Suburban Extended Stay 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 ...

... of our paper euros. All of the change euros that were left were going to Dad for his "coin collection".
Our plane was late arriving so they had to finish clearing and cleaning it before we could board. Once they made an announcement that it would be boarding soon, virtually everyone who was going to be on the flight made a big jumbled mess of a line in front of the counter and through half of the terminal. Once the rows that were to board ...

... that day.

Saturday morning, we will head to Kreuztal, Germany to visit Julia and her family.

Wednesday, we head down to Hanau to start the Fairy Tale Road with stops in Steinau an der Strasse and Kassel.

Thursday takes us to Göttingen, Sababurg, Bodenwerder, and Hameln.

Friday is Hannover and a bit of a rest.

Saturday we take ...

... plane, which has cute shamrocks painted on the wings, and saw that the cute seats and the cute carpet and the cute little flight attendant frocks are all emerald green, I sat in my cute window seat and the pilot came on the PA and spoke first in Irish and then said “Good day ladies and lads.” I think I giggled out loud with excitement. It also doesn’t hurt that I have both seats in my row to myself. In fact, now that I’m looking ...

... a roller coaster girl myself. A word of advice though, I would put any loose articles in a locker, as I had a little bag with me, and it kept taking off! Well following that excitement, it was time for a walk round the park looking for a ride that was a bit less strenuous, such as Star Tours - a simulator ride based on Star Wars. As already mentioned, I'm not keen on simulators, but this one was pretty good, and didn't cause any motion sickness. Following this, it was time for our ...

... under dark water. men in sarongs, women in set jaws, fafafine in femininity, desperate youth in paraquat showdowns. palagi in awe, young american women in shock. what a place to be. it's almost 4 in the morning and i haven't started packing yet. like every time i travel. i dick around all day and all night and throw some things together at the last second. i'm sitting here wasting more time, asking myself why ...

... 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 ...