Pumpkin finale!

Liz and I finally went to retrieve our glass pumpkins we did on November 4th. Mine started out like this

And ended like this:

 

I LOVE the variation in the stem. Liz used that darker color in the body of the pumpkin and a dark brown on the stem. I should have gotten a picture of her finished one as well. They were both super cute!  Next up?  Glass balls for ornaments!!

Thanksgiving

Regretfully Angela was not able to make the trek down to Florida this year for to her work schedule. Regardless we had a good time. 

Flaming Turkey wings. Hahah. I think the browning got a little out of hand!

The start of the table setting with the good China. 

Seated ready to eat!

The spread. It was a good thanksgiving!

Orlando informer #2

Day two Saturday:

Liz doesn’t have to work. Yay!! Lunch at IHOP. The putt putt

That’s our hotel behind us as well. It was a fun putt putt course. 

Day two (night two anyway) 

Cow fish sushi - no pictures!!

Mummy ride

Hulk (not me!)

Carousel. (Cause ya gotta!) 

Kong

Velociraptor (not me)

Hagrids again always a fun ride!!  I rode side car tonight. 

We had a slightly longer wait so we opted for single rider. Much faster but still a wait. 30 minutes to get through (roughly).

Butter beer (cold and frozen by choice)

Bottles of water

Pretzels (can not go wrong but needed cheese sauce!)

Churros (yuckie)

Pretzel sliders (not too shabby)

Pizza tots (yuck)

Caesar’s salad (yuckie)

Turkey leg (meh)

And that was a wrap for the FUN two days. It was midnight before we started to make our way out of the park again. 

Each day was LOTS of walking and LOTs of fun. I’m glad my girls are patient with me and my slowness!!  

Sunday we woke to rain. 

Bye Orlando!

A view of the putt putt course from our room :). They had gators to feed as well. Hummm interesting. 

Orlando informer.

Driving down on Thursday 

Ok day 1 - Friday 

We got up and Liz had to work so Angela and I went to Target. Nothing really of note there so we went thrifting because I wanted to. 

Interesting piece. Looks to be a Chinese glass piece but pretty and should fetch double what I paid (9.99)

Angela navigated us to the Bins in Orlando. They weren’t too impressive.  BUT Ashe found a super cute vintage mosaic frame from Italy that appeared to be brass or copper. Cute. She also found a glass/mirror curio cabinet. It was missing its door but hangs from the wall so she plans to put plants out of Lela’s reach (her cat for those who don’t know)

When we got back we hung out for a bit then went to the park. 

Pretty sunset on our way in. We waited for free parking. 

Hogwarts train was after Simpson. But ya get the drift. 

The girls are their way through the park. I pooped my way through. My body was out of sorts and was just NOT playing right all night but we made do!

We are pretzels (to settle the acid racing through my system). They had street tacos along with fruit and sodas (I had some Fanta orange. Hadn’t had that in ages) then a partial doughnut ala Simpson. They discovered you can do a part one not whole so 1/4 and we all got a smidge of it. 

We rode the Mummy twice in a row because there was NO line so we looped over the child swap and right back in it. Very fun!!

We rode men in black twice. I lost both times. Oh well horrible shot!!  We rode Gringots and I discovered it’s too hard on my knees. I could barely walk after. Yikes!!  It was almost kneeling. So it got me.  The train adventure between the Harry Potter worlds. It’s cute. Then Hagrids. I rode in the motorcycle and found out you have to hold on or get tossed a bit. Hurts the old back!  BUT I squished my fat tushie into every ride without full harness because I knew I could still breathe in those. I had done the dueling dragons a few years ago at this weight and experienced the full body squish. Never again. It’s too much for a fatty to handle. BUT. I made it. I rode rides even if I had to poo right after!!  Hahaha. 

We snacked and I sampled my way through the park as well. The kids got shepherds pie and even fish and chips for Angela, salad and butter beer lots of hot butter beer. I had one/two of those. They also tried a boba of some sort and a pear cider and something we don’t know what it was but didn't like (I think it was a cider of some sort) 

Some of Liz’s pictures:

All girls weekend Day 2

 Morning had us walking to Hash House a Go Go  the first one was in a hotel and PACKED so we opted to go to the one out on Sahara! It was a 15 minute drive but worth it as we got in quickly and ate HUGE meals
LOOK at the SIZE of those pancakes!!!

I got a hash. A chorizo hash. It was devine.

we were all splitting meals so we had hash, biscuits and gravy (served over mashed potatoes - this why it’s so tall), and a max-n-cheese breakfast style!  All delicious and super filling


After the huge breakfast we went to the hotel and split up. Liz, Linda and I went to the spa for a massage. It was Devine. 

Peggy, Amy and Wendy went to see Menopause the Musical. 


We gambled and played and eventually met up for dinner. At Batistas Hole in the Wall. It was interesting. It was a classic. It will not be repeated. Aka not worth it. I’m glad I finally went to see what it was all about. 


It was also LOUD. So loud that Linda sent a note to my end of the table to ask about an advertised feature of the place. 

The mandolins player was apparently NOT wandering. 

My lasagna. It was delicious and huge. I ate half. 

Before and after food. 

AFTER dinner we walked down to the High Roller. 

It’s a bar. Which is weird to me that they are pushing alcohol at every step. BUT it was free booze for the hour long ride. Liz had a few drinks. I did not. 





He was a hoot. He knew the timing of all the talking and could match the tone and words of the announcements to a T. 

And with that it was a walk back to the hotel then to bed as it was 11pm already and we had an early flight. I had the exit row again with TINS of leg room as there was no seat in front of me BUT the guy beside me was a very LARGE man. To the point I had to have him hold up his side so I could get my tray out for a snack in the way home.   Poor guy. I feel his pain!!

And back to reality. Boooo. BUT we stopped at IKEA on the way home and got Pizza at our favorite pizza place over there!