Sunset at Barefoot Beach, Florida
Friday was a boating day with the Dow's along the Imperial River and the Inland water ways. Hundreds of boats, especially the pontoon boats and we had a ball watching the dolphins, boaters, fishermen, peligins, and fish. A little lunch on the boat and a swim in the water to cool off almost ended the day in perfect form. The perfect end was skyping Jeff and the kids. They were all very talkative.
Saturday was pack the suitcase, load up the car and head north to another adventure. With Steve and Denyse we headed to Boco Grande on Gasparilla Island. What a beautiful town and Island, quaint Inns, no highrises, residents and guests travel around on golf carts, beautiful beach, restaurants, biking and walking trails, and marinas. It was quite a hilarious outing as they were having a "golf cart poker rally" and every cart and every person was decorated to the hilt. They were having fun ! We hugged goodbye to the Dow's and drove to Anna Maria Island to spend a couple of days with Blake and Vicki. They had booked us a room at Bridge Walk condos, bedroom/living room combo and just across the road from the beach. Perfect ! Dinner at the Bistro ( our own little balcony for dinner ) and early to bed. Huge day.
Sunday we went for a long walk along the beach and on the way back to the condo we located the condo where Karen and Donnie Cormier are staying. Little visit with them, and then went to hit some golf balls. That and getting on and off the Island ( the weekend traffic is unbelievable ) took a lot of work so lunch became a high priority - found a local restaurant called the Rod and Reel Pier. Not fancy, picnic tables, great food and loads of people fishing off the deck. They were catching fish left and right. Then it was beach time. Oh, so relaxing. Poor Blake had a bit to much sun the last two days so he had an early night. We and Vicki ate supper at the Beach House Restaurant and ran into the Cormiers again.
Monday - another beautiful day in the 80's, a nice wind to cool things down a bit. We had a great golf round at Manatee Golf Course and saw our first alligator of 2011. And we saw several more alligators, turtles, eagles, a pink flamingo, and ducks. It was a great little course and we all had some good shots. Vicki was the hot one with the putter. Ran into Donnie and Matt Cormier again on the course. After lunch at Rotten Ralph's ( restaurant on the Bridge St pier owned and run by a Canadian ) it was beach time again - lots of waves today and felt so good after all that sun. Mar Vista on the beach at Longboat Key for supper - crab cakes, King crab legs, scallops, flounder, Key Lime pie, Pecan pie on the beach. Can't get any better than that. Sounds like all we do is eat and eat some more. Keep on walking :-)
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