Day Four - "Day off"!

Well, today we decided to have a rest day, I think it ended up being pretty much the only rest day in the entire holiday!  Dan had been looking forward to a bit of discount designer shopping, so we headed off to the Premium Outlet Mall on Vinelands Road.  It's a big, open outlet centre, bit like Bicester (from what I remember Bicester to be, only been there once!).  Loads of shops, ranging from Calvin Klein to Toys R Us (just a small shop, but quite useful), and most things in between.  I didn't buy an awful lot, so hard to compare prices, but again they seemed a bit cheaper than they would be here.  I bought a cute little pill box and keyring from Fossil for just over $20, which I think would be about £13 here (they had a buy one get one half price offer on).  Dan, who had been looking forward to this day almost more than anything (!) barely bought anything!  Dad and the boys spent quite a bit in the Disney shop (primarily selling old stock (but genuine stock)).

We stopped for our first ice cream (Ben & Jerry's) with freshly made warm waffle cones (very nice!).

Must mention Dad there and the first of many hats.  If pushing a man in a wheelchair with a 2013 Disney hat with a propeller on wasn't bad enough, you should see what he also bought over the following two weeks!!  At the Harley Davidson shop he bought this:

And told us he was going to wear it every day of our road trip!  (luckily he forgot about it a lot of the time!).  More "interesting" head apparel in future blogs!

We then did one of the most important things of our holiday.  We went to Tony Roma's for tea.  Important because Tony Roma's was almost a family name in Dan's house.  When Dan and I first met, Dan's dad Stuart was working a lot in America, and used to go on and on about Tony Roma's and their ribs.  I think he must have held most of his business meetings in there!  So it became important for us to visit this hallowed establishment.  Also, Dan is allergic to pork ribs, but can eat beef ribs, so he was looking forward to a rare occasion to get messy with some ribs!  He certainly managed that!...

In fact, we all thought they were rather good!

Ollie was also impressed with the 100 different sodas they had!  I can't remember what he had, but I had a rather nice raspberry Coke!  So, we went home stuffed and had a lovely dip in our lovely warm pool that night (once the dinner had finally gone down!).

I also took this photo that day:

This seems to be much of what Florida is like!  Well, certainly on the main roads.  It's bizarre - well it seems so to this Brit lol.  I don't understand how so many businesses can stay in business!  There's a shop or office for everything you can think of, and lots of them.  We must have seen at least 100 mattress shops in our three weeks there, you'd be lucky to find one in each big town over here, and even then it would be part of a bigger store probably.  And sooo many places to eat too!  You'd never go hungry!