Vacation Blog VI: We continue today with......well I don't know at this point....

No, you didn't miss a blog post yesterday, I didn't do one because we didn't do anything! One hour at the pool and the rest of the time we just relaxed at our resort. Both of us weren't feeling 100% so a nice relaxing day was exactly what the doctor ordered.

Speaking of the doctor, I have a fever. And the only prescription is more cowbell.

7:15 AM - I am awakened by the sound of some kind of alarm outside my window. Maybe "alarm" isn't accurate, as an alarm would intend to wake up lots of people and this is just loud enough to disturb me.....but it's enough that I drag my fat ass out of bed and look around the townhouse to make sure it's definitely coming from outside. Once I confirm that, I head outside to see if I can figure out what is making the noise; it seems to be a series of beeps; sometimes 4, sometimes 5 or 6.

Jesus, I think it's a fucking bird.

Asshole.

Anyway, I'm up now, might as well get a start to the day. Waiting to see what our plans are for today; we are scheduled to go back to Epcot but Tracey wasn't feeling well last night, as she seems to be catching the cold that I have. If she slept well and is feeling OK this morning, we'll be heading out in the early afternoon to start enjoying Epcot for the last time this trip. If not, that's OK too, we can take it easy again today. We have some wiggle room with our schedule.

10:00 AM - Tracey is up and feeling pretty good so our Epcot trip is on. I whip up some pancakes and bacon for breakfast. The longer I'm up, the worse *I* start to feel....turns out that my concern for how Tracey was going to be feeling should have probably been concern for myself.

11;30 AM - We are off to Epcot where our first Fastpass of the day is almost ready. Of course we execute our "parking cheat" to the letter and our timing is pretty good as the boat arrives not long after we get to the dock. I'll tell you, what's better than a lovely walk through a Disney resort, a beautiful and relaxing boat ride to the park where there is virtually nobody else using this entrance, all the while saving $20 on parking? I feel like King of the World. As usual.

After our first couple rides we head to the Nine Dragons restaurant for lunch. The food here is really good (Chinese, in case the name of the restaurant wasn't enough of a clue) and we are particularly interested to try our the Honey Sesame Chicken that we haven't had in quite a few years. Many of you who have been to my house have actually tasted this chicken dish, or at least our version of it. After trying it here last trip we noticed that the recipe was in one of the Disney cookbooks so we've tried it a few times with excellent results. At least we THINK the results have been excellent....but we won't know for sure until it arrives and we compare.

We were mostly right. our version of the recipe is really pretty good and they taste pretty much about the same, but the one we are eating now is a little bit softer and the texture is better. Something for us to think about next time we make this.

3:00 PM - Oh boy am I ever starting to feel brutal. It's like this cold was just fucking with me.

"Hey, asswipe, you know a couple days ago when you thought you had beaten me and I was just about gone??? JUST KIDDING!! Bend over and take it for a couple more weeks, jackass!!!!!"

Off to the Test Track, which is sponsored by Chevrolet. And I mean sponsored. It's a fun ride, it has been totally re-imagined since the last time we were on it and it is much improved, but it pukes up Chevrolet advertisement and cross promotion like cats puke up hairballs.

First thing you do is to 'build' your own Chevrolet, and then during the 'test ride' portion, you get a score based on the car you built. And remember this is a Chevy, so you know it was issued at least three recall notices during the time it took us to build it.

Our score was pretty terrible.

It was SO terrible, in fact, that Chevrolet immediately called us and offered us jobs.

hahahahahahahaha

Honestly the Chevrolet jokes just write themselves.

Not long after the ride I'm ready to tap out for the day and Tracey is right behind me. She has an interesting math equation:

46 + 43 + 85 = 5

Seems like a crazy equation, but it makes sense:

My age + her age + temperature = the number of hours we can handle in a park in one day

It's been pretty much bang on so far, anything over 5 hours in this heat seems to be too much.

We have one more important stop to make before leaving the park: the German pavilion. Specifically the caramel store.

Everything you can imagine is covered in caramel in this store. We end up buying quite a few tasty morsels and head back towards the resort. We stop at Publix to pick up a few more supplies to get us through the trip, including a bunch more medicine to try to finally beat this damn cold.

8:00 PM - Watching TV while getting ready to upload the blog and then hit the sack to try to a good sleep. Obviously if you are reading this I have been successful uploading the blog. I know, I should have been a Private Detective, my investigative skills are off the charts.

Tomorrow: Heading to Disney Springs for a little shopping, then back to the resort for some serious pool day. Weather is supposed to be great, so much time floating in a lazy river seems to be on the menu.