Canadave
DIS Veteran
- Joined
- Oct 25, 1999
The CAST: DD1 (Brittany, 15 yrs. old), DD2 (Emily, 11 yrs. old), DW (Marylynn, let's just say early 40's) and myself (Dave,same)
Sunday and Monday, February 8 & 9/04
We're up bright and early, hoping to be on the road for 8. While the family is finishing up the packing, I head over to the Main Hall and grab a coffee and a luggage carrier...no sign of Tyler...maybe we'll see him next trip...I'm glad I have my jeans on cause it's 39* out
(turns out today's high was 58*...good timing for us)...I was hoping our 'quick check-out' bill would be dropped off as we had requested one...alas, there must have been an error, because the next door had theirs...so I went to the front desk and they apologized and I was quickly on my way.
Finally get the van loaded and are off and running by 8:20...not bad...it's sad leaving...giving everything that last look as you pass them...but everyone is feeling good as it was a great holiday and we had spent some quality time together...now it's just the long drive home.
We pass the hydro pole that's shaped like a hidden Mickey...that is soooo neat...but as usual, we didn't have the camera ready, so a picture will have to wait until next trip....we miss our first exit and end up driving an extra 20 minutes...no problem...an extra 20 minutes in Florida
...it is so neat seeing all these orange groves in Florida, especially for a Canadian, especially in February, so we stop at a road side stand and buy some fresh oranges for the trip home.
It was a pretty uneventful trip home...on the first day we stopped in Macon & Ringgold, Georgia; Knoxville and Walton, Kentucky (went into the same Pilot gas station that we were in on the way down...this is the one we had asked for directions during the real foggy night...same people were there and had remembered us...we all had a good laugh, although I'm not sure if they were laughing with us or.....) : and finally we stopped in Middletown, Ohio at the Super 8 around 11:30...it had been a long drive, but we wanted to get as far as we could and make day 2 a shorter drive...had an interesting talk with the hotel clerk about the storm that we JUST missed on the way down...we were pretty lucky.
Up the next morning and on the road just after 8...one stop for gas in Bowling Green, Ohio before getting to the border at around noon...went through border check in no time at all...even though we forgot that we still had a couple of oranges
...stopped in Tilbury for some KFC (need those KFC hot chicken wings...can't get them in the States) and Tim Horton's.
Home sweet home at 5:10...as great of a trip as it was, it is always nice to be home...24 hours of drive time!...that's 3 hours less than last trip.
...my last report will be a short synopsis of the trip...hopefully to be posted very soon
Sunday and Monday, February 8 & 9/04
We're up bright and early, hoping to be on the road for 8. While the family is finishing up the packing, I head over to the Main Hall and grab a coffee and a luggage carrier...no sign of Tyler...maybe we'll see him next trip...I'm glad I have my jeans on cause it's 39* out
(turns out today's high was 58*...good timing for us)...I was hoping our 'quick check-out' bill would be dropped off as we had requested one...alas, there must have been an error, because the next door had theirs...so I went to the front desk and they apologized and I was quickly on my way.Finally get the van loaded and are off and running by 8:20...not bad...it's sad leaving...giving everything that last look as you pass them...but everyone is feeling good as it was a great holiday and we had spent some quality time together...now it's just the long drive home.
We pass the hydro pole that's shaped like a hidden Mickey...that is soooo neat...but as usual, we didn't have the camera ready, so a picture will have to wait until next trip....we miss our first exit and end up driving an extra 20 minutes...no problem...an extra 20 minutes in Florida
...it is so neat seeing all these orange groves in Florida, especially for a Canadian, especially in February, so we stop at a road side stand and buy some fresh oranges for the trip home.It was a pretty uneventful trip home...on the first day we stopped in Macon & Ringgold, Georgia; Knoxville and Walton, Kentucky (went into the same Pilot gas station that we were in on the way down...this is the one we had asked for directions during the real foggy night...same people were there and had remembered us...we all had a good laugh, although I'm not sure if they were laughing with us or.....) : and finally we stopped in Middletown, Ohio at the Super 8 around 11:30...it had been a long drive, but we wanted to get as far as we could and make day 2 a shorter drive...had an interesting talk with the hotel clerk about the storm that we JUST missed on the way down...we were pretty lucky.
Up the next morning and on the road just after 8...one stop for gas in Bowling Green, Ohio before getting to the border at around noon...went through border check in no time at all...even though we forgot that we still had a couple of oranges
...stopped in Tilbury for some KFC (need those KFC hot chicken wings...can't get them in the States) and Tim Horton's.Home sweet home at 5:10...as great of a trip as it was, it is always nice to be home...24 hours of drive time!...that's 3 hours less than last trip.
...my last report will be a short synopsis of the trip...hopefully to be posted very soon
I miss that. When my Mom used to winter in Florida, it was a favourite park of our 2 weeks every Feb. Glad your drive home was uneventful. 
