Wednesday

We planned on sleeping in a bit today. I heard some of the folks up at 6am but everyone seemed to return to bed until 7am. Pancakes for breakfast and a leisurely morning. The pace feels very brisk to me, but I'm not sure if it feels that way to the residents. At the beginning of the week several folks asked why I had 'only' booked one week while others wanted to move here. I am getting the feeling now some are ready to go home. They are talking about the plane ride back and who is working this weekend. My daughter is ready for me to come home too. I had to venture out after 8am to get the delivery at the post office. The slip left on the door said they would re-deliver, but when Genese called they indicated they would not.

Sherry and George came for the ride. I love my GPS. I hardly pay attention to how to get home because I just follow the pre-programmed address I put into it. I had downloaded a file from mousesavers.com so all of the Disney Parks were already in the GPS system. George and Sherry got a kick out of me asking the woman at the post office where it said they would not redeliver. She said they stopped doing that six months ago. Why wasn't the card information they leave on the door updated? She said the card does say it and could not point it out to me after I asked her to show me. After she found out we were on vacation she said they don't even normally deliver to vacation homes. Sheesh.

We got back to the house and everyone was up and well fed. We had a pool tournament in the garage. None of us are very good so one game lasted at least an hour. It was the hottest day we've had, and we decided to skip on the miniature golfing due to heat sensitivities.

The residents are trying to hold on to all of their reciepts and they bring me crumpled up slips of paper at the end of each day. Everyone has done really well with their money and spending.

After lunch we split up into two shopping groups: Downtown Disney and Disney Outlet/Coffee shop groups. We went back to the outlet store. Jim wanted another shirt (his third) and dismissed any shirts with modest/small sized Mickey Mouse emblems on them. He wanted a BIG Mickey across his chest,nothing else would do. After making our purchases, we headed across the parking lot to the coffee shop. Folks had lattes and cinnamon buns. We picked up a couple of things to go with dinner and were home by 4:30pm. Most people napped for an hour and a half. Genese played a pretty good April Fools joke on me and Bill. I can't believe we fell for it.

We spotted some vultures outside of the lanai and when we took a peek at them we saw an aligator in the pond. He slipped around the lake for most of the late afternoon, never showing more than his head. Karen was dropped off just before 6pm. Dinner was grilled meats and some salads. After dinner everyone watched American Idol.

Tomorrow is Epcot. A couple of us are concerned about it holding everyones' interest. We are adding a wheelchair for one individual so he does not injure himself reacting to the hot sun. It's fun to listen to the folks talk at the end of the day about their experiences. Each person treasures different moments. I was listening to Lori explain how exciting the Tikki Room was with all of the colorful birds. I was glad to hear it because she avoided many major attractions. She told me a story about how she was tricked onto a rollercoaster when she was younger and that was why she did not want to do any of them. She does have an appreciation for the colors and costumes of Disney World. Splash Mountain was a big hit with the people who rode it. Pirates of the Carribean was also favored by many.

Tomorrow is our last day then we do everything we did a week ago ... backwards!