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Old 4 Nov 08, 01:34 PM  
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The Rovers Return - 20 years and counting - Part 9

Wednesday 13th August


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Me: No introduction required, I suspect most of you know me by now!
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Alex: 15 - Coaster and Disney freak
Laura: 13 - Style queen


Up at 8.30 today – another beautiful day! We opened the doors to the balcony so we could hear the sea while coffee was brewing. This is the life! We decided to have breakfast in the room today so we popped down to the shop and bought bread, butter, jam and juice (about $12) before waking up the girls.

The idea was that we’d have breakfast ready before waking them up in order to sweeten the blow! It didn’t work though – because they moaned that they didn’t get much of a lie in (it was gone 9.30 by this time! )

I rustled up several rounds of toast with jam and marmite (not together!) coupled with lashings of coffee and milk, juice etc Yummy, yummy! What a treat to have toast for breakfast! (Especially when sitting on the balcony hearing the sea lapping at the sand)



Balcony area



Ooops! – forgot to acclimatise the camera!

Thanks to a note by Michelle, Land O’ Lard, sorry I meant Land O’ Lakes salted butter is about the best approximation to UK butter.

We grabbed our stuff, plus the things that we were left with and headed off to the beach at about 11am. The pool and beach are only accessible by room card (lots of people kept forgetting theirs – so they had to stand and wait by the gate until someone else went in!)

After setting up camp we all headed straight into the sea, even Alex! (This was a major shock due to her phobia of seaweed – and I really mean a phobia, she can’t even look at pictures of it!) She’s not been in the sea for years and years, just in case there might be a centimetre of green stuff floating somewhere within a 10 mile radius!



Here be dragons

At about 1.30 we broke for lunch at Bleachers.

1 hotdog and fries
2 cheeseburger and fries
1 nuggets and fries


The food was all good – hot and fresh.

We used our refillable mugs no problem here although a number of people were using the one time cups to refill.

Not much more to say for the afternoon – in and out of the sea swimming and sunbathing. It was glorious!



Viscous waves making surfing dangerous


We took the boogie boards, chairs and umbrella with us to set up on the beach. Despite my best efforts there was no way I could get the umbrella to stand up. I really should have persevered with those “Dynamic Tension” exercises by Charles Atlas – I really felt like the weedy guy who gets sand kicked in his face!

We got chatting to an interesting guy on the beach who was a very wealthy coin collector who lived in Orlando and was there for a break. We talked at length about Lincoln Pennies etc. He had 7 adopted daughters (wow – and I thought 2 biological ones were hard work!)







Once more into the beach!
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We finally left the beach at 5ish, all somewhat pink (ok – glowing bright red then!) apart from Laura who just goes brown.

We all showered and changed then headed off out for food. This time we decided to hit the mean streets of Vero Beach proper. Now if I wanted an Orthodontist, Urologist, Diabetic clinic, bank or a lawyer then we’d be quids in!

If you want to eat then bring your own picnic!

Eventually we ended up at Indian River Mall out of desperation thinking there must be something to eat there. Luckily for us we found a TJ Gators – great food, good value and service.

Shaun = fish and chips (3 enormous fillets)
Alex = chicken strips and fries
Laura = salad
Alison =shrimp pasta
4 sodas

$60



Chis and fips – again



Salad days



Not really Chicken Little!

After eating we wandered around Mall which was very quiet and pleasant.
Laura bought 2 pairs of Converse shoes for $77 and was very happy with the deal. She could have got cheaper ones but she wanted very specific ones.

Back home we all smeared Aftersun on to ease the tingling then watched the Olympics again (total Michael Phelps mania) before bed.
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Wow the food looks amazing!
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Ah Vero... I just love it!
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I can't wait until we go to Vero for the first time next August. I'll have to remember where you ate as that food looks delicious.

Thanks for sharing your wonderful day and photos.

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Another brillant report with lovely photos.

I can't wait to visit VB.
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Great report and great pics
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