Mine was back in the summer of 1991. There was a change in the air. The new "renaissance" was going on, although Beauty & The Beast hadn't come out yet. It was mostly all about The Little Mermaid and Honey, I Shrunk The Kids. I was 9 years old and went with my parents and we stayed at the Dolphin. I think my mother had gotten one of those vacation packages but anyhow, the Dolphin was beautiful and was also probably the most fanciest hotel I'd stayed at at that point. Also Universal Studios had just opened up a year or so at that point. We started our trip off with that and that was fun too. I remember seeing the game show "Get The Picture" filmed at Nickelodeon Studios. Got to be in the audience and what surprised me was that it took at least two hours to film it. My parents were a little upset because it took some time out of the day. But I remember staying at a Days Inn across from the park that night and then we got up and left early the next morning, on a Monday. We headed over to DW but first we had to go one of those villa tours where they try to entice you to buy. It was somewhere off property and I remember it being very nice but my parents had no intention of buying. It seems like it was part of the vacation package where you had to go on the tour. Got a nice free breakfast though. Anyways, finally made it to the Dolphin around 11pm or so and checked in and then we headed off to MK and stayed there for the rest of the day/evening. We were only staying until Thursday. Also there were only 3 parks at the time and Hollywood Studios was also fairly new still--and it was MGM at the time. But we had a grand time and my favorite attraction at the time was the house at MK that you could walk through and it belonged to Mickey & Minnie. I just loved it then and wish it was still there. I think the kids today would have fun. But on Thursday it was time to go and out of the blue, my parents had found out a shuttle was launching that day over at Cape Canaveral. So we packed up and planned to go see it. We got there and found a popular spot where other people were at and we waited. And waited. And waited. While we were waiting, I went out on a pier and got to see the shuttle up close from someone who brought their telescope with them. Otherwise it was way out in the distance. We continued waiting. Then it looked like it was going to rain. Then came the announcement that the launch had been scrubbed for the day. We debated staying overnight and waiting around for tomorrow but it was decided that we should leave. Unfortunately we should have stayed because the mission resumed and launched that next day. Anyhow, we're on our way home and we passed through Panama City Beach late at night. We decided to call it a night and found a motel to stay and the next morning I got to swim in the ocean for a little before checking out late that morning. See PCB was where my family usually went for vacation every summer and since we were doing something "different" that year it made everything all the more better since I was used to going to the beach. Anyways we left and arrived home later on in the afternoon. This was always the best vacation I'd had up until my Disneymoon '14 which is now my favorite vacation. It's not everyday that you get to go on a trip where you got to visit Universal Studios & Disney World, see a real shuttle on the launch pad and get to go to the beach.
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