Several years ago I discovered Orlando’s best vacation destination.  It’s not Disney, not Universal Studios, not Sea World, not even Wet ‘n Wild.  It is nestled just along side of Interstate 4.  As you drive into Orlando from the south you go under an overpass with huge gold letters spelling out O-R-L-A-N-D-O and just on the other side you can see it.  A huge white building with Gold trim, when I first saw it I thought I had traveled back in time to 1st century Jerusalem, and was driving past the Temple, but then I thought, “NO!, there’s no way anyone in their right mind would make a theme park out of Israel.”  So I thought I’d do some research to find out what this Temple looking building was, and sure enough someone had made a theme park out of Israel.  I thought “there’s no way I can pass this up,” so I went. Its called The Holy Land Experience and for only $29.99 you can walk though the “city gates” (which strangely look a lot like a turn-style you’d see at Six Flags) where you will be greeted with a warm, friendly “Shalom,” a typical Hebrew greeting meaning “peace”.  Upon entering the “city” you immediately walk into a marketplace, where instead of fresh fruits and vegetables on old wooden carts you can purchase candy and soda on new fiberglass carts made to look like old wooden carts.  After stepping through the “market” you come up to the Temple, which is quite visible from the highway.  Then as you look to the left there’s a tomb carved out of “rock” with a large round stone rolled away from the opening, if you look closer, there’s no one in it!  As you continue to walk through the park you’ll approach a large crowd of people surrounding…wait…could it be?  It is!  It’s J.C.!  Jesus actually walks around and teaches the crowds.  No day at the Holy Land experience is complete without a trip to the Scriptorium.  Yes, that’s right, the Scriptorium.  And for all that is cheezy about this park, this one exhibit redeems it all.  The Scriptorium takes you through a journey of how we got our Bible. This exhibit is complete with ancient artifacts, actual copies of biblical texts from as early as 1200 B.C.  As you travel through each room of the exhibit there is a voice-over narrating your whole experience.  You can look at a copy of the Bible translated by Martin Luther into German and printed on the first printing press ever invented. You “meet” people like John Wycliffe who was instrumental in, and actually gave his own life so that the people of his day could have a copy of the Bible in english.  These are the people whose shoulders we stand on in our faith.  Without their work and sacrifices we would likely still not have access to the Bible in our own language.  Though the Holy Land Experience is cheezy, and theme parkish, it is still worth every cent for the Scriptorium alone.  So if you’re down visiting Mickey and Minnie, drive north up Interstate 4 and stop in to see J.C. as well.