[coasterdave]

As many of you know that each October I head down to Sunny Orlando to celebrate my Birthday. This trip started out as a long four day weekend and has turned into the Bash it is today. This year's trip included 10 days in Florida where I did a Paranormal Investigation of the Crown Colony House at Busch Gardens Tampa, Howl-O-Scream at BGT, Few Nights of HHN, Seaworld, Universal Orlando, and Disneyworld Complex. But this year included KISS and Metallica in Back to back nights along with seeing AC/DC a week later. Can only imagine what the 40th Birthday BAsh will be in two years.

Just really going to hit the high lights as I hit each park. So first up was Seaworld and the main reason I went there was to eat at Shark's Underwater Grill and did not even ride Manta on this stop. Yea go figure but it is not like I will be down there alot since the new addition to the company but on with the pics before I bore the snot out of you folks.


Always have been a sucker for Manta's Waterfalls.



SOme of the over the top scenes you will see around Manta.



Had Seahorses in the Manta Area



One of the many Rays in the Manta Aquarium



Up the Lift



Enjoyed the walk on here compared to the hour wait for Manta.



How about some upside down action folks?



Now on to the Good Atlantis!



How about some Underwater Pics?



Peanut Butter will not go well with this Jelly!



Rare View?



Cloudy and 96 Degrees



Closing the shot stay after lunch with some Manta Pics.



What about some diving pics?



Waterfall again?

Next up some HHN Pics! And see what a REAL Halloween Event is.

[coasterbruh]

ALl these years I have never been to sea world! I may go fri since im taking a suprise HHN trip before the season is over!

So get those HHN pics up to show the people what a real halloween even is...not saying scarowinds isnt real, but...just saying lol

[Jonathan]

You've got to go to Sea World. Come on, you can practically see it from Universal. I really loved it. Manta is awesome.

[coasterdave]

So lets do abit of Halloween Horror Nights but lets go with the Unmasking Tour that was brought back after a year absence. This is a tour of afew houses during the day and some pretty good info about the history of the event. Well worth the effert going to if you are in the area when it is going on and makes the other park's Halloween Events seems rather dull. Hope you folks enjoy the pics.

So on with the pics.


The Usher will need your tickets to enter the Universal Palace.



Have the blueprints of all houses on display for the tour.



Those that have saw the website have saw this. Yes it is a scale model of the Universal Palace.



Say hello to past Icons, Jack the clown and Albert Cain the Undertaker.



Some people have fear of clowns hence why Jack was chose as an Icon one or two years.



Welcome to Frankenstein's Castle right after the Bride of Frankenstein.



Entrance to the Castle



View behind you after leaving courtyard of Castle.



The Castle is stiched back together by the Dr Frankenstein



Could the Monster be waiting here?



Spare parts hanging around



Legs laying around



I have no clue myself



Welcome to Vlad the Impaler's Castle (Dracula)



Notice the attention to detail here.



Guys tend to lose their heads when they dropped by.



One of the halls you walk through



Entrance to one of the courtyards



Vlad's many wives



Looks real and smells real

Here are the rest of the Pics

More to come Wednesday!

[Jonathan]

One year I think I will have to do this.

[coasterdave]

Think will will break up the HHN trips into one Post but will add that sometimes friday. I will move onto Howl-O-Scream at Busch Gardens Tampa. I tell everyone that makes a trip down there to hit HHN to try to hit Howl-O-Scream at Busch in Tampa. It is not up to par with HHN but is getting better each year. Now it is like Knott's Scary Farm due to the fact they do tend to repeat Houses along with adding new ones each year. I always do the tour every year so that is why you only get pics of the shows this time around and yes they have Adult Content. Enjoy!



House of Vayne was doing a Fasion Show there



Ms. Vayne with her models



Forgot to mention that they are Vampires



Hot Sexy Woman and a Magician



Yea I got in the wrong line of work



Hot Chick pass through him



Talented Woman I Would Say!



Talk about a Pain in the Neck!



Long running show at Tampa



NURSES!



Yea?

Ok enough of shows and friday brings HHN Orlando.

[coasterdave]

Ok I guess everyone can tell I got behind on this report and have decide3d to just finish uploading pics on Flickr and post the link here. I would have got it all up but I went back down to Halloween Horror Night the weekend of Halloween to work the event. I can say that I died 157 times friday night and was a Demonic on Halloween Night.

I will upload the rest sometimes this week and post it here.

[bpmitchell]

Both Howloscream at BGT and HHN at Universal met my expectations heavily this year for my 1st trip to both these events. Seaworld is my #1 park along with Busch Gardens for having such scene beauty and Manta is definitely an award winning ride imo. Great TR report CoasterDave, I will be making a trip to Florida again in December to spend some time at Universal and Disney World to ride Sum of all Thrills.

[coasterbruh]

I was down there too!! I went that thurs night and it was crowded but I managed to still get in all the house and rocky horror...