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My sister is taking my daughter to Orlando today.  They are flying down to spend the week in my sister’s time share condo in Orlando.  I’m green with envy; I love to go to Orlando!  It is one of my favorite vacation spots.  Unfortunately I have had to postpone my vacation plans due to some medical issues that I need to deal with.  As much as I love going on vacation, I just am not in any shape to go anyplace spectacular right now.  So I will just have to live vicariously through my sister and daughter’s vacation for now!

I know that they are planning to take in all of the great theme amusement parks, and some of the great dinner shows that feature spectacular stunts and horses.  I really loved going to them the last couple of times I went to Florida!

One of my favorite theme parks to go to is Universal Studios Orlando.  They have some really great shows!  The last time I went there it was with my wife and we had such a great time going to see the shows.  My wife isn’t a big fan of thrill rides, so she sat out the rides while I went on a few without her.  We’ve never made it over to Islands of Adventure park because we keep hearing that it is mostly roller coaster rides and my wife really has no interest in doing any of those.  Maybe if we heard that they had some good shows there to see we would head over there the next time we go there. 

My sister tells me that the Universal Studios has a Mardi Gras celebration that puts other Mardi Gras celebrations to shame, and that they are planning to spend a day or two at the Studios at Islands of Adventure that they want to go to the Mardi Gras.  I’ll be interested to hear what they have to say about the celebration; what they see and what they do.  I’ll bet they have a great time!

I was just watching the local news on television and saw that earlier today a small plane crashed in an area not too far from here.  The only one aboard, apparently, was the pilot, and he survived.  He survived because the plane had an emergency parachute option on it that deployed and allowed the plane to land softly.  I didn’t know that was an option on any planes!  The story said that the pilot because disoriented in some fog/clouds and was afraid he was going to crash, so he deployed the parachute.  The plane is totaled, but no one on the ground was hurt, and the pilot is alive.  That’s pretty awesome!