by Richard Gleeson
Northern News Services

NNSL (May 02/97) - It's the stock question and answer for euphoric post-championship celebrations.

"What are you going to do now?" -- "Go to Disneyworld!"

Seven year-old Richard Corkal has not yet been part of an NBA championship team or a Stanley Cup winner, but he went to the Florida vacation mecca anyway.

During their five days in the family vacation capital of North America, the Corkal family left few Disney stones unturned.

So, what exactly did you see, Richard?

"I saw lots of characters and went on lots of rides and went to Seaworld and Universal Studios and MGM and the biggest McDonald's in the world -- it was two stories high -- there was an arcade there, a big one, where we could play games."

And how was the weather while --

"MGM was 20 stories high and had this big grey ball you could go in."

Big grey ball?

"Yeah, but my favorite ride was Splash Mountain. I liked it inside, but I didn't like it outside, because of the drop. There were puppets, lots of them, and they kept getting scarier as you got close to the drop.

"I went on the Arctic Wild Ride, and the whole thing moved and water was falling down on us -- I didn't like that one because it was kind of scary.

"And then I went down into the Everglades and went on a boat ride and saw an alligator and I was in another place that I forget the name of, and touched a big python snake -- it was a real one, it weighed 45 pounds. We saw another huge alligator there."

Corkal also visited the Kennedy Space Centre, but confessed, "I did lots of other things, but that's all I can remember."