Marriott Orlando Lake Mary

The idea was to go camping this weekend in Orlando. My cousin Dougie's two boys are in the cub scouts and had a camping outing scheduled at Fort Wilderness (http://disneyworld.disney.go.com/resor ts/campsites-at-fort-wilderness-resort/ ). Dougie invited me to join them with Rebecca and Christopher, which I decided would be a great idea considering that Rebecca and Christopher had never been camping yet ...

... 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 ...

... do we barely had enough time to squeeze it all in! Onboard the ship we spent our time playing shuffleboard and miniature golf, climbing the rock wall, challenging the wave rider, swimming in the pool, relaxing in the hot tubs, being pampered in the spa, shopping and eating on the promenade, and enjoying the entertainment. While in each of the ports we spent most of the time shopping, but did make time to enjoy two great ...

... through !!! A quick lunch at a cafe where, instead of sparrows flitting amongst the tables there were White Ibis - this was really strange! A walk to see the 'Budweiser Clydesdale Shire Horse Team' and for once the Americans did not have the biggest, as these were a smaller version of this Shire breed. We saw the Big Parade in the afternoon, got wet again as there was a brief rain downpour - what, in Florida !! 'Space Mountain' was just a bit too far, we rode in a car in the ...

... and I love them but mom, dad and Mike think they're baby rides and could care less about going on them. Next time we go to Disney I have to bring my little cousin with us so I can use her as an excuse to go on everything! We walked past Mickey's Philharmagic and there was only a twenty-minute wait so we got on line. I love the posters in there, they're so cute! I always have to make sure to take pictures of the Ariel and Genie posters since The Little ...

... Watching God" by Zora Neale Hurston on a shelf right by the entrance. I don't know how I had missed it, but along with "Great Expectations" it was one of the books that I had come to Waldenbooks for. It was $13 and I had $16 left so I ran back up to the counter to buy it. It came to $15, leaving me with $1 left for the next week and a half. Oops. Mom gave me $20 to keep in my wallet, though, for just in case. Not in case I saw any good souvenirs, but in case ...

... and it was so much fun! Margaritaville is without a doubt one of my favorite restaurants of all time, anywhere. It will forever be a staple of our Orlando vacations and I miss it when we're home! When we were done eating we made our way over to Universal Studios. Margaritaville is right next to Islands of Adventure so we had to make our way all the way over to the other side of CityWalk to get to the park. We walked down by the water and ...

... all so expensive. Some of them were as much as $1000... for a mask. They were definitely pretty, though. The DVD of the show was selling for $37 and I wanted it, but I decided to skip it. I knew that they always showed Cirque Du Soleil specials on Bravo, Pay Per View, and the HD channel, and I was pretty sure that I'd be able to find it on Netflix, anyway. $37 just seemed like a lot of money for a DVD. We got on the short line to enter the ...

today is jeff's birthday. the four of us went to the sarasota beach. it's about 2 and ahalf hours away from the orlando area. we had a bunch of birds flew near our heads. it was kind of weird and creapy at the same time. never seen that before. i cut my hand on a shell while i was ...