Today is the Disney Princess Half-Marathon—a great chance for girls to learn that even princesses can kick butt in sports and competition. The race takes participants through a 13.1-mile course through Walt Disney World Resort.

Participants also received several goodies including a goody bag, a running shirt, refreshments during and after the race, and entertainment during and after the race. Finishers also received a special princess medal.

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Orlando attracts families with small children like moths to a porch light, but all those admission fees, which usually start at age three, can end up costing a bundle.

Busch Gardens in Tampa has raised the bar and is offering free admission to kids 5 and under through 2010. Busch Gardens is home to the new Sesame Street Safari playland, which makes this an even sweeter deal for families with young children.

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As Disney kicks off its “Give a Day, Get a Day” promotion, volunteers were honored with a ceremony at Disney World’s Epcot Center on February 11. Along with the ceremony, a Guinness World Record was set for the “largest canned goods structure” in the world. A Disney/volunteer-themed structure was made from 115,527 cans. Volunteers then packed up the cans of food, which will be given to food banks in Orlando, Miami, and Atlanta.

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The Orlando Science Center unveils a new touring exhibit today, Frogs. This large, interactive exhibit will feature over eighty live toads and frogs representing twenty species from around the world. They are displayed in habitats painstakingly recreated to match their own natural habitats.
The exhibit feature eight distinct areas, each devoted to different categories of frogs. Here, you’ll find:

• Terrestrial frogs—they live on land
• Burrowing frogs—they like to spend at least part of their time underground
• Frogs that live in trees—also called arboreal

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A unique opportunity to see costumes and memorabilia from film and television will be available to visitors of the Orange County Regional History Center in Orlando beginning on February 6.

The exhibit, “Out of This World: Extraordinary Costumes from Film and Television” features costumes from a variety of TV shows and films, primarily of the science fiction genre.

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Legophiles, hold on a bit longer—it’s been made official—Central Florida can look forward to welcoming its very own Legoland amusement park in 2011. Even better, it will be the largest Legoland in the world. Take THAT, SoCal!

During a press conference held on January 21, it was announced that the park will be on the former site of Cypress Gardens and will include between forty and fifty attractions. Legoland plans on keeping the historic gardens area of Cypress Gardens intact.

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Just in time for the kids' spring break, Sesame Street comes to Busch Gardens. Construction has begun on the park's Sesame Street Safari of Fun attraction. It's slated to open on March 27, 2010. That loveable blue fuzzy monster Grover will have his own roller coaster. While not for the tiny tots, it looks to be a lot of fun for school-age children (38 inches if accompanied by an adult or 41 if riding alone).

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A new attraction is coming to Aquatica, the water park at SeaWorld Orlando. The attraction, called Omaka Rocka, will have two slides and three funnels. The name is taken from the South Seas name for "rocking river." The tube will be semi-transparent, allowing guests walking underneath to see the people on the ride.

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“When your values are clear to you, making decisions becomes easier.”
~Roy Disney

Roy Disney, nephew of Walt Disney and son of Roy O. and Edna Disney, died on December 16 of this year at the age of 79 years. He succumbed to stomach cancer at Hoag Memorial in Newport Beach, California, after being diagnosed with the disease approximately a year prior.

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Grinchmas? Don't you mean Christmas? If it's the Islands of Adventure at Universal Orlando, it must be Grinchmas. The theme park offers a perfectly Grinchy Christmas during the month of December with a live performance of "How the Grinch Stole Christmas." The one-and-only Grinch himself will makes a grand appearance daily through January 1st in six daily shows.

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