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The kids had a 3 day weekend (with Friday off) this past week, so we hopped on a plane Thursday night to go to <drum roll, please> Disneyworld!!\u00a0 (I know this comes as an immense surprise.)\u00a0 This trip was very different than most of the previous trips that we have made.\u00a0 The kids really wanted to go to a Disney water park, so, on Friday, we headed to Blizzard Beach.\u00a0 The weather was perfect for a water park day\u2014it was 80+ degrees with a slight breeze and sunny.\u00a0 I really love Disney water parks. \u00a0They are clean, well-maintained (no rust spots!), and have a variety of activities to appeal to children of all ages.\u00a0 We had a fabulous time going on most of the rides.\u00a0 (The only one we didn\u2019t try was Summit Plummit\u2014the free fall nature of the ride did not appeal to the family.)\u00a0 And, in keeping with how it really is a small world, we bumped into another Sidwell family (a 5th<\/sup> grade family) in line for one of the rides.<\/p>\n

As if the day was not fun enough, we ended it with a dinner at Victoria & Albert\u2019s, the highest rated restaurant in the state of Florida and located in the Grand Floridian hotel in Disneyworld.\u00a0 (The irony of that always brings me much amusement.)\u00a0 I will do another blog post later reviewing each dish of the 10 course tasting menu in greater detail, but let\u2019s just say that the meal did not disappoint, even with the high expectations that we had.<\/p>\n

Saturday was a day spent in the Magic Kingdom.\u00a0 It was unexpectedly crowded, especially given how uncrowded Blizzard Beach was the day before.\u00a0 We did make it on all the rides we had to ride (Peter Pan, Winnie-the-Pooh, Buzz Lightyear, Pirates of the Caribbean, Haunted Mansion, and Space Mountain being perpetual favorites).\u00a0 There is also a new interactive game called Sorcerer\u2019s Apprentice, which is conceptually similar to the Kim Possible game in Epcot.\u00a0 The advantage of Sorcerer\u2019s Apprentice is that you collect different spell cards and the degree of difficulty increases as you play, so that the game works well for beginning and experienced players alike.\u00a0 The disadvantage of the game is that, unlike Kim Possible, the interaction is all software based, as you cast spells and defeat Hades\u2019s corps of villains.\u00a0 It allows for greater variation, of course, but the special effects are not nearly as impressive as Kim Possible.\u00a0 But it\u2019s a fun game, and the kids had a blast playing it and can\u2019t wait until they come back to the park to continue playing.\u00a0 And to continue the small world theme, we bumped into a former colleague of mine from AOL outside the Liberty Tree Tavern, as we were going in for lunch.<\/p>\n

We took an afternoon flight back home on Sunday, but before we left, rather than go to the parks, we did an indoor skydiving experience that our daughter has wanted to do for several years.\u00a0 It\u2019s called iFly, and you \u201cskydive\u201d in a wind tunnel.\u00a0 It was an amazing experience.\u00a0 You suit up in a jumpsuit and go into the wind tunnel with an instructor who helps position you so that you\u2019re floating on the 120+ mile winds blowing up into the tunnel, and it feels like a skydiving experience (without the trauma of jumping out of a perfectly functioning plane).\u00a0 In fact, we had a chance to observe a skydiving group practice its maneuvers in the wind tunnel before our session.\u00a0 We discovered that it\u2019s a lot more difficult to hold your position than it looks, let alone maneuver to where you want to go.\u00a0 It was a fantastic experience and a marvelous way to end the weekend.<\/p>\n

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