Disney World, and such

Following the Gathering, which was at the beginning of this month, I finished my last two weeks of work, drank co-workers goodbye, and went to Disney World for 8 days with my mom, two of my brothers, my son, and my girlfriend. Disney World is pretty self-explanatory so I won't go into too much detail about the trip. My son (he turns 5 tomorrow, and is exceptionally tall for his age) was just tall enough to ride most of the rollercoaster-ish rides, such as Splash Mountain (his favorite), Thunder Mountain, Space Mountain, and Expedition Everest. Space Mountain scared him because it was so dark, but he was fine with all of the rest of them, and kept wanting to go back on them. I don't think I started liking (or even tried) roller coasters until I was much older. Anyway, here are some pics:


The Magic Kingdom park.


Brenda in her newly purchased Disney World brand sunglasses (there's nothing with a Disney World logo on it they don't sell).


My son and.. that monkey-gorilla-thing from The Lion King.


Eating at an "Authentic Italian restaurant" in Epcot. The waiter was even Italian.


My son and I.


My son and one of my brothers (and eeyore).


Orion (my son).


My mom and my brother, both almost completely sloshed from the free beer & wine at this bbq dance event.

The arcade at DisneyQuest had a bunch of old arcade games you could play for free, including that old, sit-in Atari Star Wars game, one of my favorite arcade games of all time. I played that, Robotron 2084, and Dig-Dug multiple times. Left with a fourth place high score on the Star Wars one. Take that, all you little kids who kept hogging the games I wanted to play (Dig-Dug was almost ALWAYS OCCUPIED). Also, I am still saddened that the Frogger machine was out of order. :( DisneyQuest was fun though, I had forgotten how much I like 80's arcade games.


Tonight I'm off to see The Flaming Lips/Ween at Red Rocks, and today, tomorrow, and Monday I am packing up my apartment and moving it to my parent's house. On August 7th at 10:30 PM I'll be flying out to Sydney from Los Angeles. I still haven't fully worked out how I am getting to L.A. yet, but I'm sure I'll figure something out.. The current options being looked at: Either catch a greyhound, drive myself (need to find a place to park a car long term for cheap in L.A. though), convince one of my brothers to drive me, or hitchhike/rideshare with someone from craigslist. Driving myself would be my preferred option because I could stop in Vegas, but the parking problem stifles that idea. Similar transportation problems exist upon my arrival in Australia, but I'm working on those too.