A Great day with the Gresh's

We spent a relaxing morning in the coach soaking up the sun through our front windows. The temp today would be a bit warmer than yesterday but still a chill 63 or so tops.

At noon we headed over to the Gresh’s for lunch, a hula hoop contest,  and a grand time with the kids and Pixie, their pup.

  

After lunch they taught us how to play ‘Apples to Apples’, though I was sure I had played it at Hope Church, in some version, before.

Then they took us over to the Magic Kingdom resorts at Disney World to show us how easy it is to enjoy those resorts for free by monorail.

We parked at the Polynesian, which is getting a major overhaul for the new year, and took the monorail from there to the Grand Floridian. 

On the way over Jaeden saw this out the window. Chad tells us that the pilot who puts up these sky tributes to Jesus has been doing it for years, every day he can fly.

This is the premier Disney resort and the one Mona and I stayed at in 1994 when several of us, with our wives, from SKH joined AWI Food Group for a week sales bonus trip to Disney World.  Its only gotten more lovely                                                   since.

 

An annual Christmas feature here is a gift from the restaurant staff members to GF guests, a huge ginger bread house that looks good enough to eat.

Then back to the monorail for the short hop to the Contemporary. This is the first of all the resorts at WDW and still one of the most popular.

The monorail enters the main concourse through the center of the building.

We took the elevator down to the main floor to see the foodie feature created by the Contemporary kitchen team and they chose FROZEN as their chocolate theme.  No licking allowed.

Supper time was near so we all went back to the coach to order a pizza pickup from UNO, which meant Jaeden, Sydney and I had to walk all of 300 feet to the restaurant 30 minutes after ordering. And this was GOOD pizza!

Then back to the Gresh’s for a Christmas tradition we haven’t enjoyed since our grandsons stayed with us several years ago before Christmas.  Cookie baking!

Jill had prepared the dough in right-size frozen patties and I offered to take on an entirely new task to me, that of rolling it out.  Jill and Mona instructed, and Sydney and I cut out the thin sugary treasures.

 Jaeden and Gabriel enjoyed decorating them and we all had a couple when they were out of the oven and cooled, just to be sure they were safe to eat.

Its Monday tomorrow and that means weekly laundry and light maintenance for our vehicles. We may stay a bit longer here but its going down to 41 again tonight and that means burning more propane to stay warm. A couple of hours south and the temps are 10 degrees warmer, on average.

We’ll see what tomorrow brings.  You just never know what you’ll discover when you can live to see what might be around the next bend.

-Ken