Monday - a day of disappointments and delights

Today's early morning activity was a dip in the pool followed by a leisurely breakfast.

The intention was to follow this with a trip to Lover's Key, another of the area's many parks.  This one is more of a nature park than Lakes Park and we were to meet up with Iain and Lucy in the morning and take out some canoes on the waterways around which the park is structured.

The first disappointment was the traffic jam which prevented us from getting there.  This was most likely caused by an accident as traffic around here is not that bad.  But whatever it was, it delayed us for nearly an hour before we gave up and skipped onto the next part of our day, a trip to the Miromar shopping outlet.

Now the second disappointment - Starbucks didn't do toasted panninis!  In fact they didn't do panninis at all, but did do a chibata (I think that's how it's spelt) look alike but hadn't got any heating facilities and they just don't taste the same cold.

The delights were the bargains to be had from Gap tee-shirts at less than a fiver to Timex watches at less than £8.  Nobody (including me) came away empty handed.

After our puncture yesterday we had to take the car back to Dollar for an exchange which we did next at their place at Ft Myers airport - took a white one back and came away with a red one.

Tea at Ruby Tuesdays and then on to Steven and his families Villa for a family get together.  And all tucked up in bed by mid night.