Playing Catch Up

OK, I am several days behind and just need to catch you all up to where we are now.

We did spend one more day in Disney and went to Typhoon Lagoon, their huge water park. By then we knew our schedule was just too aggressive and we had to really push thru and go for it or be willing to cut something.

The next day we stayed in Orlando and had a huge regrouping day. We cleaned everything, sorted everything and you will never know what a wonderful feeling that was after the Disney blitz. We also had time to decide what to do about our schedule.

We chose to cut driving down to the Keys. This was a hard decision but two things made it a bit easier - the Everglades tour we hoped to take was in a drought and was not worth the time it would take to get there, and Ross and Taya were going to be in Tampa for Family Life and we could potentially spend a bit more time with them.

So the following day we drove to Tampa, met Ross, Taya and Isaiah at their hotel and then took Taya and Isaiah with us to the beach. It was so fun being together even for a few hours. We left Tampa and drove to the Port St. John area for the night.

We spent the next day at the Kennedy Space Center. They have an amazing visitors facility there and we found a lot more to do than we had time for - and we spent five hours there! That evening we drove into Daytona Beach and went to Bubba Gumps for dinner. Please don't ask Gary about parking the bbow in Daytona Beach.

The next morning we went to Daytona Speedway. There have also been a lot of changes here since '92. They have a huge new visitor facility and it is incredible. We spent way more time there than we thot, and barely had any time left for the beach, which was what Taryn was waiting for.

By the time we got to the water the tide was in far enough that they were no longer allowing vehicles on the beach which is what Taryn was looking forward to. We drove on to the next town, Ormond Beach, and let her get in the ocean. It was quite cloudy and the water is much darker colored than it is on the Gulf, but the water was so very warm. And the waves were quite good too. She got out her little board and was working hard to catch some waves. Once Gary and I had put our feet in we were wishing we had our suits on too. We only had a half hour there and that was most regrettable. Leaving the beach and Florida we drove on to Georgia staying at the edge of Savannah.