We arrived at the shop, not easy to find, just after ten AM believing that arriving with a camera might help resolve the issue rather than a phone call where we can get the old’ push off’ treatment .Finally we found the office and went in and explained the matter the best we could and he asked about the age of the camera, eight years we said, and he looked and said basically NO it could not be fixed and your choice is to get another one, which is not what we wanted to here but on the other hand expected this response. So time was required for thinking this matter through and so we departed for a late breakfast in a café nearby where Jennifer said she enjoyed the best Eggs Benedict she had ever encountered, so could not have been that bad then.. Then on to Macy’s Department store where we have been looking for an additional case as we are running short of luggage space and wanted something to resolve the problem. We found a nice bag in the sale and then they said do we have a Macy;s card and of course we said No and then you could have another ten per cent but alternately is you donate 3 US to a Macy’s Charity we can also give you another ten per cent and so having saved about 65 Dollars we left satisfied with our purchase. Then on to Best Buy to look at cameras.
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Of course the sales are on, and after looking at a number of alternatives and what camera to by, a Canon or Nikon we ended up with another Sony which had an offer if you traded up one level you got included a extra long lens and saving overall about 180 Dollars and so we did this but spending this sort of money because of a broken camera was not planned and left a hole in out wallet. It was now time to head back to Clearwater and look for our Hotel and hope that we could check in early which we succeeded in doing and spent the first part of the afternoon sorting out our suitcases from the rushed packing in the house and then Jen took a trip to the lower levels of the Hotel to explore whilst Noel started trying to work out how the new camera worked. Playing with the old camera Noel got a shock when it sprang to life and surely three fully charged batteries cannot be empty but suddenly it started to work again so did we buy the new expensive camera for nothing??. Although later in the evening when Noel started looking at the old Micro SD disc se he find that all the photos taken when traversing the Skyline bridge and another movies did not appear on the disc and so something is seriously wrong . Oh well lets just move on.
So no photos today only the bad ones from yesterday evening when the camera was playing up and so where to go for dinner, there was a good Pizza joint across the road but first we checked out the Hotel which had a nice area with a bar and limited menu overlooking the harbour with gas heating the air and so it was very nice and we sat a table with a couple from Nebraska, I think that's what they said, who were in town for a family get together. We enjoyed the gulf shrimps and the flatbread, basically its a thin based pizza and very good but with a few glasses of Chardonnay was not so cheap, the place across the road would have been cheaper.
Then back to the room for Noel to do some blogging and Jennifer to sort out her suitcase and catch up with some reading.
