Going to Florida

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Wednesday morning we got up at 4AM and headed into the airport. Despite being near the holiday, we got good parking as we were pretty early.


The plate was quite full.


But, we took off on time.


Soon we were coming down in Florida.


We drove up to mariness’s place and headed for lunch.


Then we headed off to a nature trail she wanted to see.


We did not walk all 29.2 miles (47km).


How far we did walk is not totally clear. There were markings on the path. I thought they were in miles. If so, we walked 2 1/2 miles each way. But, according to google we should have seen a cross road if we did. And, we didn’t. So maybe it was 2 1/2km each way? Hard to say as google has been wrong about things before. And, at best it wouldn’t be more than a dirt road.
Anyhow, it seemed a long way when it was 83F/28C and I was not used to that heat.

The vultures seemed to be watching me fairly intently…


Because it was warm there were butterflies out.


There was also a sign eating tree.


Our big worry was letting the sun go down. None of us wanted to go down the path through the swamp in the dark.


OK, it is on a raised, paved path through the swamp. But, still.


My wife wanted to hurry back to the car as someone was driving around it in some weird vehicle.

She double time marched us back to the car.
Made me wish I had packed water…

But, we went off to a place with things to drink and fancy deserts. That was nice.


You can see I’m much happier. Right?


Then, we went looking at the Christmas lights in Winter Garden.



They deck out their golf carts too.


For dinner I had a pizza with ham, pineapple, almonds, cinnamon, but no cheese.

The folks making it thought no cheese was strange…

After dinner we dropped off mariness and headed to our hotel.
As we were only there two nights and I had a LOT of points built up with hotels.com for the year, we got a nice room with a balcony and view of the pool.

Good view of the area.