1st Destination: Orlando

 Alden and I left DC......

for Alden's work conference.

Left a beautiful FALL day in Washington

got into some "stormy" clouds as we neared Florida.......

little did we know what was in store for us.

and arrived safely......



tram at the airport.....taking us to baggage claim 

headed over to our hotel ~

 Very neat place ~ Peabody Hotel

Look at this neat mirror in the bathroom.....

the dark rectangle....

is.....

a TV!  WHAT?!  Pretty cool.

We enjoyed the sunset from our room window......

So pretty!

Soon realizing.....

a storm was brewing off to the left.

and sure enough ~ came the rain!

and....I want to tell you ~

it rained for 24 hours STRAIGHT!

It poured rain.

We actually found out afterwards that we got

7" of rain during our stay.

WOW!

Welcome to the "sunshine" state!  :)



 We made the best of it ~

did a little "work" and catching up on email.

Checked out the hotel ~

this was QUITE the show.

Yep, red carpet and all.



Ducks in the fountain in the lobby

They walked down the steps......

down the red carpet

into the elevator......

and up to their "palace"

palace on the roof

 QUITE the home isn't it!

 the ducks eating.....

The ducks arrive TO the pond ....by the red carpet.....at 11:00 each morning.

AND......depart for HOME at 5:00 each evening.

What fun! 

We enjoyed Alden's co-workers & friends

Vicki, Steve and Maribeth

Cathy and Larry

Earl, Alden, Chris and Larry

 Kim and I

 The rain finally stopped.......

and we almost RAN outside!

ahhhhhh, the SUN

We took a walk and found a relaxing place to enjoy being outside a bit.



Beautiful flowers ~

Enjoyed some meetings ~

 Sunday night we headed over to Universal Studios

enjoyed some dinner

 and walked through Harry Potter "world"

We were blessed with this time with Alden's company.

It is good to connect with his co-workers from CA, CO and DC.

We're thankful for Alden's work ~

he appreciates working for this company. 

We appreciate the people.