It's that Sunday morning sat by the side of the pool moment again. Nicky has kindly volunteered for the tip trip (in the rain) with the rubbish from yesterday's efforts at Haig and so I'm sat here watching Jake swimming up and down in the deep end!
It was another busy week this week - I was in Gatwick, Reading, Guildford and Brighton at various points, Jake was off school on Monday and Tuesday with a throat infection (still on the antibiotics) and as well as continuing to grow the holiday fund, Nicky has been organising Haig valuations. Wards say they would market it at £100,000, but would listen to lower offers, and Nicky is getting someone from Clive Emson in tomorrow to get an auction value estimate.
My next job is to go and see Nationwide - if they won't lend us any money then we're a bit stuck!
The photo a day project is still going. My work phone is dying so I am going to get a new one with a decent camera, so this should help with getting some interesting piccies!
Only three weeks to go until our Florida trip, and we've booked our accommodation for the next one already! 10 nights at the new bit of the Animal Kingdom Lodge - Kidani Village from 16th December to 26th December. We will be a party of 5 but have booked a 1-bed villa as we know that they have both a sofa bed and a chair bed in the lounge (both comfy) and also that the new Kidani Village 1-bed villas have two bathrooms. We've booked this now, as we can book 11 months in advance at our home resort. When the 7 month window comes around (which is the earliest that we can book at other resorts) we might try to swap to a 2-bed villa at the Beach Club (right next to Epcot) but at least this way we know that we have definitely got something.
We haven't organised flights yet, partly because booking flights direct with Virgin they make you pay in full straight away, and this is already an expensive month for holiday costs as we have just paid out annual dues for DVC. Unfortunately we have to pay in dollars, and have just paid a fair amount of money over at the worst exchange rate for over 20 years! Still, at least I can console myself with the fact that when we bought DVC we got a rate of over 1.9. When it comes to booking flights we will call the Virgin Flying Club and see if we can finally use some of our points to get either some money off or an upgrade (or both!).
In other holiday news we have booked to have a week at Shorefields on the south coast in the summer holidays - staying in Mrs Cook's caravan!
(By the way, can't type this fast on the ipod screen, so post finished off at home!!)