Saturday was spent shopping for a new TV. The TV we had in the US would not work here, so it was off to several stores to find a new one. We searched in hopes of finding one that could be taken back to the US with us. I left the decision up to Matthew (after I gave him a budget). We found a couple that seemed to fit our needs. Matthew wrote down the serial numbers and while we were at McDonalds making calls home, Matthew researched the different models. A store here called FNAC, was having a really great sale on a Panasonic Plasma Screen TV. The reviews online were really good, and the price was unbeatable. FNAC is walking distance from our temporary apartment. Matthew had read online that the TV only weighed 26 pounds, so he decided we could definitely carry it the 5 blocks home (I keep replaying in my mind that episode of Friends where Ross decides he and Rachel can carry the couch back to his apartment…). We pay for the TV, then have to go downstairs and around the side to pick it up. A guy comes down the elevator with this huge box on a little rolling cart. He asks where our car is, and when Matthew explains we are going to carry it, he very generously offers to let us take the little rolling cart and bring it back later. So off we go, rolling our 42” Plasma Screen TV down the streets of downtown Clermont! Oh, did I mention that the rolling cart had plastic wheels and going over the beautiful textured pavement tiles made a deafening racket??? It was so loud that Matthew and I couldn’t even hear each other! Of course, since it a Saturday afternoon, downtown is packed! People could hear us coming several blocks away. We probably should have been embarrassed, but we were laughing too hard. Here are some pics of our little Saturday afternoon stroll. I took them with my phone’s camera, while trying to walk (and laugh) at the same time, so the quality is awful.
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