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Thread: Our Once in a Lifetime Trip to the World – part 12

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    Our Once in a Lifetime Trip to the World – part 12

    Cast

    M (DH44) – "I thought that there were places I'd far rather spend all this b****y money on but I'm beginning to think that my DDW just might be right!"
    J (Me42) – "I'm soooooooo excited" :jump:
    D (DS15) – "I can't bear crowded places" (!!!) :grumpy:
    M (DD11) – "I don't care how fast/high/scary it is – I'm going on it" :d:
    Y (DS9) – "Can we do this and this and this and this…" :tiggerbou
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    Finally, finally I managed to sleep really really late – I didn't get up until 7.15! Yahoooo! It was 9 before DH and the kids got up though!

    A relaxing morning watching Wimbledon and typing up some more of my trip notes. The plan for the day was to go to Walmart this morning and Wet n Wild this afternoon.

    We finally left the house about 11 and headed down the 27 to Walmart at Haines City. We spent about three hours there. DD and I went off and bought a few bits and pieces – a swimming costume and some undies for me and some earrings for her. I wasn't overly impressed with the place though and didn't think it was as cheap as I'd been led to believe.

    In the meantime, DH and the boys were holed up in the music department and came out quite a few dollars lighter having bought CDs and DVDs. I did manage to buy a new school bag for DS2. It's on wheels which will certainly be good for him considering the huge amount of books he has to cart backwards and forwards to school every day.

    We then went into the food department. Give me Publix any day. No, I really didn't like Walmart's food department and found their prices also more expensive than Publix.

    We got back to the house at 2.30 and discovered that DS2 had lost his watch. He thought he'd put it down in Walmart to try on a wrist band that he'd bought himself. We were all a bit fractious by this time and nobody could be bothered going back but it's a good watch and we didn't want to just write it off. We left DS1 and DD at the house while we drove back for half an hour with DS2 to look for it.

    Fortunately someone had very kindly found it and handed it into customer relations and we were soon out of there – again! Now DH just happened to remember that he'd promised a colleague a favour! Said colleague uses some kind of obscure cream that can only be found in about half a dozen places in the whole wide world! Seriously though she'd very "kindly" been into the website and printed out a map and the addresses of two stores "near" Orlando that stocked the cream. One was miles and miles north of Orlando and the other just happed to be in Haines City – weren't we the lucky ones!

    So DH said "whilst we're here so close to Haines City let's just see if we can find it". An hour later we were still driving around trying to find the damn place at which point I really lost my cool and asked him what the colleague had done up until now – bought it via the internet? Probably – well she can bloomin' well buy the next one from there too as I'm not spending any more of my holiday driving around looking for a needle in a haystack.

    It was about 4.30 when we got back to the house and no-one had had any lunch so after a hastily thrown together "lupper" it was obvious that we weren't going to get to Wet n Wild that day.

    We decided to try our luck with the Congo River Crazy Golf again on the 192 and because it was still early we pretty much had the place to ourselves. This place was so much nicer than the Bonanza that we'd been to last week and even better because I won this time! :grin:

    We also managed to win a free round but unfortunately we never did have time to get back to take them up on it. We watched the alligators for a short while and when the rain came on we decided to head back home for an early night as it was another early start tomorrow for EPCOT. The weather forecast is not good though.

    DH at Congo River
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    Jackie


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    Jackie

    I love your reports - just going to read part 13 now


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    I love walmart, can lose myself in here for hours. Have suggested before now that they leave me here and go to the park for the day and collect me on the way home.
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    Yet another great report Jackie, don't know where you find the time to write all this, but thank you. I am surprised you weren't keen on Walmart, we love it and spend hours in there.


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    Know what you mean about the food hall - Im a Publix fan too.

    Diane.


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    i love walmart!! have even driven myself down there before!!! yep my name is Liesa and i am addicted to walmart!!
    Liesa


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    Although I like to browse in Walmart I too prefer Publix for food shopping.[msnsmile2]
    Sarah


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    Got to be Publix for food for me too
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    Afraid it's publix for me[msnwink][clap][clap][clap]

    I tried 3 different Walmarts last year but couldn't get into them. Much prefer publix.

    ALR


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    Great report Jackie. We love Walmart as well, just can't get enough of it when we are there.[msnsmile2]
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