T & T Do Thanksgiving Day 11

[tony64]

Saturday 1st December

Got up and had a shower before fetching the coffee. No donuts today as we had bought a very scrummy looking chocolate, peanut butter and caramel cake at Target yesterday which was just waiting to be eaten. Yes, we DID eat it for breakfast!

We checked out of Club Sevilla, somewhere we will definitely be looking to stay again.

We headed for The Mall at Millennia and it was quiet when we got there but it soon filled up with people getting their Christmas shopping.

We went into Yankee Candle and got some air fresheners for the car and just enjoyed looking around all the designer shops.

We had lunch in The Cheesecake Factory and I couldn’t believe they said I wasn’t allowed to take a picture of the cheesecake and gateaux display unless I bought some. This fitted in with our plans anyway so we thought it wouldn’t be a problem. However after the cake for breakfast and the very nice and large pulled pork sandwich for me and the Herb Crusted Salmon for Theresa, we couldn’t fit it in. So, sorry guys no photos. The cheesecakes were gorgeous and the cakes were massive!

When we came out of the Mall we couldn’t find the car!

We knew we had gone in through Macy’s so we knew we were in the right car park. But no car! We had parked along a hedge row and we could even match the foliage to just one row as all the rows had different trees in them. Still NO car!

We flagged down a police car and explained our problem and the officer got a security car to come over to us.

It turned out we had gone in upstairs and when we exited we were downstairs. So we back tracked and came out in an identical car park, except this one did have our car in it.


We have never lost our car in all the visits to a Disney or Universal car park and we do in it a comparatively small car park at a mall.
The car park was chocka as people were waiting for spaces, a nice couple waited patiently for our space and chatted to us while we packed our last bits and pieces into our cases.

Off to the airport and we did get the seats that we had pre booked, so we had two nice ones in a row of our own 62 K & H.

The flight was a bit turbulent on the way home and the seat belt sign was on for most of the flight. We had to queue for the first time ever to get through passport control but the customs area was empty so we were fairly quickly through and picking the car up from Maple Manor and on our way home.


I have missed a few points so I’ll stick them on here.

Theresa was bitten quite a lot so the mossies hadn’t died off yet. We have been in October several times with no problems so I guess the weather must have stayed hotter for longer this year.

If you are thinking of seeing Ice, go in the morning as it is not so busy and you will be able to get photographs. If you go later in the day the shots will be full of people.

Highlights:
Keys to the kingdom tour
Artist Point
Mythos
The castle ( Really Beautiful )

Lowlights:
Dollar Car hire( charged for insurance I hadn’t asked for virgin are looking into)[ thought I should add Virgin did sort it out and gave us a full refund on the cost of the additional insurance] Thanks Virgin.

Thank you for reading my report and all your nice comments about my pictures.

 

[Tammy Stringer]

Thanks Tony for taking the time to finish your report - glad you had such a wonderful time.

Tam

 

[tennisfan]

Thanks for sharing your report. The photos have been great

 

[Minniespal]

Thanks for taking the time to post your reports Tony ~ I've really enjoyed reading them.

 

[arieljasmine]

Thank you for sharing your reports with us, Tony, I have so enjoyed reading them. Losing your car is so easy to do when all the cars and all the parking lots look the same!

Laur's

 

[natalielongstaff]

Thanks for the great reports Tony

ps
we lost our car at a mall as well....bloomin hire cars all look the same

 

[wils]

Great reports - thanks so much

 

[DisneyJo]

Thanks for a great TR, the decorations in the mall looked so pretty and glad you finally found your car!!!!

 

[KayleeUK]

Thanks Tony and Theresa

 

[Chilly]

Great report and great photos, thanks for sharing.

 

[Goofysmate]

Tony & Teressa i've enjoyed reading your reports but everyone has left me feeling hungry after all those wonderful things you've eaten . I love the cheese cakes they do in the states and have been known to have a slice every day while over there (yummy)

 

[mark&sue]

You must have been frantic when you could not find your car with a plane to catch later.

Thank you so much for your great report and fantastic photos


susan

 

[florida sun]

Great reports Tony, thank you for sharing them, I have really enjoyed reading them all