Well if yesterday saw a quiet house then this final morning felt even worse. By the time we were up though Barry & Ellie had arrived safely back at home in Norwich after an uneventful journey.
We were both ready to go home as well and the weather seemed to telling us that it was time to leave as well by being overcast. I had woken up feeling lousy either from tiredness or more likely a bug I had picked up. I ended up taking cold/flu tablets for the next 24 hours to try and get through the journey to offset the symptoms.
I had arranged with the owner of the villa that we could have a late check out as she was going to be the next person staying here from tomorrow. Trouble was I didn’t know how late, so we thought we would aim to be ready to leave from noon.
After breakfast we decided to start clearing the car & house and get packed up. It took a lot longer than we anticipated probably due to all the things we had bought that needed to be squeezed into our cases. Some of the purchases from our first couple of days I had completely forgotten about buying. I needed to ‘expand’ my case to get everything in. I put all the heavy things into my hand luggage to make sure I wasn’t over the weight limit. When we got to the airport and dropped off our bags, it amused us that both our cases weighed exactly the same and just under the limit at 22.6kg.
Around 10am we decided to have our last sit outside. I was pleased to find the pool heating had not been switched off and so sat in the Spa for the last time. It was nice despite the outside temperature not being great, but just not the same without everyone else here. We then showered and then started to clear up the kitchen. There were a few snacks we packed to take with us. There were a few open packs of things like butter we put into the rubbish bin, but left things that were not opened (like 3 beers) for the cleaners to either take for themselves or dispose of as they liked.
We ended up leaving the villa for the last time at 12.30pm. I said thank you to it for the part it had played in giving us the best of times.
It was still too early for the drive to the airport at Tampa for our evening flight so we went back to the Celebration Tavern for lunch. Today I had the Blackened Mahi Sandwich with the unbelievable chips whilst Karen went with the Potato Skins. Both were delicious. We were served by a lad from Swansea who had emigrated when he was 6 and had the most American accent possible. We walked back to the car to get Karen’s final Starbucks of the trip.
