Our flight home today was good, very uneventful and easy. Very early, though. We were up at 3:00am and on the road by 3:30. Luckily Dan and Marcia’s place is only an hour or so away from the airport. There was also very little as far as traffic on the road. I ran into one little snag with the rental car. I stopped and filled it up but the gas gauge did not register it as full or rather, it took a long time to have the gauge move to show that it was full. So I pulled back into the gas station until it showed full. Then we got that returned, got through security and got ourselves some breakfast and waited for the flight. We were able to get seats together and it was a smooth flight. We were home before noontime. Now it was time to catch up on sleep.
But before bed I did enjoy one of the candy bars that we picked up at that Giant Candy store. This is a Bar None and I do not think I’ve ever had one before. Pretty tasty.
Also, since we got home early enough I did go over to rehearsal for The People vs. Frankenstein tonight, it was my first rehearsal with the cast. It went well.
On our last full day in Florida we drove out to Crystal Prings to a spcial preserve to observe the manatees. This place had a bunch of manatees all floating around in a protected space. there was also an option to swim with them. People had snorkels and pool floats to swim near the manatees. It was interesting and a nice place to walk.
after visiting the manatees we drove to Ocala and had an early dinner at Harry’s which was a New Orleans themed place and the food was excellent. I got shrimp and grits and it was the best meal of the trip. We followed that up by going to the giant candy store next door to get a couple of things. This place had so many different candy options. It was huge!
when we got home we found out that the flight for tomorrow was cancelled. We were supposed to leave at 10:40am but then we got rescheduled to the 1:15pm flight. The problem was Baltimore. We were scheduled to fly through Baltimore but they were getting slammed with snow and that was messing everything up. So, instead I rescheduled us to the 7:00am non stop flight from Orlando to Providence. Ironically, this was the flight that Southwest had put us on when they switched our flights months back. I had no desire to get up and drive to the airport at 3:30am but that is what we’re’ going to end up doing tomorrow.
