Washington DC day 1
Arriving at the hotel we found our room wasn’t ready due to it being about 11am. We stowed our bags in the left luggage room and headed out to find the Lincoln Memorial. The walk through the wide streets and … Read more
An early start
The alarm rang out at the unearthly hour of 4:45am. Despite us having agreed we didn’t need to be up until 5am, our brief night’s sleep seemed to have passed in the blinking of an eye. Tiding, packing and rejigging … Read more
Last day in Florida
Knowing we needed to return to the hotel early to pack for our flight to Washington the next day, we had previously chatted about the last park we’d spend time at. Water parks were ruled out as we needed all … Read more
A tale of two parks
A tale of two parks. Blizzard beach was the remaining Disney water park that we hadn’t visited until today. Knowing we were on a mission to experience two water parks in one day we left early, arriving at Blizzard Beach … Read more
Swamp boat ride
A day away from roller coasters and other theme park type rides, took us south to the wetlands area for a swamp boat ride. Those of you old enough to remember Gentle Ben (a TV show about a boy who … Read more
Kennedy Space Centre
The Kennedy Space Centre is set on a vast section of Cape Canaveral, which is hardly surprising since everything here in USA seems to be vast. The one thing that surprised us though was the single carriageway leading to the … Read more
Hollywood Stuidos
Hollywood Studios was the final Disney theme park we had on our list to visit, water parks aside. Having read the guidebook we bought back in the UK, we got up early and hurriedly breakfasted and left the hotel. As … Read more
Islands of Adventure
Today we visited Islands of Adventure, the last Universal park we had to visit. Unlike Disney which is quite spread out, the two Universal parks are cheek by jowl, allowing you to either walk out of one and into the … Read more