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Sunday, October 28, 2007

The Old Town Weekend

If you've been following our blog, you know the Old Guys aren't fond of day trip's, and we stretch them out as long as we can. The Old Town weekend was no exception.

The Sunshine State Cougar Club, of which we're members, was to be the Host Club For The Day at Old Town on Saturday, so we arrived in Kissimmee, under cloudy skies, at noon on Friday.

Along with a Friday and Saturday Cruise In, which often features several hundred cars, Old Town also has about 75 shops, a half-dozen restaurants, and rides and amusements for kids of all ages!

Packard Bill is particularly fond of flea markets, so that was first on our to do list. Less than a mile from Old Town, the 192 Flea Market has about 400 vendors, and amongst all the junk we looked at, Sonny and I DID find cell phone chargers and cases. English was definitely the second language here!

The Old Guys are BBQ authorities, having sampled some of the best throughout the USA. Packard Bill found Fat Boys BBQ, using his GPS. We gave it a try, and while it wasn't as good as some we've had, it would still rank in the top ten...maybe!

Then it was off to our hotels...Packard Bill was staying next to Old Town, and Sonny and I were in Lake Buena Vista. Both the hotels have a ton of rooms, which is something the Old Guys try and avoid. But they did have lounge's, which is something we look for when making hotel reservations.

Our hotel had over six hundred rooms, making check in a rather lengthly procedure. The first thing we did was hook up the computer, expecting the update the blog. It didn't matter that the Internet Fee was $9 a day, because the system wasn't working, anyway.

We immediately opted for Plan B, and met Packard Bill in the hotel lounge. A couple cocktails later, and we were munching on the hotel's version of pizza...you know, the pizza with the cardboard crust! It was pretty much an early evening.

Saturday morning was going to be car cleaning time, but the rain took care of that. We went to the local Cracker Barrel for a lesiurely breakfast, the off to flea market number two, which was five miles east of the one we visited yesterday.

It was a carbon copy...same vendors, same junk for sale, basically the same everything, but it did have higher prices.

We arrived at Old Town, and before the day was out, there would be about twenty members in attendance...not bad, considering the rainy weather!

There's a new go-kart ride in Old Town, and several of us planned to give it a try. It's actually two intermingled-but-separate tracks, one being a vortex, and spirals about fifty feet in the air, and the other has some great turns.

We watched the more experienced drivers put the karts through their paces, but by the time we all got together to ride, it was raining too hard. Maybe we'll try it next year.

After the semi-annual SSCC meeting, we headed out for dinner. Our Cougar Wagon's, being 1977's, are too new for the Saturday cruisers, and we had to be out by 5:00.

So, it was dinner at Krystal Burger (another Old Guys favorite), then another attempt at updating the blog. Still no luck, so we watched part of the Red Sox whipping the Rockies game, and called it a night...early!

Sunday AM, we were on the road by 7:30 (still raining/drizzling), and another Old Guys adventure is now history.

posted by Barry @ 9:12 PM

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