Day 1 - Red Sox vs Dodgers at Dodgertown in Vero Beach.
We woke up early, and drove the 1.5 hours from Orlando to Vero Beach. We were there early enough for batting practice. I absolutely love Spring Training Games. The players are so close. The stadium is so small and personal. At the top of the 3rd, after 3 home runs, the rains came. Sheer down pour. We huddled under a cardboard box with two other Red Sox Fans.
After the wash out, we headed out to the beach. It was cool, but the water was warm. Then we headed to the hotel. I found it on hotels.com, and confirmed it with Blair. It was cheap, but we figured that we would only be there one night so whatever. Vero Beach RESORT. And a resort it WAS NOT. First of all. The registration desk was at the IHOP! There were outside corridors! The carpets in the rooms were horrible. And the worst was that there were the NASTY men hanging around outside there rooms. There were rude and cat calling us. We didnt want to spend much time at the hotel. Therefore, we headed off to dinner, shopping, and a movie and were out until midnight.
Day 2 - Vero Beach to Orlando
We woke up at 6, and we were out by 620 with smiles on our faces. We were heading to the beach to watch the sunrise. Needless to see, the sunrise wasnt until 730! But it was beautiful and amazing. I have seen the sunset in Cairo, which was an amazing sight! We headed up the coast and stopped for breakfast at a little "Eatery." We were the youngest patrons by, oh so, 30 years!
As we had an early start, we had some time to kill before prime beach time, off to Kennedy Space Center. As it was alittle on the expensive side, we walked around the the grounds, and headed back to the beach. Cocoa Beach was a nice beach, but it left alittle to the imagination. I liked South Beach in Miami much better. But it was the beach, it was sun, it was relaxing. We were out for about 4 hrs. And that was about an hour to much for me. I was quit red and burnt the rest of the trip.
We left the beach for Orlando. We got back to the hotel, after alittle shopping. We got to Downtown Disney just in time for Circus de Soleil's La Nouba. I absolutely loved it. Im so amazed at the talent all wrapped up into one show. As it was St. Patty's Day, we went out to Pleasure Island and headed over to the R&B Club. After sitting and watching for about 3 songs, we walked out realizing that we will never be finding our husbands in a place like that.
Day 3 - Disney
I havent been back to Florida, or rather Orlando, since 2000. I really loved my time I spent at Disney. I loved working at the Food & Fun Center. I loved my roommates. I loved being in Florida. I loved the freedom I had.
Magic Kindgom was the park we choose. It was great. Except for the constant cutting off on the walk ways from strollers, and children who think that they were the only ones around. It was fun/weird to see all the little girls dressed up as there favorite Princess. I did see one boy dressed up as some creature from Monsters Inc, or something like that. I think that I might not ever let my child do that. Unless its simply not a fight worth fighting at that time. For lunch, we headed over to the Contemporary Hotel. It was weird to see my old place. There were a few people I knew. I must say that I half excepted to see Willie. Willie was the boy that I was seeing in Florida, and who I got in trouble and had to leave early do to him in my apartment after hours. I did hear that he moved on to another Resort. I liked him. I thought that he had great potential. . . .
After spending another few hours we decided that we needed to go get some dinner. We ate at Bahama Breeze. It was so delicious. We got back to Disney in time to watch the fireworks and spend a few more hours riding rides. It was so nice as most of the little ones in strollers were in bed, and their mothers were not continually cutting us off. We rode the Tea Cups, Dumbo, Snow White, Tomorrowland Transit Authority (which was surprising a great, relaxing ride) Splash Mountain, Space Mountain, Buzz Light Year something-or-other, Monsters Inc Comedy Club Show. Disney was good.
1) Before the Tea Cups 2) Enjoying Fudge on Main St 3) The cutest little girl dressed up as her favorite princess ready to get autographs from all of the characters, oh to be young again.
Day 4 - Orlando to home again
We finally got a chance to sleep in and relaxingly got ready. We made are way to Nordstroms, for (big surprise) more shopping. Needless to say, that I spent too much money, although I was low on summer shirts prior to the trip. We ate at the Cafe Bistro, in Nordstroms, but I wasnt that happy with it. I spent so much money on something that we less than par. The girls liked their food, so maybe it was just me! A pretty fair assumption as I could be the worlds pickiest eater.
Not really know what all we could do to pass the next 4 hrs until we needed to get to the airport, we headed to Celebration, FL. Disneys Town. It was almost as we stepped into Pleasantville. We got ice cream and enjoyed the sites. And sites I mean the man made lake/pond, and the old people. Lots of old people sitting in rocking chairs by this lake/pond thing. It was really crazy how much this place was straight out of perfectville.
Another 2 hrs to kill. We headed to the temple. It was beautiful. I spent many an hours there years ago. Church was really short and I didnt always get to go. So I would spend time reading my scriptures at the temple. Somehow I felt like that was making up for missed time.
And the trip was coming to a slow end. After turning in the rental car and checking in, we had plenty of time for dinner at Outback. Delicious. It was great end to a great trip! I must say that I perfectly missed 9 inches of snow!
