The DEMA show runs each year, alternating between Vegas and Orlando – this year was the Orlando show. The show runs for 4 days (10am – 6pm) and I had wangled an extra day after the show to go to Universal Studios and Island of Adventure (rollercoaster junky).
Read on for the abbreviated highs and the lows of 5 days in Orlando.
The Good:
How friendly Americans are.
Not wondering how much its costing to run the air conditioning.
Walgreens – for stocking up on toiletries that don’t cost a days pay.
An Indian Curry - Poppadoms, Madras & Kingfisher Lager.
Dennys ‘All American Slam’ breakfast (especially the hash browns).
Big Macs.
Guiness – properly poured and served in an imperial pint.
Margaritas at ‘Margaritaville’ (without salt).
An amazing live band at a local bar that also served Kronenbourg – my first pint of it in 4 years.
No queues of longer than 5 minutes throughout the whole day at Universal Studios & Islands of Adventure.
Universal Studios attractions – ‘The Simpsons’ (simulator) & ’ Rip ride Rock-It’ (newest rollercoaster).
Islands of Adventure attractions ‘The Incredible Hulk’ coaster (went on it 3 times), ‘Spiderman’ & ‘Dueling Dragons ’.
The Bad:
Standing at the stand at DEMA for 8 hours a day.
Hangover after a night of mixing Corona, Guiness, Margaritas and some sort of Italian beer.
Universal Studios attraction ‘Men in Black’.
A British family smoking in a bar, complete with a toddler in a pushchair.
Lots of Brits wearing shoes with socks and sporting albino legs.
The amount of places catering to the Brits so that they can leave home without having to leave home.
A British style pub offering ‘real chips’.
& The Embarrasing:A British women opening her purse and asking a waitress to take out the coins she needed, saying ‘I’ve only been here a week so I don’t really understand the coins’.
A British family, complete with father in union jack shorts crossing the road to head for the café that was offering a ‘traditional British breakfast’ 