Holidays and vacations seem to go together. After we celebrated Christmas with the families we headed out for a little drive.
First stop was Lookout Mountain Georgia where we visited “Rock City”. I have seen the barns painted with “See Rock City” along the roads for years so finally decided it was time to see what it was all about. We made it in the evening for the “Fantasy of Lights” which they do every Christmas time. You can see the pictures in the album.
It was about as expected. Some very nice natural scenery and a lot of tourist stuff.
My curiosity satisfied we were on the road to the next destination, Florida’s “Emerald Coast”. Nancy had heard about the emerald green gulf waters and white sand and wanted to see for herself. We hit the coast beaches from Fort Walton across the pan handle until we turned towards Orlando.
We did not want to use a full day of a Disney ticket when we only had a partial day, so we spent time visiting some of the theme resorts. As they do for about everything, the Disney crew puts together some pretty nice resorts! They were decorated for Christmas so it seemed extra special. We also had tickets to see Cirque Du Soleil La Nouba. This was really cool. We have been to several “Cirque” shows and each one seems better than the one before.
Over the next two days we spent time in Animal Kingdom and Disney Hollywood Studios (new name for MGM studios.) Lots of photos, and a good time… even if it did rain a little the final day.
The other place we wanted to see was Sanibel Island. Nancy loves natural things, and shells is high on the list. We have been told about how great Sanibel is for finding shells so we wanted to see for ourselves and hopefully score some “hand picked” shells. We made it down to the island and out onto a number of the beachs. Unfortunately the weather had turned a bit nippy, and the wind was kicking up pretty good. We still managed to spend a couple of hours wandering up and down the shore line looking for “finds”. Since we came home with some pretty full bags of shells I guess it was a success.
We had some dinner at the local tourist spot “The Bubble Room” and then headed back off the island. After a nights rest we headed back towards Michigan, and got home about 2 am…. We had been concerned since we had heard there had been about a foot of snow since we left, and were not sure how we were going to get into the garage. It turned out that a mysterious neighbor had cleared the drive way already so we were able to pull right into the garage and hit the beds!
This is a pretty condensed version of the trip, but probably few people if any really want all the details.
Until Mickey and Minney fall out of love,