h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Well, I'm back from Florida, it was pretty awesome. Here is a list of some of the things I did all week:

Hugged a giant penguin
Went to the beach three times
Got ill for a day or so
Got a sore throat
Stubbed my toe
Attended 'Jaws: The Musical'
Ate deep-fried cheesecake
Attended 'Bat Boy: The Musical'
Watched a lot of 'The Brak Show' and 'The Office' (American version)
Stayed up late into the night watching DVDs, along with doing the same early in the morning
Ate three snow cones
Had tea, quiche, scones, clotted cream and bread pudding with custard
Went to Kennedy Space Center
At KSC there is also wildlife everywhere. I briefly saw an alligator, along with lots of birds, and wild hogs
Other than that we saw lots of lizards, pelicans, seagulls and a decomposing rattlesnake
Saw 'Spiderman 3' and 'Hot Fuzz'
Played my brother's drum set.
Bought my brother a Spiderman jack-in-the-box.

Once I get my pictures developed I will scan them and post them on Yahoo.

Sounds like you had fun, most of the time. Did your brother appreciate the Spiderman jack-in-the-box? I don't think I've ever seen a jack-in-the-box in real life.

TRiG.

Weeyow! That sounds like a lot of fun.

Oh, and I forgot to mention that we went to Dunkin' Donuts in the middle of the night.

My brother seemed to really like the jack in the box. You crank it and it plays the theme song from the 60s cartoon. Then Spidey pops out and makes me nearly wet my pants. In the shop I fell over backwards and knocked stuff off the shelves.

I'd like to have seen that!

I did take a picture of the jack in the box though, I'll upload it on Yahoo whenever I get my pictures back from the Evil Empir--Wal-Mart, I mean.

You hugged a penguin! OMG! I really want to do that but apparently, jumping into the penguin's den in a zoo is against the law in this country... glad you had such a good time!

You went to Kennedy Space Center!!

The Queen of England was there last week, did you see her? She was escorted round by a British astronaut, Michael Foale, who was born about 20 miles away from where I live. She also got to speak to the astronauts on board the ISS.

massive

Here in Ireland we have companies who will give you CDs containing your pictures from film. You post off your films, and a week later receive back prints and CDs. Saves scanning.

Anyway, my camera has broken down and I've bought myself a digital one (which I've since temporarily mislaid), so I no longer need that service.

TRiG.

Actually, it was a guy dressed up as a penguin, who was hanging around the Fringe Festival area. I saw him several times and each time I didn't have my camera.

I didn't know the Queen was there that week!

And another thing I did that I forgot to add to the list, just to be a jerk I called an insurance place and tried to order a pizza. You had to be there.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/6636067.stm

Er, looks like the Queen was at a different place, in Maryland. Kennedy is in Florida.

'Actually, it was a guy dressed up as a penguin, who was hanging around the Fringe Festival area. I saw him several times and each time I didn't have my camera.'

WHAT?! Dressing up as a penguin! How immensly stupid! *starts taking off penguin costume*

http://pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/donpanic_42/album?.dir=/977bre2&.src=ph

Here are the best pictures. Most of the others either didn't turn out well, are boring, or are just more pictures of me eating.

Looks and sounds like you had an absolutely amazeing time! Your quite the photographor.

Really? I always thought I took awful pictures. Maybe I'm getting better. A while back I threw out a big bag of pictures I took a LONG time ago because there was pretty much nothing of value.

My friend has an almost identical picture of an identical Simpsons Movie display in San Diego.

Ah, but does your friend's picture have the Cinnabon advert?
I hope that the Simpsons movie is good, or at least better than the last season of the TV show.<= (do'h! Smiley)

I don't watch it on TV, but I've heard it has gone downhill in the past couple years. I'll be seeing the movie though.