Wow a free lunch

We left the Hotel around 09.00 and it was a bit grey and cold, less then 12 C which was bit cold for us but our destination promised around 19C so we put the car heating on and continued heading North to Tallahassee where we would visit and work on rather a long shopping list. We arrived at the store around 10.20 and it was not to busy, perhaps because it was a Monday and started putting our shopping list to the test. The list required two trolley as we were were know buying for our friends in Santa Rosa Beach, our New Zealand friends and also ourselves and so we tried to keep the shopping separate but at the check out with two people on the till it soon became I little disorganised, Oh well nothing to do but sort it out when we get there.

We then started to look for somewhere for lunch and found a Publix store but also next door was a ‘Subs’ place and so I waited in the car with all the valuable shopping and all our stuff as Jennifer went to check out what they sold and also the find out if anything was loaded with Garlic, anyway she had a brief discussion with the guys behind the very busy shop and they ensured her no garlic here, and here and here and so Jen came back an I agreed to have  Ham and Lettuce with mayonnaise on white bread roll. Jennifer then returned to the shop and explained again what we wanted and why so then Jennifer pointed the reason for the strict control (viz my bowel and Liver Cancer) and when the order was complete the guy said ‘Its on the house’ which shocked here but was well received.

We then left and headed out in to the country in the direction of Santa Rosa beach but en route we passed through mile after mile of hurricane devastated properties with loads of old roofing and building material and TV's and kitchen appliances piled by the side of the road awaiting collection. There were also many houses still with blue tarpaulins cover missing roof panels and also many tress were lying over with the roots pulled out of the ground, such was the force of the Hurricane.
We finally arrived at around 15.00 hours as we had passed the state time line and lost one hour and our friends from New Zealand had arrived about thirty minutes earlier and so the rest of the afternoon was spent catching up and chatting about all the usual things, Politics and travel etc. John cooked up some of the steaks we had brought from Costco and so we had a great evening but we were both very tired when we went to bed. Their house is rather beautiful and quite a change form the house they had in in Georgetown near Austin in Texas.