Orlando in June

The BP disaster in the Gulf forced us to reconsider our annual family retreat to the white sands of the Florida Panhandle. Multiple daily check-ins to the GeoPlatform mapping site of the disaster, building concerns about potential air quality issues, the heartbreaking fear of finding dead, oil covered fish and marine mammals on the beach, and BP’s inability to cap the damn thing culminated in the withdrawal of our reservation within days of our scheduled arrival. Sadly, and with no small regret, we cast about for a substitute vacation plan that would satisfy the majority of our family party of four and decided to visit friends in Gainesville followed by a few days in Orlando. In June.

No, not Orlando Bloom. Although I wish.

Orlando Bloom

At no other time could you have convinced me to travel to the hot interior of Florida in late June. But I had an ace up my sleeve – a last minute score of a hotel room on property at Universal Studios. We were going to The Wizarding World of Harry Potter.


About Jeanne Bernish

News junkie. Advocate for high ability children and encouraging girls in pursuing STEM fields. Believer in the power of technology to transform education. Find me on Twitter @JeanneBernish.
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