Orlando-Winter Park

... 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 ...

... stream - see video below. Julie stood next to a huge stuffed alligator in a gift shop on international drive (see picture).

In the afternoon went to wet n wild and had another go on some rides. I carefully stayed out of the sun to give the sunburn chance to heal.

all told a lazy day .... but a nice one. Also had some chocolate covered pretzels... yum yum...

... to drive back, avoiding the tollways. Googlemaps on my phone, however, kept leading me astray ... so I gave up and jumped on the toll way. With the long drive to reach the airport, then the long drive around the airport, then the long drive through the parking garage, I arrived at the departure gate just as my group was boarding.

Did have an exit row, which was nice. Read my book ("The Heart of the Nile") for the entire time. Arrived on time in LAX, but now ...

We made it to the Miner B&B (aka. home). It's so nice to see Ashley and the kitties!!! Ashley did a great job keeping up the house and mom and dad did a beautiful remodel on our guest bathroom! We have to unpack our backpacks and repack them with the clothes for Fiji. We leave tomorrow for Fiji and this is the flight we splurged on - First Class the entire 30 hours of travel ...

... Osaka to Beijing, China. Fly from Beijing to Doha, Qatar. Fly from Doha to Rome, Italy. Travel by train to Naples. Leave Rome by train to Sienna, Florence and Vernazza. Hike villages in Cinque Terre. Leave Vernazza by train to Venice. Fly from Venice to Zurich, Switzerland. Travel through Switzerland by train to Bern, Interlaken, Jungfrau and back to Zurich. Fly ...

... roll please) Portuguese! Oh yeah she thought - guess I ought to learn that part too. . . I have distinct memories from my 1990 trip of not being able to understand anything - not the written, not the sounds - not even the body language because the culture was so different. I dug up my old journal and photos from when I visited and found some to share. This first one shows what I took with me. Everything I ...

... here" on miles with Delta. I'm also excited about going to Tokyo, I've passed through the airport before, but I've never been into the city. The last time I visited Japan I was based in Osaka with a friend who was teaching English there - and both of us were on low budgets so getting to Tokyo was out of the question and it was a short trip time-wise too. Bill has been many times on business trips to Tokyo and loves it. The idea of doing a special travel ...

... loved it! We walked around the hotel for a little while, looking at all of the cute Hawaiian costumes that they had. When we went to the Luau back in 1992 mom and dad wound up buying me a Hula Girl costume from the Polynesian which I wore that Halloween. Wow, those costumes were EXPENSIVE now. We eventually went up to 'Ohana and checked in. There were a lot of people hanging out in the lounge outside the restaurant, but the ...

... again. Well Christen was nobody's fool and figured this out after the 2nd time it was done. Realizing this was a total injustice when she re-opened a color book, she whirled the book from the back seat back at us, hitting Leah with the color book. You never learn how smart a 2 year old is except times like these....we've never laughed so hard.