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Sorry for the delay again, its taken a while to sit still! We had a wonderful time in NYC and when our time there ended we made our way to the massive JFK airport (8 terminals!) to fly on down to visit my cousin Katie and family in Orlando. After taxi-ing around the airport for an hour we finally got into the flight queue at which point the co-pilot comes on th P.A. system:
"Ladies and Gentlemen we apologise for the delay we are soon to be in the air at which point we'll be taking our shoes and socks off to do some complicated math to estimate our time of arrival..."
This made us laugh and made us feel a bit better about the wait. We were greeted in Orlando by Katie, Bruce and baby cousin Hope who is now 3. Unfortunately thunderstorms were forcast for the entire week, which limited our activities. Nevertheless we watched the Orlando Magic take on Cleveland Cavaliers, ate pizza, swam, went to the gym and looked after the ever excitable and tireless Hope. Despite the storms between numerous episodes of Elmo, Shaun the Sheep and Yo Gabba Gabba we did manage to visit some theme parks.
Islands of Adventure had many a thrill ride and we enjoyed them all experiencing very small queues. On the same day, thanks to Katies coupon, we also managed a visit Universal Studios. The Twister ride, Jaws, Men in Black and Shrek 4D were all great fun, and for a good price. Sadly Disney World were too expensive and a combination of that and the bad weather ruled out trips to the Disney attractions. We did, however, get to Sea World to see the amazing Shamu show which was one of 3 fantastic performances which no doubt will pop up in the May video (coming soon...).
So after a relaxing week in Orlando we were grateful to Katie, Bruce and Hope for their hospitality and the lift to West Palm Beach where we met Krista who took us the rest of the way to Miami!
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