Failure to Illuminate Headlights

Day 2 (February 15):
Me: "Yo, police."
Jas: "I know. I'm not even going that fast." (We're going at 35mph)
*siren blares
-- waves of commotion and panic penetrate the car --
We pull over.
Police: "Driver, turn right at the next street."
-- panic envelopes the car as we turn into the street --
Jas: "Hi officer.."
Police: "You know that your headlights are off right?"
LOL

My heart was pounding for another 10 minutes after, while we laughed hysterically at the 2nd lesson of our trip.

Mood thermometer :: Feeling a bit old around all of these kids! It's definitely fun to be on the rides yet I think the magic and glitter of Disney and amusement parks in general has already worn off for me. It just feels too commercialized and artificial. Ugh, my grown-up-ness is such a buzz kill! (Probably because I have the burden of a possible phone interview in the next few days, which I don't know how to handle or prepare for!)

Observations :: Sprawl, sprawl, sprawl! The part of Orlando where we are staying is completely commercialized and built upon tourist revenue. There are hotels all over the place and I doubt that they are ever fully occupied. Even if they were, it would probably for a few events of the year. Imagine the waste! The land, the energy for all of the unoccupied rooms?

Without regulation, sprawl will just happen. It makes business sense. Why would anyone bother to invest in building up, when you can just build horizontally for cheaper? Now I see why planning policy is so important. Yes, it's great they have all this land to build horizontally upon. However, I am sure that this does not contribute to the quality of life of these citizens. They have to drive everywhere because the infrastructure requires them to. All of this combined with ubiquitous McDonalds results in the obesity problems of the US today..