Happy Thanksgiving, everyone! We had Thanksgiving dinner with family at the Eglin Air Force Base Officer’s Club, which was great. We’ll probably do a little shopping tomorrow over in the Destin area and then Saturday morning we hit the road for home.
We’re on our way to north Florida to spend the Thanksgiving holiday with family, but today we swung through Orlando to spend a quick day at Disney. We needed to renew our annual passes that we had purchased last November anyway in order to get the extra three months for free. Now we’re set through …
Whew, what a couple of days! It’s late Saturday evening and my little brother is now a married man. Congratulations, kids! 
Friday morning started with a family breakfast, just the siblings and our parents … something we haven’t done for a very long time (years). The restaurant we had breakfast at was the location …
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The plan was to get to Animal Kingdom close to opening time (9am) this morning, so we had breakfast in our room and then walked over to the bus stop at the Contemporary. The last time were we at Animal Kingdom was back in 2007, so we were looking forward to checking out the Asia …
This morning we got up early and headed over to the Magic Kingdom to meet some friends for breakfast. We caught the monorail over in the Contemporary and had our particular car all to ourselves. That didn’t last, of course, as the monorail swung through the Polynesian and Grand Floridian resorts on the way over. …
It was Beach Week at Progessive Field, which turned out to be a little ironic since the temperature at game time Saturday night was in the low 60s and the wind blowing in from Lake Erie was downright chilly. Thank goodness the rain held off! Despite that, and the Indians’ 3-1 loss to the Mariners, …
Happy Independence Day! Our fireworks viewing experience was a little more interactive this year: the wind direction was blowing the ash, smoke, and debris right overhead, so remnants of the shells (and sometimes still glowing embers) were dropping into the crowd around us at the Largo City Park. So in addition to oooh’ing and aaah’ing …
Today I spent most of the day in the office here in Manhattan working on the fixed assets system upgrade. My wife and daughter came by (after flying into JFK that morning) to pick up the hotel key and then ran off to spend a day in the city. This evening, I met up with …
We had friends from out of town visiting over Thanksgiving last year who wanted to take their kids to Walt Disney World so we ended up getting Florida resident seasonal passes. We’d never been over to Disney in March (usually my March weekends involve Spring Training baseball) so we had never been to the Flower …
We got up really early (3:45am AZ time) this morning to head back to the Phoenix airport since my brother’s flight was departing at 6:10am. After seeing him off through security in Terminal 3, I took the shuttle over to Terminal 4 to check my bag for my own flight home. When it was finally …