It was a nice sunny day today so we decided to hang out at the pool. The last time we went to the pool, Jody was here. Dave and I decided to go back to the condo to make dinner and went out one of the 3 gates. Of course it slammed shut behind us and locked. None of us had keys to the pool and We weren't going to climb over the fence, so we had to tramp across this drainage area. It's pretty wide and of course, muddy. By the time we got across the ditch, mud had o...

Took Jody to the airport this morning. On the way, we had to make a pit stop at the Yellow Banks Grove shop so Jody could have her last orange ice cream cone. Yes, I realize that it was 9 am! Dave told the clerk that she had to have 1 last ice cream on her way to the airport. She said you've been here many times already and wouldn't let her pay. Just reminded me of her story when she was a kid about her best ever, super lucky day. She bought a lot of stuff here b...

It's Jody's last full day here. We went to dim sum this morning at a restaurant that we hadn't tried yet-China Yuan. It was pretty good. It's located in the same plaza where the Chinese bakery is, so I had to leave some room for an egg tart. After we ate we headed to the bakery to discover that it's closed Monday's, wah, wah. From there we went to Tampa Premium Outlets. I bought some runners that I had seen in Orlando and a couple of other little items. We found ...

There are 2 markets that happen here. The Pierce Street Market is every second Saturday and the Market in St. Petersburg is every Saturday. We went to both of them. St. Petersburg's market had mostly fresh produce and food. We bought some veggies and popcorn. Jody had her caricature drawn by someone who used to draw cartoons. Afterwards, we drove to the Clearwater market. It was mostly vendors selling various things like dog clothes, coffee mugs, soaps, popcorn, ...

It is finally kind of warm enough to take Jody to the beach today. We packed a lunch and went to Clearwater beach. It was chilly at the beach because the wind is chilly. We spent a couple of hours there. There were a lot of sailboats on the water today. They were flanked by speedboats and were sailing back and forth, so I think they were all taking lessons. If you zoom in on the photos, you can see that it's a lot harder than you would think. Rob had told us abou...