A week of theme parks soon ending.....it´s been fun, but I think we all have had enough theme-park fun to last a while now. Since last update we´ve spent a day in Universal´s islands of adventure - a park built around well-known themes, such as Jurassic park, the Hulk, dr. Seuss and Harry Potter. The children have enjoyed themselves but frankly we are tired of these parks since they are all the same . To loud music in every speaker in the parks and generall...

Last couple of days have been very packed, visiting the different theme parks around Disney. Sunday we did Universal studios from early morning til evening. Monday we spent the day in sea world, watching dolphins, sharks, penguins, whales etc. ate lunch at the shark grill - impressive restaurant with tables by huge aquarium tanks with sharks and other fish swimming by as you´re eating (probably some of their family members....it´s a brutal world...). Today was ...

The last couple of days have been spent mainly driving around, shopping a little (in Wal-Mart, Sofie found Hannah Montana heaven.....) and eating in more or less shabby roadside diners. We´ve been avoiding highways to get the scenic route, which is nice, but it also means that when you need a motel of a kind, you sometimes have to be patient, cause the distances -like everything else over here - are huge. Thursday evening we finally found a motel - even a bit m...