We painted over marks on walls, filled holes I'd drilled trying to put the key box up in vain and upgrading bulbs in some places from low energy to LED bulbs which are brighter and which use a little less energy.
Later in the morning our first new pool service visit took place. Jackie and her partner came round and spent lots more time on the pool than our previous pool company. The pool deck was washed down and Jackie, as well as putting chlorine bleach in the pool to sterilise it, she put in bicarbonate of soda and then added a small amount of something to test if phosphates were present. She confirmed that they were and said she'd treat the pool for that after we'd gone back home as it makes it cloudy for a couple of days before it clears.
Jackie also advised us about pool blankets, both solid and liquid, as a result of which we've decided not to use anything and perhaps to get a more powerful pool heater when our existing one finally runs out of steam.
In the afternoon, we had invited round two of our neighbours who are UK owners and who had helped us a lot to start to get rentals in once we had gained ownership of the house. We had a good discussion over a range of topics, but when the conversation later turned to their mentioning the 'Biased Broadcasting Corporation' and how left-wing it was becoming, we thought it might be time to move on!
We left around 6pm for the Texas Roadhouse for our steak. We didnt take the Satnav and I thought I'd save time by using the toll road freeway. After going through more toll booths than I was expecting and realising that the next exit was for the John Young Parkway it finally became clear that a grave error of navigation had occurred!
The Satnav then told us it would be the best part of half an hour before we'd now get to the Roadhouse, but it got much worse than that. We were on the 192 about to approach Reedy Creek when a fire truck did its best to get through 3-4 lanes of solid traffic and we all then ground to a serious halt. It seemed that there had been some sort of incident along the 192 somewhere beyond the Texas Roadhouse.
Finally we arrived there, by which time it was rammed with people, mainly young children it seemed. While waiting for our table, we were reminded that they don't do their own wifi there and with the place heaving, we decided we might need a plan B. That turned out to be Miller's Ale House in ChampionsGate where we got a table straightaway!
On the plus side, Tuesdays there are steak night, so between us we had a steak and a burger.
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