No Epcot This Year

What a beautiful few days we've had! We finally found our warm air.

But we didn't make it to Epcot. It might have been a good idea to find out what the ticket prices were before we planned to go there. Disney now charges about $120 per person to walk around their Epcot Center. There are no senior discounts. It is my opinion, mostly because I am now a senior citizen, that every theme park, amusement park, zoo, museum, or other such place, should offer at least a 20% discount for senior citizens, primarily because seniors have at least 20% less energy than their younger counterparts. We don't show up right when they open and stay until they close. We usually spend about half a day there. A fifty percent discount would be even better, but I'll settle for twenty. Who can I talk to to make this happen??

Anyway, Epcot was just too pricey for us, so we decided to walk up to the swimming pool and hang out there instead. And just in time, too. Because not too long after we returned home, it started to rain, and rained most of the afternoon.

We spent three days in Kissimmee at the Sherwood Forest Resort, once we found it, that is. For whatever reason, our GPS sent us the wrong way into a construction site on the other side of the highway from where we should have been. Once we realized the mistake, there was not enough room for a U-turn, so Mark had to disconnect the car in order to back up the rig and get it turned around. But we found our way again without any more trouble and settled into our assigned spot on Friar Tuck Street.

Sherwood Forest is a big park, with RVs, park models, and cabins... more or less like a regular neighborhood. Even in these big parks,  sometimes the amenities aren't that great though. Pretty much the only amenity we ever really care about is the swimming pool and the hot tubs. Here, the hot tub left a lot to be desired. The water was hot, but it didn't look very clean, and the jets were barely working. Overall, we weren't very impressed with this park and will probably not visit again unless we win the lottery and decide to go back to Disney World sometime in the future.

From there we drove over to the coast to spend four days at the Space Coast RV Park (another Encore park) in the little town of Rockledge, near Cocoa Beach and Cape Canaveral. We like this park a lot. It's smaller, but we got a very nice spot, easy to pull into and close to the pool and laundry. The pool is smaller, but it's heated, which always makes me happy. There's no hot tub at all, but with all this beautiful warm weather, and a heated swimming pool, I don't think I'll miss it.

While we're here, we plan to do some sight-seeing, visit some of the beaches, and check out the Kennedy Space Center. They have a senior discount.

Our misadventure of the day.

We're here! Umm...no we're not.