My Disney World Adventure (Part 1)

January 12-20, 2007 - Orlando, Florida

Yes, it's Disney's own world so to speak!...a very HUGE place for a variety of theme parks. Disney World comprises 7 theme parks; - Magic Kingdom, Epcot, MGM Studios, Animal Kingdom park, blizzard beach, typhoon lagoon and downtown disney area.

Universal Studio which has 2 main parks are not part of Disney World. However, I included it in one of our trips. If you're planning to visit the entire park, you should at least have a week's itinerary, but if you're planning to visit Universal Studios as well, it's more than a week trip!

Since weather is good, it was very ideal & perfect for us to do the long walks in the parks.

January 15 - Itineraries:

1. EPCOT- First thing we did was we went to Spaceship earth ride which glides gently through an audio-animatronics story of communication. Wasn't able to take photos there.

Perfect weather..yay!

The Seas With Nemo & Friends. This is very ideal for kids, but it's for all ages anyway, so we tried it. We boarded the "clamobile" and went through "under the sea" adventure, meeting Nemo's friends and enemies along the way. This is inspired by Disney-Pixar's "Finding Nemo". Cute sya!

Inside clamobile

One of the scenes - "under the sea" aboard clamobile

Imagination! - Our journey into imagination that engages the imagination and the senses, This is more on science stuffs, good for students...I just hated the smell that went into my nose...the skunk's smell! eeewww!!! Not much of a good photo here. It's more on educational ride for students, but it's a free ride anyway, so why not? It's our adventure trip, remember? :)).

Honey, I shrunk the Audience 3D movie adventure. This was fun!...You know...the 3D or 4D shows where you will feel water being sprinkled on your face, jolting of your seats, eerie wind that comes behind your head, lighting effects around you, etc...(I know the secret...check those openings on, infront, around and beside your chair...if you don't want to get wet, cover it! LOL!)

My Trip to Los Angeles

This must be really a good timing to blog about my recent trip to Los Angeles the other week. Since the trip was not really a pleasure trip, and more on business trip for my husband, we didn't plan to take a tour trip from a company tour. Since we had our own rented car and close to Hollywood, we just thought of going there on our own. Two of our own friends tagged along with us and so that was fun going there. While in Hollywood, we did have a fun walk along the streets of Walk of Fame and took photo shots of us with different poses, lol! The stars seems to be unendless but our camera was at the peak of giving up!..so we stopped taking photos of the stars :). So, that was like one of our wackiest things we had done. I have noticed while walking, famous landmarks that are worth visiting are pretty much close to each other, so I have analyzed there are really more things to do in Los Angeles. I think this is really good for family vacation ideas, and I think the most ideal way to do it is during later spring or summer season. The warmer it is, the more places you could go to :).
On the other hand, I am still looking forward to visit New York and be able to see Metropolitan Museum of Art. We haven't been to museums lately on most of my trips so perhaps, that will be a good thing to do there. I suggest if you go on a tour with the whole family, there's no other way like Trusted Tours and Attractions does it for you. You don't need to do stressful itineraries because they do it for you by packages, depending on your choices. So, if you are planning your next vacation, sign up today for the Trusted Travels eNewsletter and enter to win an iPod Nano! This promo offer is only until March 31, 2008, and take note, you don't need to purchase anything to join the promo. You can start filling the form online and who knows? Anytime from now, that iPod Nano will be on your hands ;).

San Diego, California Trip

December 4-9, 2006

A very loooong trip!...5 hours 25 minutes on the plane is no joke! Good thing was I was sleepy, so the rest of the time was not wasted. Not much of a good sleep as I am getting when I am in bed, but it helped. Also, in between catching some sleeps, I got quick shots below St. Luis, Missouri covered with snow. It's beautiful! And other shots were just for fun!



Upon checking in at our hotel and had settled in a little bit, first thing I felt was the longing for Jollibee. I was longing for the famous chicken joy, so we went there, just 15 minutes away from our hotel. I was hoping they got the dalandan juice, but they didn't have it. Poor me. :(
That was the missing part of it, but so far so good. Jollibee got too many shots with us, lol!

After a hearty meal from Jollibee, we proceeded to visit San Diego Natural History Museum and Reuben Fleet Science Center, which are both located inside Balboa Park.

Unfortunately, the history museum was closed during that day for a private event, and so we just had to capture shots outside.

We just went straight ahead to Reuben Fleet Science Center and watch some IMAX shows. It was getting darker so we went home sooner than expected. Besides we needed some rest too.

Inside R.Fleet Science Center

Infront of Science Center-fountain area

Inside IMAX theater.No photo allowed but hubby stole one for me :)

December 5, 2006 - Our Trip to Sea World Adventure Park

This is an amusement park not only for the kids but adults as well. Although sometimes, adults just want to be kids at times, and kids are still kids, LOL! My most memorable experience was my close encounter with the dolphins. I fed them, and I enjoyed doing it...they are so cute and really friendly!

That small box in my hands costed 5 bucks each for a few small peices of fish. Geesh..so expensive. No wonder the dolphins kept begging for more :).

There are so much to see here. One day isn't enough to visit the entire park since it's big. Other big things worth recommending would be watching the shamu show. Shamu is a big whale where now, he is a star! For a change, we decided to drop by Mission Bay Theatre to watch the "haunted Lighthouse", a 3D show, and a dog show with some of their special friends, where pigs, cats and ducks are stars!

Back to jollibee for the last time:

December 7, 2006 - San Diego Cruise Harbor Excursion (Bay Tour)

Oxford, Maryland

November 15, 17, 2006 - Robert Morris Inn, Oxford, Maryland

When I first saw the site online, I was captivated by the place when hubby showed it to me. The inn is located on the scenic Tred Avon River in Oxford, eastern shore of Maryland. I consider it as an ideal place of a romantic hideaway for both of us although this trip was of business purpose. This was actually a work retreat for hubby with the MPA group. But the good thing was it was all in one, which was a combined work, leisure and fun. Wasn't that cool? :)

Our room while hubby's at work

It was a 2-hour trip going there crossing the Bay Bridge, a very long bridge and was somewhat like 5 minutes drive, til we got to the other side of the shore. (Yes, I timed it, lol!).

The Oxford Bellevue Ferry Terminal

Ferries such as this carry cars as well as passengers which is being used as a quick way of going to St. Michael's (a small town I guess) on the other side of the bay.

I decided to have a walk while hubby was at work since I don't wanna miss the views! While roaming around, I couldn't help but to just click my camera.

There was a challenging part on my walk when I started chasing the swans (a lover swans)to get a closer shots on them. But they were too smart enough to go farther away when they saw me :)..perhaps I was just a nuisance to their romantic moments :).

Baywalk Area
I also met some friends along the road. I became much interested more on her dog :), so while talking to her and greeting her dog, hubby went out just in time for his break so I was able to pose with the dog while he took shot of me. I think the dog likes me too :)).

Our photos at Inn's Sandaway Lodge located one-half block away from Morris Inn on 2 acres of waterfront property complete with private beach. Here, many of the rooms have private porches overlooking the water, including a hammock that I enjoyed sitting on it, including hubby too ;).

Blog Approved!

After just less than a day posting my rants regarding this blog being disapproved at PPP, it was finally approved today...they finally figured out how to count...yippee :)).
Thanks PPP, you're still an angel...sometimes, I get cranky and post my rants, but above all, you are still on top of my list :).

Mwah!

"We are unable to approve your blog." - PPP :(

It's a disgusting feeling when you receive an email stating the message above especially if you are expecting it should be approved. Well, I don't know what PPP exactly meant of "within the past 30 days."...when it comes to the the required 10 written posts. I just got tired going back and forth to Customer Love opening new tickets for inquiries and questions. Although mostly are very helpful to me, there are some that aren't. That's how I feel, and I am just being honest. This is all in relation to this blog wherein PPP is having a hard time approving it...

If somebody out there can share with me how you understand this email that PPP sent to me disapproving my blog, maybe you can help enlighten me what they meant.

"Dear ________,

"This is a notification to let you know that we were unable to approve your blog, Trails and Travelogues, due to the following reason(s):

Unfortunately, as per our terms of service, submitted blogs must have at least 10 written posts in the past 30 days in order to be accepted to our Marketplace. Please re-submit when you meet this requirement. Feel free to use PPP Direct and Affiliate tools while you work on meeting the requirements of our Marketplace!

Thank you! P @ IZEA "

I already have a total of 36 posts since last January. That should be a clear simple math to analyze. Considering they wanted to count the posts starting from March 14 down to Feb. 14 which is 30 days count, I already posted 15 posts. Another simple math to analyze...that 15 is more than 10. ridiculous!!!

Now, I am ranting!...have all the right to do so in my blog. I wanna bang my head on the wall, perhaps that would help me know where should I start counting?? Where the heck can we find the reason that 15 is lesser than 10? :0

{{Rant ends}}.

Sarah Geronimo's Concert @ Lisner Auditorium,Washington DC

November 11, 2006 - The George Washington University, Lisner Auditorium, Washington DC

This was one of my early birthday gift from hubby. He knew I admire Sarah's voice so much and had watched her TV soap movies almost every day. So,he bought tickets for us to watch her concert show this day. This was my first time to watch a local singer from the Philippines like really seeing her in person :).

Anyway, we were late in locating the place using our map quest but wasn't too bad.

Anyway, here are some photos of Sarah's concert. Most photos are dark due to the dim lighting but better than nothing at all,LOL!

Me, watching...

Me with Sarah at the background

                                               hanging out with a hippo on the loose LOL!

Me and hubby