Florida Vacation

For Memorial Weekend, Andy and I took a vacation to Florida. We had tons of fun!! The weather was PERFECT....It is in the mid 80's with a slight cool breeze the whole time we were there. So, we got plenty of sun. :) Anyway, here is a re-cap of how our weekend was.

Saturday:

Arrived at the airport and picked up our rental car. To our surprise, we were able to choose our car..of course, it depended on what size you rented, but you had your choice among that size. So, we chose a Toyota Corrola. We decided to drive to Tampa to go to the beach, which was about an 1 1/2 hours away. Anyway, as we drove, we noticed the steering wheel shook pretty badly. So, we stopped by the same rental place in Tampa to exchange the car. Luckily, the company allowed us to do this. The lady who was helping us said we could choose from either the compact or midsize cars. At first, Andy chose a Toyota Yaris but then as we were going to pick the car up, we saw that there was a Prius in the midsize section. We grabbed the keys right away and I went to see if we could change the car. The lady didn't hestitate and changed the car for us. Of course, it took us a while to figure out how to drive the car, but we had a lot of fun. Definitely saved us a lot of money on gas. :)

After we got the car, we continued the rest of the way to Clearwater Beach. It was so beautiful! We LOVED laying on the beach, swimming in the ocean, and just enjoying being out in the sun. :) We were also able to meet up with some friends for dinner later that evening.

When we were done eating, we drove back to Orlando to check into our resort....courtesy of agreeing to listen to a presentation, we were able to stay at the Hilton Grand Vacation for really cheap. It was an awesome resort...we were really impressed.

Sunday:

We pre-gifted and picked up our Disney Tickets and headed off to Epcot Center. I had a lot of fun. We went on a few rides (Space Mission, Test Track, and a few others) and walked around the different countries. We were also able to meet up with our friends Daniel and Joanne. It was a lot of fun seeing them.

Monday:

In the morning we had our presentation...if the representative didn't talk so much, I think we would have been out really quick. By the time we got to the closing the deal portion, it only took 10 minutes to finish up. We told them right away that we were not interested and that they would not be able to do anything to change our mind. Well, actually, I said that if the package cost was like $2000, then I would consider it. We were really proud of ourselves.

After the presentation, we met up with friends at the Kennedy Space Center. That was a really neat place to visit. Especially seeing all the different aspects of the space center. The coolest part was that the Discovery Shuttle was on the launch pad ready to launch in 5 days. Because it was so close, we had a really good view of the crawler. The crawler is what moves the shuttle out to the pad. I guess it takes 8 hours for them to move the shuttle out because it moves at 1/2 a mile per hour.

For dinner, we went to eat at an all you can eat sushi place for $15. Andy was the only one who bought it and he ate a ton! He ordered 6 rolls and each roll was 8 pieces. So he basically ate 48 pieces...minus a few that I ate. :)

Tuesday:

This was our last day so we just shopped around the outlet mall, ate lunch, then headed to the airport. We were sad to leave.

Anyway, that's basically our trip in a nutshell. I'll have to add more pics later.