14 January 2010

Oxymoron

An oxymoron is usually defined as a phrase in which two words of
contradictory meaning are brought together:-

1) Clearly misunderstood

2) Exact Estimate

3) Small Crowd

4) Act Naturally

5) Found Missing

6) Fully Empty

7) Pretty ugly

8) Seriously funny

9) Only choice

10) Original copies

And the Mother of all......

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11) Happily Married !!!! (Pls take this in a lighter vein !! )

12 January 2010

Fantasy land



1. A Hollywood set for flash floods, tankers bursting into flames, mountians..
2. This is where different Disney costumes are made.

We drove to Disney in Orlando (Florida) during Christmas vacation. B-i-l came with his daughter. We drove though Virginia and South Carolina - saw beautiful snow-covered trees and mountainous regions). Halted in a motel for the night. Kids enjoyed the halt as 3 of them were throwing up.
Coming back, we took the Georgia-Atlanta-Ohio route. Saw scenic distant hills, countryside, lakes, rivers. We stayed in Atlanta.
Ohio had snow fall and roads were bad, traffic was real slow, many cars in front of us skidded and was stuck in the ditches... police, accidents. We were blessed with a slow, safe ride.
Disney is really for those who love fantasy. They have live shows, parades, 3D movies, fireworks, rides, a lot of walking.
Lines were, of course, huge with 1-hr waits . They have a system of fast pass, so one goes running to pick those up. Then run from east to west or north, south, depending on where the next pass was for.
The parks are really huge. Their parking areas to the entrance takes 30/45 min. They had some kind of trains/buses to take us in.
They have all sorts of ideas. But tends to make a hole in one's pocket. There were people from Paris, UK who had just come there.
It was tiring with kids whining, cool/warm temps, being on one's feet the whole time. Well, not easy. From morning to night 7ish we were there. Although our hotel was just a 5-min drive away, by the time we reached there it would be 9ish!
But all said and done, it was a good experience. Everyone loved the place.