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Old 2 Oct 18, 09:02 PM  
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Can I persuade my family to wear matching Tshirts? - August 2018 - Day 14 - Chilling and Shopping

Friday 31st August

Our last full day.

I woke up every 2 hours, no idea why. The room is lovely and dark, the bed is so comfy.

Andy got up at 6 and I fell back to sleep until 7. Andy had waited to go for a run until I got up as he goes out the back door and he didn’t want to leave it unlocked. Consequently it was a bit of a hot run again.

He and Dan played in the pool for a bit before breakfast, I sat as usual.



We left home at 9.30 and Josh had chosen First Watch again. I decided I’d quite like to live at Championsgate (obviously only if my lottery winnings weren’t enough for Celebration) there looked to be some nice housing along with a Publix, Walgreens and nice restaurants.



It looked like there were a few people waiting to be seated but we got seated straight away, so not sure what they were waiting for! We had a nice window seat today.



I need to give a little back story now...basically, pretty much every time we go anywhere, shop, restaurant, park, anywhere, the boys, Daniel in particular, accuse Andy of flirting. This can be any interaction with a female and they say he’s flirting. Dan rolls his eyes and says “Mum, Dad’s flirting again” even if he’s just placing an order. Anyway, today it was my turn, we had a very pleasant server called Miguel and I couldn’t chose between coffee or the Blackberry iced tea and that was it, I was flirting.





Today Andy chose the traditional breakfast with a blueberry muffin on the side, Josh had two choc chip pancakes, Dan had one choc chip and one carrot cake pancake and I had biscuits and turkey gravy.






It was delicious again, everything tasted really fresh and seems like it’s just been made from scratch. Josh and I asked if we could have the remainder of our iced tea to go and he bought us two fresh drinks. Aah good old Miguel. We also had a BOGOF coupon.



We went back to the villa then and chilled. We stayed in until about 2pm. The boys went in after a while to watch TV and play on phones. It was really lovely being by the pool but I kept thinking we should be doing something like going back to Celebration or Disney Springs but on the other hand when we are at these places we just want to be by the pool! We didn’t NEED to go back, so we carried on chilling. I think you get used to always doing something on a Florida holiday.




Anyway, after all that wrestling with our conscience we went to my new favourite supermarket to do our home shop. Still can’t believe I’ve cheated on Super Target.



$251 later...we bought the usual Nestle tollhouse chocolate chips, sweets, honey mustard dressing and a few new items. The biggest bag of fruit loops ever (which have barely been touched),

the biggest jar of coffee ever (which has almost all gone),

some refills for my glade smelly thing in an effort to make my house smell like a Disney toilet.

And just in case I was worried we’d have too much weight left in the cases a new cutlery set!


We took the shopping back to the villa as there was so much chocolate and then went straight back out for tea. It worked out that the last choice was mine and I went with my new favourite. Texas Roadhouse. We got there about 6.30 and were seated straight away in a booth.




Our server was very attentive, I’ve actually written almost too attentive in my notes, but I can’t remember why, I think he just did lots of checking on us.

We all went quite small with our meals due to peanuts, salad and bread filling us up last time.



Dan ordered the chicken salad again (this was his favourite meal of the whole holiday), Andy had a sirloin and fries, Josh and I went for the smallest sirloin, Josh with fries and me a loaded baked potato. Mine and Josh’s came on tiny plates.





Dan asked for a box for his salad and we got our drinks to go.



Then home to start packing.

It was actually really easy as I hadn’t bought any Bath & Body and I’m normally juggling the weight of those over all the cases. While I packed, Andy hoovered and Josh had a Bath in the huge tub in the en-suite. Not sure what Dan was doing, probably helpfully staying out of the way.



We put the pool screen back up and sat out on the lanai for the last time. It was really warm, we’d had no rain or storm to cool things down today.
So sad seeing the screen back up, when we took it down on the first day it seems such a long time until you have to think about going home.



We all went in for a last dose of Family Feud. I love this photo because we spent a fair bit of time on holiday sat together, I miss it now we’re at home and back to busy lives.



Bed at 10 as usual!
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A nice relaxing last day liking the cutlery but not sure why you would want your house to smell like a toilet

Shame your holiday is just about over

You will have to go back soon

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Aw, that was a nice last day. I know what you mean about being conflicted with your time. I love sitting by the pool, and I have a theory that maybe it's because most of the reports I read on here are all completely full on busy days, that when I'm doing that there's a part of me thinking I should be out and about "doing" stuff

I've read so many good reports of First Watch lately, I think I'll need to add it to our breakfast list. Your meals looks so good.

It's funny how the family dynamic changes on holiday. When our girls holiday'd with us, we often spent the evening together lazing about in the villa, and yet at home they spent most evenings in their rooms. I miss those times too

Well done on getting all of that shopping packed into your cases. I can't believe you had enough weight allowance left for a cutlery set! It's very nice though.
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I think we are conditioned often to try and pack things in! It is good to just relax - after all it is a holiday!
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A nice relaxing last day liking the cutlery but not sure why you would want your house to smell like a toilet

Shame your holiday is just about over

You will have to go back soon

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Aw, that was a nice last day. I know what you mean about being conflicted with your time. I love sitting by the pool, and I have a theory that maybe it's because most of the reports I read on here are all completely full on busy days, that when I'm doing that there's a part of me thinking I should be out and about "doing" stuff

I've read so many good reports of First Watch lately, I think I'll need to add it to our breakfast list. Your meals looks so good.

It's funny how the family dynamic changes on holiday. When our girls holiday'd with us, we often spent the evening together lazing about in the villa, and yet at home they spent most evenings in their rooms. I miss those times too

Well done on getting all of that shopping packed into your cases. I can't believe you had enough weight allowance left for a cutlery set! It's very nice though.
We had so much room even with cutlery!

I can definitely recommend First Watch it was lovely

I think you’re right, we always intended to have more time in the villa/around the pool this year but still felt we should do more!


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I think we are conditioned often to try and pack things in! It is good to just relax - after all it is a holiday!
Definitely! There’s always too much to do!

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Lovely last day. Maybe the over attentive server in Texas R was flirting with you?

Such a shame you have to go home, do you have plans for next year?
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Lovely last day. Maybe the over attentive server in Texas R was flirting with you?

Such a shame you have to go home, do you have plans for next year?
I don’t think I was his type
We do have vague plans! I’m trying to finish this report so I can focus on making those!
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