Retro Orlando

So following on from my retro Disney post. When we go to Orlando because we live nine hours away on a plane believe or not we don't just go to Disney. There are other parks in the area Universal Studios, Seaworld, Kennedy Space Centre, Wet and Wild to name a few. We visit all the main theme parks because we never know when we will get back to Florida again and 1995 was no different.

I mostly have pictures from Seaworld and Kennedy Space Centre.

We did visit Universal Studios at some point and back then they had a section with Casper the friendly ghost and the Flintstones house and stuff:

Seaworld had a Shamu show and a dolphin show with Dolly the dolphin the only other thing from photos that I notice is different from the park nowadays is the photo ops with the whale sculptures and the Budweiser horses were still in the park back then:

 We also started a small tradition of taking a picture beside the manatee statue every visit. This picture was taken in 2010:

We also went to Busch Gardens when we were there but this is the only photo I could find from that:

 

Kennedy Space Centre was the funniest. Not the actually park itself but the drive there. My parents had hired a car to drive around Orlando and I remember we got lost alot and driving to Kennedy Space Centre we got lost. We were almost there and running out of petrol when my mother suddenly shouted at my father to turn right which was towards Miami where the Kennedy Space Centre was straight ahead. My father had to find the nearest garage for petrol and then find his way back towards Kennedy Space Centre. We did get there eventually though: 

Lastly we had stayed in the Holiday Inn Sunspree resort in 1995 and the hotel had it's own character floating about some nights called Max the Raccoon: