A Bloggers Vacation At Disney World

My family and I just returned home from a five day Orlando Florida Disney World vacation trip. We had a total blast and time just flew by like it was nothing. The weather was absolutely perfect during our visit. You couldn’t have asked for better weather. Florida is absolutely beautiful. I forgot how nice it was despite living right in Orlando for four years.

During our vacation, I captured over 4 gigs of videos and pictures. I’ll share a few pics and a video in this post. It will take me over a week to process the remaining, but when I have everything uploaded to Flickr and YouTube, I’ll be sure to drop some links.

Rock ‘n’ Roller Coaster
Starring: Aerosmith

The Rock ‘n’ Roller Coaster is absolutely one of my favorite roller coasters. It’s freaking intense and will have your heart racing and pumping out adrenaline and have you just racing to get back in line for a second go.

Once strapped in, immediately the vehicle train thrusts forward reaching close to 60 MPH is just over 2 seconds. The G-Force on Rock ‘n’ Roller Coaster is totally insane. Once you hit the first inversion, your body will endure around 4.5 G’s. This is not a ride for the faint of heart.

I am a huge roller coaster junkie and have been my whole life. Unfortunately, the cards of life have dealt me the hand of having a very bad back. To much disappointment, I am not able to ride as many rides as I once used to earlier in life.

Having that said, I must say that the Rock ‘n’ Roller Coaster was an extremely smooth ride. It wasn’t bumpy, the seats conformed very well to my spine and I was very snug and secure seated inside the vehicle train. A lot of coasters will jerk and jolt your body around making it very risky to ride for people with back problems.

Lights, Motors, Action

Lights, Motors, Action was one of the many shows my family and I watched. Lights, Motors, Action is a 35 minute running show that includes a mixture of human performed stunts, pyrotechnics and wicked cool stunts performed with specially designed cars, motorcycles and jet skis.

The show is very new and made its debut on May 5th, 2005 in honor of the very first Disney park having hit its 50th year in operation. One key thing that I noticed right away was behind the arena, you’ll find a Grumman G-159 turboprop aircraft (tail number, N234MM). This airplane was used by Walt Disney in 1965 to fly from New York to California. I’ll probably cover an entire story about that on The Airplane Blog.

Over 4 Gigs of Videos and Pictures

I’ll open up a YouTube and Flickr channel and share over 4 gigs of videos and pictures in the upcoming weeks. All in all, this has been an amazing vacation. It amazes me how fast time passes by when you’re on vacation and having fun.

Upcoming Articles on GCDC

I don’t have too much planned at the moment on GCDC. I have a review of Blogged.com in the works. I have been speaking with one of the staff members of Blogged.com and have quite a bit of cool stuff to share with you.

Another upcoming story will include a rant style post about something that has been bothering more for awhile regarding giving credit to bloggers where credit is due. Blogging is a difficult job. Anyone that speaks differently, doesn’t have a blog and would have no clue. I don’t like content theft and I don’t like it when bloggers don’t give credit to other bloggers when they blockquote content.

Welcome Me Back…

Anyway, I am back from vacation. I am in a great mood, I am tons to write about and tons of opinions and thoughts to share with you. Traditionally, that is something I lacked doing on GCDC and you’re going to get more of in the near future. Drop me a comment and speak your mind.

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Tags: Disney Vacation Trips, Disney World, HollyWood Studios, MGM Studios, Roller Coaster Ride Reviews

Posted on March 3rd, 2008.

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Christine Senter Wrote a Comment: Subscribed to comments via email

Date/Time: 3-3-2008 23:53:31 Comment #12060

Just wanted to say welcome home. Glad to see you’re back and I’m very glad you and the family had such a good time.

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David Cooley Wrote a Comment:

Date/Time: 3-4-2008 07:08:03 Comment #12069

Welcome Back Garry !! And thanks for the “Sneak Peak” of the videos last night!!

Like I told you, it looks like things have changed a little since I went to Disney Land in California back in 1983, ROFL.

Most important though, I bet the KIDS enjoyed it, no not you, the other kids, lol…..

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Owen Wrote a Comment:

Date/Time: 3-4-2008 09:30:41 Comment #12073

Welcome back, hope you had a great time. Much needed vacation for you in my opinion

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Hair Dye Wrote a Comment:

Date/Time: 3-4-2008 09:43:29 Comment #12074

Welcome back from your holiday Garry. It’s about time I had one myself, I think Although I haven’t been a subscriber more than a couple of months, I’ve certainly missed your ‘rants’ these last few days. I hope you are fully re-charged and itching to give us some more great posts!

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Forest Parks Wrote a Comment:

Date/Time: 3-4-2008 12:08:02 Comment #12078

Hey Garry, Good to see you back.

The car show was awesome. It almost looked like they were on tracks of some sort but I am sure it was just lot’s of training and hard work.

I still have not been to Disneyland. The last place I went to was Alton Towers in the UK. I went on a roller coaster that flies you around with your legs dangling then cranks you up a big ramp. Then the whole seats turn and face you so you are looking directly at the floor. You tether on the edge and then get dropped vertically and it feels like you face is going to hit the ground. I wish I could remember it’s name!

I agree, blogging is hard work and people don’t understand it is a job!

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Mike Huang Wrote a Comment:

Date/Time: 3-4-2008 13:18:58 Comment #12079

WB Garry! That Lights Camera Action show looks AMAZING!!! The time they put into it must’ve been months!

-Mike

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George Wrote a Comment: Subscribed to comments via email

Date/Time: 3-4-2008 14:53:28 Comment #12082

Wow, sounds like you had a lot of fun. I love Disney world and Florida (since I was born and raised there). I miss it, but Texas is pretty cool in and of itself.

Glad you got a chance to vacation…

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Zath Wrote a Comment: Subscribed to comments via email

Date/Time: 3-4-2008 15:55:59 Comment #12083

Glad to hear you had a great holiday…errr vacation even!

I’ve always wanted to visit Florida, especially for the Disney rides and also Universal Studios - despite the Back to the Future ride ahving been closed down - my favourite films ever too!

Good to have you back though, I’ve missed having some Garry Conn content to read!

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Jonathan Bailey Wrote a Comment:

Date/Time: 3-7-2008 12:25:24 Comment #12191

Glad to hear that you enjoyed your vacation! I’m looking forward to the content theft posts though please let me know if there is anything I can do to help with those issues. I’m here if I can help!