The landing in Orlando was the worst I've experienced for no good reason - no wind, no rain, just a hard, smackdown landing. A 757-300 should have handled better. Baggage claim was long - it just seems to get longer with every flight. A quick shuttle bus to Hertz Number 1 Gold to get a Ford Taurus (hey, it's a full-size car and it really wasn't bad).
It became obvious that we needed food now. Fortunately, outside the Hertz lot was a Cracker Barrel. After a lunch that was delayed by over 40 minutes, we went out to the car, plugged in our destination coordinates into the NeverLost GPS system, and we're off to our condo at Liki Tiki Village. It's a timeshare place and much better looking than the name implies (Carol won a week for us in a Christmas raffle at work). The condo is a 2-story villa, with 2 bedrooms, 2 full baths, complete kitchen washer & drier. Perfect for our stay.
We took a quick trip to a Publix for some snacks and necessities for the week, Walgreen's for things that we couldn't find at Publix, and it was off to Downtown Disney for dinner. We had made reservations at Gloria Estefan's Bongos Cuban Cafe . Really fell in love with the place and the food is just great. It was a great find and we'd go there again in a heartbeat. After 9 o'clock they had live salsa music and dancing. it was just a great vibe... Oh! and we discovered Mojito's!!! YES!!!
Drove back home to the condo and watched the Lennox Lewis fight on HBO. Gruesome. There must be a re-match...
2007- SUMMER IS OFFICIALLY HERE
2006- SOLSTACE
2005- Welcome to Summer
2004- A civilian in space
- Erin's 34th!
2002- Summer in the village
- HB, EB!
- Summer Solstice
- Friday 5 - Housing
- BANG