Florida – The Traveling Maker

Day 3 – 10/09/2022

This morning we slept in quite late. It just didn’t feel right to get up early when we couldn’t check in to our VRBO until 4pm. We checked out of the Westin and had the valet deliver our car and off we went. It was a long day of driving through Georgia and a bit of Florida to get here at a constant 5-10 mph. It seems the majority of the day was spent in stop and go traffic. It’s hard to know why as there never was an accident or road work or anything else. It was just really slow for no apparent reason. After the grueling stop and go day, we finally arrived at our VRBO in Orlando Florida at around 6pm.

Less than a week ago Florida was hit by a Category 5 hurricane, named Ian. It beat up the coast but didn’t do too much damage in Orlando. By the time we arrived most of it was cleaned up. There were a couple places they were repairing downed signs but overall it was difficult to tell that it had ever hit.

After arriving at the room we got everything put away and went to go see if we could get a tripod for my camera. I realized that I’m an idiot and forgot my tripod so it’s quite difficult to get pictures of the things I want. We also picked up some dinner and a few items from the grocery store.

First we went to a camera store we found on Google only to find it was inside Epcot and they wouldn’t let us in without paying $164 per person. Well I wasn’t about to pay $328 for the 2 of us just to go into the camera store at 8pm so I took a single picture of the Epcot and we left. Next stop, dinner. We went to a small Chinese restaurant called Pearl’s Chinese Restaurant. We got dinner to go and just brought it back to the room to eat. While dinner was being made we ran next door to Publix (grocery store) and picked up the few items we needed. Then we came home and ate dinner, took a shower and relaxed for a few minutes before heading to bed. Tomorrow is going to be a big day. Super excited!