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I guess we should have gone to the parks today instead of yesterday: it was gray and overcast, but cool and not a single drop of rain. Oh well!

After breakfast and a little personal time at the hotel (Disney’s All-Star Music resort), we headed over to check out Disney’s Boardwalk. We had seen it yesterday while taking the Friendship boats from Hollywood Studios to Epcot and it looked neat. It’s a nice little area, but not that big and there’s not that much to do in the early afternoon. It’s mostly restaurants and clubs (which open later) and a few stores for shopping. It does afford a nice view of the Yacht and Beach Clubs across the lake, though. I liked the tagline for the ESPN club: “we recommend the HD.” 🙂 It’s probably a cooler place to go in the evening.

Since it was just about early lunch time, we decided to try Spoodles, a Mediterranean restaurant on the boardwalk. The breakfast menu was up, but since it was 11:15 we figured by the time we were seated, lunch would be served. Well, after waiting for 10 minutes and then being shown to our table, we were told they don’t serve lunch! Just breakfast/brunch, and then dinner starting at 5:30. We had already eaten breakfast, and there was really nothing appealing on the brunch menu …

… so we left, drove over to Downtown Disney, and had lunch at Bongos Cuban Cafe, which was very good (I recommend the Cuban sandwich). After lunch we wandered around the West Side and Disney Marketplace and did some shopping. Then it was back to the hotel for a family nap.

Refreshed, we went over to Summer Winterland miniature golf and played the sand course. My wife scored two holes-in-one and tied the course record for the day (38). We actually left Disney property 😛 and grabbed dinner at QDoba over in the touristy area on Apopka-Vineland Road.

Back at hotel, we swam a bit in the guitar-shaped Calypso pool and then finished up the day watching a bit of “Finding Nemo” in the hotel food court on the big plasma screen.

Overall, a fun, relaxing day, and we stayed dry the entire time.