Category: Ramblings

If you’ve ever been to Universal Orlando Resort, you’ve probably hit up one of the theme park’s most popular rides – MEN IN BLACK Alien Attack. As you walk through the pretty elaborate queue area waiting to board your car to zap the aliens, you’ve probably seen the immigration room… Read More "MEN IN BLACK Alien Attack Immigration Room Tour at Universal Orlando"

What is 199 feet tall, has a top speed of 50 mph and cost $100 million dollars to build? Expedition Everest, the most expensive roller coaster in the world, according to the 2011 Guinness Book of World Records and it can be found at Disney’s Animal Kingdom in Orlando. If… Read More "Expedition Everest at Disney’s Animal Kingdom"

Water parks aren’t the only place where you can cool off on a hot summer day. Amusement and theme parks are adding water attractions to let the park-goers chill out when the heat is on. There are different types of water rides found in theme parks, with the most common… Read More "Sklooosh at Knoebles Amusement Resort with Video"

A few weeks ago we had the opportunity to venture up to Pennsylvania to check out a few amusement parks. One stop we made was at Knoebels Amusement Resort in Elysburg – a place that has been around for 90 years and doesn’t charge admission. Instead, you buy ride tickets… Read More "The Phoenix Wooden Roller Coaster at Knoebles Amusement Resort"

Growing up Italian, Christmas Eve dinner was always some modified version of the traditional “seven fishes.” Modified in the sense that none of us could really agree that 100% of the “traditional” items were something we liked! This year, that traditional Italian meal was replaced with something right out of… Read More "Jiko – The Cooking Place at Disney’s Animal Kingdom Lodge, Orlando"

One of my Christmas presents this year was a night out compliments of my husband. He didn’t tell me where we were going. Just one of those, “get in the car, let’s go” things. We ended up at a steakhouse both of us have been wanting to hit up for… Read More "The Capital Grille, Orlando (Other Nationwide Locations)"

The first time I was on a plane, I wasn’t quite a teenager, USAir wasn’t US Airways yet and the DC-9 was the airplane that carried me to Disney World. In other words, it was a long time ago! Since then I’ve flown over 100,000 miles, had my fair share… Read More "“Up, Up and Away!” Or, “Scratch Helicopter Ride off my Bucket List”"

Ever since I moved to Florida from northeast Pennsylvania more than a dozen years ago I’ve been on a quest to find some decent pizza. After all, I hail from an area home to the “Pizza Capital of the World,” Old Forge. Pizza in Old Forge is life. Main Street… Read More "Nick’s New Haven Style Pizzeria Bar, Boca Raton & Coral Springs"

They say you can’t fight City Hall, and it’s true. I tried. I lost. Here’s my story. Back in April I was in the passenger seat of one of my vehicles where I was being driven around like the big shot that I think I am. The driver of the… Read More "“I Fought the Law and the Law Won,” Or, “Boynton Beach’s Red Light Camera Extortion Plan.”"

It was a little over a year ago that I noticed the American Red Cross office on Federal Highway (US1) in Boca Raton was flying a faded, tattered American flag. After calling attention to it here on my blog, the local news media picked up on it and shamed the… Read More "The American Red Cross Once Again Disrespecting the American Flag"