Oct 29
First off, I dumped all my pictures onto KodakGallery.
- I used blog categories to batch up all the entries, view them here
- I caught lots of TV ministries, they are very popular in Orlando, including Joel Osteen, Benny Hinn, and of course Pat Robertson. I got a good laugh as Pat held sort of a Q&A and used a white board to illustrate his point, WWJD? Did Jesus have white tablets and some sort of primitive crayon to illutrate his points? These guys are just creepy, they talk in all of these flowery “the lord” phrases and quote bibles phrases that could be totally wrong, but who cares to check them out. It was funny to watch as I wondered what sort of people watch this for hours and get some spirituality from it. And do these ministers hang out and like each other? Is there a “there’s enough flock for everyone attitude?” or do they not like one another for differing views of scripture? What if you left Benny Hinn’s game for Joel – does that make you a heretic? And some of the women are downright rough in their treatment of non-believers, they have a real attitude about our final destination, hell. I don’t like to wish ill upon people, but to these folks, a little ill is fine with me. Let it test their faith or just let them know, for all of their supposed divineness, they suck.
- I wrote a review of the hotel for realtravel.com, a cool web 2.0 travel site
- The whole Disney thing was great, but it is very very artificial.. But unless you want to go to Africa, it’s as close as you can get. Also, all employees at Disney are called “cast” and they look like they watch Joel or Benny in their free time. I hope some of them are drunks who watch football.
- America has an obesity problem. As I recently read, just look around Orlando airport. Disney is a reminder of that, and while I’m walking miles and eating no-fat pretzels and drinking water, there are tons of people with nachos/cheese, french fries galore, and worse. This is hardly a newsstory, but you can’t visit a place like Orlando and not take notice.
- This time of year is the British invastion of Orlando. There were Brits all over every corner of Orlando, all the parks, rides, and so on. They were all nice and their accents are nice on the ear for the most part. But the women had really bad teeth and too many tattoos. In fact, America has gone a bit overboard on tattoos, they are no longer special or reserved for bikers or a way for good looking people to adorn themselves. Let’s face it, we all know – there are bad tattoos. I was struck at the number of good looking people gone bad by a bad tattoo. One lifeguard had her name and “rocco” and some silly design on her foot.. It just looked like a mistake or drunked night gone wrong. Unlike a bad hairdo or a bad pair of pants, these things are forever. One guy on line at a ride had those 18-wheeler mud flap naked lady silouettes on his face, where sideburns would be. I’m sure his mother is proud somewhere..
- As for pictures, this might be my favorite, pure unadulterated fun
