Orlando, Day 3: Game Day

On Sunday, we all decided to take it easy in the morning, but get together in the afternoon at the Eggerts to watch the Cardinals take on the Eagles in the NFC Championship. Tracie and I spent part of the morning at a coffee shop we found in a nice little shopping district which wasn't all that far from our hotel. We did what we usually do when relaxing over coffee...we played cards. It was a nice morning, but the most interesting part of the day was yet to come.

Matthias had promised to make us his amazing grilled salmon, despite knowing that Tracie does not like fish at all. The salmon was marinated in a mixture consisting of, among other things, brown sugar and horseradish. It sounds crazy, but the salmon was absolutely amazing! Tracie actually liked it. Had the Cardinals not won the game, this would have been the most shocking part of the evening.

After dinner, we finished watching the football game. Despite the heart-stopping moments in the second half, we kept watching and were rewarded with the greatest Cardinals moment since they arrived in the Valley. Last year we had the Super Bowl, this year our team is IN the Super Bowl?! If you'd told this to anyone 10 years ago, they would have thought you were completely out of your mind.

After the game and more fun playing with baby S, we all decided it was time to call it an evening. Since we thought we were going to be flying home in the morning, we said our goodbyes to the Eggert family and headed back to the hotel. I checked on the flights and found that there was really no way we were going to get home. Since Monday was MLK Day, all of the flights were completely full and we figured that our chances of getting anywhere were slim. Fortunately, I'd already planned to take Tuesday off. Instead of giving up our hotel room and making a futile attempt to get home, we decided to just stay another day and treat ourselves to another day at the Magic Kingdom!