chrizzy100
10-08-2004, 19:55
My mother in law and her sister spent the first week of their holiday on the Cape with all the family.....they had tickets to fly back from Orlando not Boston...they wanted to see the new house and they had done the Cape before...so on the 25th of July the limo driver picked us up me.. hubby.. mum.. aunty...leaving the kids behind.....for what we thought was going to be a long hard drive into the City.......a lot of the roads were closing for John Kerry and his mobs get together in Boston.....so we thought the airport would be full of people trying to get out of town for the week......but by the look of the roads......everyone was driving to the Cape for the week....so the traffic was light going into the City........and what with curb side checking....we were 4 hours early for the fight.....so we had fish and chips.....and waited.....the fight was early....a great fight like always on Jet blue...by the time we got to baggage our bags were going round......getting the car was a breeze.....we had mixed reports from other forums about the local company....but they were very cheap...and we've been trying diffent companies on each visit...the car was in great shape unlike the last one from Dollar.......and I will be using them most of the time now......the drive to the villa was quick on the toll road.....after my hubby drove passed it first try.....the roads in the USA are so dark.......
I always worry about the house on the drive to it....will anything be wrong after opening the door......it had been empty 4 months......but it looked like a cleaner had just cleaned..no dirt or dust anywhere........with all the lightning I checked the A/C.....and fridge the only things we leave on in the house..apart from timed lighting....both fine.....we're having a surge unit fitted to the outside meter and it seems a much needed item... the Village on Tuscan Ridge had six houses lose something after nearby lighting...
We made the beds....looked for spiders.....had a cup of tea.....and got into bed around one in the morning......
The next day was a lazy day.......we'd had deliveries....thank goodness for good local neighbours with our garage keys....so nothing got wet before we arrived....it got there days before.....so we fitted up a light....and the suitcase chest of drawers for the palm tree room turned out to be well worth the money.......then we went on our spider hunt....we had one small male black widow on the front door.....so he went......around the back we found one huge female in an open outside plug.....aunty did a picture before we killed her...( I'd best add we killed the spider not aunty..but it was a near thing ....that woman could fuss for England.)....and one more female had a nest in our backdoor...good job we never opened that door without looking first.......she went too......along with the 7 wasp nests by the windows.....we found out our bug lady forgot to visit.....lucky they only send the bill after a visit.....or I could be paying for nothing......
We went shopping.....Walmart....got a palm tree for the palm tree room.....$49.....a great buy.....we had the last one ...and everywhere else they were $150..getting it into the car was fun....but one way or another it was coming home with me....even if we had to leave the old ladies to walk home.....hehehehehe.....we had a drive around...showing everyone the local area.......then had dinner in Perkins.....end of the first full day....:D
I always worry about the house on the drive to it....will anything be wrong after opening the door......it had been empty 4 months......but it looked like a cleaner had just cleaned..no dirt or dust anywhere........with all the lightning I checked the A/C.....and fridge the only things we leave on in the house..apart from timed lighting....both fine.....we're having a surge unit fitted to the outside meter and it seems a much needed item... the Village on Tuscan Ridge had six houses lose something after nearby lighting...
We made the beds....looked for spiders.....had a cup of tea.....and got into bed around one in the morning......
The next day was a lazy day.......we'd had deliveries....thank goodness for good local neighbours with our garage keys....so nothing got wet before we arrived....it got there days before.....so we fitted up a light....and the suitcase chest of drawers for the palm tree room turned out to be well worth the money.......then we went on our spider hunt....we had one small male black widow on the front door.....so he went......around the back we found one huge female in an open outside plug.....aunty did a picture before we killed her...( I'd best add we killed the spider not aunty..but it was a near thing ....that woman could fuss for England.)....and one more female had a nest in our backdoor...good job we never opened that door without looking first.......she went too......along with the 7 wasp nests by the windows.....we found out our bug lady forgot to visit.....lucky they only send the bill after a visit.....or I could be paying for nothing......
We went shopping.....Walmart....got a palm tree for the palm tree room.....$49.....a great buy.....we had the last one ...and everywhere else they were $150..getting it into the car was fun....but one way or another it was coming home with me....even if we had to leave the old ladies to walk home.....hehehehehe.....we had a drive around...showing everyone the local area.......then had dinner in Perkins.....end of the first full day....:D