Best Western Diplomat Inn & Conference Center Lakeland

Trin-i-tee 5:7 As In T57 Did A New CD!! Call Love, Peace, And Joy At Christmas And It's Excited!! I love The Trin-i-tee Look With There R&B Style And The Soul Look I Love Many Of There Songs Like The Christmas Song And This Christmas Those Are My Favorties.

... and flat, flat land.

Bok Tower and Gardens were definitely worth the drive -- the gardens were established in the 1920s as a bird refuge. Built on one of the few "hilltops" in Florida (at the grand height of 324 feet), there is a Gothic Art Deco tower and carrillon, plus Olmsted-designed gardens surrounding the tower. The Tower includes scultpures by Lawrie, the artist behind "Atlas" at Rockefeller Center in New York.

I arrived at 1pm, just as a ...

Taking advantage of our Thousand Trails Membership to kick back for a week at the "Orlando Preserve", which is really in nearby Clermont. Unfortunately, the pool is too cold to swim in, but we used the hot tub one day. Every night, at 9 and 9:45 p.m., we can hear the "boom" of firewords ...

... only one lady actually, we'll give them a break.

The main event of the week was the buildup to halloween - a huge affair state side - like almost on a par with christmas in terms of decorating houses with lights and all the adverts in shops for candy and pumpkins etc! Amazing to see and there is definitely excitement in the air leading up to the big trick or treat night. We certainly added to the excitement as this was our first real halloween experience ever and ...

... baggage. So, much to his dismay, he put it into the garbage. He was not happy about this at all.
We made it to the gate for our flight to Tampa. We had to wait for an hour or more. We watched the news and read the newspaper to catch up on what had been going on while we were gone. It was nice to be oblivious to the happenings of the rest of the world for awhile. We were saddened to hear of the missing girl's death and other not so ...

... train to Berlin.

Sunday we go back to Hannover and head down to Heidelburg and/or Kaiserslautern. The next few days are kind of flexible.

Around Thursday-ish, we need to be back at Ramstein to (hopefully) catch a Friday flight home.

That's the rough plan. We wanted to have enough room for error since space-a is unpredictable... and so are we.

... drink cart repeatedly smash into ones elbows and ankles by a driver that uncannily gives off the vibe of an elementary school cafeteria woman asking whether you want the goulash or the macaroni surprise. Ew. As for food, no lunch lady carts there either. The flight attendants actually carried the snacks in baskets. I was impressed with the variety of both drink and food. From Dunkin Donuts coffee to Arizona Tea and Terra Blue Chips to 100 Calorie packs of ...

... 400 of that amount raised by June 1st. At the moment roughly $1,000 has been raised toward my part of this trip. I can be honest to say that at first, this was a bit alarming, but I'm confident in that there will be provision. It is with a humble heart that I ask you to please lift this up and consider helping.

... t what I was expecting, and it had even changed a lot since Graham had been there. It is now really touristy and quite tacky, but it does have some good outlet malls, which is where we spent a few hours, buying some designer clothes, at cheap prices! On Sunday we relaxed as well, and bought our tickets for Seaworld and the Universal Resort. Then on Monday, it was up early again to go to Seaworld. The main attraction at Seaworld is the Shamu show, the killer ...

... luggage drop off, we parked both of our vehicles in the parking deck and were off to check in.

We arrived at the embarkation area right at Noon. Yes, this means that there was a very large line. The staff worked very quickly and the only hold up was the people not reading signs at the metal detectors and slowing everyone down. In less than 45 minutes, we were checked in with ...