buy a 7 day park-hopper ticket for like $100 or something. You can come and go as you please, they have reasonable restaurant prices, and actual roller coasters. Universal > Disney

For those not familiar with a PhotoJournal (or at least this style of PhotoJournal), basically you take a picture every hour for your entire day, and explain what you were doing at that time. Here is mine for today at Universal’s Islands of Adventure:

Today we’re going to go to Universal Studios Islands of Adventure. Unfortunately, since there will be water rides, I won’t we taking my camera. I will, however, be taking lots of photos with my phone and tweeting, again, like a mofo.

Check those out at: www.twitter.com/garretble

I’m hoping to have some of the photos uploaded soon.

I can’t really blog throughout the day today, but I’ve been Twittering like crazy. Check out the exploits (’sploitz!) at www.twitter.com/garretble.

9:30am

After a successful night at the Marrianna, FL Marriott, we decided that the splendor of a small town hotel nowhere near our destination was just too good for us. We couldn’t stay within the bounds of such riches, so we resolved to head on to our large, rented house that’s about 3 miles from Disney. Woe is us.

Now, back to the road for about six hours. Then, who knows!

12:49

We made a pitstop in Lake City, FL to get some go juice and to push out some urine. Ironically enough, Lake City on the gps is nowhere near a lake. I’m sure all those people who moved there for that reason are sorely dissapointed.

While at the station (a station that sold Mickey Mouse supplies in a town that’s 4 hours away from Disney itself), I decided that it’d be a good idea to not read which bathroom was which on the giant signs emblazoned on the doors. I didn’t think about it either way because the bathrooms themselves were so dirty. I only knew of my mistake when, as I was washing my hands, an elderly woman peeked into the room, saw me, then turned on her wrinkled heals and closed the door. If only she had come a few minutes earlier she could have been in for a show.

4:00pm

We finally made it to the resort house and boy were our arms tired. That makes no sense, just roll with it. Along the way, we stopped at a Steak n’ Shake for a bite, only to discover that wearing paper hats doesn’t make you as cool as you’d think.

The house itself is pretty rockin’, if I do say so myself. It’s a five bedroom, four bathroom shack with its own swimming pool in the back so you don’t have to share with the common folk. It’s a pretty great score. Here are some pics:

Note: Some of the pictures are rotated funny, but I’m too lazy to rotate them correctly. I’ll do that at a later time, it’s 1am and tomorrow it Universal Studios day.