Terps Headed to Champs Sports Bowl

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Terps Headed to Champs Sports Bowl

The Maryland Terrapins are going bowling for the fourth time in the last six years after receiving an invitation Sunday to play Purdue in the Champs Sports Bowl on Friday, Dec. 29 in Orlando, Fla.

DAMMIT! I don't want the Bowl Game in Orlando. I wanted Nashville. Nashville would have been different and cool, and possibly fun.

Supposing I'm actually considering going to the game. Can anybody give me something to do in Orlando?
Note: All Disney related answers are out. I am not a Disney vacation kind of guy.

Comments

[southernbangel.livejournal.com]

Congrats on the bowl! But man, I was hoping Nashville, too, so that we could meet!

[thelastgoodname.livejournal.com]

Yay, bowls!

I am not, at the moment, planning on going to our bowl game (which is happening the day before yours), but we were there two years ago, and that turned out Very Badly. I'm not sure I can stand being present for another patented Jeff Tedford Southern California loss (he has never won in SoCal as Cal's head coach).

[ludditerobot.livejournal.com]

IIRC, Orlando is about an hour up the coast from Cape Canaveral. There has to be something "Come see history" around there. Who wouldn't want to visit Kennedy Space Center?

[anomster.livejournal.com]

Aw, ya beat me to it! That was my 1st thought. When I visited friends in Hampton, Va., nearly 20(!) years ago, we went to NASA's Langley Research Center. (I got the name right & know how long ago because I still have the button I got there, although I lost my Space Pen at the NY ATPo Gathering last year [sniffle!].)

Anyway. Langley was cool, but Cape Canaveral! Actual rockets! Space launches! Wow! That's where I'd go!

[moire2.livejournal.com]

Universal isn't too bad, but other than that... Golf?

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

hmmm 40 miles north is the psychic commune of Cassadaga where I and evil_little_dog used to live. There's a haunted Orlando tour and that display of dissected human cadavers is at the museum. There's also a museum of tiffany glass if sliced up humans aren't your thing

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

Hmmm or is that cadaver thing in Tampa...which would be anouther 2 1/2 hours south...

[evil-little-dog.livejournal.com]

I see we both thought of the Tiffany museum. *grin*

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

hee well what else IS there to do in Orlando besides Disney? Lived there 3 years and was bored to tears with it

[evil-little-dog.livejournal.com]

There were some fun museums, though, and St. Aug. *grin*

[evil-little-dog.livejournal.com]

*siiigh* I miss Orlando.

Well, depends on how far you want to drive, really. St. Augustine is beautiful, even this time of the year, and chock packed full of history (and where I went to college). There're all sorts of neat things to see there and doesn't cost an arm and a leg to get into anything. Staying overnight might be a different concept. It is about three hours north east of Orlando. Take I-4 north to...A1A? No...95? I think. You can't miss the signs. *laugh*

My "home town" of Cassadaga is just up the road on I-4 - go to exit 113 and get off and follow the windy little road into Cassadaga and you can have your fortune told. Well, that's not it...but it's a camp fulla psychics and always...interesting. And you could see where I lived for ten years. *grin*

International Drive is fulla touristy stuff; all sorts of stores and museums and that sort of thing.

In Winter Park (sort of a subdivision north of Orlando) is the Louis Comfort Tiffany museum. Probably not open on Mondays but it's gorgeous.

Winter Park itself is nifty in that area, too.

I know next to nothing about Daytona Beach...or Cocoa Beach but the Kennedy Space Center is just east of Orlando on the Beeline Expressway - get on that, head east and follow the signs.

Tampa/St. Pete has the Dali Museum, which is always fun.

That's all I can think of at the moment, but I hope that helps.

[hjcallipygian.livejournal.com]

I know you don't like Disney, but Islands of Adventure is pretty rad. They have a ton of comic books in addition to some good roller coasters. If it's the Disney aspect of the theme park which annoys you rather than the rides and expensive food aspect.

Other than that... Well, there's not much.

Oh, and GO GATORS!!!!