3/6/19 Wednesday

We tried to go to dinner last night at New England Moorings.  Despite the fact that it looks like a hole in the wall, the ratings are very high.  However, when we got there, a young man came out to say that the boss was away therefore they couldn't serve food - only the bar was open.  We thought this was strange unless the boss is also the chef.  At any rate, by the time we drove to our second choice of restaurant, Lobster Lady, the wait was over an hour.  We called around to another restaurant and their wait was longer.  We did take a walk and come back to finally get seated.  The food was worth the wait - we had crab cakes, shrimp scampi with linguine, and grilled grouper.  We chatted for a bit with the people at the next table.  The man said his daughter lived in Stonington.  When I asked where she worked, I started to laugh as she works with Jaime!  What a small world!!!  I texted Jaime with the story and he texted back today to say that Alison laughed as her father had called her last night to tell her that he sat next to Jaime's parents.  By the time we got home it was too late for hand and foot so we played pinocle.  The boys won - boo! hiss!

We woke up this morning to 50 degrees.  If we were home in Connecticut, this would be a cause for celebration at this time of year, but down here, it was cold!  We had to don long pants and sweatshirts or jackets.  We took Russ and Cathie to Sanibel.  We got there very early and took a spin through the wildlife loop, but since the tide was a bit high, the birds were not too close.  We got back to the visitor center and took a walk down Indigo trail and then took another car ride through the loop as the tide was low by this time.  We had a bit more luck with the wading birds the second time around.  By the time we finished, it was time to head for lunch.  Russ and Cathie wanted to experience the "wacky" Bubble Room for themselves so we drove to Captiva Island.  Lunch was good as usual and Russ bought a sampler of desserts for the next several nights: red cocoa cake, orange cake, key lime pie, and chocolate cake.

We stopped at the beach on the way out and picked up a few shells.  Once back in Cape Coral, we put our feet up for a bit until it was time for our leftovers dinner from last night and dessert from the Bubble Room.  It is a wonder I can sit here and type as I am in a sugar coma from the dessert sampler!

So today's pics are: a great white egret, bottom of a gator in the ceiling of the visitor's center, blue-winged teal duck, white pelican, roseate spoonbill, inside the stall of the ladies room at the Bubble Room (the mens room was pin-ups), tern, plover, osprey, ibis, bottom of a duck in the ceiling, Russ and Cathie in the Tunnel of Love at the Bubble Room, gull, desserts, little blue heron, cormorant drying his wings, and a tricolor heron.