The pain was softened by the fact that Barry was staying longer and that it was a conscious decision by Neil this time. It also helped that we were in the early stages of planning when he (and perhaps, hopefully, all of us) may be coming back here.
Captain Neil took the first shift on our voyage, reversing carefully out of the dock and taking us round until we were right in front of the Magic Kingdom. Karen took on the role of Back Seat Captain giving out needless and pointless instruction to whoever was actually skippering the boat at the time. I take the helm for about 5 minutes before Captain Barry took over. He had a difficult challenge whereby we were given instructions by the River Patrol to first pull over and then full steam ahead as one of the MK Passenger Ferries wanted to go the same way as us. He coped very well under the pressure and then took us back into dock.
It was not the cheapest thing to do but very very enjoyable. Its not everyday that you get to pilot a boat that close to a Disney theme park and some of their hotels.
Today we all fancied Pizza from Blaze. I really enjoyed my Pizza and ended up annoying Karen by telling her repeatedly of this fact. For me anywhere that includes White Pizzas as a normal menu item is good by me. The fact that they make them in front of you like a Subway and then cook them in 90 seconds is all an added bonus.
As we slowly walked back to the car we called in as usual to the Ghirardelli shop where Barry overhead a conversation that may well change Karens life. One lady behind us when presented with her free Caramel chocolate said ``I don't like Caramel - can I have a Raspberry one instead`` and was told Yes! All these years Karen has been eating the caramel ones which are her least favourite and could have been swapping them. I foresee another visit very soon for her to try this out.
Sadly we headed back to the villa with Nile for the last time this trip. He spent sometime packing whilst we chilled by the pool. I contained my emotions. At 4.45pm with heavy hearts from all of us we set off to the airport. The traffic was heavy but at 5.35pm we said our goodbyes with tears in our eyes.
The remaining three of us then headed down to The Loop where I had to collect something from Best Buy before heading to the Outback situated there. We all had the usual and I managed to use my $20 off voucher. My meal was wrong twice but they got there in the end.
Karen then bought some perfume from Marshalls behind the restuarant before we drove over the road to purchase our final load of groceries from Publix.
We then took the slow route back along the 192 to allow Barry to have a peruse around Super Target as he had not been this trip. Karen managed to get herself a Starbucks before the in store coffee shop closed.
Then we headed back to a much quieter villa without Neil for the first time, had a quick drink before retiring as we knew we had an early start the next day.