Candelwood Suites Lake Mary

... Lightyear ride the best. Me? I enjoyed the kids enjoying themselves :o)

At around 5pm we left the park and made our way to Fort Wilderness where we met up with Dougie and family. We had dinner with them and I had contemplated camping out this night, but the kids were complianing of the cold so back to cousin Maureens house we went. Thank you prima !!!!

After breakfast on Sunday morning we ...

... delayed for over three hours. i still kept my hopes high of our trip going good.I have always loved being in the airport observing people and trying to understand the objective of each ones presence there. Not to forget the multiple shops and eat-outs.So we finally din't realize the passing of time until before we were boarding and were on our way to Orlando.

It was mid November for us at Maryland and we were ...

Today we went for a drive and visited a walmart store - we found some good bargains on t-shirts etc. One interesting thing is that Ipods and other electronics now cost about the same as in the UK. bought a card reader for $13 only to find where I'd hidden mine when we got back to the hotel. so I now have two....

we had the great joy of seeing 3 juvenile alligators in a ...

... He made 3 others but by the time he finished the next, the others had become too fuzzy to read. What an inspiration to see that instead of an advertisement done by skywriters. Today we go to Tampa and will leave our van in our niece, Kathy Muscatell's garage while we fly to Rochester, MN to spend Christmas with Kiki and family. Jack will also continue his Mayo Clinic appointments while we are there.

... a pretty fun wait. I loved looking around at all the little details and I made sure to take some pictures. There was only one incident on the line here and it was the only incident we experienced with rude guests. Well not so much rude as just completely clueless ones. About five-minutes into the line everyone was standing around and waiting, and there was a little area where you could sneak through to move up in line. Of course no one was doing that because ...

... a lot of toy stores in there and one of them had a few big and small Chucky dolls! They were great and it made my day to get to show them to Michael! We were done looking around by 6:00 and we headed out and down towards the Waldenbooks a few miles away. I had been wanting to go to Waldenbooks for a while. I had only brought four books with me - two psychology ones, "The Great Gatsby" by F. Scott Fitzgerald and "The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon" by Stephen ...

... was traffic near all of the attractions but we made it through in pretty good time. It was a half-hour drive to Universal Studios and the line of cars to get into the parking lot was huge again. There were only four lanes open and each two lanes were being serviced by only one person. It was taking forever, but when we pulled up to the gate dad showed his season pass and we were through in no time. We pulled up to the farther parking lot ...

Well, well, well. Guess who DIDN'T COME IN LAST!!! Hey Judy, neither did you!! Hah! You all scoffed at my method for picking the winning teams. I bet you will be coming to me soon to learn my way! Actually, it wasn't difficult this first time. All I did was select column 1, column 2, column 1, column 2. No, wait. I carefully ...

... evil Queen and the entire Princess Medley. My favorite part, though, was the character boat! All the kids around us started going crazy, screaming, "Mommy, it's Cinderella!," "Dad, it's Hercules!" Their excitement was just too cute! I loved looking for all of the different characters and taking pictures. We left the show a minute before it ended to beat the crowds. I definitely liked the show but I wouldn't go out of my way to see it ...

... 05 - Now it is lightening out and extremely windy. WE can visually see and hear the lightening and thunder. Now it is raining. We appear to be heading right into the storm. It's very dark and very scary out now. We are storm chasers. I'll write more if we survive. Just got on the turnpike. 55 miles away. 7:10 - we drove past the storm. But there are still dark clouds vivid in the sky. Still scared. 8:00 - Arrive at a campground to see if it is feasible ...