Flor-lando Trip - March 2021 (part 2)

Our third park day of our trip to Orlando was to Epcot - right at the beginning of Walt Disney World's Flower & Garden Festival. Normally folks' trips to Epcot mean a lot of food - but during a festival, it means even MORE food!

Our first stop was the iconic Spaceship Earth ride.

Then we headed over to Mission: SPACE (we all rode the easier, "green" version..)

After riding the Soarin' Around the World and checking out the SeaBase aquarium, we headed into the heart of the festival and the World Showcase.
We started our culinary journey at the Honey Bee-stro.  

Then we moved on to the Canada and then the United Kingdom.
As part of the festival, there were numerous fantastic topiaries around.

We saw more character calvacades at Epcot as well, including these princesses in the United Kingdom.

There was a beautiful view of Spaceship Earth across the lake from France.

I stopped to rest my feet for awhile in Morocco. 

Italy

China

Mickey & Minnie!

Dad having some fun in Norway

A Three Caballeros sighting in Mexico!

Dad tried a "garden margarita" in Mexico - it literally had lettuce juice in it... 😬

Me and Donald 💙... oh yeah, and Daisy I guess...

Photos in front of the butterfly topiaries on our way to the butterfly house

Winnie the Pooh had his net ready for the butterfly house!

To end the evening, we headed back to Germany for dinner at the Biergarten Restaurant.

Flor-lando Trip - March 2021 (part 1)

This March I went with my family to Orlando for a wonderful vacation. Originally, we were to go in June 2020 as a sales incentive trip my sister earned - but due to COVID, it was rescheduled for this month.

We flew in on a Saturday and my folks picked me up. Our room was not ready yet, so we drove over to Disney Springs and checked out the shopping!

Mom & I both have braces on our left braces - twins!

After checking out Disney Springs, we headed to the military resort, Shades of Green, to check into our room. It's a gorgeous property!

The lobby!

The view from our balcony

Twins go to SoCal! (Part 1 of 3)

Last month, my amazing Pampered Chef consultant sister took me on her annual incentive trip to Coronado. We also decided to take an early side-trip to Hollywood and Anaheim to go to Universal Studios and Disney California Adventure!

We arrived in San Diego on Thursday and drove up Anaheim.

Road trip!

We're not in Alaska anymore!

 After we arrived in Anaheim, we walked over to Downtown Disney, shopped, and had dinner.

Mickey and Minnie hedges at Disneyland Hotel

Me and Donald!

Friday we drove up to Hollywood to go to Universal Studios Hollywood - mainly to go to The Wizarding World of Harry Potter!

After we entered the park, we headed straight to The Wizarding World of Harry Potter!

Flight of the Hippogrif

Harry Potter and the Forbidden Journey

Gringotts' ATM

Three Broomsticks and Honeydukes

Inside of Honeydukes

Hogsmeade

 After The Wizarding World, we headed to the home of the Simpsons - Springfield - for lunch.

We had lunch at Krusty Burger - it was really good!

Later in the day we rode The Simpsons Ride

Themsed Simpsons' bathrooms

After lunch, we headed out on the Studio Tour/Ride of the company's studio lots.

Universal "city" 

Picture cars

Flooding of a Mexican village

Flooding of a subway tunnel

Jaws' Amityville

 After the Studio Tour, we needed a frozen butterbeer. It was in the low 90s, and SO.HOT!

Then we headed down to the Lower Lot, to check out the other rides.

View of the studio lots

Jurassic Park had misting fans in the long lines.
We got SOAKED on the ride, but dried off very quickly since it was so hot.

 We checked out some shops in the Lower Lot after the Jurassic Park ride.

Then we headed back up to the Upper Lot and ran into Alex the Lion and King Julian from Madagascar!

Then we rode the Despicable Me/Minion Mayhem ride.

Before we left the park, we headed back to The Wizarding World for some shopping.

Same DNA. Different (Hogwarts) House.

Inside of Three Broomsticks

 On the way out of the park, we hit up some shops for souvenirs.

It's so fluffy!!!!!!

Outside of the park was Universal's CityWalk, which included VooDoo Doughnuts and Margaritaville - we hit up both.

Themed parking garages!

Beautiful drive out of Universal Studios Hollywood

 After dinner, we drove back down to Anaheim, to get some sleep for the next day at Disney!