First time in a while and I stumble on to your trip report, how lucky is that? I always enjoy your reports.
Ditto to all that! I've been off sulking most of the past year because it was so long between Orlando trips, but maybe I'll stick around awhile this time. Took me a few days to read this thread, and will probably take me a while to catch up on the other Gina trips I haven't read (and I'll probably reread the others anyhow, why not?), should get me back in the habit of hangin' out at the Dis.
As you may or may not remember, I can ramble on considerable... There's a scroll bar, you can shut me up easily enough. So here's some random observations as I read...
Ever read
Nancy Drew books, Gina? I used to enjoy the ones from the forties -- the ones from the seventies, not so much... Anyhow, a secondary character in those (Nancy's good friend) is the only other Georgina I've run across; most of the Ginas I've known were Reginas, I think.
I'm another anhinga fan, and like
bankr63's comment that they're a "Loon in a more tropical setting." Loons are Minnesota's state birds -- I'm a native Minnesota, although I haven't lived there since I was six, and that's the only "Minnesota state anything" I know, because loons are cool. As are anhinga.
How wonderful that you got to take that behind the scenes tour at SeaWorld! Disboard peeps are the best.
No otter in the new Clyde and Seamore show? Middle daughter will not be pleased.
Gators generally look self-satisfied as much as anything, IMHO, but most of the ones at Gator Spot looked outright happy! They knew you were there to appreciate them, that's what.
Many, many thanks on the food reviews. Red Robin is on our “give it a try” list, too, but I'm realizing that we don’t eat nearly as many burgers on vacation as you guys do, which is probably why we’ve not gotten there yet. Compared to you guys, we're practically vegetarians! Now I think on it, we eat a lot of ethnic peasant food and vegetarian-ish stuff at home; maybe that's why we're more likely to hit restaurants for decadence than a proper meal.
I'm jealous of the people who get five weeks of vacation or more a year -- always thought five or six weeks a year would be perfect. Although hubby's company is pretty flexible about him taking off early or taking long lunches or otherwise fiddling with his schedule to see a kid's class or whatever (when I had a baby at home, he took the older kids to most of their classes and homeschool gym and whatnot), he only gets three weeks vacation time, and every other year we spend a week of it on Christmas with my side of the family (his family is closer so when his mom was alive we'd do Thanksgiving and a holiday weekend or two out there -- we've been really bad about visiting them since his mom died, need to get better about that
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OTOH, I love your trip reports, so that jealousy is somewhat balanced out by appreciation. Reading one of your trip reports is a mini-vacation in itself!
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How are the grandkids?
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you know me so well. Just for future reference the Grey Goose is the best.
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. Now that you bring it up, we do seem to hit up a lot of burger joints on our trips 
. I guess we'll have to work on branching out on that!
. Good thing he's chosen one I really, really like this time.....otherwise I may have had to reconsider my cream cheese fear just to ensure he got an entertaining mother in law...
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