So for our first rest day we visited Ripley's Believe it or Not! As you would expect, the place is full of oddities to say the least. The museum has lots of fun exhibits for the kids. Here are some of our highlights. The worlds fattest man.Skull made from human flesh.A shrunken head.Portraits made from random materials such as toothpaste, keyboard keys and tea leaves.Novelty coffins ... yes 'novelty'!The dark ... torture sections. This can pose some challenges...

EPIC and AWESOME are the words the kids used to describe today! We enjoyed great weather and low numbers of people in the park. The kids got to ride everything multiple times. Legoland is truly a great park. We were pleasantly surprised, we have never visited the park before and found it to exceed our expectations. We started the day in Miniland. These mini buildings took over 2 years to make and were made around the world and shipped to Florida. We spent a...

Busch's Gardens is located in Tampa. Do not believe the pamphlets, it takes 1.5 hours to get there although you do get a free shuttle from Orlando. The Free shuttle gets you to the park 1 hour after it opens. Here are out thoughts! Dad - Great park for older kids and thrillseekers, lots of roller coasters. Suggest that if you want to ride all the roller coasters get a Fast Pass. The two best rides hands down have to be the Sheikra and Falcon's Fury. Both rides...

First Up - Business Class Lounge (Sydney Airport) The boys loved the "Lounge" experience! Olivier describes it as "classy". A380 .... Olivier describes the A380 as "a big plane. Dad tells me it is the biggest plane in the world. I watched a few movies, played a few games". Orlando - First impressions by Olivier! "We finally made it to Orlando. The airport was big! We are staying at the same hotel as last time. We spent some time in the spa an...

Here are our tips for any families heading to Orlando intending to visit the theme parks. January in Florida was great. Days were sunny and warm with evenings a little cool. Crowd numbers at the parks were great. If you do come in summer be prepared for long waits, we saw the standby queue areas and they looked large. We were told by locals that some waits in summer for rides could be three hours. Our longest wait for a ride for the whole trip was 45 minutes wit...