Hilton Garden Inn 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.

... concert was beginning -- there are two everyday (at 1pm and 3pm). It was a program of Patriotic Music (as today is Veteran's Day), so I decided to begin instead at the Visitor's Center, watching the brief and fairly cheesy video. It did provide some background about the gardens and tower. Then, I started up the path to the top of the hill. The gardens definitely reflect local plants -- and paths wander through the palms and flowering shrubs as one climbs the hill ...

... way out!

Halloween night itself is so festive with all the neighbors (American spelling for effect) are out and about and all the neighborhood kidds meet as a house and go around trick or treating together...again, going all out with outfits they look great!

We had such a wonderful week of quality time with the fan-dam but all too soon 1 November rolled around and our amazing trip was over! We sadly made the trip back to the airport for the real final trip home...

... to customs. After successfully going through customs, we passed our baggage on to the connecting flight. As we rounded the corner from that, Conrad got ******. This was the time when he realized that his bottle of anise was still in his backpack! This was not going to make it through security!! It didn't dawn on him (or me, b/c I had forgotten that he had bought it) to put it into the checked luggage after customs but before the connecting ...

The rough plan of our trip is as follows...

Thursday morning, we drive to Orlando and fly to Baltimore. Hopefully, we will get a military flight right out of BWI. There may be one Late PM on Thursday. If we can't get on that one, we will stay the night in Baltimore and head to McGuire AFB, NJ on Friday. It looks like there may be three flights from McGuire to ...

After a long day of work for both of us, we finally hit the road at 0630 pm. The dogs were less than happy with us, as evidenced by the pictures. They knew once all of the luggage was in the living room that something was up. Chloe was actually trembling! But, Marv will take good care of them, as well as good care of my ...

... most customers are able to get the same caliber and almost the same selection as they would in a wallet-terrorizing airport newspaper shop, but for free.

It’s clear that the corporation engrains its detail-oriented business plan into its flight attendants too. I was happy to see a flight attendant quietly rush to put on a plastic glove and pick up a piece of toilet paper that had been trailed out of the bathroom seconds before. This scene ...

The glory does NOT go to me. I humbly and graciously report that my airfare to Asia has been purchased! Praise! I go tomorrow morning to fill out my VISA so it can be quickly sent off for the trip. Neat thing too... I needed a passport photo to send along with the VISA application, and yes, I had ...

... had coke floats with Jim and Troy. Talk about sugar rush! The M&M store was pretty cool. It had four stories of M&M everything... we refrained from eating any M&Ms after the coke floats. Troy and I walked back to the hotel and Jim and Sean drove back. We were laughing so hard at these two little old ladies in a covered buggy just tooling down the sidewalk. They looked so out of place riding in something that looked like a miniature motorized rickshaw from India. After ...

... We had three ocean view cabins on the Empress deck, forward port. My room number was E2. I wish I had pictures of the room to show everyone, but I wasn't the best picture taker back in the day. We immediately headed for the Brasserie Bar and Buffet. After a quick and delicious meal, we were off to the upper decks, taking pictures of the Tampa area.
As any experienced cruiser ...