{"id":239,"date":"2009-05-07T21:28:17","date_gmt":"2009-05-08T01:28:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/snapshotchronicles.com\/roadtrip\/?p=239"},"modified":"2009-05-09T18:42:08","modified_gmt":"2009-05-09T22:42:08","slug":"theme-park-survival-101","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/snapshotchronicles.com\/roadtrip\/2009\/05\/07\/theme-park-survival-101\/","title":{"rendered":"Theme Park Survival 101"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A theme park holiday &#8212; whether Disney, SeaWorld, Busch Gardens or Universal &#8212; is a bit like a forced march. You pay so much for your multi-day ticket, you feel like you have to go every day, all day.<\/p>\n<p>NO. You don&#8217;t.<\/p>\n<p>On our last vacation to Orlando, I took a sanity day and let everyone else go off to Disney&#8217;s <strong>Animal Kingdom <\/strong>while I stayed back at the timeshare, did a little work and got a massage. They all came back full of the new rollercoaster <strong>Expedition Everest,<\/strong> and while I am sure I would have enjoyed the ride, I enjoyed my day off even more.<\/p>\n<p>Don&#8217;t be afraid to take a day off. Hang out at the pool, go shopping, visit some local attractions. Every day doesn&#8217;t have to be a theme park day.<\/p>\n<p>Really.<\/p>\n<p>An oddball attraction that we really enjoyed on a visit to Orlando in 2006 was the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theotherorlando.com\/contents\/chapters\/15\/reptile.html\" target=\"_blank\">Reptile World Serpentarium in St. Cloud. <\/a>We didn&#8217;t make it back on the most recent trip, but I highly recommend it. Don&#8217;t miss the twice daily shows when they extract venom from rattlers for use in various medicines.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Reptile World<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>[geo_mashup_map]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A theme park holiday &#8212; whether Disney, SeaWorld, Busch Gardens or Universal &#8212; is a bit like a forced march. You pay so much for your multi-day ticket, you feel like you have to go every day, all day. NO. You don&#8217;t. On our last vacation to Orlando, I took a sanity day and let [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7,28,5,35,4],"tags":[37],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/snapshotchronicles.com\/roadtrip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/snapshotchronicles.com\/roadtrip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/snapshotchronicles.com\/roadtrip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/snapshotchronicles.com\/roadtrip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/\/snapshotchronicles.com\/roadtrip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=239"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/snapshotchronicles.com\/roadtrip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":263,"href":"https:\/\/snapshotchronicles.com\/roadtrip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239\/revisions\/263"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/\/snapshotchronicles.com\/roadtrip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/\/snapshotchronicles.com\/roadtrip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/\/snapshotchronicles.com\/roadtrip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}