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[konamouse]

Oh, we ran into an example of the local wildlife that can be found out in the swamps.

[Ozy_y2k]

[LazarusLong]

Well, I'm off to the airport to pick up ZMaiden - just checked her flight information, and it's scheduled to arrive on-time. Got my silly little sign that says "ZMaiden" on it, and I know I'm looking for a redheaded female wearing a purple hat...

Wish me luck!

[MageSteff]

[konamouse]

Daily update from the konas:

Universal Islands of Adventure was our first stop (after we almost broke the ticket machine). If you visit here, the Hulk Rollercoaster and the Spiderman ride are must sees (but don't do them shortly after breakfast).
Younger kids have to head in the opposite direction for all the Dr Seuss stuff. We made a circle around the place, hitting all the moving rides (getting quite soaked at the Dudley DoRight Rip-Saw Falls - you can't escape it, even with a poncho, so don't even bother trying - just enjoy the mid-day shower) and then cooling off inside a nice sandwich shop.

Since konashark is sometimes prone to motion sickness, rather than retrying the Dueling Dragons twin rollercoasters (the mouse did both Fire and Ice in less than 10 minutes - the lines were that short with Express Pass), we ambled over to the other side of the Universal Globe into..

Universal Studios, just to rest our tired dogs at some sit-down attractions. We rocked with Beetlejuice (mercifully shaded and short) then I dragged konashark into Earthquake (learn how they do some special effects, then experience the part of the studio tour from the Hollywood Universal Studios that takes you into the San Francisco BART station and that wonderful ground shaking, tram rocking, asphalt falling thrill, about 1.5 minutes long). We crossed the town over to the Horror Makeup show (very funny, by the way) and finished the day with Terminator 3-D (a great show even if they finally did the other Terminator 3 movie earlier this year).

Sorry, no pictures today (good thing, since the camera would have gotten soaked at the water rides). But I ended up kicking this small roll of money as we got out of Terminator 3-D and there was no way to identify the real owner of the $35, so I guess lunch and dessert was paid for today.

We're exhausted. Florida humidity is murder on us desert dwellers. So we took our showers, enjoyed our takehome desserts from the park (yum, cheesecake and chocolate death) and are watching Matrix and Matrix:Reloaded in bed tonight (getting ready to go see the third installment later this week).

Until tomorrow.

PS - where are we suppose to be meeting at 4p????

[Martavius]

After a long search and a couple of...er...'incidents', only one of which involved the police, we managed to track down Ozy, pull him off the table, and stuff him into the imbritel.

[LazarusLong]

[GreyWyvern]

Hi folks,

It seems like I want to go to EPCOT tomorrow with y'all, but no one around here wants to go. So what's the plan, who's going and who's driving?

Will I be driving myself? Where will we all be meeting? Personally, I'd like to be there when, or soon after, the gates open. I'm like that

Grey

[addlepated]

My photos so far. More to come after tomorrow!

[Myssfitz]

Missing everyone!!

[LazarusLong]

Close Encounters of the Scooby Kind

[bill]

It was amazing seeing so many of us together in one place. Despite having my camera, I only remembered to use it once.

Got a nic pic of spacely and scrappy tho.

http://deaddrop.us/pics/argfest2.jpg

[addlepated]

Huge props to Jamesi for the chocolate! Thanks so much. Those are delish.

I wasn't there for the solving of the golden ticket, but I just got the url - looks like some old arg references. Anyone have any clue-by-fours for argnewbies?

[taniwha]

Do you have a link you can share?

[addlepated]