We really did have a wonderful time at Disney World, and I’ll try to stick with the highlights! We hit all 4 parks (Magic Kingdom, Epcot, Animal Kingdom, and Disney-MGM Studios) over 6 days and fit in two rounds of mini-golf (with at least two holes-in-one!), tea at the Grand Floridian, shopping at Downtown Disney, and some great piano music at Jellyroll’s. We managed to get at least one food item or wine tasting from every country at Epcot’s Food and Wine Festival and liked the vast majority of them, especially from Canada (cheese soup and maple-glazed salmon, mmm….). As a birthday present for me on Tuesday, NASA launched the space shuttle so I could see it from Epcot (I got a few pics!) right before our fabulous lunch at Coral Reef, a restaurant with a huge aquarium inside. Our birthday and anniversary buttons earned us free desserts and lots of congratulatory comments. I learned that Mickey, Minnie, and many other characters are quite short (to be accessible and non-threatening to kids), which makes tall people like me look funny getting their pictures made with them. I decided not to get my picture taken with my girl Ariel (the mermaid princess) because, well, that’s kinda creepy. Jenny and I enjoyed great thrills in the Studios riding Aerosmith’s Rock ‘n’ Roller Coaster and the Tower of Terror. I took over 500 pictures! Using night-vision glasses, we spied on African animals one evening at the Animal Kingdom Lodge. I even saw a 10-foot-tall Transformer made of Legos. Disney does an amazing job of adding magic to EVERYTHING, from the parks to the restaurants to the shopping and even the parking lots. Many rides make the wait more enjoyable by adding a preliminary video, interesting displays to read, a 4-piece horn ensemble, or even an interactive game for the crowd to play. The rides at Six Flags might be better for pure thrills, but nobody does theming and atmosphere like Disney. What a trip!