Biking in Vero

The bus to town doesn't run on Sundays but being impatient folk we started out on our bikes. First we found a dive shop where they had a selection of women's wet suits. Despite feeling like a stuffed baloney, I selected one.

The night before, the no-see-ums, these evil little biting bugs, invaded our happy home. Thus, the most important errand of the day was to find no-see-um screen, or wedding veil material, which we'd been told works just as well. We stopped in to West Marine and were told Wal-Mart was the best place. Sure, it was 6 miles out, but we were on bikes.

So off we went...and went...and went. After we'd gone at least 6 miles, we stopped a guy mowing his lawn to ask how far the Wal-Mart was, and he said it was still 7 miles away!! After much deliberation (about 5 seconds), we decided it just wasn't worth riding 30 miles to get somewhere the bus would take us the next day. Later we found out that there are 2 Wal-Marts and we had gone the wrong way and were only accidentally headed toward the second store.

We headed to Publix, a grocery store chain down here whose name is really to easy to massacre. (I'm sure you see where that's headed...). Picked up a few items there. Still like Albertson's better. Hope there is one in Miami when we do our pre-Bahamas mega-provisioning.

By the time we got back to the boat, we were pretty tired. We rested up until happy hour and then went to the Riverside Grill, which we had heard had good prices. Not so! Cans of Coors Light were going for 2.75!! We can buy a can at the store for like 75 cents. The mozzarella sticks were great (homemade), but we left before further budgetary damage was done.

After a breakfast of grilled cheese on our most recent loaf of homemade bread, we went for bourbon chicken and rice for dinner. Yet again, we are honing our recipe to perfection. It turned out really well.

Spent the evening listening to football on the satellite radio and went to bed early.

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