Saturday, February 29, 2020

2/29/20

Because we had to change condos today, we decided to go into the village for grouper sandwiches (Cathie and I split one) for dinner so that we wouldn't have leftovers to deal with.  We had to be out of the first condo by 10 and check in for the new one was 4PM.  The ladies at the new condo office let us store our milk and juice for the day in the office fridge which was very nice.  They also got us into the new place at 2 - an added bonus.  This place also has wi-fi in the room.  In the old unit I had to go down to the lobby to blog.

Two things of note: The girls won last night - yeah!!!!! So now the score is 5 to 2.  On the other hand, I thought we were meeting John, Lana, and Kelly for breakfast tomorrow morning.  Instead we were supposed to be there this morning.  I felt so bad for the misunderstanding.  We couldn't have done it today because of the move, but they had to drive for an hour to get to the location and then we didn't show up and it is John's birthday today!  I hope that the breakfast was worth an hour's drive - we were very sorry to have missed seeing Kelly and wishing John a happy birthday in person.

We went to check out two new parks this morning.  The first, Urfer Family Park, was small, but interesting.  We saw 13 species of birds including two scrub jays (that elusive bird from yesterday).  We also saw a snapping turtle sunning himself in the parking lot and a family of 5 raccoons across the pond.  The second park (Rothenbach) was much larger, but less interesting - 4 species of birds including some white pelicans flying overhead and a good sized alligator.  We drove into Sarasota and spent an hour at the farmer's market in the historic district where we grabbed a bite to eat.

Russ and Cathie have gone down to the pool and I will probably join them when I get the pics loaded.

little blue heron

snapping turtle

racoon

wood duck

anhinga

Russ decided not to shave while on vacation

alligator

Cathie and Bernie

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