Category Archives: 2014 Orlando Dunbarbarians

March 23, 2014 Hollywood Studios The household of invalids dragged ourselves out of bed so that we could head to Disney’s Hollywood Studios park by 9-9:30 in order to be able to get Fast Passes to a few key rides. … Continue reading →

March 22, 2014 Flex Day Forecasted lightning in the afternoon lead us to spend today as a flex day and do our last Disney Park day tomorrow. Ultimately, this was lucky as a number of suspected infections resulted in a … Continue reading →

March 21, 2014 Universal Studios With an unknown sickness starting to spread, we decided to have a bit of a sleep-in and a slow start before heading to Universal Studios, and anticipated staying later instead, so that we could potentially … Continue reading →

March 20, 2014 Flex day Today was a much-needed flex day, and the group split up 4 ways. March Madness double header: James and a boatload of the kids (Connor, Riley, Matthew and Jack) went to Orlando to see Pittsburgh … Continue reading →

March 19, 2014 Kennedy Space Center and Daytona Beach KENNEDY! We had a fairly full contingent for the Kennedy excursion. James, Jane and Tyron headed for the beach and Mason stayed back at the house not feeling well. Somewhat surprisingly, … Continue reading →

March 18, 2014 Animal Kingdom Animal kingdom day, with no real idea what to expect. Walking into the park felt immediatey like walking around a well-landscaped zoo. We scooted over to a Fast Pass kiosk to get passes for the … Continue reading →

March 17, 2014 Canucks vs Lightning Today was a “flex” day, which we used to sleep in and enjoy a leisurely breakfast that lasted through lunch. Dave S made omelettes, which were delish. At some point, the kitchen breakers tripped, … Continue reading →

March 16, 2014 Islands of Adventure Following on our dry run of yesterday which culminated in a noon arrival at Disney, the house pulled it together and we gout ourselves to Universal Studios by shortly after 9:00. Contrary to our … Continue reading →

March 15, 2014 Disney World The plan was this: a 3-phased departure, with cars leaving at 8:45, 9:00 and 9:15. This is not exactly how things turned out. It turns out that making smoothies and breakfast sandwiches for 19 people … Continue reading →

March 14, 2014 The Arrival The adventure began with a gathering at Vancouver International Airport of 4 of the 5 families headed to Orlando for March Break. The Sandover family (S), Thornley family (T), Duns family (D) and Barret/Zaleski family … Continue reading →