This weekend we were able to attend Stake Conference and listen to words prepared by Elder Michael A. Gillenwater, who was sustained as a member of the Seventy on April 2, 2016.
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Today Joe got the chance to go flying again in a Cessna 172R (N103FV) for about 2.2 hours of flight time from Lakeland Airport (LAL) over to Daytona Beach area and back again.
For the past few days (Wed-Sat), Lizzy was at Flaming Arrow Scout Reservation for girl’s camp. Even though there was plenty of rain, lightening and thunder, she didn’t have to get evacuated this year.
During the past week (Thu-Wed), we had one of Lizzy’s friends from Las Vegas come to stay with us and visit the Disney parks.
Today Joe got the chance to go flying with a friend in a Cessna 172R (N2221R) for about 2 hours of flight time from Lakeland Airport (LAL) down to Fort Myers beach area and back again. There were many times during the trip that he took over doing the actual flying. Need I mention it is definitely NOT like driving a car??
So, this week (Mon-Sat), we found ourselves taking a staycation at Kidani Village in a DVC 2-Bedroom Villa with a view of the Sunset Savanna (room 7666, Pumbaa section). Although the room was cool to stay in, and liked the decor, you will find it to be far from food and other activities.
While we stayed there, Daisy found herself staying at Best Friends Pet Care at Walt Disney World.
During the week we were able to visit all four theme parks, even though Tuesday wound up getting rained out while we were at Hollywood Studios due to the thunderstorms all day.
Today Joe was able to go scuba diving at Epcot Seas Adventures’ DiveQuest.
It takes place in their 5.7-million-gallon saltwater aquarium. During the walking parts of our tour they were also able to see manatees and dolphins in their tanks (from outside their backstage tanks).
Total time for the actual dive was 40 minutes with the temperature of the water at 78 F and visibility of 203 ft – a lot better than it was like while learning to dive at Lake Mead.
The animal species that were in the aquarium were: sand tiger shark, brown/sandbar shark, black-nose shark, southern stingray, cow-nose stingray, bow-mouth guitarfish, guitarfish, loggerhead sea turtle, black-blotch ray, honeycomb Ray, porcupine Ray, leopard ray, cow-tail ray, bonnet head shark, zebra shark, and spotted eagle ray.
One of my favorite to swim with was Kat, a bow-mouth guitarfish – looks like a mix of a shark and a ray.
Tonight we went to the Medieval Times dinner show with Lizzy’s Grammy and Papa.
Early this morning, the four of us boarded an airplane, heading for Florida – where our new home will be, near the Walt Disney World resort.
Lizzy has been up at Camp Stimson since Monday for girl’s camp. She was supposed to be up there until Saturday, but due to weather they were evacuated.