Christmas Day at Disney We got up bright and early on Christmas Day and had a quick light breakfast before heading off for Epcot for the day.On previous Christmas Days, the Disney parking lots have been known to close at 11:00 am as this is their busiest day of the year - this year it seemed surprisingly quiet.This is known as "The Harry Potter" effect as most people headed to Islands of Adventure.It is estimated that The Wizarding World of Harry Pot...

After the excitement of our 15 minutes of fame in the Macy's Parade, Friday was a chill out day at Blizzard Beach water park - it is also the warmest day we are likely to have for some time (73 degrees today). Blizzard Beach is one of two Disney water parks based on a freak snow storm theme with a lazy river, raft rides, toboggan slides, a one-acre wave pool, intense waterslides—including one of the the tallest and fastest in the whole U.S.A.! (I did not go on ...

Wednesday dawned bright and clear but still cold after temperatures dropped to below freezing again on Tuesday night. After our extremely cold visit to Islands of Adventure on Tuesday, we decided to give the theme parks a day off and played adventure golf instead - we bought an all day ticket and after 6 games the score stood at 3 all!!! A rematch is planned for later in the week!! We also spent several hours at DisneyQuest - a massive 5 floor arcade with virtual...

Wow how quickly did the 11 days in Naples go!! I knew we had been there too long when we walked into the local bookshop where we went for our coffee and they greeted Ant by name!!!!! Thursday was cool and wet so we went to the cinema to see Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. There was supposed to be a Christmas event on 5th Avenue on Thursday evening but we assume it was cancelled as it had been raining during the day!! The weather was back to normal by F...

I can't believe we have been here in Naples for a week already. Naples is located on the Gulf of Mexico in Southwest Florida and is known for it's relatively temperate climate and warm sunny winter days. Now I know you have had some pretty cold weather back home but we have had some freaky weather here too!! The average day time temperature in December is 77 degrees and rarely falls below the 50s even at night. It was so cold here last night that they opened ...