Florida!

In my lifetime so far, I've been to Florida about six times. This summer will be seven! The last time I went was when I was in sixth grade. My grandparents and aunt were going and they invited me to go. I found this amazing because I was able to go to Florida, while my siblings had to go to school. The downside was that I had to make up the work. I also had to stay after one day on the weekend to make up testing, that they were going to be doing while I was gone. At that point, it honestly didn't even matter. Like I've said in one of my previous essays, I love roller coasters and rides. Disney World was just the place for me.

When we got up there, we met up with some of my other aunts and uncles and we all went back to the resort. We stayed about 15 minutes away from Disney World so they took me everyday. We stayed right on the water as well so I could just go swimming whenever I felt like it, which was a plus. Everyday we would take a ferry which would bring us to Disney.

I was finally tall enough to ride all of the roller coasters and rides! Since it wasn't on an actual vacation week from school, luckily, it wasn't crowded. All the other years, I wasn't able to go on all the rides that my older brother and dad went on because I wasn't tall enough. Now I finally was! Of course, the first rides I went on were those.

The first ride was Aerosmith, the one with the huge guitar one the outside. It started out with the band being late and their manager is trying to get them on the road. I remember being so excited about being able to go on it, I wasn't even really paying attention. What caught my attention was being shot out from zero mph to 60 mph in 2.8 seconds! Since I wasn't ready all I could do was scream! It was a good kind of scream though.

The next ride, The Tower of Terror. Just the name in general kind of frightened me a bit. This hadn't stopped me. As I got closer and closer to the beginning of the line, I felt my heart pumping faster and faster. The video before I went into the elevator was a story about the "Twilight Zone." When I got on the elevator my seatbelt was extremely loose, this I felt made it a million times more scary! On the first drop it felt like I was about to fly out of my seat. The seatbelt wasn't even serving its purpose because I was flying everywhere. After the ride was over surprisingly, even after that, I still wanted to go on again. The next times that I went on weren't as bad because I was actually strapped in correctly. The ride consisted of freefall, and dazzling effects.

Next, we did something that wasn't on a track! We did Davy Crockett's Explorer Canoes. This was very interesting and fun but also tiring. It was an oar powered ride around Tom Sawyer's Island. You had to propel the craft around the island and past the Cascade Peak. We were helped by two explorer scouts. I learned the hard way, if you go on this, don't sit behind a little kid. You'll get soaked!
Every single night after spending the majority of the day in Disney World, we'd watch the fireworks. It was like a front row seat for us because we weren't far from where the fireworks were being set off. We would watch the fire works from Epcot. In Epcot we also saw the Future World and World Showcase. In the Future World we saw the past and future of technology advancements. In World Showcase, it highlighted the art, architecture, and culture of the countries surrounding the Lagoon. Epcot's landscape is watery, grassy slopes, and many trees.

In Magic Kingdom as a kid, my favorite ride was "It's a small world." I liked the catchy melody and the boat ride. It glided through the various dolls that were singing and dancing to bring the world's cultures closer. My favorite ride there today is probably either Space Mountain or Splash Mountain. For Space Mountain I just remember all of these flashing lights we go past as we swerved through the galaxy. For Splash Mountain this was fun because we went from going through caves and watery byways in a log boat. As this was going on, we were listening to characters singing songs from a Disney film. It had about a 50ft drop too which was exciting.

We also went through the Haunted Mansion. This was a spooky tour of an ominous haunted house. The ghost introduced us to his "closest 999 dearly-departed friends."As you walk through different parts of the house I remember walking into the ghostly portrait chamber where the room got colder, and you just got that spooky sense. Right after that is when I realized there were no doors or windows. After passing through, we board a "Doom Buggy" and the ghost took us through several dusty rooms. At the end of the tour, three ghosts volunteer to follow you home.

I would have loved to go to Blizzard Beach or Typhoon Lagoon! We unfortunately just ran out of time. We are going back this summer so hopefully we'll go there!
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