We left Wednesday morning, 2/7, as planned a little before 6 and drove straight through to Tallahassee not even stopping to eat. We checked into a motel, walked next door to eat and went to bed early. We were on the road the next day before 7:00 and arrived at Kristin's right at noon.
At the same time Kara and Bill were landing at MCO but they were renting a car so we didn’t have to pick them up. It was Bill’s birthday so he chose Giovanni’s for dinner. We all had early starts so it was off to bed early again.
On Friday, Kara and Bill left for their timeshare at the Grand Floridian and our plan for after dinner was to see The Boys in the Boat. We made it all the way to the ticket counter to be informed that the last show was at 4, not 7 and sometimes the times don’t get updated in real time! So we went home.
Kristin and I did a Harry Potter scavenger hunt with two of her friends Saturday morning. All I know is we walked to clues for 2.5 hours and at the end the three decided on a murderer. It was wrong so I told them my thoughts and I was right! Who knew?
While we did that Ted went to MCO and picked up Kelly and Pat. We ate a big lunch then didn’t have dinner. The evening’s agenda was YeeHaw Bob at Disney’s Port Orleans Resort. He is a hoot with a very energetic show for all ages. It was a late night and I went to bed as soon as we got home
Kristin was up early and went to church at 9:00 so she could have lunch ready for the four of us when we returned from 11:00 Mass. I really like her church too. She had prepared fajitas with steak or chicken, all the fixings, corn casserole, Mexican beans and tres leche cake. It was all very good.
I stripped our bed, did two loads of laundry and repacked our things for our 4:00 departure to Hilton’s Tuscany Village where we were spending 3 nights with our old FL friends who now live in Palm Coast, about 100 miles away.
Our accommodations are exceptionally nice including a screened in balcony. This is our view (through the screen).
Ted learned there was a Super Bowl Party down at the pool so we went there to watch. They were handing out red and gold Pom poms but we just sat in our lounge chairs across from the bar.
It was a boring first half so we took our drinks upstairs to our suite. The third quarter was slightly better but that fourth quarter and overtime were exciting. So much back and forth. Since my Detroit Lions were not playing I didn’t much care who won.
Monday was Epcot! We were to meet up around noon with everyone and we all ended up in line for the same tram. We covered a lot of ground, stopping at 4:00 for dinner in the German pavilion. It was all delicious but their potato salad was a disappointment to this connoisseur of good warm, German potato salad! But there was so much I really was too full to eat it all anyway. Then it was back to the venues. It was almost 9:00 we staggered out to the parking lot while the 5 of them were staying until midnight! Pat said at that point we had walked about 7 miles! I could hardly move.
Our friends from our days living in DeBary, FL arrived in our absence so we met them for breakfast on Tuesday before going to our Hilton presentation. They had one for Hilton Head that was almost two years old while Tom battled bladder cancer (we both did MDAnderson at the same time) and they changed it to Orlando, so we got one since Hilton asked us to attend each time we made a reservation.
We listened to the real estate guy, the manager and the closer. Ted told them our time to travel is dwindling and it would not be a good investment at this time of life. They gave us a $200 voucher for a Hilton stay and we left! We drove to the Grand Floridian since they have never been there, showed them around and Kara had the sales manager show them the 2 and 3 bedroom units we stayed in last summer. They were in a studio for just the two of them. We went to Maggiano’s for dinner before calling it a night.
We needed to check out at 10 Wednesday morning while Tom and Eileen had another night at Tuscany Villa. We had them follow us to Disney Springs where we could park for free (the parks are $25) and catch a free bus to Art of Animation resort. Lots of cartoon things there! We caught the Skyliner (free) and rode it over the Riviera Resort, the Caribbean resort onto Epcot where we walked around a bit before retracing our steps by Skyliner and bus back to Disney Springs. We intended to take Bill, Kara and their things to the condo but they had moved everything to GF storage and went to Magic Kingdom! So we just went on to the condo and got settled ourselves. Ted went back later to get them and their things. Tom and Eileen were returning to Tuscany but decided to just check out and drive the 96 miles back home.
Thursday was a down day. I did some laundry and we went to the grocery. The 3 kids left for Hollywood Studios but Kara had a noon zoom meeting. When she was finished she and Bill went to meet them at Hollywood Studios and we passed!
Ted and I had a quiet evening and I headed to bed at a reasonable time, I am not sure when Ted came in. Saturday was a slow morning with us all heading out to a farm/orchard looking for oranges! We saw some animals, a butcher shop that used EVERY bit of the animal. I was shocked at Sirloin Tip roast at $49.95 a pound among other things like $15 a pound wild rice!
We tried another one and found fresh squeezed orange juice but no oranges nor the coconut candy I have been requested to bring home that is still being illusive! Kelly had work to do so didn’t join us. Kara had a 3:30 Zoom meeting so we made it home with 3 minutes to spare.
We ordered meatless deep dish Goridano’s pizza for take out at 4:30 so we could be ready to leave at 6:30 for a live production of “All Shook Up”, a cross over play with some Elvis music and Footloose story line. Such energy and wonderful voices. It was an enjoyable evening.
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