boon's log 0206.02: Happy New Year 2006

**this blog was written in the time span of a week... gosh, imagine the workload...**

Went missing for a while - I was away for the Christmas/New Years holidays. Though I had my laptop with me and the temptation was there to login and update my blog, but the flesh was weak... especially with all the running around. Where was I? IL and I went to one of IL's dream vacation spots (yeah, there are a couple of 'em...)...


Cinderella Castle, WDW Orlando, Florida

We had quite a blast in Orlando - except for certain parks where it really s*cked! We were especially disappointed with Sea World Orlando; we think that the one in San Diego is much better. But like what IL said, if you've gone to one Sea World, you've gone to the rest of 'em. And there is only "that" much that a killer whale or a dolphin can do...


Shamu at Sea World Orlando

Our advise? If you're in Orlando and you've been to Sea World San Diego, you've pretty much seen everything and save your dollars (and your time) for something else.

Universal Studios comes in as #2 as our parks to visit while in Orlando. Some pretty cool rides - you may have already read or heard good reviews of the Spiderman 3D ride. Yeah, for us jakuns, this was the first time that we took a 3D ride, it was really cool - as oppose to the already-bland 3D (or so-called 4D) effects where your chair moves with the movie and waters squirts out at you in-synch with the movie... but the Spiderman was cool (among other things...).


The Amazing Adventures of Spiderman, Universal Studios

And because we cut short our SeaWorld time from 2 to 1 day, we managed to squeeze in a surprise visit (that which was not in the agenda in the first place) to Kennedy Space Center. It was an interesting visit - but if only if we visited it first, because I guess we just had one theme park too many already by the last day. Really liked the idea of being at NASA - we've heard and talked and watched so much about in on the college/university and the television/movies.


LC-39A, Kennedy Space Center

Will post more pictures of the trip later.

Was rained-in also as the year drew to a close. Was supposed to meet up with CL in San Francisco, but the freeways were flooded and had to be closed and the rivers were overflowing and stuffs. We even tried Napa on one of the weekends, but were stucked in a 2 hour still-traffic along the I-80! And that is not the worst, at the end of the 2-hour ordeal, we found that we were detoured to another township which does not lead to Napa and we had to doa U-turn and head back home! Well, 'twas a wet new years. Will (definitely) try to meet up with CL sometime this year - it's been umpteen years!

Alright, I guess I better post this entry first before I drag it any further... it's New Years T+10 days already...

... back to my Mt. Everest of work...

boon out...