Travel photos and trip write-ups: Las Vegas, Seattle, New Orleans, Orlando and Disney, London, Croatia, the Dominican Republic and more, with tips from each visit.
Loews Royal Pacific Resort at Universal Orlando, a South Pacific-themed hotel set among lush tropical landscaping.
Royal Pacific is one of Universal’s premier hotels, and guests get Universal Express Unlimited ride access, early park admission, and a short walk or water-taxi ride to the parks. The photos show the view over the resort’s lagoon-style pool and gardens.
The resort is also home to the Wantilan Luau, a Polynesian dinner show held on select nights.
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Lobster and crab in September 2021.
The photos show a plate of lobster and crab legs with melted butter, a simple and classic way to enjoy shellfish.
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Dinner at Barbeque Nation, one of India’s best-known restaurant chains, in January 2019.
Barbeque Nation is famous for its live grills built into each table, where skewers of marinated paneer, vegetables, chicken, fish and other meats are kept hot while you eat, followed by a buffet of curries and desserts. The photo shows the skewers on the table grill.
It’s a lively, all-you-can-eat style of meal and a great introduction to Indian grilled dishes.
Missing the best lobster roll I ever had, from September 29, 2017.
A great lobster roll keeps it simple: big chunks of lobster meat, lightly dressed and piled into a buttered, toasted bun. The photo shows the roll with fries on the side.
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Happily Ever After, the nighttime fireworks spectacular at Magic Kingdom in Walt Disney World, filmed in May 2017.
Happily Ever After debuted in May 2017, replacing the long-running Wishes show, and combines fireworks with projections on Cinderella Castle and a soundtrack of Disney songs. It was replaced by Disney Enchantment in October 2021 for Walt Disney World’s 50th anniversary and returned to Magic Kingdom in April 2023.
The video captures the show from in front of the castle.
I’ve read a few books related to Disneyland and Walt Disney World, and this one is my favorite.
The other day while shopping in Wal-Mart I was excited to find these:
Now that I look at the photo I’m doubting my ability to spell cupcakes. I’ve always thought it was “cupcakes”, but that box clearly shows “cup cakes”. No matter how you spell it the taste of these sucks. Hostess products never taste that great to begin with, I think it’s more the nostalgia factor that causes me to purchase them more than anything else. I had high hopes that strawberry cupcakes would taste ok, but they don’t. They smell very strongly of fake strawberry, almost like some horrible perfume. And I failed to taste even the smallest similarity to the strawberry flavor that Hostess used and a real strawberry.
Much more exciting is the fact that in 10 days I will be in Walt Disney World in Florida! I went there last year shortly after I had lung surgery and had a lot of fun. This time I will stay for longer and I won’t be still recovering and I will have even more fun. I’m even heading to Universal for one day to check out the Wizarding World of Harry Potter.
Here are some photos from last year’s trip:
I’ll share some pictures from this years trip when I get back!
So I was in Disneyland from October 7 to 12 and had an awesome time. I ate at the Carnation Cafe three times, the Rainforest Cafe, and even the Blue Bayou.
And I got a pretty sweet souvenir:
A Swiss Family Treehouse attraction poster with original leaf from the attraction all in a bamboo frame. The Swiss Family Robinson is one of my favorite movies, so of course the tree house would be one of my favorite Disneyland attractions, had they not replaced it with the lamer Tarzan Treehouse in 1999. Thankfully when they replaced it they kept some of the leaves so I can have a cool souvenir like this, and they left the Swiss Family Treehouse in Florida alone so I had a chance to see it back in May.
Ok, so I’m still stuck at home. I have 8 more days on crutches, 20 days until my lung surgery, and most importantly only 68 days until I go to Walt Disney World in Florida!
Since I have the time, lately I have been baking my own bread. With my Costco American Express rebate I bought a bread machine:
I got the bread machine around the middle of February and have already went through I large bag of flour making bread such as this:
It tastes so good, much better than store bought bread! I also have made Apple Walnut Bread with apple juice and apple sauce in the recipe, it was also amazing tasting.
This was my lunch today:
Strawberry Shortcake from Trade Joes. Only $1.99! It’s hard to tell in the photo but it’s pretty big, big enough that you wouldn’t believe that it’s only $1.99. It tastes so good!
Let’s see what else. I also got a new bonsai tree a couple of months ago. I had one before but it died while I was staying at my Dad’s house after the car wreck. So I found a new one at Safeway.
Hopefully this one will live a while…
And what I’m looking forward to the most… Disney World!
I will be spending 7 nights in sunny Orlando Florida. I have been to Disneyland 3 times in the past 18 months and have had so much fun there, Disney World is like 10 times larger so we should have about 100 times more fun. I can’t wait!