Another Successful Day of Consignment Shopping

Last night I realized that we hadn't taken any photos of our campsite here at Sunshine Travel, so Mike took a couple of photos this morning.

From Sebastian

I also forgot to mention yesterday that we called Father & Sons Carpet in Vero Beach and they will be at the house Tuesday morning to clean the carpets in the house.

This morning I drove over to Fantastic Finds and bought the pair of table lamps that we saw there yesterday. There were several people in the shop yesterday and it would just be my luck that someone would see the lamps and buy them, so I was relieved to see they were still there.

I also stopped at a laundromat on U.S. 1 to wash our 2 comforters - the laundry machines at the campground aren't large enough for the comforters and the washing machine at the house isn't either.

We had lunch after I got back from my shopping and the laundromat and then we drove back down to Vero Beach.

We stopped at Target and Lowe's to do some shopping before driving

Consignment Shopping in Vero Beach

Thursday afternoon we met with Irena from Teddy's Cleaning & Janitorial Service at the house and discussed what all we wanted cleaned at the house, how long it would take and the cost. We made an appointment with Irena for the cleaning team to come Monday morning.

This morning we met with the Culligan technician and after he inspected the water softener, he told us that the circuit board hadn't been connected to the electric service. That explains why all of the sinks in the house have so much buildup from the hard water! We had him check out the reverse osmosis system in the kitchen. He said it was a very old system, but that it still was working fine. He told us the price to install a new RO system and we said we'll just use this one until it quits.

After the Culligan technician left, we drove down to Vero Beach. On our way down we stopped at Fantastic Finds consignment shop and saw a

New Home Owners

We met Jeanne, our realtor, this morning at 10:00 to inspect the house that we are buying before we go to the closing. We didn't really expect that there would be any problems with the house since we last saw it in January, but we wanted to be sure before signing the papers and everything was fine.

Jeanne followed us over to the Professional Title office where we were to meet the seller at 11:00 and sign the closing papers. We found out that the seller would be coming in at 1:00 today to sign his portion of the closing papers. The closing had originally been scheduled for 1:00 and the time had been changed a few days ago to 10:00, but the seller wasn't able to make the earlier time.

While Mike & I were signing our portion of the closing documents, the seller's realtor dropped off the house keys for us. By the time we finished

Kissimee to Vero Beach

We got up at our usual time this morning and after breakfast began to break camp. I noticed this squirrel sitting on our patio with a mouthful of nesting materials and I stopped working long enough to take a photo of him before he could run away.

From Sherwood Forest RV Resort

The local weather forecast was predicting thunderstorms for this morning and we could see the rain clouds getting closer as we were breaking camp. We pulled out of Sherwood Forest RV Resort at 10:30 just as it started to sprinkle and then the rain really started as we were driving east on US-192 towards St. Cloud. Mike drove the RV and I followed in the Vue. We didn't hitch up the car to the RV because we're stopping at Tractor Supply to get propane and we would have to disconnect the car there.

We arrived at the Tractor Supply in St. Cloud a little before 11:00 and Mike backed the RV up to their propane filling station and we got propane ($2.29 a gal) in our onboard tank and one of our portable tanks.

By the time we finished getting the propane, it was lunch time and we decided to have lunch at the Wendy's near Tractor Supply. Since it was still raining, we drove the short distance over to Wendy's and ate our lunch there instead of taking it back to the RV. After lunch we went back to the RV and hitched up the car and headed out of St. Cloud at 12:15.

We drove east on US-192 to I-95 and then south to Exit 156 at CR-512 and then east about a block to Sunshine Travel RV and arrived at 1:40. We checked in at the office and received our campground map and security gate card. By the time we got to the campground, the rain was over and we could set up the RV without getting soaked.

We are in site #188 which is a back-in campsite and we have full hook-ups. We had requested to be in site #65 that we had the last time we were here because it had a nice concrete patio. Site 188 doesn't have a patio and we are under some pine trees and have already gotten pine tar on our shoes.

We will be here for 2 weeks and we are taking advantage of their special camping price of $99 a week and after paying the $3 a day resort fee, our total for a week is $120 - not bad for a campground in Florida during the winter season.

Tomorrow morning we're meeting our realtor at the house we're buying to do a walk-through before we go to the closing. We're excited about the house and are looking forward to living in Sebastian.

Shopping at Ikea & Campground Photos

Sunday morning Mike took a couple of photos of the campground.

From Sherwood Forest RV Resort

From Sherwood Forest RV Resort

We met Cyril and Elaine and our friends Mary and Bill for lunch at Perkins Restaurant on Sunday. This is the last Sunday we'll be together for a while since we are leaving Tuesday to move over to Sebastian.

This morning I took this photo of our neighbor's rig here at Sherwood Forest. The truck is definitely large enough for the 5th wheel, but neither of

Moved to Sherwood Forest RV Resort

There is a restaurant near the Aloha RV Park called Woodsby's Countryside Cafe and every time we've driven by it, the parking lot is always full of cars and trucks. We went there for breakfast Monday morning and had a great meal. Their slogan is "Good Food and Plenty of It" is definitely true.

Mike ordered the Hungry Man with 3 eggs, bacon, sausage links, Home Fries and a half order of biscuits and gravy. I ordered the Fabulous Five with 2 eggs scrambled with cheese, peppers & onions, bacon, grits and a biscuit & gravy. Woodsby's definitely lived up to their slogan - the food was good and there was a lot of it.

We drove over to Sherwood Forest RV Resort yesterday to check it out. We stopped at the office and confirmed our reservation for Friday. We found out what camp site we were going to be on (#65) and then we drove

Castle Family Reunion 2013

This morning we drove over to my brother's house because my sister-in-law Elaine's family was meeting there for their annual family reunion. Elaine's 2 brothers drove up from West Palm Beach and her sister came from Lake Wales. Before going over to Golden Corral for lunch, we took photos of the group.

From Kissimmee 2013

My niece Sarah and her fiancee Mike came today and Mike took a nice photo of them.

From Kissimmee 2013

After our photo session we all drove over to Golden Corral for lunch. We had tables in one of the back rooms and had a great time visiting for a couple of hours. We always have a good time when we get together with Elaine's family - they are a lot of fun. The out-of-towners left to go back home from Golden Corral and Mike and I went over to Cyril's house for a while.

We weren't sure until Wednesday if there was going to be a Castle family reunion today.