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We spent today mostly around International Drive near the Orange County Convention Center. After breakfast at the hotel and a little time spent over at Downtown Disney, we headed over to the Peabody Hotel to watch the famous Peabody Ducks parade out of the elevator, down the red carpet into the fountain in the center of the lobby.

I love spotting technology breakthroughs (when the behind-the-scenes technology “breaks through” and is visible to the public). I found this Windows XP breakthrough on a plasma screen in the Renaissance Resort’s lobby:

We went to evening mass at the National Shrine of Mary, Queen of the Universe. The 2,000 seat building is not a local parish church but a shrine that exists solely to minister to the millions of tourists that come to the area every year.

Tomorrow is a driving day … we head north.