Wednesday - A Pool Day

So, Wednesday saw us relaxing around the pool and generally settling in - and working out just what to do for the rest of the week ! ( after a hearty breakfast at a local Denny's !! )

As you can imagine, Lily hardly spent any time OUT of the pool and loved it all. It wasn't the warmest pool in the world as they don't have any heating on, but once you were in, it was very refreshing to get out of the heat !

Again we were amazed at just how high quality the house was - no less than 3 huge HD TV's and separate cable running to them all, fully equipped kitchen with all the gadgets, beautifully furnished lounges and bedrooms and an enormous en-suite to our master bedroom with jacuzzi bath and massive walk in shower. All very very nice. The house next door is up for sale and after a little poking around the internet, we found it up for $238k - amazing value and no wonder so many people buy a holiday home here and rent it out.

With our plans laid, we enjoyed the day around the pool, and travelled out to a local restaurant ( Santa Fe's ) for dinner. A 'real' american bar/diner sort of place - the first thing you get is a bucket full of monkey nuts - and you throw the shells on the floor much to Lily's amusement ! Everything you can imagine on the menu, as long as it involves meat, so I waddled out an hour later after a whole rack of BBQ ribs, wings & fries feeling as fat as a house.

All in all, a great day !

Hello From FLORIDA !!!

I thought it would be a good idea to knock together a quick blog to let everyone know what we are up to, where we have been and what we have seen !

Better late than never I suppose as we have now been here just over a week, but the week so far has gone really quickly and now I have the chance to sit quietly and do it !!

So...we arrived last Tuesday afternoon and stepped out of the airport into 92 degrees - quite a shock to the system I can tell you ( especially since i was still wearing my fatface pullover !! )

The flight was really good - long and boring obviously but uneventful - and Lily took it all in her stride....if she wasn't glued to the Ipad she was glued to the TV and we didn't hear a peep from her ! Our names were called out and we were treated to some nibbles and champagne ( just like the Vegas flight ) so that made us feel special - thanks to our Virgin insider !

After clearing immigration, we headed off to get our car  -  "just go to the parking lot and pick anything you want from the row of SUV's on the left" was the instruction - Oooohhh what to have what to have ! To be honest, I already knew what I wanted, and 5 minutes later I was trying to work out how to start our Jeep Cherokee - in black of course ! I am soooo impressed that I have decided to work double hard this year coming and buy one !

Ali had insisted we hire a SatNav ( against my wishes as blokes don't need piffling things like that ) and within a few more minutes, we were off to find our house !

30 minutes later, I relented and turned on the SatNav...turned the car around and headed in the right direction to our house ! Yippeeeee....I knew we should have got SatNav !!

We had done quite a bit of research on the property Ali found, and we certainly weren't disapointed, it was beautiful and HUGE !

We were in Davenport which is only about 15 miles from the airport, and only a couple of miles from the Disney roads complex ( EVERYTHING in Orlando centres around Disney ! ) so totally central to all we needed. The resort / housing complex is built around a golf course and the whole place was immaculate, much like our home which seemed to be brand new ! We did little more that night than take a quick trip to Walmart to stock up, and then Ali unpacked while Lily and I explored the pool !

We had a HUUUUGE lightening storm Tuesday night that lit the whole sky in all directions - it was a very humid night and the temp didn't drop below 85...luckily the aircon works very well !

Next morning ( Wednesday ) was an early one for me and Lily - by 6am we were both wide awake ! Ali had no trouble sleeping in which gave me and Lily a chance to take a few pictures and some video of the house....

Lily by the Pool

Our Pool