Happy New Year 2010!

Wow - another new year, how exciting!
We rang in the new year with what seemed like most of Orlando at Epcot. If you can believe it, our original plan was to spend the 31st at the Magic Kingdom, however, at least 100,000 or so others had the same plan because as of 10 am on New Years Eve, the Kingdom was closed as it was already at capacity! So we diverted to Epcot at about 1pm and stayed until about 2am. (The fireworks were amazing and Damian heard from a 17 year annual pass holder that Epcot always has the best NY fireworks.) We went to go on the Space ride, a simulator with a 100 minute wait, the wait took 3 hours and we all thought we would die, it was very intense! All the way to Mars! We managed a few more rides, then after the fireworks got in a few more, it was fun and we were tired, and that was day 1!
Friday was low key with local odds 'n ends.
Saturday Todd, Damian and I went to see the Tampa Bay Lightning play the Pittsburg Penguins. Tampa beat the Pens 3-1 and we had great seats 9 rows up from the ice, just to the left of the Tampa bench. Very good! Nicole and Jordan drove the other way to Daytona Beach and did the Daytona 500 Experience. Jordan loves fast cars so they also had a great time!
Sunday was more sports, with Todd and Dillon attending a Bucks game again in Tampa. The Buccaneers played the Atlanta Falcons, and it was a close game until Atlanta pulled ahead and won the game. Todd was pleased with his seats and they had fun! Nicole, Jordan and I dropped then off and proceeded to check out Treasure Island, west of Tampa, and explored the beach a bit.
Monday was the Magic Kingdom with all the classic rides, Space Mountain, Thunder Mountain, Its a Small World, fun and Mickey, Minnie, Goofy and the gang!
Tuesday was Hollywood Experience and one of our new favourite rides the Aerosmith Rockin' Coaster, which we managed to ride on 3 times! Fast and fun!
Today was Animal Kingdom and the Safari ride, the Everest Expedition - everytime I go on the first time I think, what am I doing? This is crazy! We could see the screaming coaster plunge out of the mountain, nuts and I go on, then we go on again later, anyway it was fantastic, we also liked the Dinosaur Adventure and went on that one twice as well! there were also lots of low key and fun adventures we liked, It's tough being a bug, was fun!
We are all dead tired, getting or are sick, cold, and I am not exaggerating, freezing, but so happy we got to do so much over the last week, we packed it in, now for some sleep...

Take care, and don't forget those resolutions!
Tabitha