Week end 20 April17, 2010

Week 19 and 20 – 4/4 thru 4/17

Many snowbirds have begun their trek back north.  Our friends the Lionbergers already home and emailed the start of their farm chores.  Took in a club house dinner and a group of 11 entertained us with an acoustic jam session.  Fun!  Invited Smedleys to join us for dinner over to Little Harbor and friend Louise joined us while her husband went to a hockey game.  Beach side patio dinner beautiful sunset evening supported by live entertainment.  Very nice, and priced right at a special of $13.95 for a prime rib meal.  Good!

Pulled out of Hidden River after a full day of washing the rig.  The pollen from trees was nasty.   Arrange to golf with friend Donna at Imperial Lakes, Mulberry, Fl.  She made arrangements for us to overnight in the club house parking area.  Not bad, golf course view and very quiet.  Beautiful day for golf, Donnas friend Paul joined us for the first nine holes, 96 years old and can still break an occasional 100.  Awesome!   Night before, Donna, Shari and Bob went to Texas Cattle Company steakhouse for dinner.  Steaks cooked on wood fire and incredibly good.

Departed Mulberry en-route for Auburndale.  Arrived at Fish Haven Lodge RV park, found on the internet.  Will stay here for 1 week, visiting Mike and Ceil for golf and dinner.  Traffic through Lakeland heavy, rush hour.  Also hit some nasty construction.  Arrived at park around 5:30pm, greeted by a very friendly host situating us in a nice shady site.

Got acquainted with RV site neighbors Marty & Ann.  Shared happy hour with them and their dog Tyler, a cute Jack Russell.  Ann gave Shari a very “artistic” seashell arrangement as a gift.  Nice! 

We explored Auburndale, a very nice neat community.  Also drove to Winter Haven looking for a major amusement / garden park called Cypress Gardens.  Closed!  Economic issues.  This area is loaded with lots of little lakes.  Nice waterfront homes and recreation areas.  On way back, stopped at a very nice hiking / biking trail called “Van Fleet State Trail”, paved for some 30 miles.  Walked for an hour, observing a long snake crossing the trail, non poisonous we think?

Invited to Mike and Ceil's for golf and dinner.  They are not far from our RV park in a mobile home community called the Hamptons, a very neat community. They have company from Green Bay, Ceils brother and wife.  Girls went shopping, Mike and I golfed, Don (Ceils brother) doesn’t golf so he did his own thing.  After dinner nice pork chop dinner on the grille.  Great day!

Shari got me to the Saturday Flea Market.  It was a very large one.  Picked up a few things.  Sunday rain, so in the early PM we went to the movie in Winter Haven seeing “Date Night”.  Evening dinner in Lakeland, Texas Cattle Company.  Tomorrow we head out to the Villages for our final weeks stay in Florida.

End of Week 20, April 18, 2010