Gaylord Palms

Today, Ethelyn, Elwyn and Richard drove to Orlando to the Gaylord Palms resort to meet with Ethelyn and Elwyn’s niece Tammy and her husband Tom who were there from Painted Post, NY for a conference.

What a beautiful hotel the Gaylord Palms is. Their room was beautiful. I have a few pictures to share with you:

Within the hotel is a large pool complete with sailboat. There are quite a few fish swimming in the water, including a couple of very nice tarpon.

 

There is another area within the hotel named “Castillo de San Marcos” (yep, just like in St. Augustine). In one of the rooms was a Mel Fischer exhibit complete with gold bars and other interesting items.

Considering the price of gold, don’t you wish you had these bars?

 

There were a number of areas filled with greenery, koi, alligators, and turtles.

This is a picture of Ethelyn, Tammy and Elwyn.  

While we were in the hotel room, I found out I have an iPhone app that allows me to zoom in. As you can see by the following two pictures, zooming to the max makes for a grainy picture. The left picture was taken at normal; the right picture is zoomed to the max. I expect something in between would work much better.

Well, it’s been a long day.

Until next time…