DAY 8: UNIVERSAL PART 2 It's been a great day here at the other Universal park, 'Universal Studios Florida' and it's still in progress! Currently sitting on the kerb waiting for the daily parade to start. While waiting in queues for rides though I've uploaded some photos taken so far. Will update the blog later tonight with a full run down of events! UPDATE: Stick a fork in us, we're done. Just gone 9pm and at the moment, the cab driver and I are the only one...

DAY 7: UNIVERSAL PART 1 We rose to greet the new year this morning by jumping in a cab and heading up the highway to Universal Studios. Unlike its Californian counterpart, this complex has a couple of parks, each with several separately themed sections within. Today we hit the Islands of Adventure theme park. Florida obviously hit it hard last night for New Years because for the first couple of hours it felt like we had the park to ourselves - NO QUEUES!!! By ...

DAY 6: OUTTA THIS WORLD!!! Well the U.S. East Coast here has a couple of hours left in 2014 and it's safe to say we've seen it off in a big way. We spent the day at Cape Canaveral, home of the Kennedy Space Center - in short, when it comes to rockets and shuttles, we saw where they build them, where they launch them and where they keep them. To be honest, behind Disney and Universal, the space centre was a bit of an after thought, but I'm glad we did it. There...

DAY 5: HELLO FLORIDA! Any sadness with packing our Bourbon St beads this morning was offset by the anticipation of our next destination. We have arrived safe and sound at the Caribe Royale Resort in Orlando, Florida. This place is massive - all up I think there are 7 towers plus its own convention centre, not to mention a few heated pools and lagoons thrown in for good measure. We needed a golf buggy to take us from the lobby to our tower (7) at the back of th...