Home Again, Home Again...

By the time we went to bed (VERY EARLY) Monday night, I was *almost* caught up. I had pulled the third and final load of laundry out and laid the pieces so they wouldn't wrinkle. But I'd done the rest of the laundry and put it away, I'd unpacked everything, vacuumed the house, and cleaned the bathrooms and kitchen. I'm still waiting for my left foot to get back to normal. It doesn't hurt, but the swelling is just weird.

To backtrack, on Saturday we took it super slow at the resort in the morning, including my taking Mal swimming, and his also playing at Simba's Cubhouse. A bit after lunch, we took a bus to Magic Kingdom, then got on the monorail to visit some of the resorts. we looked around Polynesian, where we had a dinner reservation, and tried to rent a boat to explore the lake. But just as we arrived to do so, they called a hold due to lightning in the area. So we rode the monorail over to the Contemporary and looked around their lobby. Mal also bought a set of resort buses he'd been looking at since he played in our lobby with some other kids who had them.

After that, we went back to the Poly for a delicious dinner at Kona Cafe. Mal had fun playing on the beach after, and I felt bad when we took a Lyft back to the hotel and realized we hadn't gotten all of the sand out of his shorts.

The Poly smells so good, and it made me excited to visit Hawaii in a couple of years. Also, it made me excited that where we stay isn't overrun by so many people!

The next morning, we had breakfast at Boma, which, according to our server, is the #6 breakfast buffet in the country, according to maybe USA Today? Anyway, it was great, and I finally got to try the POG juice! We'd eaten at Boma our first night, and really love the mix of Afro-centric cuisine and more "Murican" stuff for our nuggets-and-fries kiddo. The server brought Mal a light-up Buzz Lightyear, which was sweet. He's usually served as a souvenir in a kids' drink we can't order using the dining plan.

After breakfast, we took another Lyft to Art of Animation to see the Cars... cars.

This was undeniably cool, but, good gravy, Mabel, it was in full sun and so so so so hot. The day had a high of like 91 but with a real feel of 106. Seriously, this week made us feel like Austin weather is AMAZING. We stepped into the Austin air and were like, "Oh, this is nice. 88 and 60% humidity. Sweet."

Next, we went to Disney Springs, which was Downtown Disney last time I was in Florida, because James had a date at The Void. There is a lot of construction, and we had to walk around a bunch to find one of the only ways "in" to this outside shopping center. And, have I mentioned, it was hot? We enjoyed a soda on the rooftop bar of the Coke store, then walked toward The Void. Mal wanted to ride a tiny train, so we did that. Then we shopped a bit while James did his thing. In the end, we made it back to the bus stop and were going to go back to the hotel, but the bus took so long to get there that James was done and caught up with us. This is what he did.





That night, we had an amazing "signature dining" experience at Jiko, where I had elk loin for the first, and maybe last, because where the heck else am I going to get that?, time. It was amazing.

And the next morning, we had to wake up early to head out. Mal cried, and said he wanted to live at the hotel, that he would miss his animals. We really did have an incredible week. D did a great job house-sitting, and it really didn't take too long to get everything back in the order I am used to... once I remembered where everything went!

Now we're settling back into a rhythm, and it's raining a lot, so that's pretty cool.