Monday November 6th 2023

The temperature got down into the fifties overnight. It was nice that the sun rose into the sky earlier to start warming things up sooner. By mid afternoon the temperature peaked in the low to mid eighties. Each day this week is forecast to be a little bit warmer.

I got out of bed this morning as the inside temperature reached the high sixties. I felt much better today. The head cold I’ve been fighting the last few days is fading away. I can breath easily again. It is a good thing, because my facial tissue supply is waning.

This afternoon I headed out in search of food. I didn’t take anything out of the freezer yesterday, so my choices were limited and I was feeling lazy. My destination was Cooks of Dublin at Disney Springs for Fish and Chips. I also wanted to see what Christmas decorations were up. I’ve seen picture on the Internet of the decorations at the Magic Kingdom and Hollywood studios, but nothing yet from Disney Springs.

It turns out there was a good reason I hadn’t seen the decorations on the internet. They weren’t up yet. All of the Halloween decor has been taken down but the outside areas have not been decorated for the next set of holidays. The inside of the Disney stores are all decorated and all of the holiday themed merchandise is out. As night approached there was one possible sign of holiday decorations. All of the palm tree trunks sparkled with white lights. I don’t know if it is for the holidays or if it is an all the time thing. It looked good either way.

I got my Fish and Chips early in my visit to the Springs. The rest of my time was spent walking around, checking out a few stores and enjoying the day. Some of the places are so popular that you need to wait in line to shop. The Lego store and Gideon’s Bakehouse always seem to have lines. Would you wait an hour to buy an expensive cookie? Maybe fifteen minutes for a good cookie, but I have never tried any of their cookies.

As the day progressed I decided to delay my departure until after sunset. I didn’t think the combination of rush hour traffic, the glare of a setting sun and the newness of the two happening at the same time were a good driving combination. As a reward I got to hear some of the early performances of the evening entertainment.