Sales Pitch

I don't know what possessed me to get a new camera. I have a point and shoot and a DSLR, but when I was shopping the other day, I couldn't resist the little digital camera for Victoria. Her current one is only 3.1mp and does not have a display screen. This Panasonic LS 80 Lumix camera is too darn cute! It's really small, unlike my Canon point and shoot, and it's 8.1 mp with only 3x zoom. It's truly a pocket camera. My Canon takes 4 AA batteries and can weigh a little more than you'd like for a pocket camera.

Victoria took pictures of the game room, and of the ducks outside. She's fed and named the ducks. They are so used to people, it looks like they are posing for her.

I woke up at 5:30am. The mattress seems comfortable. I did not get out of bed until 7am. Victoria did not get up until I insisted at 8:15am. We headed down to the pool which opened at 9am. The indoor pool area was so hot. A few other families had the same idea we did, by arriving early to avoid the crowds. We left at 10:15am and drove around to the other parts of the resort. We looked at the go cart area, but it requires people to be at least 57 inches tall, and Victoria falls short a oouple of inches.

We went back to the condo and had soup. It's sunny outside, but you need a sweatshirt. Most people walking around are either looking like LL Bean models or wearing sweatsuits. The soup hit the spot.

We hung around until our 4pm 'survey' time. We drove into the hills to the conference center where we were met immediately. They assigned a woman originally from Germany but moved to the states in 1991 to me. She still has a very heavy accent. She is a single mother but that is about all of the similiarities. Her daughter is 30, this woman does not own a computer, and is an artist. I answered her questions, trying to decifer them in a crowded room with one hundred other survey participants required me to focus. She insisted on drawing me maps of area attractions for us to visit. I told her I had a GPS and the maps were not necessary and thats when I learned she owns nothing computerized.

Just when I thought the survey was over, she insisted on taking us to see models. Honestly, the two other models we visited were just like ours. This resort is huge, and the maintanence fees are very low, about 220 per week, so if you like resorts like this it's great. They are able to keep their fees down because they own so many fee-activities on site like gift shops, golf shops, water parks etc. I just don't want another time share. After driving around, she told us they have to make us a friendly offer. They explained the worth was 32k blah blah blah but I could have 2 weeks today for 10K. No thanks. No thanks, and one more no thanks for good measure. As we left a woman offered the same deal for 5k. Interesting.

We headed out for a bite to eat and ended up at Long John Silvers. I don't think I've eaten there since I was a child. It was pretty much what I remembered and we headed back to the resort.