I'm Back!!

We went to Florida for a week. It was a very different vaca for us. We generally go to Florida at least once a year and generally we stay about 10 days. This time we stayed 7 days, about 3 too many.

When we first got there, we got off of the plane in Tampa and went over to Lakeland to catch the "Boys of Summer" at their Spring Training. It was, as always, a great experience. We couldn't get any tickets for the seats, so we sat on the grass and we enjoyed it so much. We took lots and lots of pictures and they are awesome! We left there and went to St. Pete to the Pier. It was also an awesome time. We sat on the pier and watched the dolphins frolic...something neither of us had seen before. We got sunburned and even enjoyed the sunburn.

We got up the next morning and went to Sunken Gardens. It was so pretty! Color EVERYWHERE! That's what we were looking for. That took us about 2 hours. When I transfer the pictures from my laptop to this computer, I will post a picture or two. We also went to Cypress Gardens and it was just eye popping! The colors were the best there of anywhere.

Generally we get out and explore some out of the way places...just neighborhoods or anything we happen to see along the way we think might be interesting. It was way too cool this time. We wore sweatsuits much of the time. One night it got down to 39. Not good or funny when you are going there for the warmth of the sun.

The traffic in Florida is INCREDIBLE. At least where we were. We were supposed to go to our friend's condo in Stuart, but decided after being in so much traffic and it taking twice as long to get anywhere than it should have, that it would be too much on me.

We were going to go to Gatlinburg next month, but now I think we will wait until at least May so it will be warm!