Williams.....Orlando.......Springbreak 2008

Sunday morning a flight direct flight to Orlando. Landing in the evening arriving at the lovely Dolphin hotel much to Mr Williams chagrin. As the room was old and run-down but no options for change were available. But we were on Disney property so we did Disney world and then bolted to the womb- The ritz carlton. From there we went to Sea world and Universal studios. Prior to leaving the dolphin we enjoyed the fabulous restaurant Shula’s. For those that don’t know Shula’s It is named after the Miami dolphin coach and he has a fabulous restaurant.

I enjoyed for the first time a 28 ounce lobster tail. You say really how big is this? Well when I spent the better part of my college serving Australian lobster tail at the oyster bar and they were on a good day 12-14 oz. And frankly those were huge. I struggle to even come close to those days. Well my friends I have been screwed for life for this lobster tail at Shula’s was 28 OZ.. shit. I needed a photo of this and did take one.. See attached.

Disney world one side bar. The rides we are all use to at Disneyworld may take you multiple parks to get to at Disneyworld. Matterhorn- No Indiana jones so this could very well be screw job #10. Isn’t the $75 per person we are paying enough? No they need another entrance fee.

Fast forward to The ritz-carlton what were we thinking to begin with. Our family dynamics are changing every day. With Alex, the resident teenager we struggle or chuckle when he still is recognized as a child. When he gets handed the child menu we quickly ask for him to get the adult version- or we just share our own. But tonight at the grill in the hotel Alex requests his beverage. I believe a coke (rated PG in our house) with what appears to be a shot glass sippy cup. Small and with a large bendy straw. Much to Alex’s horror. Jerry and I laughed our asses off and Alex took his steak knife or maybe it was his fork high and brought it down.

(see photo #2) This was the same night as Maine Lobster SNAFU. Clearly you can compare the two lobster photo’s and see for yourself. The tiny lobster however at the bargain price $52 was exactly half the size of a fork? The photo does not lie nor distort. Shula’s 28 oz was double the cost of the Ritz---- but really the shula’s lobster fed three of us. Maybe 4 if you count what Jerry ate. We sometimes want to use our blob (this is not a typo) to critique our travel experiences. Sometime people assume that when you stay at 5 star properties you don’t get the crazy service stories. But this is clearly not the case. When we blob or blog whichever, about our travel experiences you must know that we are grateful to be able to travel in magnitude that we travel in. I mean please do we really have the nerve to bitch about the level of service at the Ritz or the Four Seasons? Well you are right we are very grateful that we can travel in the level that we do. But we do and we do a lot and we should have expectations when you are coughing up the dough per night to stay here. We have a few of our favorites. Like when staying at the Parker in Palm Springs and being told to go get our own damn drinks. Thats up there. The trips not quite over yet so more to come....