Another sunny, hot, but windy day. At times, the temperature on the car thermometer was reading 93, When we go to karate class, we have to drive to a little town called Dunedin. Other than reading a sign, you can't tell where one town ends and another one starts. It looks like a sweet place, so we decided to go exploring there today. Dunedin is where the Toronto Blue Jays do their spring training. We drove along the "scenic" route and stopped in a couple of parks...

We ran a few errands today and went to Costco. The temperature was 85 (29) degrees today, so that means a trip to the beach. We went to Clearwater Beach today. It has been voted best beach in America in 2013. It is a busy beach and right across the street is McDonalds and restaurants and shops. There's also a lot of construction going on as well. There were a couple of little girls with their families by us at the beach today. The older one was eating a Cheesie a...

Yay! The temperature was 77 degrees today so it was a beach day. We we to Indian Rocks Beach today. It was surprisingly busy. We decided that next time we need to go to a different beach where there might be some younger people. We went to karate tonight. Sensei Bob from Tampa was there with a few of his students so it was a bigger class. Sensei Han announced that we would be working on kata (forms) for my benefit because I will be testing in Okinawa and need to ...

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...