Our First 24 hours at OLCC

Checked in at 2pm Friday, the 8th. Took all of 3 minutes. Very pleasant efficient clerk handed me our keys and we were off to our 3br tennis villa that I had requested.

Our unit was in great order. It had been refurbished in the last year. No ants..roaches....of any kind. No trash behind sofas, or stains on furniture. No hairs in tubs, sinks or in linens. All appliances in perfect working order.

Just seemingly thousands of LOVE BUGS everywhere we went!!! :annoyed: Oh and lots of adorable little lizards. Those guys are sooo cute.

A fab time to visit Orlando....the parks were totally empty! :whoopie: Same for some of the most popular hard to get into restaurants.

The grounds were as beautiful as I've always known them to be. The staff we encountered were very friendly and chatted freely.

The one waiter (a young man) in Paizan's thought my mother and I were alittle "odd" when we commented about the earthquake that had just happened about 30 minutes before we went into the pizza shop. LOL....the poor kid must have thought "oh great....I always wind up with the one's missing a marble or two in their bag."

I told him being from the midwest....we are very familiar with what an earthquake feels like and that most definitely was one. Later that evening it was confirmed. A 6.+ magnitude out in the gulf. It did quite some damage in the Orlando city limits. But none to the Kissimmee area that I am aware of.

We're back home now....feeling blue about such a short visit. But we only have a couple of months before heading back down.

Being from Northern Minnesota, I never experienced an earthquake until I was in Puerto Rico. I then discovered there were thousands of earthquakes in Puerto Rico due to being near an Atlantic fault. Most were so minor that only sensitive equipment could pick it up but every one in awhile there would be one that you could feel.

I stopped by OLCC the week before, spent some time at River Island. They did complete the minature golf and some of the other stores that hadn't been open when I was there in May/June. It looks nice. I'll have to stop by the River Grill when I'm there in December. The first part of my trip the parks were relatively busy (Labor Day) compared to later in the week. Glad you had a good time.

Most of RI's complex wasn't open when we were there in early June either Gary.

The new restaurant (not owned by the resort), had really good entree's. That is if you like meats with different seasonings and sauces. If one's family happen to be plain meat and potato people.....I don't think it would be at the top of your list.

The entire town seemed mostly deserted. While onsite at WDW.....buses would go by with maybe 3-6 people on them at a time! Everyone we talked to said it's like that every year the first and second week of September. For those of us there.....it was awesome.

Glad you had a good vacation as well. We spent quite abit of time with an Aussie family of 16 (grandparents, adult children and their children), plus a couple from NY. The couple from NY were literally working ground zero....so they now leave the city to put some space between them and the memories every year. They loved the resort.

The aussie family too, but they were in culture shock at size of the food servings American restaurants dish up.