We woke up at Lake Hatchineha to very nice weather and a glorious sunrise that Tom was the only one to see and capture.

The beds proved quite comfy, although we all decided mattress toppers would be nice. The A/C provided all the white noise you could ask for, and no one kept track, but let’s just say the bathroom was a busy place overnight.

For breakfast, we tested out our new Induction cooktop and the German-manufactured pan that Marcus Kolb recommended with Tom cooking eggs for everyone. We also used the completely-new toaster from the bus that we should have dusted off – generated a bit of smoke briefly tripping the smoke alarm, but then worked fine and toasted English Muffins well. We discovered we didn’t have any cups, so Tom improvised. We then chatted and watched Steve take videos and stills of our camper and campground, wrote a bit of blog, and “broke camp” around our 11AM checkout time.

After lunch Steve complained of irritation in his eye and Scott took a picture and showed him that there was a spot on it. At the house, everyone expressed an ambivalence toward camping at Lake Kissimmee in the heat and rain, so we bagged that and decided to stay at the house overnight and head home the following morning.

Since camping was off, Steve decided to go to an Urgent Care and have the eye looked at. Three hours later he returned to the house with a foreign object removed from the eye. We think it was from using a wire wheel to clean the grill the day before. Steve had gone to CVS and purchased some eye ointment, and declared that he could still see fine. However, since our camping testing was complete Steve decided to go home after a traditional dinner of hamburgers on the now infamous grill.

Scott discovered that someone (probably Scott) had accidentally turned the propane water heater knob to “clean.” Reading the manual on the water heater we realized that the rapid blinking on the water heater indicated that we had to “rinse” the water heater by running 8 gallons of water through the hot water system. That meant that we drained our water supply tank and filled the gray water, so we had to move Khan to the barn, hook up the water supply and sewer hoses, and drain the waste tanks and refill (to 2/3 level to keep from being too heavy) the water supply tank. After all this work Scott and Tom were really tired and went to sleep at 9PM. We both slept in the house.