I’m Back!!

I am too exhausted to write much… but I am glad I went on this vacation!! The weather wasn’t great. However, the company was. I didn’t feel 100% …but good enough to do what I wanted which was laugh, eat, drink, relax, run, read, rest, walk…

Here are a few (not good quality) photos that were emailed to me. I’ll post more later.

Since I wasn’t sure if I was going, I didn’t pay attention that 2 of my friends cancelled. So it was just the 3 of us (not too good for tennis). Mary & Suzy arrived first & picked up the car rental. Then they got me and we headed for Blue Tree Resort. It turned out to be just like the brochures…all the comforts of home and more.

The first night, we headed to Downtown Disney which was minutes from our resort. We had a nice dinner outdoors at an Italian restaurant. Afterwards, we walked around and even had ice cream (the start of my unhealthy but fun eating vacation).

Downtown Disney…so pretty at night.

For our first full day (Sunday), we decided to sleep in and spend the day at the pool. It was warm and sunny. (Little did we know that this would be the last of the sunshine.)

I decided that I would go for a run. And it was wonderful….love the heat!! I ran/walked 3 miles around the resort and beyond.

This was taken in the courtyard below our room (on the 3rd fl).

Unfortunately my foot is still sore. Not in the same way as with the stress fracture (I have no problem walking or running) but there is discomfort on the top of my foot 😦

Before dinner, they surprised me with a makeshift menorah (tea lites from the dollar store) and we facetimed on my iPad with another friend to celebrate the 2nd night of Hanukkah.

Suzy insisted we cover our heads LOL

Then we went out to dinner in CityWalk in Universal Studios.

This is the view from our table at the Hard Rock Cafe.

The next day, we decided to go to the beach. The ocean is my most favorite place to be!! Lucky for me, it was only an hour ride.

Here were are at Cocoa Beach...the sunshine was short lived, though.

Here we are at Cocoa Beach…the sunshine was short lived, though.

Unfortunately, it was cloudy for most of the day but warm. I walked along the beach and did a lot of reading. So relaxing.

Message in the sand for Suzy whose birthday it was that day.

We went out to dinner at a great seafood restaurant with a view of the Banana River to celebrate Suzy’s birthday further.

The restaurant even gave her a cake.

If you are wondering where Mary is, she is taking the pictures cuz she hates to be in them. I think I got one of her, though.

No more photos for this post.

A brief summary of the rest of the trip:

Tuesday using our hopper pass: Animal Kingdom for most of the day, shuttle for a brief stay at Hollywood Studios, boat to Epcot, dinner and dessert there, our friend Fonda arrived that nite from Delray
Wednesday (my last day): 3 mile run, day at Winter Park – shopping, lunch, scenic boat ride, Tiffany museum

You see that we never played tennis but I did run TWICE!!

Happy Running! Happy Hanukkah to those runners who celebrate!