Disney's Electrical Water Pageant

As a kid, the highlight of the trip for me was always seeing the electrical water pageant from the hotel room. Back then, the parks closed a little earlier than they do now so it was a great way to wind down after a day of rides and moog music has always had a soothing effect on me.

Disney World

So we're planning a trip to the motherland for the wife's birthday this summer and it's got me thinking about past trips.

The most memorable of course was when Tony and I wound up in the same hotel at the same time over spring break. Our rooms at the contemporary were actually a few floors apart and if we hung over the balcony we could see each other. One day, we spent a bit of time at the water park (can't remember the name but it's closed now) where we met this kid we knicknamed Paco because he didn't tell us his real name and we were young and didn't know any better. Paco would swim underwater and grab people's legs to yank them out from under them and go down the water slides without waiting the appropriate amount of time so he could slam into people at the bottom. Good times.

For some reason, we also kept singing the Bumble Bee Tuna jingle over and over and over again.

The Bunny Hutch

My friends and I used to hang out here in high school and a little bit in college. The Bunny Hutch is actually the name of the hot dog place next door to the arcade/mini golf/batting cages place but applied the name to everything there. Mostly we went for the video games but we'd hit the batting cages every now and then. The mini golf course was pretty run down but looking at this video it looks like they've cleaned it up a little bit.

Super Chicken

I discovered this show some time in jr. high or high school and watched it obsessively for a year or two. Every now and then I'll get the theme song stuck in my head.

2nd Concert

It wasn't until my Sophomore year of high school that I made it to another concert. This time it was Genesis who I liked at the time. Mostly I liked this song and REALLY liked the puppets who later got their own short lived, but funny, TV show.

First Concert

So we were talking about first concerts at Games Night last night and it reminded me that I had a video saved in my favorites from my first show, Styx's Kilroy Was Here tour when I was in 6th or 7th grade. Unfortunately, that video, the 10 minute movie they made to support the "concept" album, seems to have gone away. So here's one of my favorite songs from that show.

Neo Geo

There was some kind of an ice cream shop in the strip mall in Hubbard Woods close to where Tilt used to be but long after it closed that had a Neo Geo machine in it. Neo Geo was an arcade game that let you choose from 2 to 4 different games depending on how it was set up. For a while, Tony and I liked to go over there to play Baseball All Stars. A few years ago I toyed with the idea of buying an old Neo Geo board off of Ebay and building my own machine but it the project seemed a little too ambitious for me.