Goodbye San Diego....Hello Orlando

We had a good time there. Got our bearings a couple of days before we left. It seem US cities are totally aimed at cars to get around.
The airports are amazing and as we flew via Houston to Orlando they became more and more phenomenal. Our just under 6 hours flying time extended to 8 hours with our break at Houston, then we lost 3 hours getting us to our resort after 10pm. We were ready for sleep however and slept soundly in our lovely apartment 'til well into the next morning. Once again it is hard to get a handle on where exactly, or even vaguely, we are. The taxi trip from the airport took 40 minutes and when we turned off the highway we went down a totally dark road called Black Lake Road. No street lights and black on both sides of the road had me wondering what the ......once again!! Spooky. But here we are TG.
The resort is very nice but totally inward looking and it was hard to get directions to the nearest food places, but we managed and have had a couple of walks to the local food outlets. We discovered the "Cracker Barrel" - nice daily cooked real food and veg. Also had a fabulous dinner at the "Bone Fish Grill" I had Fontina Pork Chops - yummy once I took the cheese off - too rich for me with it. We had a scallop entrée with the scallops wrapped in crispy bacon some how. The scallops were about 1 inch high and so juicy. I don't know how they cooked the bacon without overcooking the scallops.
The resort "Silver Lakes", is actually surrounded on 3 sides by Disney and includes 200 acres of swamp. The hope is Disney will buy them out before too long. The sales spiel was very convincing with taking up the amount owing on a defaulted sale giving us title to a beautiful unit for only US$18000!!!and that with 89000 holiday credits. You can rent the unit to pay the $1000 annual fees - seemed really good BUT don't panic Lynda we didn't succumb. It seems it is RCI and we are already members through Wyndham. I was surprised the sales pressure wasn't nearly as full on as the Ozzie lot. Off that hook!!
Hoppy didn't take any photos for two days - never has that happened before!!!!!! However we spent yesterday at Disney Animal Kingdom so that was the end of that. It was actually very good - we even saw some birds and animals we hadn't seen before. The safari ride we went on was fabulous and as we left the area saw what was for me the sight of the decade - a silver backed gorilla. What a magnificent animal. Hoppy has been on safari in Africa, stayed in a lodge in the animal park, and didn't see as mush as we did on this little train ride. We saw a great parade with Mickey and Donald and lots of dancers - may have some photos!!!!
Then Hop discovered another ride - Everest. It was actually a roller coaster going in and around the mountain. I opted out - why increase the heart any more than necessary. I wasn't feeling too active this day to be honest. As I waited - Hoppy getting back at me for all the people watching he had to do at shopping centre in SD - it is quite fun - all I heard was "Can I do it again?"  Same for Hoppy - and around he went again - big kid.
So here we are - just woken up again at 10 am. Yesterday was a big day leaving here at 10 am and getting back 'round 9 pm - tired kids!!! What to do today - that is the question. The pools are nice and warm, the temp around 90F hmmmm.              Love to yo'all.