28th November cont.
The drive to Marco Island took around 5 hours and was a
relatively straightforward trip. We stopped at a McDonalds on the way for a
quick lunch and then continued our trip.
We spent a day at Marco Island a few years ago and booked
ourselves 2 nights at the Hilton. We got to the hotel and decided to self-park (slightly
less expensive than Valet!)
We checked in and were upgraded from a garden view room to a
sea view – this was a relief as Rob wanted a sea view but I booked him the garden
view as normally Hilton upgrades Gold card members and I didn’t want to spend
any extra if I didn’t need to ;)
So we were all checked in and we had a little rest in the
room. We face timed home and let them have a look at the view :)
We had thanksgiving dinner booked and decided to pop down to
the bar for a little while beforehand. They had ‘happy hour’ for 2 hours and so
we each got 2 cokes!
Off to dinner and we were seated at our table. Dinner was a
buffet so we headed up for turkey, yams and all the trimmings. This was our
first ever thanksgiving dinner :)
After the main course I had some cake and then some pie then
coffee :) Too much food and we headed to bed for the night.
29th November
We had breakfast included in our room rate so we headed down
to the buffet. We each had an omelette then some pastries and some toast.
As I still had no swimming costume we decided to go for a
walk up the beach. As it had been rumoured to be chilly I wore my jeans – we didn’t
get very far up the beach before we had to turn around so I could go back and
change!
Quick change and we were off again. We walked a couple of
miles before turning back – we decided to dip our toes in the water – it was
quite warm! We did experience a few sharp shells as we walked back but it was
quite lovely.
Back to the room for a while and then we headed out to Wal-Mart
to do some shopping. We wanted to pick up a few bits and pieces for when we got
to the tree house.
On our way back we decided to look and see if there were any
restaurants nearby – and it seemed like there were none.
We took our shopping back to the room and got showered and
changed. We decided to cross over the road as there seemed to be an Irish pub –
as we got closer we discovered that there were actually several different
restaurants staring us right in the face!
We decided on an Italian and I think we both had pizza
followed by a chocolate cake! It was a really nice meal and not too expensive.
30th November
Breakfast at the buffet again today and then we finished
packing up our stuff. We checked out just before 11 and started the drive back
to Orlando.
Some people say that it is too far for just a couple of days but we
really love it down at Marco Island. Maybe next time we’ll stay for longer.
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