Here we are sitting in Flordia, the morning of our first full day in Florida. Chris is trying to recruit someone to help him throw Kaitlyn in the pool (even though it was Meghan's idea in the first place) and the friggin' refrigerator door will NOT close even if you had a pneumatic press.
Really though, the highlight of the day has been going to bed at a little before 4 a.m. this morning. Oh yes, we got to Orlando and immediately went out partying with Mickey and Minnie until the wee hours.
No, not really. What happened was that the Philadelphia Airport and U.S. Airways conspired to make our lives a living hell. Well, not Derek and Meghan's, since we were on a different flight direct from Boston. We landed in Orlando and found out that they were still in Philly, number 37 for takeoff from the ONE RUNWAY available for takeoffs and landings. We wound up getting the two rental cars and going to the house ahead of them. We also went to Wal-Mart Supercenter to get some basic stuff for the week and for the first morning. We had to go to Wal-Mart because apparently there isn't a 24-hour supermarket anywhere in the area. There's five million places to buy crappy t-shirts and souvenirs, but I guess none of those families ever need something in the middle of the night.
Going to a Wal-Mart Supercenter in the deep south at midnight is a great way to start a trip. Only the finest of the finest are out at that point. We were impressed how much non-nutritional food we managed to buy for $150.
Note to anyone who ever is in the Orlando area: go the speed limit. There are a ton of unmarked police cars in the area. Umm... not that I know about that or anything. (no ticket or anything, but the Orlando police are a fine-dressed bunch who drive nifty cars. A lovely bunch them all).
We eventually picked up the rest of the Johnson clan and got back to the house around 3 a.m. And then we ate chips, salsa and bananas. Yum!
The room that Chris and I share is the BEST - it is all Mickey Mouse themed, complete with a Mickey Mouse TV and DVD player and curtains and a Mickey Mouse clock with really cool moving hands that go "click clock click clock" and made Chris and I want to throw it against the wall about five minutes after the lights got turned out. Chris ripped the batteries out. Good job Chris.
The most recent thing so far is is that Kaitlyn and Chris have developed some cockamamie idea that if they vote alike on something, then it is an automatic win. The only good part is that it will probably never happen, so I'm not worried.
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