So we are t-minus just over 24 hours until vacation begins. That means about this time tomorrow I'll wrap up work for the day, head home, take our dear puppy dog to my friend's house where she will spend the next week (and probably hate us when we pick her up again because we don't have other doggies at our house that she can play with every day), and then pack up and head out. Since we are taking the Autotrain, it's almost like vacation will start right away for us as the train is a such a fun and unique way to travel. It's so nice to get on the train and be able to move around freely the entire time, enjoy a nice meal together, hang out and just take in the sights as we travel with no need for anybody to deal with driving. Coming home we will have the drive, but the post-vacation drive is usually easier to manage as we are all ready for that downtime after being on the go for so long.
I must say I'm reading the TSL updates...and just WOW. I did have one day where I had a "dream" of us hitting the park during EMH morning, which is stated as 7am right now, but what I'm reading seems to indicate people arriving before 6am and being let in already. Sorry but I just don't see that happening on vacation, even as we do it on a regular basis at home for work.
It seems the daily rainstorms are happening in Florida as usual, so that may alter some of our plans for pool and/or waterpark time. We may have to change up things and hit the waterpark early one or two days, and move our FPs to later in the day instead. Another option we discussed recently was seeing a movie one day. We've never been to the movies in Disney Springs and I think it would be a nice experience, and a way to escape from heat and/or other weather. DS18 would love to see the new Jurassic movie, as would most of us. My DD isn't a big movie fan (unless it's a musical or some kind of chick flick) so we'll see how that goes.
The next few weeks are really going to be quite crazy for me. We will have this vacation, which I know will fly right by and I'm back to work the day after we return, even though we'll most likely get home pretty late (after 11pm I'm sure). I have two days at work, and then I'll most likely be off Friday again to play in a local tennis tournament Friday, Saturday and Sunday (if the team makes it to the finals). The following week I have another 4-day work week as I have one day where I'll be fitting in a few doctor and dental appointments. Plus of course more tennis as usual, as I generally play 2-3 evenings during the week on various teams and then usually 2-3 matches on weekends. I played this past weekend in the 90+ degree heat 3 times but I managed to get through it okay, and I considered it good practice for being out in the Florida heat this week and next week!
Before we know it, August will be here...and we'll be leaving for Hawaii. Then summer will be ending. Seriously it seems like I'll be blinking and it will be done.
Ok so perhaps I'll get to some live updates beginning tomorrow, so stay tuned. I never have luck posting photos from my mobile devices, haven't quite figured that out yet. If I do, I'll happily post some photos as well.