A Short Delay

There has been one time in my flying career when I’ve had a significant delay. For the purposes of this post, I’ll call a “significant delay” a delay of more than two hours. It was when we were returning from our Mexican cruise from Los Angeles and if I recall correctly, there was a three-hour […]

Done

And that’s a wrap. Another full day of stuff is in the books, the last day to be exact. Today it was Universal Studios, followed up a break so Claire could watch the Level 6 team perform at their competition, then dinner and back to the park for a few hours before they closed. Universal […]

Exercise

If there’s one thing you’ll get when going to Disney or Universal, it’s exercise. Yeah it’s just from walking, but it’s from a lot of walking. So much walking that your feet almost feel numb. But that’s just that nature of the beast, and with weekend crowds you aren’t walking too fast. Oh how we […]

Worldly Achievement

It is pretty rare to be able to call yourself Best Something in the World. The world, in case you are unaware, is a big place. After today, Claire can claim that she is part of the third-best Level 3 Junior Medium cheer team in the entire world. Given that there were at least a […]

First Step

We don’t know the exact count, but the award emcee today said there were over 1100 teams at this cheer event. That’s a lot of teams. And that’s a lot of people. Tens of thousands of people in town for this event, then another 550 teams over the weekend at a separate event. Most of […]