Nice sunny morning here. We met Sensei Adrienne and Rob for dim sum at Ha Long Bay Restaurant. The food was not very good, so we will scratch that off the list. Rob had a craving for ice cream, so we were advised to go to Paciugo's in downtown St. Petersburg. They serve gelato and sorbet in quite a few flavours. Rob and Dave had the strawberry, I had 1/2 sea salt caramel and 1/2 chocolate, chocolate chip and Sensei had stracciatella (chocolate chip). The gelato w...

I did some exercise this morning and we made breakfast and lunch at the condo. One thing I forgot to mention about the home show was the number of people there who commented on how they liked Dave's t-shirt. We were both surprised by that, but at least they weren't negative comments. We went to a nearby mall after lunch. I found something small for Mom that I thought she would like. Before we left Canada we had prearranged to meet one of the Sensei's from Ontario...

It was raining hard yesterday so we seemed to be in the car a lot. Justin Bieber rules the radio here, as well as Adele. I thought there was a lot of repetition at home, but this is the Beebs every 5-6 songs! Thankfully there's satellite radio in the car. We went to the Tampa Home Show today. It was held in the Tropicana baseball stadium. We didn't see anything new, but there were some displays of beautiful patio flagstones, I saw the swim spa, a lot of granite d...

It's raining today so it was a shopping day. We went to check out the Chinese grocery store in Tampa. The traffic lights here are very long and not in sync, so you have to stop at every one. I think it's done that way to slow the traffic. The GPS said it was 21 miles away, but can't tell you that the freeway you're on is under construction. When we finally got there, we saw that there is also a Chinese restaurant in that parking lot. Oh well, might as well have a...

Today we decided to go to Fort De Soto County Park. It's 21 miles from where we are staying. The park is actually a chain of 5 interconnected islands. It's composed of 1136 acres of parkland and beach. Part of the park is off limits because it's a shorebird habitat area. Because of that, there were a number of different birds coming and going. It's difficult to get a good photo of a bird in flight. It's a peaceful place will all kinds of trees. I can't say that t...