When You Wish Upon a Star …

We went to church Saturday night and left about 8 am Sunday heading to Orlando.  We stopped in Crisply, FL for the night after dinner at Waffle House because it was the only restaurant open after 5!  They must roll up the sidewalks!  

Just as I was settling in at the motel I got a notice on my phone from Capital One that someone was trying to get $1 approved at WaWa, a gas station in PA.  They claimed the card was present but we both had our cards and had not used either for two days.  They cancelled it and mailed a new one to our house.  Luckily Ted’s card is a different number and we both have a Bank of America card too.

The fun began the next day while I tried to change our many accounts that are paid automatically using that credit card number!  We were traveling down the turnpike in FL when I was notified by SunPass that our card was denied.  I changed TX EZ Pass and PA transponder but forgot to change the very pass I was using!!  We are home and I still have some to contact because I was missing pieces of info.  

Kristin is renovating her house so we pitched in breaking down boxes and taking them to Recycle, worked in the garage so Bill could find what he needed when he arrived to do some electrical work, went to the bank, the paint store, the trustee’s office, picked up new cocktail and side table, and met her husband for lunch.  She has been working on scoring student tests and couldn’t go.  

For dinner we went to a German restaurant in downtown Sanford, a gentrified area along Lake Monroe.

Hot German potato salad, red cabbage, and a wurst mit senf (bratwurst with mustard).  Yum!  

The MI folks flew in Wednesday night with Kelly coming to Kristin’s while Bill and Kara went to Disney’s Key West to be there in the morning to meet up with Morgan who had been there for four days with her father and stepmother.  She chose to stay in FL even though she had to spend Friday to Monday with just the fellows.

Ted drove us to Port Canaveral on Friday. We timed it perfectly, walked right on the ship and had several hours before sailing. 

Kristin had hats made for the four of us and they were a huge hit. 

This trip was to celebrate Kristin’s 50th birthday celebration so Kara decorated her door, something most people do.  They did our door for our 50th anniversary in 2015. 

We had a delightful, but short time, cruising from Friday morning to Monday morning.  Sunday was spent all day at Castaway Cay, Disney’s private Island.

On Monday evening we had a group of 14 at Giovanni’s for a dinner to celebrate Kristin’s 50th birthday!

1970 Cincinnati neighbors, now living in The Villages,  and Florida late ‘90s neighbors, now living in Palm Coast joined family and friends for dinner and birthday cake from The Glass Knife, Kristin’s favorite. 

Tuesday morning we hit the road and drove to Mobile for the night. We made it home about 3 pm Wednesday afternoon.

It was good to be home to continue untangling the compromised credit card mess, get the laundry done after unpacking and sleep in my own bed.