{"id":1005,"date":"2005-10-26T20:28:44","date_gmt":"2005-10-27T01:28:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nicole.sleepyfroggie.net\/blog\/?p=1005"},"modified":"2025-04-01T10:04:52","modified_gmt":"2025-04-01T15:04:52","slug":"food-gifts-photos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nicole.sleepyfroggie.net\/blog\/?p=1005","title":{"rendered":"Food, Gifts &#038; Photos"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Might as well write another entry while Joe watches the World Series. I&#8217;ll probably watch in a bit too, but I find it boring when no one has scored yet. Last night&#8217;s game was crazy. I went to bed at midnight but Joe stayed up til 2:30 am EST to watch it all. Sox won, of course! <\/p>\n<p>So, did I mention yet that I am tired of eating out already? I will be happy to be making my own food once we get back home. We had stuffed pizza from Giordano&#8217;s tonight and it doesn&#8217;t compete with Gino&#8217;s East, that&#8217;s for sure. Monday night we had some really good steak at a place called Longhorn though. The night before that we ate at a place called Western Sizzlin which sucked, and then Sizzler last night which is always good. I just love their malibu chicken. They decided to forgo offering their salad bar as an add-on to a meal, so it now comes with it automatically. The meals went up in price a few dollars too, but the food was still good.  Even with all the eating out, we&#8217;re not hitting even close to the $75\/day food budget I made out. We get breakfast free at the hotel, grab lunch for less than $15 at the parks, and dinner is usually under $25.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s good since I forgot to budget for souveniers and we&#8217;ve already spent $150. Thank goodness for the Visa gift card everyone pooled together to get me at work for the bridal shower they threw me on Thursday! We didn&#8217;t even go crazy with the souveniers either; just some magnets, a Mickey t-shirt for Joe and myself, a couple of things for my co-workers and our families, and a really cute <a href=\"http:\/\/laughingplacestore.com\/images\/products\/6521L.jpg\">bobblehead set of Mickey and Minnie getting married<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I haven&#8217;t taken as many photos as I was anticipating because I am trying to enjoy the moment and not get caught up in picture taking. I haven&#8217;t used my 20D at all because it is much easier carrying my little A610 onto all the rides. I&#8217;ll probably be using the 20D when we go to SeaWorld and Kennedy Space Center if we decide to go. I used it to get a photo of a pelican outside our first hotel, but my telephoto lens is only 135mm so I didn&#8217;t get any great shots. I got a cute shot with my little camera of one of the many lizards that hang out all over the place though.<\/p>\n<p>Oh and I&#8217;ve come to the conclusion that the British love Disney. Over the past few days we&#8217;ve heard lots of accents but the English win by far. It seems there are more English\/British (is there a difference? I&#8217;m not sure) than Americans around here. Not that I mind at all, I just found it interesting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Might as well write another entry while Joe watches the World Series. I&#8217;ll probably watch in a bit too, but I find it boring when no one has scored yet. Last night&#8217;s game was crazy. I went to bed at midnight but Joe stayed up til 2:30 am EST to watch it all. Sox won, of course! So, did I mention yet that I am tired of eating out already? I will be happy to be making my own food once we get back home. We had stuffed pizza from Giordano&#8217;s tonight and it doesn&#8217;t compete with Gino&#8217;s East, that&#8217;s for sure. Monday night we had some really good steak at a place called Longhorn though. The night before that we ate at a place called Western Sizzlin which sucked, and then Sizzler last night which is always good. I just love their malibu chicken. 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