Wednesday, May 23rd was a beach day. All of our days had possible thunderstorms in the forecast. Usually the rains held out until mid-afternoon. Beach days were pretty typical. Janet and Linda H. were always at the beach a lot longer than Linda P. and me. Janet loves the ocean and Linda H. loves to read and take long walks on the beach. I cover up with sunscreen and then with my beach coverup to avoid sunburn, and Linda P. hunts for shells constantly. We two restless souls usually returned to the condo much sooner that our comrades.
Linda P. and I came back from the beach around 1:00 pm, got cleaned up and headed for the Winn Dixie to pick up a few more groceries. We even did our hair and put on make-up! Then coming out of the grocery store, failing to take our umbrellas, we got caught in a downpour.
We decided to go to Joey’s Italian restaurant that was right across Collier Blvd from our South Seas Tower for supper. We ordered a flat bread pizza with roasted red pepper and onion. Janet and Linda decided to share a cheese- cake for dessert. While our pizza was delicious, the cheesecake was not! Made with homemade ricotta, it was watery and had a lumpy texture. Guess they should have ordered the cannoli.
Returning to the condo, Linda P and I offered to do some laundry. We thought it would be easy. Of course there was trouble.
The laundry room was right next to our condo. We had to load money onto a card that we would use to feed into the machines; $1.50 for the washer and 50 cents for 16 minutes with the dryer. All was going well until we went to switch the laundry to the dryers. There was water gushing out all over the floor in front of the two washers. At first we thought it was coming from the machines. Then Linda saw water dripping from a pipe at the ceiling. Going to the tenth floor laundry, we saw there was water all over the floor here too. On to the 11th floor, there was no water. Knowing the leak was from the 10th floor, we called the emergency number. The answering service worker didn’t seem to know anything about our condo or who to call. We had our doubts about anything getting resolved. However, later that evening a fan was blowing in our laundry room. When Linda finally went to take a bath around 11, our water was turned off; she only got about an inch of water. What a night! Then in the middle of the night we heard water gushing in the bathroom. Linda jumped out of bed and turned off the spigots. What excitement!
So much for a relaxing beach day! Maybe tomorrow will be better!