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Day 9 – The Case of the Missing Cheese Pizza

March 22, 2014 Flex Day Forecasted lightning in the afternoon lead us to spend today as a flex day and do our last Disney Park day tomorrow. Ultimately, this was lucky as a number of suspected infections resulted in a … Continue reading

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Day 8 – We’re next in line at the clinic

March 21, 2014 Universal Studios With an unknown sickness starting to spread, we decided to have a bit of a sleep-in and a slow start before heading to Universal Studios, and anticipated staying later instead, so that we could potentially … Continue reading

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Day 7 – Just limp a little when you get out of the car

March 20, 2014 Flex day Today was a much-needed flex day, and the group split up 4 ways. March Madness double header: James and a boatload of the kids (Connor, Riley, Matthew and Jack) went to Orlando to see Pittsburgh … Continue reading

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Day 6 – There’s meat in the head as well, right?

March 19, 2014 Kennedy Space Center and Daytona Beach KENNEDY! We had a fairly full contingent for the Kennedy excursion. James, Jane and Tyron headed for the beach and Mason stayed back at the house not feeling well. Somewhat surprisingly, … Continue reading

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Day 5 – That monkey is a little too happy to see us …

March 18, 2014 Animal Kingdom Animal kingdom day, with no real idea what to expect. Walking into the park felt immediatey like walking around a well-landscaped zoo. We scooted over to a Fast Pass kiosk to get passes for the … Continue reading

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Day 4 – The Dunbarbarians rock the Tampa Bay Times Forum

March 17, 2014 Canucks vs Lightning Today was a “flex” day, which we used to sleep in and enjoy a leisurely breakfast that lasted through lunch. Dave S made omelettes, which were delish. At some point, the kitchen breakers tripped, … Continue reading

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Day 3 – This must be one of those bug-repellent candles.

March 16, 2014 Islands of Adventure Following on our dry run of yesterday which culminated in a noon arrival at Disney, the house pulled it together and we gout ourselves to Universal Studios by shortly after 9:00. Contrary to our … Continue reading

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Day 2 – If YOU are in the hot tub, why can’t WE be in the pool?

March 15, 2014 Disney World The plan was this: a 3-phased departure, with cars leaving at 8:45, 9:00 and 9:15. This is not exactly how things turned out. It turns out that making smoothies and breakfast sandwiches for 19 people … Continue reading

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Day 1 – Would you like some champagnya?

March 14, 2014 The Arrival The adventure began with a gathering at Vancouver International Airport of 4 of the 5 families headed to Orlando for March Break. The Sandover family (S), Thornley family (T), Duns family (D) and Barret/Zaleski family … Continue reading

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Judgement and Atmospheric Lapse

My GF and I went for a hike the other evening up the Grouse Grind, which is a trail (or more precisely, a staircase comprising a total of 2,830 stairs) that extends 2.9 kilometres almost straight up the face of … Continue reading

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