Florida Theme Park Extravaganza

Florida, especially the Orlando area, is known for it's Theme Parks. And while neither one of us are theme park fanatics, we both appreciate the Disney parks, and with so many additional theme parks all in one area, we decided we would go full bore and squeeze as much as we could into a two week package of discount tickets.

We ended up with tickets to Busch Gardens, Sea World, both sides of Universal Studios (Universal, and Islands of Adventure), the four main portions of the Disney World parks (Magic Kingdom, Animal Kingdom, Hollywood Studios, and EPCOT), and Kennedy Space Center.

It just so happened that one of the days we were at Universal Studios, it was Dan's birthday, and right next door was a Blue Man Group concert being held. On the spur of the moment we bought tickets for that as well to top off Dan's birthday celebration. If you haven't been to a Blue Man Group concert, there is no way to explain it. If you've never heard of the Blue Man Group, here is a link to their website: http://www.blueman.com/app/webroot/orlandosearch/?x=0&gclid=CMKMxY-RhqgCFYRl7AodY1CNGw

A friend from Sacramento was visiting at the time, so the three of us managed to make nine visits to the various attractions in 11 days. Our schedule was 3 days of theme parks, one day off; 3 days of theme parks, one day off; 3 days of theme parks, one day off.

 
Even though at times it seemed we were really pushing it, we all really enjoyed ourselves and we all agreed, we have had our fill of theme parks for now, or maybe even forever.


We were lucky with the weather, having two weeks in a row of sunny days, highs in the 80's, and only occasional clouds, but no rain. This allowed us to keep up our crazy frantic pace without any forced days off. This was truly a case of needing a vacation from the vacation to recuperate, but I'm glad to say, we saw it all!