Last Day in Orlando 2011

Last Day In Orlando...


Today we went to Wonderworks and sprung for the whole package including The Outta Control Magic Comedy Dinner Show. We had been to a Wonderworks with Marchionnes on our trip the the Smokey Mountains two years ago and Trevor still talks about the "upside down" museum. It is a little like the Magic House but mostly for a slightly more mature audience. The kids still found cools things though and a good time was had by all.

The entire structure is supposed to look like it was picked up by a tornado or Bermuda Triangle thing and slammed down into the ground. Trevor was fascinated that there were plants upside down at the top...

The pictures are all out of order but at the end we did this amazing ropes/obstacle course suspended from the ceiling. You have to get all harnessed up and walk around up there. The kids were way braver than I would have been at that age - going on beams and steps and rope ladders with nothing to hold onto way up high above the room. I would have enjoyed it a little more but Trevor was pretty nervous to do some of the things. Ryan was with Drew and she was a trooper...

Our little astronauts. We got to do a 4D movie about being on a runaway roller coaster that was fun and Drew and I had a 3D underwater adventure in a little capsule as well that she really enjoyed.

Headless children...

We got a round of laser tag too. Drew didn't think it was much fun to be shot at but the rest of us enjoyed ourselves. Ryan kicked everyone's butt. However, for the record today I beat the entire family for holding my hand in water the temperature of the North Atlantic when the Titanic sank (40 seconds to Ryan's 9) and I also bested him at a contest where you have to relax your mind to move a ball towards a target. I think relaxing my mind more than Ryan's (or anyone elses' for that matter) is perhaps my greatest accomplishment to date...





We ate lunch at a Mexican place and then headed back to the hotel for a little pool time. There were supposed to be scattered T-storms but we lucked out. The wind was kicking again so we just hung out in the "warm tub" and mommy got a little sun and played with the kiddos.

The Magic Show was hosted by Brian Staron and had all you can eat pizza, salad, and beer - what more can you ask for. Ryan had to go up onstage and surrender a $20 (which he wrote his name on) that the magician eventually made appear in the center of an uncut lemon. Drew just wanted to bring the lemon home. Highlight of the evening is the magician's wife explaining how she's from our area - Dyersburg, Tennessee! Turns out it is a mere 3 hours from St. Louis just out of the bootheel of Missouri and that makes us practically neighbors! It was cute and charming that she thought of it that way - she misses home and felt like we were close enough I guess...

When we came out there was some random man with birds collecting money from people for taking kids pictures with his pets...

That's it from Orlando, we return home tomorrow. Next adventure will be in June....Aruba!