I write this always a day behind.  Day 4, was stressful not because of the driving to get here, which is over, but it seemed like every turn, something didn’t go right.

When we got to the hotel the night before, I asked if it had free breakfast in the morning.  They, 2 girls in the lobby said they did. (People please, when you take a job someplace, make sure you know what your job is!)

I love love love the blackout blinds at some hotels.  So far, most were not so great, we had to get up early anyway.  Not this morning, we got to sleep in.  Breakfast didn’t stop serving till 10:30 instead of 9:30. Everyone but me and Lyric were still asleep.  I opened the curtains so they could wake up.

We got up early enough to go have the free continental breakfast.

We get down there, which it’s about a mile walk, and they ask for our tickets. Tickets? No, they didn’t give us any.  I go to the front desk to tell them they didn’t give us the tickets for breakfast, and it turned out, we didn’t buy that package.  Selena set it up.  Great, so we paid for their breakfast!  My one credit card said it was declined.  Declined? Omg.  We did use a lot for the gas coming down here, so fine, I used the second one.  Then we were supposed to be able to go swimming in the water park.  I’ll bet you can already tell how much fun the kids had doing that! Right, not in the package.

We went to the gift shop which is always conveniently on the way out.  I found the cutest little Minnie Mouse outfit and flip flops for McKenna.  I couldn’t resist.  The shirt reads, It’s all about me!   So true!  When we got up to the room, McKenna wanted to wear everything I just bought her.  She was adorable.  She was saying the flip flops were kinda stiff, so I thought I’d help her out.  I tried to flex them a bit and the darn thing broke in half.  Great! Crying commenced.  I promised I would exchange them, because surely that shouldn’t have happened.  Note to self, Self, don’t ever do that again! Let them figure out how to break in the shoes.  Time to get out of here!

I told everyone on this trip, you could have one big bag and one small bag that you could change out what you need for that day, in the coach. It worked perfectly.  Except for when we got out of the coach to go to the hotel last night, because Chris Stockton wanted everything out of the coach.  He had to follow us over to the hotel, because we had too much stuff for my car. He helped with everything.

You should have seen us trying to get all this stuff down to the car, now with no help! It was rediculas!  We packed up in the car everything we could and left 3 bags at the hotel to be picked up later.  Along with the bag of flip flops to be returned, because now the gift shop is closed for cleaning the floors. Fine!

We went to Chuck E Cheese, because we needed to let these little girls run off some energy after being in the coach for days.  We were going to go to downtown Disney, but it was so hot and humid, we decided to just go there instead.

We all enjoyed it.  Barb not so much, because she’s more used to a nice quiet house all day, unlike me and Lyric.

While at Chuck E. Cheese, we were ordering lunch.  I went to use the second credit card, which Bryan never told me how much it had on it, and it was declined.  Oh Crap!  Ok, fine, here’s my cash.  He had given me $500.00 in cash just in case.  By this time Bryan, Chris, Selena, and Gunther, are all on our plane coming down here, so no way to ask about the card.  In the future, I’m calling the card companies in advance of the trip so they don’t shut it down because they think there’s fraudulent activities.

When done at Chuck E Cheese, I was making sure we didn’t forget anything there, I found a guy’s credit card under a table.  I called the credit card company, and told the the info on the card, and asked that they reach him to let him know it will be with Natalia, behind the counter.

Next stop, the house we rented with a swimming pool! Yay!  On the way there, we hear what sounds to be a flat tire.  We are in the middle of no where, and I have no clue how to change a tire.  Lyric got out to look.  Nope, thank God.  It apparently is out brakes or something? Ok, keep going! Everyone’s excited!  35 min later, we’re here. The house is beautiful!  4 bedrooms, 3 baths, lots of beds, and a lot bigger than the coach.  What more could you ask for?

We unload the car and I drop the biggest suitcase on my big toe.  Not nice! We get unloaded and thought lets hop in the pool!  Um, guess where everybody’s swim suit is?  In the suitcases left back at the hotel, 30 minutes away.  Really? This is supposed to be our stress free day. Grr

We decide to go back to the hotel, pick up the suitcases we couldn’t get in the car the first trip, exchange flip flops and go to downtown Disney after picking up a couple of things we forgot in the coach. We looked around a little at the big wreckers the girls had never seen before.  They had a good time.  By now, they’re tired.  We just went back towards the house, stopped by the grocery store and went home to eat, bath and bedtime for girls.  Bryan and crew, got in around 11:30 having met some really bad turbulence.  So glad we weren’t up there with them.

Time for bed and no special plans for tomorrow, except relax, swim and do something Disney…-