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The day before the day before yesterday, which in this timezone would be monday, we went to SeaWorld Orlando. I always love SeaWorld. It’s a clean and beautiful park with marvelous dolphin and killer whale shows. The only thing I don’t get is all the Budweiser stuff (I know the park is owned by Anheuser Bush, but that doesn’t really makes it logical to add all the beer stuff to an sea based theme park).
We went with our good friends Quintijn and Nadine. Quintijn is ofcourse the guy I did LasVegas2Miami with and Nadine is his girlfriend. They’re on a trip from Orlando to New York and since we rented a (big, small seems to be impossible here) and they wanted to see a bit of the Orlando/Tampa area we figured it would be fun if they’d stay with us. Quintijn is the anti-christ of theme parks, he really dislikes them just for what they are (he’s a really weird guy; loves clothing, shoes and stuff like house decoration. Hates theme parks, but loves cars and sports). But, he said he actually liked SeaWorld and that he proved it by staying at the park for more than 4 hours We (Kyan, Marloes and I), being total Orlando-based-themeparks-lovers, ofcourse stayed until the fireworks (which is 9pm).

Below is the footage i’ve shot from that day. It’s a bit crappy, i’ve got Final Cut Express on my laptop, and my laptop has only 120gig of diskspace. Since the content is in 1080i HD format, this is both nearly enough on the cpu/memory and diskspace side. I’ve shot all of it on my Sony TG3E. Have Fun!

Update: It seems Vimeo won’t allow embedded HD. So you should see the video here (which is the HD version).

A little clip with my son having fun in the car here in Florida!

I’ve promised updates but, so far, none we’re needed. We’ve had some rain and wind here the last night (nothing bad though, not much more than what we in Dutch would called “een stevig buitje met wat wind”. Apart from the clouds, the weather is fine. No rain since 5 in the morning and the temperature is fine. Supposedly Fay is going to boomerang back over Florida. As it seems not this part (Polk County) though, so we’ll only be experiencing some rain or at least clouds. If something exciting happends i’ll get back here.

As said before, we’re enjoying our vacation in Florida.. however, There’s this nasty storm coming along which is causing a lot of wind and flooding. For people from the Netherlands, who are used to nothing in this regards, this storm is quite exciting. Currently nothing much is happening at this time (just a lot of rain and a little wind), but on our trusty channel 9 Bay News they just told that flooding will be quite severe in the Polk county (which is the county we’re in). They’re using the Doppler 9000 and the VIPIR radar systems to predict the follow up on the storm. They just told that the storm might boomerang back when it gets to the atlantic.

Anyways, we’re doing some monitoring of our own using the Sony TG3E (for high definition imaging) and the Sanyo Xacti VPC-CA65 for outdoor imaging (SD). Below is our first clip @ 18:05 Florida time. Stay with us as this story develops further.

It has been a while since my last post. Sorry about that. Since a couple of days my son, wife and me are hanging out here in Orlando Florida. We’ve flown with Lufthansa. First we had to go to Frankfurt then a direct flight from Frankfurt to Orlando. The flight was great, mostly due to the fact that our son (who’s 2 years and 3 months old) was behaving wonderfull.
I’ve flown with (for me a lot of) different companies lately so i’ve come up with this little table (comparing Delta, British Airways, KLM and Lufthansa) which shows my experience. These experiences are based upon the luxury i’ve had to be flying business class. When compared to economy nobody wins, Singapore Airlines is the biggest winner of them all (like i said to a KLM hostess, Singapore Airlines Economy is much better than all of the business classes below). They’ve made a 23 hour flight to Australia feel like a 2 hour flight.

FYI: Since i get airsick easily eating on a plane is not my favorite thing to do. So that’s why i do not like those specially created Chef’s dinners with all the fancy cooking stuff. I love this in a restaurant but that’s because in a restaurant it is served fresh. At a plane, it needs to be conserved which kills the taste and makes everything smell like catfood (sometimes it tastes like that too). Pizza was invented for this reason, that’s why Delta is my friend. You might wonder how Singapore Airline fixed this for me? Well, i told them i didn’t wanted the food and after telling the reason why they made me a fresh salmon sandwhich (they had a chef cooking for the people in first class). This is how you make friends

So, back to Florida. We’re in a wonderful house, so wonderful in fact that i didn’t want to keep it from the world so below is a video of the whole place (the video is in Dutch).