The Return Of The Pattons - Day 12

[wee-haggis]

DH - Rick - 48 (Disney Vacation ATM Machine)
DW - Julia - 41 (Obsessive Ticket Holder..."The man might get me")
DS - Matthew - 14 (Living 12 Nights Without A Computer)
DD - Nicole - 12 (VMK Geek)
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Day 12 (last full day...of this trip)
Early morning swim,then everyone showers and changes to go to IHOP for breakfast. Once again its fabulous.
We decide to go to the town of Celebration for the first time.
We are very impressed.Its a beautiful town. DW has the best cafe latte shes ever had from Barneys Coffee House.
We all have a seat in the rocking chairs overlooking the lake the off for a walk around the samll town. DH decides he wants to check out the Celebration Hotel and emerges with a brochure that DW hopes will persuade him to use for a future visit. Very relaxing and very peaceful town (and very expensive) .

Home for a swim then lunch.
The pool boy stops by to check the chlorine levels and DW almost breaks the sliding door while clambering to get outside in case he has his shirt off! It turns out that he was about 50 years old and someones grampa!
Later in the afternoon we drive out to Cypress Pointe Villas where we will be staying next August. It is very nice and we look forward to this visit.
Home for dinner,laundry and packing.
DH can't help himself when he sees an Open House Sign on the lawn of a villa 2 doors down from ours.It is very nice with an equally nice view and going for $260,000 (not a bad deal). So ,I just got my check book out and the,,,DW slapped me and I woke up from my dream!
One more swim in the pool and into bed for an early rise.
Our Last Day
Up at 6am and after making sure the house was cleaned up and garbage deposited in garage,we take off for MCO.The car return at Dollar was a breeze.
After checking in with Westjet,we head to McDonalds for breakfast,wander through the shops and then through the Security point.
After taking the monorail over to Departures we smell..."THE CINNABON".
DW says she has to have one...mmmm.We get two and split them with a drink.
After that its off to get our magazines for the plane (and an Orlando Centinel newspaper).
Flight 2 hours 15 minutes. Weather in Toronto upon arrival fabulous.
Toronto Airport Arrival baggage carousel...a nightmare,as usual (6 flights on one carousel...duhhh!).
Limo driver was waiting for us to take us back to reality.
Not to worry.....we are back again in December to the same villa.
All in all a,great trip.
We now have great appreciation for the hard work that all the other folk put in to doing these trip reports. Hope ours stacks up.

 

[tubachick]

Sounds like a restful vacation. How far was your villa and was it worth driving back and forth so many times? I love all of your shopping trips. and hope DD had a great time collecting the VMK things. Just started checking that out. Thanks for sharing.

 

[wee-haggis]

Sounds like a restful vacation. How far was your villa and was it worth driving back and forth so many times? I love all of your shopping trips. and hope DD had a great time collecting the VMK things. Just started checking that out. Thanks for sharing.

The Villa was about 15 min drive to All Things Disney and only 2 minutes to 192.
All in all a great location very close to everything.

 

[tubachick]

So it was worth traveling back and forth during the day for a swim. That is what I was thinking about. How were the gas prices when you were there?

 

[wee-haggis]

So it was worth traveling back and forth during the day for a swim. That is what I was thinking about. How were the gas prices when you were there?

The drive was no more than 20 minutes from the any of the parks to the villa.
The price of gas was/is going just like any other city in North America but during the 12 days I spent about $50 in gas....still well worth it in my opinion to have a nice relaxing swim and to get away from the parks for a break9I think it makes the day more enjoyable and you don't have to cram everything into the day before you go back to your place of residence).

 

[wee-haggis]

So it was worth traveling back and forth during the day for a swim. That is what I was thinking about. How were the gas prices when you were there?

Where are you going to be staying and for how long.
Hope you have a great trip.

 

[Minniespal]

Enjoyed reading your report ~ Thanx for posting.

 

[MsSpinShady]

Thank you for a wonderful trip report! Your pictures were wonderful, for a few minutes it was liking being home again...

Have a great trip in December, and please come back here and write another report!

MsSpinShady