We walked from the hotel to a place for break­fast, but it was just a drive-thru, so we went with Plan B, Micky D’s. As we were almost done eat­ing our Egg McMuffins we heard an employee shout, “We have a bus! We have a bus!” Sure enough, a stream of high school aged kids came pil­ing in the door. A few just came in and sat (the ones with not much spend­ing money), some headed for the restrooms (those with small blad­ders) and the major­ity of them got in line. They made a queue that was three wide that snaked all the way to the entrance door.

We fin­ished up our stuff and cleared off the table fig­ur­ing that it would be needed soon. As we were exit­ing the restau­rant through the door on the other side, we were met by an older cou­ple com­ing in. I looked at them and said, “You might want to find another place to eat, a bus just unloaded a big bunch of high school stu­dents on a field trip to Epcot.” The man replied, “I know, I just dropped them off. I’m the driver.”

To not enjoy this video and/or not get this song stuck in their head.

Pub­lished this year’s “Best Of” page tonight. You can find it over on the left under High­light Reels.

In the begin­ning, ten years ago, this was two dif­fer­ent and sep­a­rate blogs, The Miata Diaries with sto­ries about the car and how it fit into my life and the other, called Brian’s Daily Rant, was a place for me to bitch about what got stuck in my craw each day. There was so much stuff writ­ten dur­ing the year that I had a hard time wean­ing out all the qual­ity posts to get it down to just one best per each month.

Some­where around 5 or 6 years ago I merged the two into this one. The total posts dimin­ished and soon after the cal­iber of con­tent did too. For the last cou­ple of years I have wished I could have cheated and used a sec­ond post from one month to use in the place of another month with noth­ing that I felt qualified.

And as I look back on this year I don’t see very many posts that qual­ify either, mostly they were just just recaps of geo­caching adven­tures or pic­tures of paper­craft projects. In an effort to at least post some­thing when I didn’t feel like writ­ing I would often upload a photo. So for the Best Of 2011 I have used no words, just my best pic­ture from each month.