19th: Skip the Crowds

We flew to Orlando on Sunday without incident - meaning we landed on a runway and not in a river! Karen had a free pass to the Alaska Airlines Boardroom that we used before we left. There was a place to connect your laptop, watch TV, or gaze at the airplanes from comfortable chairs. Free soft drinks, fruit, muffins, and hot chili were available so we didn't need to buy lunch.

Monday we decided to skip the crowds at WDW since it was Martin Luther King's birthday and we headed to a couple of Outlet Malls with Disney stores in them. After a Subway lunch we headed to the coast.

Friends of ours in our Disney Club moved out to Florida 5 years ago to be closer to WDW and their daughter. We found Tom and Sue's house and after sitting around talking for awhile and looking at their magnificient collection of Tinkerbell stuff we headed for Cocoa Beach.












We wandered out to the beach and then went to dinner at the Lobster Shanty where we were introduced to broiled rock shrimp that tastes like lobster.















Three of us had rock shrimp and Karen had the coconut shrimp. Great dinner.



















Tom drove us by the empty Disney Cruise Line terminal just to show us where it was and then we headed back to their house to chat for awhile longer before heading back to our resort, Pop Century, at WDW.

We switched rooms to one with a king bed, put our 10 day park hopper tickets on our room keys, and since it was "close" to 9pm we bought some ice cream.