APRIL 14, 15, 16

WOW what a day on Tuesday. Woke up to the wind blowing quite nicely through the room. Made some coffee to drink on the balcony. Gray, gray day and off in the distance huge, huge awesome storm clouds over the Gulf. They kept getting bigger and closer. A knock on the door to our room and the care taker requesting we close all our windows as we were under a tornado watch. Being my usual, I proceeded to put our valuables (water wallet, camera, computer, passports, etc) into the bathroom in case we had to take shelter. I believe if you have it, you won't need it. The rain storms and lightening storms came but the tornadoes passed a bit north of us. Central Florida was very happy to get the long a waited rain but not the wind damage. After things quieted down we did venture out to do a bit of shopping and exploring.
Wednesday was hot and sunny. Hard to believe it had been such a miserable day the day before. Just like home with our snow storms! Had our usual 45 - 60 minute walk on the beach, read the news from home, coffee, Bernie doing the dishes (his job for the 2 weeks :-) ). Typical hard morning. We were invited to go on a 5 hour boat cruise of the Inter coastal waterway with Beth and Pete and their friends from Grand Shores Resort. It was a charity cruise on a 50' boat with 3 decks, 2 heads and everybody brought munchies and a couple "cold pops". We had a great time seeing all the huge and not so huge homes and boats along the waterway, driving the boat, watching the porpoises, having the drawbridge raised for our boat, watching the sunset and just having a good time.
Thursday was a walk day, Bernie had a hair cut, relaxed on the beach with our books, swam in the Gulf. Managed to haul ourselves out of the lawn chairs and collect our friends and headed to the Tampa Bay Rays and Chicago White Sox ball game. A so - so game but we had fun watching the game and the people. Had a bunch of loud, very loud and obnoxious men behind us and ended up moving. They never stopped hollering and it wasn't even about the game. The Rays lost but we had ended up in the White Sox cheering section so things were cool. Cheers to all.