A Beautiful Florida Day

Today has been a beautiful sunny summer day in Florida, with temperatures in the 90’s, sunshine with a few fluffy clouds in the sky. Perfect.

Dragging the kids out of the pool to do anything productive was impossible so they stayed there, wrinkling up like prunes until hunger eventually forced them out.

We dined at T-Rex cafe at Downtown Disney, a beautifully themed (if noisy) eaterie which I was amazed to get a walk up reservation at 4pm for dinner. Not a cheap place this, none of the Downtown Disney restaurants are, but we managed to escape lightly by only ordering an appetiser and a kids meal. The portions are huge here and it proved to be more than enough.

The plan was to also have dessert ( the chocolate volcano thing looked scrummy) but the onset of the restaurants ‘meteor shower’ accompanied by roaring dinosaurs and indoor lightning sent Emily into spasms of fear so we beat a hasty retreat! All in all, an OK experience and one we were glad to have done but probably wouldn’t repeat.

On a completely different note, we met with our handyman George today to finalise plans for the new games room in the Villa. We’ve been to’ing and fro’ing for ages about how get a great games room which can still be used in the Florida heat. Without air conditioning any games room in a garage will quickly boil anyone alive before they’ve managed to win the first round of pool.

Thankfully George has come up with an air conditioning unit which will keep the room cool (fingers crossed!) Plus he’s going to do all the pesky decorating, saving me much work and sweating so I am a truly happy bunny tonight

He starts work next week and I can’t wait to see the final results and get the new photos published on the site.