I can’t tell if it’s focusing
We're off to Florida. We’re going to Orlando.
My parents are there for a month so we’re going to join them for a week and I’m really excited.
Look at how much fun people have in Orlando.
This looks like Star Wars.
Mickey!
Welcome to Orlando (sings)
We are here!
We’ve arrived in Florida.
We just spent about an hour getting a rental car
and if you’ve ever seen the movie Planes, Trains, and Automobiles when Steve Martin
tries to rent a car and ends up walking back to the airport
it was kind of a similar feeling with this rental.
But we’re in the car now.
We’re headed to where we’re staying in Kissimmee near Orlando and I cannot wait.
So I’ll see you tomorrow.
Good morning.
I think we’re going to head to Celebration, Florida which is really close to where we are.
It’s this pre-planned Disney-owned community so we’re going to go check that out.
I’ve got my tropical print shirt on so that I mesh with the locals here in Orlando.
Today, because it’s raining, we’re not going to go to one of the parks.
We’re going to kind of a semi-indoor activity at Disney Springs which used to be called Downtown Disney
where you can just walk around.
They’ve got restaurants and shops and stuff like that.
So we figured it would be a good time to do it when it’s not super nice out.
So, yeah, I’ll take you along and see what’s there.
I’m at Epcot at Disney and it rained the entire day.
The park closed at 9pm. It’s now 9:30pm - oh it’s starting to rain again -
so I couldn’t vlog and I’m so sorry but it’s been amazing and I wanted to show you the Epcot ball.
The giant golf ball looking thing which is so cool before we leave.
So here it is behind me.
This morning it is beautiful and sunny.
It’s a very cloudless sky and we are starting the morning off by going to get some orange juice
at this huge orange behind me.
It’s been here a really long time - since I was a kid coming to Florida - so we’re excited about that
And then we’re going to hit the road and go to the Kennedy Space Center which is about an hour's drive.
So I’m really excited. It’s been a long time since I’ve been there.
But anyway I’ll go inside and show you some of the oranges.
Ok so that wasn’t exactly as I remember as a kid.
I thought there was, like, freshly squeezed orange juice and…I mean there’s oranges
outside and they do sell juice but it’s not what I thought.
It’s t-shirts inside so I don’t need any more t-shirts so we’re just going to head
towards Kennedy Space Center so I’ll see you there.
We have made it to Cape Canaveral.
There’s a gigantic rocket in front of me and some spaceships to my left.
It’s such an awesome, awesome place and it’s a beautiful day so let’s go inside.
It's dark now. We have shut down the Kennedy Space Center.
It was so awesome.
We stayed 'til well past close.
They had to kick us out.
We spoke to a retired NASA engineer who was working for NASA through all of the Apollo missions,
all of the Shuttle missions, was in the control room when Neil Armstrong walked on the moon.
Just totally crazy.
So neat to talk with him.
Saw an IMAX movie.
I did the Shuttle Launch Experience which is a simulator.
Another highlight of the day was seeing the space shuttle Atlantis.
It had 33 missions and it’s now hanging in a gigantic building at the Kennedy Space Center.
It’s unbelievable.
Just such an awesome day.
So we’re heading home now but, yeah, love the Space Center.
I’m at Boggy Creek Air Boat Rides and we’ve booked a night tour on an air boat to see some gators
and apparently you’re guaranteed to see some alligators.
I hope we see some big ones.
Ok that was the coolest thing ever.
We saw so many gators.
We saw three or four that were eight or nine feet long.
One of them the head was right beside the boat.
We could practically…I mean I could have touched the gator’s face.
It was amazing.
It was so loud and dark and exciting.
It was just so much fun.
We were going, like, 35 miles an hour.
He joked at the end that everyone has a new hairdo.
We had to…you know, it’s really loud obviously. It’s an air boat.
But I just…I loved all of that.
It was so exciting and every time he turned he’d, like, turn on a dime and it was so
amazing to just have that sensation.
Every time he did it I just felt like…I was like giggling.
Like I was just laughing so loud.
I loved it.
I loved every minute of it.
If you ever get the chance to come do an air boat ride, do it.
It is so much fun!
It’s so exciting because you can’t even see where you’re going.
Unless…he has, like, a small flashlight and unless he points it in the direction you’re looking
you really can’t see anything and you’re going really fast and it’s just the sensation is amazing.
Really exciting.
So much fun!
I’m so glad we did it and, yeah, definitely want to do it again.