8th November

We all had a fairly lazy morning recovering from our hectic day yesterday which was fairly tiring, I woke up in the night feeling confused and disorientated but managed to check my blood levels and it was way too low. I staggered to the kitchen and gave myself a glucose injection which quickly did the trick - neither Jane or Viv were aware of any of this. I can save my own life after all Allan!!

Next bit of excitement today was that we tried a new supermarket......Target, a step up from Walmart's and we managed to get most of the items we required and checked out the prices of iPads for a friend of mine, seems a lot cheaper here, could save over £100 it seems, only trouble is getting it all through customs. We also found a Skechers Shoe Shop  which did have shoes at very good prices, Viv was looking for trainers but found two other pairs of shoes she liked, took them to the check out to see how much they were after the discount and was about to walk away saying she would have to think about it until we pointed out that they only came to £20 for the two pairs and the value in the UK was approx £100. No brainer we thought, she bought them and now wants to go back for more.

We had a late lunch of lovely salad ingredients only to have two visitors - Sonya who came to check on the air conditioning as we had let her know that it wasn't working, and then the guy from the air conditioning company who arrived about 5 minutes after she left, impressive. It seemed it was set at 80 degrees and stuck, it now works properly and is much more comfortable. The problem of the alarm on the door to get out to the pool was also sorted and it is so much better as we have unplugged it from the power supply, wish we had known that before, last year even!

Our shift at the village tonight was Ms Merry's Tea Party, held in the Castle of Dreams. It was an earlier start so we had planned to go out for dinner tonight to TGI Fridays for their ribs.

Jobs tonight:-

Jane and I were on tiara duty, got ourselves sorted in advance by punching holes in Tiara cut outs, cutting lengths of ribbons and tying them through the holes and laying out all the bits and bobs for the children to add.

Viv told us she was Sous Chef to Peggie at the tea party when in fact she was merely the tea lady and not even 'proper' tea at that but that blooming iced stuff.

All went well until we were rudely disturbed by Darth Vader and the Storm Troopers who arrived and jumped on to the carousel which is just outside the Castle of Dreams, the children seemed to prefer them to us! After they finished their carousel ride they came into the castle along with three princesses and Mayor Clayton and Ms Merry, the photographer was of course there capturing the children with the characters...... Julie, they were not a patch on you and your Maestro from last night!

Tonight was a fairly early finish as a group of pirates arrived and hijacked all our families to take them to a  pirate and princess party around the pool ................... we are doing that next week and I have my very special Snow White outfit to wear that I bought with me thinking. I had three of these shifts not just the one to do!

Off to TGI Fridays for our supper, had it all set up in the Sat Nav but missed the turn by a few yards so had to carry on down the 192 and do a sneaky U turn ( I am really good at these now!) to get back to the diner only to find there was a 30 minute wait for a table... I did try the 'do you know who we are'  routine and it worked we did get a table in 30 minutes..result. Our table waiter announced to us

that his wife pregnant is two months and that if we wanted to tip him more than 20% that would be fine, he is having a son it seems. Meal was okay although Viv did send her fries back as they were cold.

My proof reader has retired to bed so Allan can you correct typos please.

Night all x