June 27
Clowns, singers, crappy food and "we're going to miss Bingo!"
The weather was still looking iffy, so we debated our plans of riding the bikes to Harbourfest and eating at San Miguels, but we decided to chance it anyhow. Kinda wishing we wouldn't have!
DS is way ahead in the orange shirt. It's really hard to ride a bike and take a picture
We went straight to San Miguels and put our name in. They said 40 minutes which gave us time to check out Harbourfest. We went to Shannon Tanner first. Our kids at 8 and 11 are maybe just a little too old for him, but we enjoyed watching the smaller kids
The kids gave up on him pretty quick and were eyeing the balloon animals and face painter, so we headed that way. Balloons were first. Both kids agree that B'Lou's animals were better
Then we made our way to Cappy the Clown. This lady is fantastic. She kept a never ending dialogue with the kids and somehow talked our shy DD into teaching her how to do Cups. I didn't even know DD knew how to do it. She told DD she would make her chosen flamingo painting extra special if she would teach her and boy, did she ever!
DS opted for a sea turtle
Once they were all done, we had maybe a 3 minute wait before our table was ready. We were seated on the patio with a view of the live music
Our drinks came out quickly and so did the queso we ordered (queso good!!), but it was all downhill from there. Our food took FOREVER, and it was cold and, well, icky. DH's wasn't bad, but mine was terrible, DD's was grossish and DS didn't eat at all. We are not picky eaters and it's hard to screw up Mexican, but wow. We waited so long for our check after we finally gave up that they made us late for Goofy Bingo, something we had looked forward to all week
Since the kids were so bummed, we decided to let them go swimming until the pool closed. That helped a little.
Once we got back to the villa we all ended up eating what little was left in the fridge because we were so hungry
And so, that's it. We woke up the next morning, loaded up the car and were on our way to North Carolina to spend the weekend with our "other son" (DS17's best friend) who is a Marine and just transferred to Camp LeJeune (where I grew up!)
In the next post, some final thoughts, what we would do or not do differently and a comparison of HHI DVC and our NC condo.