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...

It was supposed to warm up to 21 today, but actually only made it to 19. Today is going to be the day to go to the beach. We went to Indian Rocks beach first, but it was still pretty chilly out, so we decided it was lunchtime. We drove by a crab restaurant on the way to the beach and that sounded great. We ordered the local stone crab and pig nachos. The portion size of the nachos was ridiculous, but of course they were good. The stone crab was perfectly cooked a...

I woke up this morning to a beeping sound. Gotta get dressed and investigate. I thought maybe it was the fridge alarm, but was a low battery alarm for the smoke detector. We have one, so we replaced it, problem fixed. Yesterday in our travels we happened by a bus selling barbecue and quickly made a note of its location. That was today's lunch selection-delicious and a lot of food! There were a few shops that we wanted to stop at so we did that this afternoon. Spe...