We were up bright and early for our 8:40 non-stop flight for Orlando. Our take off was delayed when the tow bar wouldn't come loose. Finally they got it off and we didn't have to be towed all the way to Orlando.
We arrived in Orlando about 1pm eastern time and picked up our Budget rental car (a Chevy Impala---pretty nice car!). It was pretty nice weatherwise at that time---blue skies and lots of puffy clouds, but soon a cold front moved in and the deluge started.
We got to Orange Lake Country Club too early to check in, but we were able to pick our unit---3rd one was the charm (1st was unrenovated, the 2nd was in a highrise, 3rd was a beautiful renovated golf villa in the West Village). We killed time until we could check in by running over to the brand new Target.
By then the rains had started and has pretty much looked like this since!
About 6 we headed to the OLCC reception "party" where they had some raffle drawings and free snacks (nachos and veggies and dips) and drinks. It was a fast "party" since they wanted to get out of the rain.
For dinner we headed to Giordano's---home of the world famous Chicago stuffed pizza:
http://www.giordanos.com/main.php
The place was busy, service was slow for 8pm at night, but the pizza was great. We didn't actually get the stuffed pizza, though, we got the "thin", which is still thicker then most thick pizzas in St. Louis.
That pretty much took care of day 1.
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