Best Western Lake Hamilton Haines City

... 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 ...

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 ...

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After checking-in at your resort, you and everyone in your party will receive your very own “Key to the World” card. This card does just about everything; it acts as your room key, ticket into the parks, and can be used to make purchases throughout Disney World. When you purchase something, instead of lugging it around all day, Disney will send it to ...

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 ...

Friday July 3
-went to Magic Kingdom
-Pirates of the Caribbean
-Splash Mountain
-it's a small world
-saw a parade
-haunted mansion
-ate at Disney Boardwalk at Spoodles
-went back to MK to Tomorrowland
-Buzz Lightyear Astroblast
-Stitch's Great Escape

May 12th we embark on our ship, the Voyager of the Seas (the same ship we took for our honeymoon) for an 11 night cruise into the Mediterranean. We stop in Vigo, Spain; Lisbon, Portugal; Gibralter, UK; Cagliari, Italy; Civitavecchia (Rome), Itlay; Livorno (FLorence/Pisa), Itlay; Villefranche(Nice, Eze ...

... from every part of the ride so all in all not bad for the first ride. From there we went to the Flights of Wonder bird show. The best part of the show was when the parrot flew away and out of the theater to the Tree of Life. Kelly and Brittany almost got hit in the head by an owl. Almost of the trip for free. We did ...

After buying and fixing up an old 1989 Winnebago 27' motor home it was time to try out the camping world. I wanted to do it right the first time so JoAnn would like it, so among the first visits one had to be Disney Worlds Ft. Wilderness Campground. Since our first visit we have been back on numerous occasions, it's a great place!

... trying to figure it out and just let it happen. I wanted to just feel joy, not the pain and sadness. Contrast my dear Debbie, contrast! Sometimes self awareness is a pain in the ass!! I have to say there are very brief moments where I think it would be nice just to blame someone else!...LOL, not really, once you know, you can't unknow. I went to bed knowing I was going to Clearwater the next day and that I had lots of new things to experience. HAd a good sleep.

Oops - sorry to all those who tried to get into the last entry and it says it doesn't exist. That's 'cos I deleted it - still trying to get the hang of this....hold on, maybe if I pull this lever... Anyway it was a great log - and congrats to the 7 of you who made it....it's now a legend. We're in scared/excited mode and feeling like preparing for first day at Primary School.. Regarding the map - I have to place the pin based on a map of ...