Sunday, July 27, 2008

Saturday, July 26, 2008

Disney World Redux

We took the kids to Disney World in Orlando. It was the first vacation for just the four of us in I can't say how long. I'd shopped around for deals and found that staying in the park was the best hotel/ticket combo price. After it was booked we decided to drive down Sunday so that we could get an early start Monday. I used some long accumulated points to snag an Embassy Suites room a mile away. No need to go into deep details on the events. Rather, I present an abbreviate photo tour. If you click the photo or link it'll take you the album for that park.

The "Tree of Life" at Animal Kingdom.

From Disney Animal...

Cinderella's Castle at Magic Kingdom
From Disney Magic ...

"Spaceship Earth" at Epcot
From Disney Epcot ...

"Muppet Vision 3D" at Hollywood Studios
From Disney Hollyw...

The Lego Store in Downtown Disney
From Downtown Disney

"Doubloon Lagoon" at Port Orleans-French Quarter Hotel
From Disney Port O...


I don't know about other folks but I can tell you a few things I learned (again?) on this trip:
1.It's hot and crowded at Disney in July.
2.Sunscreen and indoor, air conditioned rides are you're friend.
3.The best time to take a child to Disney is around age 6.

Sunday, July 06, 2008

My 2nd cousin is a race car driver

I read my local hometown paper, The Statesboro Herald online and found out that my cousin's son (my 2nd cousin, right?) is a successful local race car driver.

A few days later there was an even better article--with video.

Congratulations to Ricky Jr, Ricky Sr, Karen and Paige!

Update: A bit more from Southland Magazine. Ricky races at Screven Motor Speedway.

Tuesday, July 01, 2008

A Social Experiment

I've read and heard in a couple of places that driving the speed limit is the single best way to affect your MPG. On the surface this sage advice would seem to make sense. That said, I took a couple of minutes today to create a short form to track such info. If you want to participate just fill in the form and submit. The information will be appended to an online spreadsheet where you can see how you compare to me and possible others. This is all on the honor system.

08/09 UPDATE: The Google web form apparently isn't working properly so I'm going to try to repair and republish it.