Monday was apparently Shopping Day: AJ and Aggie headed off to the
Outlets stores near Tampa. Not a place to go anywhere near in the weeks leading up to Christmas, this was not a bit time to visit. With the pound at $1.55ish, prices are very competitive, as long as want some form of casual clothing - just don't look for anything too formal.. or too warm (this is Florida, after all!).
Kathryn and I left the youngsters to it and decided instead to look for some patio furniture: not an easy task as every previous attempt had had to be aborted as we failed to agree... On this occaison though we were successful and both of us were delighted to find something that we both liked and which should look fine beside our new barbecue.
For lunch we went to Siesta Key (voted the US's #1 Beach, according to all the signs!). We had been hoping to return to a restaurant we had visited a few year's earlier, called the Broken Egg. We failed to find it but instead, we found a restaurant called Another Broken Egg. It was only once we were sitting down chatting to the waiter did we discover that the former had closed down and the latter had absolutely nothing to do with its predecessor, apart from having stolen its name... Lunch was fine though, so all was good.
Back home to make dinner before heading out again. The Rib-eye steaks are great in this part of the world and not too pricey either: these two beauties were plenty for the 4 of us - enough even to fuel a steak sandwich the following day.
After a quick meal, we left the house for the Lakewood Ranch cinemas to get our latest James Bond fix: we went to see
Spectre. Whilst not the best of its genre, an enjoyable evening was had - all the more so as the tickets were only $8/head.
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