Fun at Enchanted Kingdom

January 31, 2007 - Our trip to Enchanted Kingdom in Sta. Rosa Laguna was very exciting for the kids. My husband and I thought of this as a special treat for them before we left back home. Unmindful of the long hours of trip (from makati to enchanted kingdom and back), everybody was bubbly and perky! :) ..and it's a nice feeling to have making our loved ones happy.

And who says she's not happy?? She really wanted to walk on her own.
(My cute niece, Martina Ysabelle)

What a whoopy ride!! Did you know that we are the only ones riding on this one? Nobody dared to or perhaps, no one was really interested in riding except us, hehe...

Goofy poses inside the 4D theater...my family and my husband.

A ride on the river wild!!

Wedding Invitations

When I saw this site, I just wished I will get married again (with the same person of course!). I kept browsing and I was captivated by the bride and groom Wedding Invitations with Blue Lilies and the Happy Couple Design. I always love the shades of blue or aqua accented with floral designs. Of course, for me it is always attractive to have the bride and groom embossed design on the front cover of the invite, and at the same time it looks elegant. That was the reason why my wedding motiff was powder blue. It does not hurt the eyes when seeing it and it's a cool color. I think calla lilies and roses are perfect combination in an aqua accented background. I mean, this design itself is perfect. A trifold is actually the best for a wedding invitation, particularly if the entourage is kinda large. But if this will be my wedding invitation, I would add some personalization by adding our actual photo on the bride and groom's face on the embossed design, plus a scented paper should be used in the inner side of it. Now, I think that would be considered unique. Hhmmmm, maybe we can use this on our golden wedding anniversary?? :)). That would be...gosh! I would be 90 years old?LOL!...who knows, if God will still allow me to be alive and kicking, why not? :). I bookmarked the site. You might want to visit it and see it for yourself.

Star City Fun Tour with Family! :)

January 30, 2007 - Since we had our nephew and niece with us, we thought of bringing them to Star City amusement park. Of course, this is not only limited mostly for kids but adults as well. It was lots of fun, fun and fun pa rin! :)

Star City is the home of the country’s first 360-degree Zyklon Loop, the two-tiered French Grand Carousel, the King of the Jungle (Ice Palace), the horrific Western Ghost Town, and the all-time favorite, the Wild River.

Nobody wanted to do the thrill rides, such as the Zyklon loop so I didn't take the risk, lol!

Me,playing...felt like a kid once again :)

My ever smiling neice...martina with her mom and me

My nephew Miggy, enjoying his play.

Tagaytay Picnic Groove

January 26-February 14, 2007 - Philippine Trip

January 29, 2007 - Tagaytay Picnic Groove

This was fun and what a great feeling to gather members of my family once again and went to Tagaytay for our family picnic. It was windy that time, but still fun to see them all and the kids together. The fact that my family from Iloilo came to Manila and meet some more family members here are more fulfilling.

Acne Treatment in Chicago

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My Disney World Adventure (Part 2)

January 20, 2007 - Magic Kingdom, Orlando, FLORIDA

The park was crowded since it was week end, but didn't stop us from going. This was our last itinerary before going back home Maryland the next day, so we had to make sure we'll take it and have fun! :)

Our future home..LOL!

There are a lot to visit in this big park. We should have stayed longer to complete the visit, but we didn't have enough time. Perhaps, next time. :).

Swiss Family Tree House: A walk-through tour of the Robinson's home. This is cute, going up on a tree house.

That's me going up the tree house! :)

Jungle Cruise: They call it a silly safari boat tour. The tour lasted for 15 minutes, but our wait for the ride was at least an hour or so...silly, isn't it? lol.

The scenes on the safari boat tour:

There are many photos of elephants in this tour...no wonder because they are hubby's favorite animal...and he was holding the camera. :)

eeeewwww...snake!

Liberty Square Riverboat: A short cruise along the river.

The haunted Mansion - we actually did this journey through the dark with happy haunts. Photos are not allowed, so better behave :). It was not actually horror. Ghosts are not scary, but cute hehehe...go find it for yourselves.

"It's a Small World" - this is really ideal for your kids. I guess this is one of the most well visited spot. Loong lines during the weekend, but pretty much fast :).
Poor me...I lost my video files for this.

Visit to Ripley's Odditorium, Titanic Experience and Pirates Cove

January 19, 2007

Ripley's Believe it or Not Odditorium

As early as 9am, we were ready for our first itinerary. Ripley's aren't new to me, but was my first time to go inside the museum. These are more on oddities and records of unbelievable, strange and bizarre things, all of Ripley's collections.



"Titanic Experience"
I became so curious about this because I was thinking we were actually boarding on a ship :)....it wasn't. It was just a big building simulated as the Titanic ship inside. Once inside, it seems you feel you're really in a ship. Nice simulations!...all fake copies, LOL!

Getting the feel on the iceberg...that's real ice, not a simulated one :)

The clothes of Leonardo di Caprio and Kate Winslet they actually wore on the Titanic shoot. Hubby is wooing "Jack"??

Pirates Cove Adventure Park

This is a good sports at night...playing mini golf! My first time to play actual golf and I won, :)). That was so much fun to do with hubby.

Visit to WonderWorks

January 18, 2007 - Wonderworks, Orlando, FLORIDA

Hubby was free the whole afternoon, so we decided to visit Wonderworks few blocks away from our hotel. We actually walked going there, so at the same time that was a good exercise. Weather wasn't too hot, so it saved us from getting sunburns! :).

The Wonderworks building is very much intriguing because of the architectural design turned upside down. Don' worry, when you enter the building, it's still like a normal building and you are not turning upside down. :) Inside is a whole fun about science and discoveries, oddities, and inventions, etc...you can let your imaginations run wild!

Me infront of Wonderworks building

Our Wonderworks Experience!

Hubby is lying down on this sharp bed made of 3, 497 nails!..doesn't hurt.

Me making bubbles

Hubby made 2 big bubbles!

Universal Studios - Florida

January 16, 2007

Since this is not part of Disney, I would separate it from my Disney Adventure posts. Universal Studios is also a wide park, with a lot to see and fun thrilling rides! Although I wanted so much to try the thrill rides, fear always captures me ahead. Besides, my husband is afraid of heights and doesn't want thrill rides. So, we would always be in a long line and when it was turn to go, we were backing out because it was a thrill and scary ride. Geesh, we were both crazy, isn't it? LOL!
We only watched 3D and 4D shows such as the Shrek and Terminator 2. The rest of the day was spent on taking photos of ourselves and shopping!!!my favorite thing to do :)).

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 :).
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