I"m back! Took a full 10 days away from the board as we traveled to WDW. Looks like I missed quite a bit! Thank you all for the birthday wishes. I spent my birthday at HS, had lunch in France at Epcot and then dinner at California Grill.
To all those who are also having (or had) birthdays, happy birthday to you, too! And for those of you needing prayers for breast cancer, death in the family, ailing relatives, etc, please know that you have them.
Our trip to WDW was great. It was 10 days of sun and a bit too much heat, but no rain at all. Not too many glitches although we started with a room issue when they put me in a standard view room overlooking the bus stop and I had been told last April that my RCI reservation (using my inlaws points) was a savanna view! I complained and eventually they put me in a standard view room on the skinny piece of the savanna with the red river hogs and the okapi. We loved the room! Only other glitch was someone parking in the ONLY handicap spot at Pumbaa elevators and they didn't have any handicap permit visible. When I called the front desk to complain, they told me that Disney will not enforce handicap parking rules. They put me through to Orance County sheriff's office who told me it was Osceola county and put me through to them. I don't think anyone ever did come give the guy a ticket because the blue van was still parked there the next morning without a ticket on it. I left a polite note and he didn't park there again that night. As you may have guessed, my knees weren't doing well with the arthritis even after the shots I had at the end of Feb and early March. I ended up in a
scooter again for the parks.
We had a three day ticket to Universal so Fri and Sat night we stayed at the Royal Pacific hotel. Nice place, but still just a hotel room. I want my
DVC villas. Universal Studios was okay, not great. And Islands of Adventure was much the same except we really liked Harry Potter. For yesterday though, we decided to "waste" the 3rd day of the Universal ticket and go back to Disney. It was odd, we both had the same feeling of peace when driving past the entrance to Disney. It truly did feel like we were coming home. I gues we are just not Universal people. It will likely be many years, if ever, before we go back.
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We were in the high 60s/low 70s not too long ago, though I knew it was too early to expect those temps full-time. Still, 3" of snow?! I need my rocker at the Lodge. . .
I'm not too far from you. . .
@ work dreaming of Mooses and 
