When Shula’s Steak House closed at the Walt Disney World Swan and Dolphin after nearly 30 years, we were sad. It was our place. Then Bourbon Steak by Michael Mina moved in. How do you replace an institution? Turns out, pretty well.
Polynesian Fire Luau is an Orlando dinner show that focuses on Polynesian culture and dance. We saw an advertisement for it so donned our best Hawaiian clothing and checked it out! I’ve been to Hawaii a couple of times and attended a luau there, and there’s nothing that can beat a Maori hangi in New…
I posted about a trip to Antarctica previously where we got to meet Lucy, a leucistic penguin. So when friends from that trip came to visit me in Orlando, we decided we needed to add to our leucistic animal collection and check out Gatorland. Gatorland is home to a few leucistic alligators including one born…
Crystal Springs, Florida offers visitors an opportunity you can’t find anywhere else in the world – you can legally swim with manatees! Several freshwater springs converge in Crystal Springs before going into the ocean, and it is these springs that attract the manatees. They can’t survive in cold water for very long, so in the…
Dinner Shows – I love dinner shows and we’ve found a surprising number of them in the area! If you know of more then I’d love to hear about them. We haven’t attended all of these, but are making our way through them: Titanic Exhibit Gala Dinner. We’ve done this one twice now and really…
We moved to the Orlando area in November 2022, we picked it over other destinations partly because we figured friends and family would be more than willing to come visit. That turned out to be true, so we started this list to help our visitors decide where to go. Orlando draws 75 million visitors a…