Stalzer/Obele Family Blog

Yesterday, I built the Lego Mindstorms Humanoid robot. I really like the Lego stuff. Just the right thing for kids (whatever age…).

The robots are really intuitive to program and I am really having fun…

I got the robot to talk, to sleep, to walk, to dance, to search and … and… and…

Unfortunately, I have to disassemble it again to pack it into the suitcase for the flight back tomorrow.

After getting up today in the morning, we went first for a swim in the pool. The boys got the water pistols and commenced the pirate fight from yesterday. Then, we had some breakfast - we have to eat all the things we still got in the fridge and then we went to the Disney MGM studios.

Apparently, a lot of other people had the same idea. The driver of the "Disney Courtesy train" mentioned, that their were about 8000 cars in the parking lot. 8000 cars means around 25000 people (assuming 3-4 people per car), so that means - quite a lot.

We started of with the "Indiana Jones Stunt show". We had to wait for more than half an hour and still only got places at the far right corner. I really like the show. The have a lot of pyro-, fighting-, falling- and other stunts.

Then, we wanted to go to the "Star Traders" (a flight simulator with a "Star Wars" theme). However, the waiting line was about 50 minutes.

We wanted to go to the "3D Muppets show" - however the waiting line was also 50 minutes. We continued on to another stunt show. The waiting line was also more than 30 minutes. Having had enough with people, we decided to just go back home. On the way back, the waiting line for the Muppets show was down to 15 minutes, so we decided to have a look.

After that, we just joined the crowd of disorganized people and tried to leave the park. After another half hour, we were back in the parking lot and headed home.

We made a stop at the  "Cracker Barrel Old Country Store" - we had to get a present for aunt Renate (Helga’s sister).

After getting home, we had some straw- and blue berries with some cream - delicious.

Helga and I had to get some work done and then we started to organize the packing for tomorrow (Snief - snief). We got some pizza for dinner and now, we are watching "Closed circuit" ("Nummer 5 lebt"). We are going to bed early tonight in preparation for our trip back tomorrow.

Today we spent a quiet day at home and had lots of fun.

The weather was - as always - perfect and we decided to stay at home. In the morning we, that means the boys, finished their homework. As a treat and because it was quite hot outside we went into the pool.

First the guys played pirates (the inflatable air mattress was the pirate ship), then they were attacked by a dangerous blue whale and at last there was an incredible water gunfight going on (Max had the pump gun and used it very well). A big thanks to Susan and Allen (the owners of this gorgeous villa) and former visitors for the great toys.

Then we went shopping. This time the guys were excited as we tried to get a ball and a frisbee.

Calabay Park has a nice playground for children and we wanted to spend some time there. Yes - we really walked there (it is only a couple streets from Plumoso Loop) - walking pedestrians are almost extinct.

The boys found the swings right away and played that they were flying off into space.

Then we played something like volleyball and Max tried out the slides.

And soon Thomas could not resist - he had to try it too.

Felix found a huge ant-hill. It took us quite some time to convince the guys to go back to the villa. For dinner we wanted to order pizza from Dominos and while we waited Thomas finished his version of "Closed Circuit" (in German the move is "Nummer Fünf lebt").

As we went through another day it seems as if time is accelerating right now. Only two more days. Monday evening we are on our long way back to Germany. It for sure was a wonderful time.