Orlando

Thursday night, Danny drove us to th airport Marriott so that we could spend the night there and not have to drive up in heavy traffic in the morning.

The three of us had dinner at Latitude 33. (First food description!) We had the pupu platter which had yummy crunchy shrimp, calamari (that Danny tasted but did not like,) ahi, and chicken wraps. Grant had Filet Mignon and Danny and I had Chicken sandwiches. Yummy!
The next morning, we got to the airport and flew to Orlando. The planes had tv's, thank the gods, because there was a screaming kid in the row right behind us. (Please don;t tell me that could be me someday!)

WE arrived in orlando on time got our bags and rental cars and drove on out to the Pop Century resort (with a stop at Publix to get some groceries.) We are staying in the 50's buildings, on the parking lot side, which is good because it is quieter then the pool side! (Man I am starting to sound like a cranky old lady!)

We drove over to the Plynesian and had dinner at the Kona Cafe. We shared a blue cheese and apple salad and an order of potstickers.
Grant had macedemia nut mahi-mahi, and I had almond and honey crusted Chicken... SO GOOD! Then Grant had a chocolate lava cake dessert and I had a carmel banana creme brulee. Heaven.

We jumped ont he monorail for a quick round trip to the Grand Floridian, Magic Kingdom, and COntemporary Resorts ending back at the Polynesian. As we got to the COntemporary, the Magic Kingdom fireworks began, and we watched them from the monorail, and then once we got back to the Polynesian, we walked down to the beach to watch the rest of them from there. (They play the fireworks music all over the resort, which is really cool!)

When we got back to the Pop Century, we walked around the whold resort, and checked out the 50's section and pool, the 60's section and pool, the 70's section (with the built in twister games) the 80's and 90-'s sections with their shared pools, the time walk along the lake (that has little trivia pieces about what happened during each generation,) and the generation bridge, which will eventually link this resort to its other half, the 1900's - 1940's.

Night!