Vacation '98

Orlando Here We Come!


Group Picture at Magic Kingdom. See if you can tell who took the picture and was actually pasted into it later. . .

arrival

The group first meets in the lobby of the Carribean Beach Resort

Disney Carribean Beach Resort

A view from the hotel grounds

Our hotel

Our building

our room

Inside our room (end day 1)

Magic Kingdom

The group in front of the castle at Magic Kingdom

Small World

Descending into the depths of hell (aka the It's a Small World ride)

Lines

Eric and I doing what we spent the majority of time doing in Florida: waiting in line.

Sooketoo on the Gondola

Sooketoo eagerly anticipating his ride on the gondola

Dave on Gondola

Dave enjoys his gondola ride

Me on Gondola

I do the same

Space Mountain

Space Mountain from above

Playing Cards

Kicking back and playing a little *sshole (the card game!) after a long day at the park

House of Blues

Enjoying dinner at the House of Blues

Electric Parade

Mitesh seems a bit tipsy at the night light parade at Magic Kingdom (end day 2)

Norway Exhibit

Pretending to be Vikings at Epcot Center's Norway exhibit (end day 3)

Lunch at MGM

Enjoying a nice Itallian lunch at MGM/UA studios

MGM/UA

On the main street at MGM/UA

Planet Holywood

Standing in line outside Planet Hollywood

Dinner at PH1

Sooketoo and Mitesh await their dinner at Planet Hollywood

Dinner at PH2

I do the same

Dinner at PH3

So does Dave

Dinner at PH4

and Eric, too (note how appropriately dressed he is for Planet Hollywood...)

Cards Again

Getting ready for another rousing game of *sshole to end the evening. Sooketoo expresses his oppinion of Dave's photography skills. (end day 4)(day 5 at Busch Gardens without Dave or his camera)

At KSC

Full scale replica of the Shuttle outside the visitors center at KSC

VAB at KSC

The VAB (Vehicle Assembly Building) at KSC

Pad 34A at KSC

The best view of Pad 34A (where every US manned mission has been launched) on the tour

Shuttle Engine

Eric and I in front of a shuttle engine

Saturn V (1)

The king of all rockets: The Saturn V

Saturn V (2)

Looking down the length of the Saturn V

Saturn V (3)

The second stage J1 engines of the Saturn V. The first rocket engines ever developed to use hydrogen fuel.

Saturn V (4)

The single J1 engine on the third stage of the Saturn V along with the lunar lander

Saturn V (5)

A view of the lunar lander with the group standing below

Rocket Garden

Eric in the Rocket Garden back at the visitors center at KSC

Shuttle Engine

The group poses in front of a shuttle main engine

Saturn V Engine

The group poses in front of a much more specatcular Saturn V main engine (1.5 million pounds of thrust!) (end day 6)

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