Saturday, 30 May 2009

200 days

It's a lovely sunny day here, and the ice cream man has just been along our road so it was 99's all round (Nicky's pupil even had one!). Jake is wearing his Chelsea strip and has just started to watch the build up to the Cup Final. He's hoping that he'll be able to brag to the people a few doors down from us in a few hours time, as they've got an Everton flag draped over their balcony.

200 days today until we go on holiday to Florida (and we've got two more holidays lined up before then - a week in Dorset at the start of the summer holidays and a 4 day cruise at the end of the summer). We're pretty much all set now, as we've finalised flight and accommodation arrangements. We're really looking forward to staying at the Beach Club Villas, which whilst we've been there for meals before (as well as occasional sneaky parking for Epcot!) it'll be our first time staying there.





As always there will be new things to do in Florida when we are there. The temptation to have a trip to one or both of Universal and Sea World will be pretty strong, as they will both have new coasters which since our last visit. Two new DVC venues will be open as well, the Treehouse Villas and Bay Lake Towers.








There are some pictures of one of the grand villas at Bay Lake on Allears, and they do look rather splendid. The only problem is that a week in peak season is 1287 points - ouch!! That's more than we could manage if we both carried forward one year's points and borrowed another year! Still a trip to the Treehouse Villas could be on the cards in a couple of years time - the good thing about them is that they do three bed villas for the same number of points as a two bed at SSR. That way we could take Nanny and Grandad, and Jake could take a friend, and there would be enough space for everyone to have a room (with Jake + friend sharing the twin room). Allears also has some good pictures of the Treehouses.