schumigirl
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- May 15, 2007
FRIDAY DECEMBER 3RD
We did rather unusually sleep slightly later this morning, but not by much as we are naturally early risers......well, I am....Tom would happily sleep late some days of the week, but never does although he generally sleeps longer than I do as a rule.
Today we planned not too much during the day as we had the OI event tonight and we knew that would be a reasonably late one so we decided to not visit the parks this morning instead going to do some shopping at Publix and Mall at Millenia as we had to pick up a few things I hadn`t got round to getting yet.
We took our time over breakfast and lingered a little longer as I was really enjoying the orange juice free mimosa.....yes, it was just sparkly.........one man at the desk said it was always ok to have alcohol at breakfast if you gave it a nice name like a mimosa......I said I loved a glass of morning sparkly.......he said that sounded cool and was going to refer to it from now on as morning sparkly......sounds nicer than boozing!!!
We set off later and met up with some folks we knew from behind the front desk and chatted to them for a while and marvelled at how few front desk were left over from our previous visits. So many folks had moved on to other things.
We walked outside to another glorious day and it was another very warm one, we were loving not needing any kind of top or jacket day and night, this was far more than we ever hoped for weather wise.
Publix didn`t take long but we ran into someone who used to work in the lounge a long time ago, maybe 10 years ago and I didn`t see her at first but she recognised us which was nice as I`d have walked past her. We had a catch up and she`s now married with 3 kids and a happy stay at home mum.....I told her that was the best job I ever had.....full time mum, I loved it. It was nice to see someone from such a long time ago who remembered us.
We put our stuff in the boot of the car and headed to the Mall at Millenia. We had so many things still to purchase and stores to visit, and we didn`t think we were going to have time to do it all weirdly.......
Parking today was oddly easy, usually it`s incredibly busy but we were parked the closest we have ever made.
And it is the most lovely Mall.......
Father Christmas already had a line of folks waiting to see him, the central area is very well done and I wished we had managed to visit at night as the lights and tree would have looked even prettier.
And a wave from the main man himself.........
We visited Mont Blanc first as we were picking up some refills for Kyle`s pen he had treated himself to last time we were here. This store insisted you wear a mask inside, and they had them at the entrance as most folks didn`t have them anymore. It was ok and we wouldn`t be in there for long. I do find some of the staff in there a little snippy for no apparent reason, and we got one of them today, I can be as clipped back on these occasions though. We paid for the refills and quickly left before heading to Bloomingdales, Tiffany (just looking) and then Macy`s.
I picked up a load of make up from Clinique and bought some of my favourite perfume from Chanel, but the woman put the wrong one in the bag and we didn`t notice till we got home.......trying to contact Macy`s has been a nightmare.......but that`s another story.
Williams and Sonoma was the last store we were going to, when we noticed they now have a rather cheap and nasty looking Amazon store in there!!! I was surprised as a few years ago they got rid of the Lindt and Yankee Candle stores as they weren`t "high end" enough for the Mall. Yet, here was this bargain basement looking store in a prime location slap bang in the middle of the mall.......and it was a shambles inside, we spent about 30 seconds, decided it was junk and left.
We picked up our usual couple of items from Williams and Sonoma and headed back to the car as we were getting hungry now and were ready for lunch.
Traffic is always a nightmare around here....if you get stuck at the lights, you can lose an age waiting for it to be your turn again.....and generally it felt a lot busier than previous visits, but that could just be perception.
Nagoya Sushi is in the same complex as Toojays and you`d miss it if you didn`t know it was there, it`s way in the back and not too many tourists visit it according to the guys who work there, but it is lovely and well worth visiting.
We ordered a chardonnay for me and lemonade for Tom and then had a look at the menu, but we knew what were having.......
It`s quite a small place but every time we`ve come in for lunch or dinner, there has always been a steady stream of customers and fairly busy which is a good sign.
We both opt for a Bento Box each which consisted of miso soup to start then vegetable tempura, a California Roll, 2 pieces of deep fried gyoza and egg fried rice with your choice of meat.
The Miso soup is beautiful, but we have never had a bad Miso soup anywhere.....we even ate the tofu that I usually avoid like the plague......
I opted for the spicy chicken, which isn`t overly spicy at all, but it is delicious and the mix of other ingredients works well together.
Tom went for the Beef Teriyaki which he really enjoyed too.
This had been a really lovely lunch and we were so glad we had managed a visit as we missed so many places out this trip, but very much a local feel to this place and not at all touristy which we always enjoy.
Yes, I`m a tourist who avoids tourist places at times.........ironic huh.......
It`s a nice little shopping area with some very nice eating places and only a 10 minute drive from home off of Sand Lake Road, handy for us as there`s also a very nice Publix over the other side of the street.
We were meeting someone for coffee and they were already sitting outside in one of the places. This was going to be a quick one as they were heading off to work, they`re now at Disney working, behind the scenes in their finance side. But, again it was a nice little catch up as I don`t know when we`ll manage it again.
We headed back home and deposited our purchases in the two closets.......and now I was seriously worried about our suitcase issue.......Tom had a solution......we`d go buy a 4th suitcase as we had 2 suitcases each in our allowance of 50lbs each and at the minute we only had 3 suitcases.....problem solved.
But, right now we were going to try and have an hours snooze before heading out tonight for the OI event we were so looking forward to.