Happy Halloween everyone!!!! I hope you're all having (or had) a fab, spooky time!! I'm saving my scares until Thursday, when I'm going to a Halloween Horror Night at Universal Studios in Orlando, where I'm on holiday at the moment. I've had a great, frantic couple of days. Flew over on Monday, then raced straight into action on Tuesday, hitting Islands of Adventure. The park was very quiet (this is our third time here, but we came in June/July previously) and it was perfect for getting around -- we didn't spend more than 10 minutes in any line, and got to go on all of our favourite rides at least twice -- it was brilliant!!! I'm a bit disappointed that the park hasn't been updated since we were last here, over two years ago, but all the old rides are just as good as ever. The Hulk, SpiderMan, Popeye's Bilge Rat Barges, and Duelling Dragons stand out as my favourites. In the afternoon we visited Wet 'n' Wild for a short visit (it shuts at 5, which is the only real downside of coming at this time of year), and got through most of the slides -- we'll pop back again later in the week to take care of those we missed this time!

Today we went to Sea World in the morning. Our plan was to go on Kraken a few times right at the beginning -- it's probably the best roller-coaster in Orland, a large, fast, beast of a ride!! But it wasn't operating because of technical difficulties! We kept checking back over the course of the day, without any joy. There's plenty of other stuff to do in Sea World, and we saw most of the animals, fed the rays, etc. But Kraken was our main reason for visiting, so we were quite upset. Finally, at 1.30pm, we decided to call it a day and head back to our hotel. But we gave Kraken one last chance before leaving -- and to our delight, it reopened just before we meant to leave!!! We went on it 3 times in quick succession, then staggered out of the park on legs of jelly, with big smiles on our faces!! After that we went shopping (not my choice, but Bas and the kids wanted to check out one of the malls, and who am I to argue with a democracy?!?). We got back about 8.00pm and I put on a scary film for the kids -- 1408. I'm just going to watch some TV for the rest of the night and take it easy. Not the most exciting way to spend Halloween, I know, but tomorrow night should make up for all that -- terror ahoy!!!!!!!!!