Wednesday 16th May 2007

Yippee!! Me and Nikki got another $70 today, all for spending a few hours looking round a timeshare - eating free cookies, muffins and doughnuts and drinking coffee... not bad - i've done worse!

This timeshare was really nice. We got shown some really nice 2 and 3 bedroom apartments and a bungalow. The thing that could have swung it for us, was that when we entered the apartment, there was a woman in the kitchen... baking cookies. If she'd have been included in the price, we'd have signed there and then!!

As it was, we took our money, a bag full of fruit and got our free taxi back to our current hotel. We then spent the afternoon surfing the net, looking for the next place to go on our trip. We're supposed to be checking out tomorrow and our flight to LA is not until the 21st - so we've got a few days to fill.

We managed to book some accommodation - we're going to spend another night here in the Continental Plaza. Then we're going to get a car and drive to Fort Lauderdale for 1 night before going back to Miami for 2 nights.

Now that was sorted, I was able to relax. Before that, Nikki was saying 'don't worry - we can always sleep in the stairwell'. I don't know if she'd been in the sun for too long, or that she'd eaten too many free muffins, but there was no way I was doing that! So we spent the afternoon, chillin' out, in Wet 'n Wild.

Tonight we went to The Olive Garden for a meal. This is a really nice Italian restaurant that we visited a couple of times when we were in Orlando last time. We know we're supposed to be on a budget but, seeing as we were $70 richer today, we thought we'd treat ourselves.

Boy did we treat ourselves! We thought we'd go for the reasonably priced pizzas - but not because they were reasonably priced but because of the small print: "Comes with free house soup or garden salad - unlimited refills". Our eyes we're definitely bigger than our bellies, because after 2 bowls of soup, a huge salad, 4 large bread sticks (which were more like loafs), 3 pints of Dr Pepper, 2 grapefruit juices and a pizza each - we couldn't move - well we could, but it involved Nikki rolling me out!

We'll sleep well tonight - and it's not just because we're in a bed and not the stairwell!

Oh, Happy Birthday Emma x