Back to the grind...

August was a busy month. We moved to our new spacious apartment which unfortunately is by the train tracks. I like to think we live on the wrong side of the tracks since it gives us a little edginess but I'm sure we don't. On our side of the track is a golf course subdivision.

After moving, I had to deal with finals and finishing up all the unfinished projects from the summer semester. Fortunately, it wasn't too bad. My incentive for finishing the semester was the fact that we were going to Disney World for the week break I had between summer and fall semesters. (That's us with Pooh at the Crystal Palace)

Disney was fun. We did all the parks: Animal Kingdom, Epcot, MGM, Magic Kingdom, Blizzard Beach, and Typhoon Lagoon. We stayed at a Disney resort so we got to take advantage of Extra Magic Hours which allowed us to go to some of the parks before everyone else and stay in the other parks longer than everyone else. Becky was stunned by how much you could get done at the parks if you arrived at the park right when they open (and this isn't counting Extra Magic Hours). At least at Disney, the early bird does get the worm.

This was our first time at Animal Kingdom. The park was impressive. The Africa section really gave you the feeling of being in an African outpost except there weren't many black people there. So, it was like Africa if Africa was only populated by white tourists in loud clothes eating smoked turkey legs. Expedition Everest was cool with lots of spinning in the dark backwards.

I hadn't been to Epcot in awhile, but Mission Space is definitely the bee's knees. I don't know why anyone would do the ride without the spinning option, but there it was at 10pm, a super long line for the lame-o version of the ride. Sure, if you have problems with motion sickness maybe the non-spinning option is best. Anyway, I also got to play with the Wii and ride on a Segway at Epcot. Apparently, I was the only person in my family who hadn't played the Wii and I had to drive to Orlando to do it. Yes. I, too, am lame.

But now, we're back in Charleston. School has already started and work's been pretty busy. We're switching to a computerized charting system next week. That's about it. Go Cats!