Thursday, March 12, 2009

Florida is grand!

Today was another beautiful Florida day! Weather in the 80's, sunshine, blue sky and occasional little puffy white clouds. Doug and Lin Brigham came for a week stay. They are flying back to Kazoo Friday am. We took them to many of our favorite places: Bahia, Mimi's, Anna Maria Island, the Anna Maria Oyster Bar, the outlet mall in Ellenton. We all especially enjoyed the pool, and Lin liked riding THE bike.

Our landlords arrive on March 20. We will move in with neighbors Gordie and Judy for a week. We are trying to figure out what to do for another week before returning to the cold weather up north! Our son Mike has a time share and we are trying to find a spot we can land for a week!

Although it has been a chilly winter in Florida we have really enjoyed ourselves! (Bob had to cover his plants several nights) No ice, no snow and lots of friends around. The hardest part was losing my Mom on January 29. We went home for the visitation and funeral, and were glad to have so many family members share the time with us.

Gordie took us out in neighbor Gene's boat yesterday. Within the first 5 minutes we saw a dolphin at the bow of the boat. While out in Tampa Bay we saw a manatee, 30-40 trout swimming in a school, and 15 sting rays swimming along in a group! Lots of birds of course. Being on the water, was like seeing a different side of Florida.

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